I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Our official Thanksgiving dinner was so great! There were 82 of us there this year...lots of laughs, delicious food, and amazing beer and wine :)
On Saturday night I decided to do an encore of Thanksgiving for some friends so I named it Friendsgiving! It was an organic farmers dream...
Turkey Fresh from Skillington Farms
I tried a new technique on my first ever Thanksgiving turkey. It's called spatchcocking. I got the idea from The Bitten Word (http://thebittenword.typepad.com/thebittenword/2009/11/thanksgiving-2009-roast-spatchcocked-turkey.html). You cut the backbone out of the turkey and break the breast bone. The turkey can lay flat and it cooks much faster. Mine cooked in 65 minutes and was so moist! I covered it in olive oil and sprinkled it with garlic salt and lemon pepper. Then I put onion, garlic, apples and oranges on it. Delicious!
Sweet Potatoes in Orange Bowls
The sweet potatoes were the last from our garden. I cooked them in the microwave and then mashed them up with butter, marshmallow fluff (okay, not really organic or healthy), maple syrup, cinnamon, egg, and a little salt. Then I halved the oranges and scooped them out. I put the mashed sweet potato in the orange cup and topped with marshmallow and pecans. Bake on 350 for about 30 minutes.
Corn and Green beans from the garden
And for dessert....
Black Raspberry Pie (my dad's famous pie) from berries pick at my uncle's house.
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip cookies from the last of our pumpkin from the garden this year.
It was a delicious dinner made from all homegrown or local food! The evening was finished off with a competitive game of Catch Phrase!
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