Friday, November 23, 2007

First Thanksgiving

For Dexter' first Thanksgiving, we cooked up a bird that required brining it in apple cider and white wine mixture for 11 hours and then roasting it. It turned out wonderfully…

Also on the menu was candied yams (Mike's favorite), spinach salad with candied hazelenuts, cranberries, mandarin orange slices, crumbled goat cheese and tomato in a blush wine vinaigrette, mash potatoes and gravy with celery, carrots and onions. It was delicious. The only disappointment was the stuffing which I bought a mix at the store and it turned out so dry it was not even edible. It was the only thing that wasn't made from scratch.

Dex was awake while we were cooking, but took a nice long nap through the meal.

Squee really enjoys Thanksgiving. It's his favorite holiday. He got his own bowl full of turkey and he promptly went into turkey-coma on the couch.

(all photos via iPhone)