monkeys and ponies

Logging this here for my own memory as much as anything else:

• Cherry tomatoes stuffed with guacamole – do not do this again unless the tomatoes are much bigger, my god, what a pain in the butt no matter how good they were


• Cheese pennies, of which I have now made two batches in about as many days, 'nuf said


• Grilled turkey & gravy, bird butterflied, of course; a 12lb. bird on a grill in 50° weather took a bit more than 2 hours


• Vegetarian main: tater tot casserole, with many sautéed mushrooms instead of sausage


• Cranberry-tangerine conserve


• Cornbread dressing


• Roasted brussels sprouts with vegetarian fish sauce vinaigrette, all hail Bragg's Liquid Aminos


• GF biscuits


• Homemade pistachio-honey ice cream


• Mendiants with candied orange peel and walnuts, and hooray, I have enough chocolate and orange peel to do another batch


• GF cheesecake brought by my friend J

That was more than enough food for six, but my god, how good it felt to be able to have a proper Thanksgiving meal again. Also, the lightly smoked turkey is going to make one hell of a gumbo tomorrow night, but that's columbina's responsibility. (If you'd like to cook along, here's the spouse's recipe writeup.)