Thanksgiving Success

In my last post I went on and on about how I had to prepare my first Thanksgiving feast, about how nervous I was and about how I was doing tons of research on the matter. Now, three days later, I can officially say that my Thanksgiving meal was a success. Research definitely helped me out on this one. I can't tell you how many minutes, no, hours I spent researching the perfect turkey recipe, the perfect pie recipe, etc.

I also blogged about brining. Brining was relatively easy, cheap and definitely worth it - our turkey was the juiciest turkey we've ever tasted, thanks to the brining. Matt, who is not a huge fan of turkey, is now a firm believer in brining. Here is a picture of the end result:


I don't have a lot of pictures to show of the rest of the meal because, unfortunately, a lot of the pictures we took turned out blurry because the camera was on "landscape" mode. Bummer. I can tell you that the rest of the food was delicious and nothing was a disaster (phew!). Even the homemade dinner rolls turned out yummy (they can be seen next to the turkey in the picture above).

I would also like to give props to my hubby, Matt, for doing a great job carving the turkey. He's helped my dad in years past with the carving, but he's never done it completely on his own. So, thanks to the Food Network's Alton Brown and online videos, Matt carved the turkey beautifully. Sorry about the quality of the photo below, it was taken on my iPhone but it's the best one I have...


Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays and I'm sad to see it pass, but I can't wait to spend the Christmas season with my family...I get to see them so soon and can't wait!