So Corrina was realllly excited this year to cook her first turkey ever! So we started planning and the day finally came. Monday October 14 was my first day off from both jobs in over a month and I was looking forward to it like a kid at Christmas. I wake up to Corrina handing me a cup of French press and cooking me bacon and "Eggy Toast" as she has coined the term. Think of french toast but WAYYY better. She is actually my favourite human. One day, her kids (all boys she hopes!) will be worshipping her thats how good of a mum she'll be! But back to Thanksgiving! After breakfast, we get ready and head to the store for some last minute things and of course wine and champagne. You can't forget those two. They are almost as crucial as the turkey. We pick up our things and drive out to the house that my roommate Victoria had been housesitting. We arrive at the house around 2, which is late to get our 12 pound turkey into the oven. Corrina had confirmed that all of the materials we needed (baking pan, etc) was there. We arrive and a baking pan and tin foil are no where to be found. I don't think I have seen Corrina this frustrated in a while. Brandon (her boyfriend) and I set out to the store to grab the things we need.
The Longest "5 minute" Store Trip of My Life.
After 15 minutes of running around Superstore with our heads cut off and me being distracted like a 5 year old by things like Pillsbury Pumpkin Sugar Cookies (Which i bought , completely unnecessary) We ask the lady where the pans are. She says theyre out! Imagine the look on our faces. Out of the corner of my eye, I spot a pan sitting on top of the frozen turkeys. I dash towards it, moving through the soccer moms and homemakers to claim my prize. I snatch the pan and head for the checkout. So picture this, were in the self checkout line on Thanksgiving Monday so its busy as shit, and there just has to be the most annoying humans in this line. First, an Asian couple that is moving at the pace of a glacier with a cart that DEFINITELY has more than 25 items (Like Wtf?), Next a middle aged woman that makes the poor attendant run around the store to price check her 24 pack of yogurt to find out its 2.97$ (Which is CHEAP AS EFF) only to tell him "Nahhhh, not today". Then the cherry on top of this slow ass cake. An older gentleman with at least 50 things in his cart. We watch this guy as we are painfully waiting and he suddenly takes a peak in a 180 degree radius and "pretends" to scan his 0.97$ paper plates. I don't see this sneaky mum move until Brandon leans over and says " What a weasel." I immediately burst out laughing and as I'm getting annoyed looks from the other impatient patrons waiting for these people, I see the attendant run over as she catches him red handed. He plays dumb and proceeds to lie about the amount of cans of something rather in his cart. At this point, the attendant starts to count individually the items in his cart and by this point I'm about to snap. Thank Baby Jesus, the till beside him opens up. We finally rush over and pay for our items and get back to the car. After 45 minutes, I never want to step foot in this place for a while. Corrina is meanwhile frantically calling to make sure we hurry back so we can get this damn bird in the oven.
The Preparation
We get back and get the turkey in the oven. Already, I have some awesome excitement. I havent had some good home cooking for a while and I wanna pop some bottles to celebrate this first day off! 3:00 and the turkey is in!
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| HE's IN! |
As the bird begins to roast, Corrina, Brandon and I pop a couple bottles of champagne." Like a 2'6" as Corrina so awesomely puts it.
So we sit out on the deck on a gorgeous holiday monday and get our drink on. Now this house had 5 cats and 2 dogs in it (Mine and Corrina's heaven), and we drank and had some awesome times.
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| Young Love <3 C&B |
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| Three Musketeers! |
The Feast
It gets to the time where we need to take out the turkey and does this bird just look PERFECT ! Look at how golden brown that bad boy is. Frank really roasted nicely ;).
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| Corrina Unstuffing Frank |
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| THE BIRD |
Corrina made her famous twice baked potatoes and miniature apple crisps for dessert, Vic and Amanda did the roasted peppers, brussel sprouts and zucchini and I did my Mom's signature candied yams with roasted marshmallows and a peach raspberry pie. The look on Corrina's face was so proud! A GREAT success! And for the most part gluten free! It was a win win!
Everyone LOVED the food and my candied yams were a hit! Ryan will have to fight me for the recipe ;).
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| Ready to Eat! Corrina looks proud! Ya girlllll. |
After we finished eating and cleaning, we played a new board game, Battle of the Sexes, had some great wine and laughs with friends and called it a night . I say SUCCESS! Until next year, this is one of the top ones for the books. In tradition of the real meaning of the holiday, it made me thankful for the awesome and caring friends that I have. Even in a new city that I am vulnerable to, I have found people that I love that I can laugh and have awesome times and great fun with. Even though my family isn't always near me, I am so thankful for their awesomeness as well!
Happy Thanksgiving and be thankful for the love and support that surrounds you!
XOXO
S.
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