Category: holiday

why is so much fall food tan?

we aren’t making Thanksgiving dinner at our house but rather making rounds at Z’s and maybe later my parents.  Tonight we made a turkey roulade filled with my mom’s stuffing recipe.  I haphazardly butterflied a turkey breast (totally ugly, not a skill I presently have!) and pounded it to a semi uniform thickness.  I spread stuffing over the whole and rolled and tied it with string.  I put a bit of salt and pepper and canola oil on top  and baked it for about 1 hour 40 minutes at 350.  While it baked I made my Grandma James’ twice-baked potatoes.  As is usual for our Sunday nights lately we ate dinner late…closing in on 8.  But really, way easier than the whole bird and the cleanup was a snap.  I stand behind not making the whole bird-this is loads easier, faster and kind of fun too.

right. so, I am really giving myself a break on this.  We don’t always eat what would be considered gourmet or foodie type food although you may think so.  I hear often people are scared to have us over which is funny because we eat plenty of ridiculous things.  Last night I made a Pillsbury bake-off delight – crescent roll american cheese wrapped hot dogs.  In a nod to Halloween I made them into mummies.  I think they are ridiculously cute and am going to eat them as leftovers for lunch today.

sometimes life is enexpectedly rich.  On birthday adams I was the happy and stuffed recipient of 9am texas sheet cake, 1pm gluten free vanilla blueberry super-fun do-it yourself cupcakes and 7pm chocolate birthday cake!   On birthday eve I am going to have to get some exercise!