I do believe in faeries

We didn't have Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday because it wasn't the Wirth family's turn. This year it was our turn to have it on an off day, so we had it on Saturday and I did most of the cooking. I love cooking and cooking for large groups, 10 adults, two teenagers and three kids, is even better. I made two 11 pound free range, organic turkeys; one flavor injected with citrus and the other with a molasses and brown sugar brine. The brining produced the superior turkey. It was the most beautiful deep brown color when it was done. The citrus turkey looked cool too though because I put whole sage leaves under the skin, which became transparent during cooking so you could see the leaves through it. It was neat:)

I also made sweet potatoes and acorn squash with a maple and crystallized ginger glaze, broccoli with lemon butter, cranberry with dried cherry sauce and two types of mashed potatoes; yukon golds with sour cream, butter and milk and russets with milk and butter. I made the two types of mashers because I had people say that they didn't like sour cream, but can you guess which type there was more left of at the end of the night?;) People need to trust me. The cranberries with dried cherries were fantastic! Even people who said that they didn't like cranberries had some and said they were good. Same with the sweet potatoes :) I like it when people try my cooking and say things like, "That wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be." It makes me smile :)

My mother-in-law made her stuffing mostly because I was afraid to make everything new. I thought that if there was at least one thing that was familiar, they might be less freaked out by everything else.

All in all, everybody liked the dinner and I was asked for a couple of different recipes :) Not a problem, I say. Who am I to hoard tasty recipes? ;)