Thanksgiving Feast

Well, after reading Jen's blog about her Thanksgiving cooking, I thought it might be worthwhile to make something of a record here of our gustatory activities today.

Here's what we've spent the better part of the day cooking and eating:

• Sweet potatoes
• Green bean casserole
• Mashed potatoes with gravy
• Broccoli pie (this was new for us this year, but very tasty)
  
• Asparagus (sans lemon)
  
• Potato stuffing (the old family recipe that I keep working on each holiday)
  
• Cranberry-orange relish
  
• Cornbread with honey butter

A couple of minor mishaps:

• Hillary didn't know that the orange we bought a couple of days was meant for the cranberry-orange relish, so she ate it. Fortunately, we had some locally-produced orange juice, which substituted nicely.
• In the spirit of experimentation, I left one of the ingredients on the bottom of the casserole dish when making potato stuffing. Against Melissa's advice. And she was right.
• The asparagus was supposed to get a squeeze of fresh lemon, but somehow, lemon didn't make it onto the shopping list. Instead, I hit them with some butter, pepper, herbs de provence, and a tiny bit of salt, which turned out pretty good.
  

Still to come (after all of that leftover food gets put away):

• Pumpkin roll
  
• And a nice cup of coffee (or two)