November 27, 2009

• Mashed Potato Massacre 2009

  For our first time hosting Thanksgiving dinner, I don't think we did all that bad.  I had been a little nervous since our 20 lb. turkey was still pretty rock solid the night before, and posted my concerns on facebook.  A really sweet friend took time out of his Thanksgiving morning to call to see if it had thawed completely and give us a back up plan if it hadn't.  Thankfully, after soaking all night, the bird did thaw in time.  Hubby got up around 6:30 in the morning to get it ready and put it in the oven. 

  We tried to watch the parade, but JB wasn't impressed and kept turning the TV off.  So we gave up and just focused on last minute cleaning and starting the cooking.  We had an even dozen, although Kaya didn't join us in eating the yummy food. The family started arriving around noon to help set up, the big meal was planned to start at 1:00 pm.

  We were almost ready to eat.  The turkey was carved and on a serving tray sitting on the stove.  Next to the turkey was the mashed potatoes, in a plastic salad bowl that was doing duty as a serving dish.  Hubby put the gravy on the stove and turned on the back burner to heat it up a bit.  Or so he thought.  I was standing right there when I noticed the plastic mashed potato bowl start to smoke. I tried to grab it to pick it up off the burner, but the bottom had already melted. PLOP. All the mashed potatoes fell on to the burner with the melted plastic, and I'm left holding a salad bowl with a big perfect circle hole in the bottom. Ooops.

  We were able to salvage some potatoes, and the family was very gracious about the delay.  Dinner was only an hour late, which I don't think is quite so bad for a first timer, personally.  We're totally inundated with pies, though.  Bret felt the need to make an applie pie even though he knew that his mother was bringing some pies.  She felt the need to leave them here, so we have 2 pumpkin pies, an apple pie, a cherry pie, AND  pecan pie!   Anybody local that wants some pie is welcome to come visit!! 

  Hope everybody had a great thanksgiving!

  • 7:48 PM
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