After the turkey apocalypse
Nov. 26th, 2010 02:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gategrrlWell, the turkey came out great, but I managed to screw up the gravy! At least we had a bottle of store-bought gravy. AND I used the messed up gravy and added it to the turkey soup broth that simmered on the stove for a few hours. I hope it tastes good in the soup after all that!
We had, as usual, just a bit too much food, but not *too* much left-over food. We made mashed potatoes--6 POUNDS of the stuff (minus the skin), which turned out to be way too much. My kids generally suck that stuff down like there's no tomorrow, but this time, geez, they went easy on it! Our friend, who comes just about every turkey day (except the one from last year when we were all either vomiting, had just gotten over fevers and the Swine Flu) took extra food home. Except for the mashed potatoes. His doc told him nothing with dairy. Ah well.
Goldy even got a special can of dog food called "Thanksgiving Dinner". It's an expensive can of food from the pet shop I get his food from, and his pill pockets. He got to eat the whole can! And all that can, plus all of his untouched dry food from the morning vanished in about 10 minutes of concentrated eating. I did have to give him two simethecone chewable mints spread out over the evening because his gas came raging back. Poor dog. The simethecone helped him. And, he's still farting mightily at 2am. But at least the farts smell more like turkey than rancid dog food. That's better. It could be worse.
To all the turkeys who suffered through this annual turkey apocolypse, I salute you. RIP.
We had, as usual, just a bit too much food, but not *too* much left-over food. We made mashed potatoes--6 POUNDS of the stuff (minus the skin), which turned out to be way too much. My kids generally suck that stuff down like there's no tomorrow, but this time, geez, they went easy on it! Our friend, who comes just about every turkey day (except the one from last year when we were all either vomiting, had just gotten over fevers and the Swine Flu) took extra food home. Except for the mashed potatoes. His doc told him nothing with dairy. Ah well.
Goldy even got a special can of dog food called "Thanksgiving Dinner". It's an expensive can of food from the pet shop I get his food from, and his pill pockets. He got to eat the whole can! And all that can, plus all of his untouched dry food from the morning vanished in about 10 minutes of concentrated eating. I did have to give him two simethecone chewable mints spread out over the evening because his gas came raging back. Poor dog. The simethecone helped him. And, he's still farting mightily at 2am. But at least the farts smell more like turkey than rancid dog food. That's better. It could be worse.
To all the turkeys who suffered through this annual turkey apocolypse, I salute you. RIP.
