Thanksgiving Recap: Thanksgiving 2018

By Liz on November 24, 2018

In the twelve years I’ve lived in this house there have been some atypical Thanksgiving Days. Some years I’ve been on the road in the motorhome travelling to my folks or returning. One year I wrecked the turkey and had meatloaf. There was the year that I decided to have pumpkin stew and Portuguese cornbread instead of turkey. Last year I had sardines and black beans in an effort to speed healing of a bruised (maybe cracked) rib.

So.

Thanksgiving 2018. My plan was to work Monday and Tuesday and have Wednesday to decompress from work … play with Emmett and Auggie and get things in order for my simple Turkey dinner on Thursday, Thanksgiving Day.

However, I ended up working all day Wednesday to get things in a place where I felt comfortable with a 4 day weekend. So, on Thanksgiving morning … a gray, freezing fog day … I started the woodstove, outings with Emmett, coffee … and procrastinated until I said to myself: “I think I’ll have my turkey dinner tomorrow.

So my Thanksgiving day dinner was a pizza with shredded brussels sprouts, bacon and smoked gruyere. La-di-dah-dah-dah. Wonderful. And I spent the day enjoying the fire, playing with Emmett and Auggie and reading a book.

I DID make a pumpkin pie. But I went off script with a crushed pecan crust vs a regular pie crust. I made a mini-pie to test the crust and YUM! So Friday, my turkey dinner day, I made another little pie!

And I cooked the turkey (turkey breast). And made bone broth from the bones. And that’s as far as it went.

Two days after Thanksgiving: Saturday.

Finally!

But, while I was procrastinating on my Turkey dinner, I spent some time on my blog looking at past Thanksgiving “adventures” … so a bit of reminiscing follows:

2017 Sardines for dinner (Bear’s last Thanksgiving)

2016 A leek gruyere bread pudding was a highlight

2014

2013

2012: The year we had meatloaf because I wrecked the turkey

2010 Pumpkin stew and cornbread vs Turkey (Karl’s last Thanksgiving)

2002 Pre blog days! This year we were renting a house on Flathead Lake. I’d just sold my “in town” house and had not yet bought anything else. The house was furnished … badly. But I am responsible for the somewhat garish table runner. Karl (Karelian Bear Dog 1.5 years old), Bob (Garfield look alike that came with a boyfriend and stayed although the boyfriend didn’t :) ) and Gus (Tuxedo cat and my first ever cat … 4.5 years old)

The walk down memory lane was not sad, it was happy remembering and I laughed at many of the photos I saw along the way.

My dog Zack, was pre digital camera, but I hope to dig out some photo albums and maybe do a “Christmases Past” including him, since this was so much fun.

Hope all had a good holiday. I am very much enjoying this nice break and I have some nice turkey, mashed taters, gravy and cranberry sauce to enjoy for the next few days.

Thanksgiving 2018.