Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

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Turkey: Brining

Homemade Apple Tart: Baked

Update - 12:30pm, Thanksgiving Day
Turkey: unbrined, stuffed, coated in herbed butter

Update - 5:00pm, Thanksgiving Day
Turkey: Beautiful

Posted by valry at 10:49 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Two things that made my day...
1. I was getting lunch at McDonald's and as I was leaving a boy (maybe 12?) was standing near the door and went out and opened it for me. It makes me happy that there are some kids with great manners left in the world.

2. I saw a city bus with Christmas lights on it! Seriously the whole top was lined with those icicle lights and they were lit up! It was awesome.

And one thing that could...
1. Walking back to the office I saw a delivery man walking in to another elevator with a huge bouquet of red long stem roses. My birthday is in a month and a half... Just saying. :)

So today was Thanksgiving Day 2. My sister and her boyfriend and my other sister and my aunt came and we ate lots of food.
I didn't throw any of it up, but I can't really move.

Picture of dinner because I know you want to see:

Turkey (whole drumstick to myself), Stuffing (with mushrooms and cherries), Mashed Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes, Green Bean Casserole, Roll

I didn't take a picture of the cheesecake. We also had the wine I brought back from Paris and some chocolate wine too.

Posted by valry at 9:28 PM | Permalink | Comments (5)

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

I woke up at 11 after only 10 hours of sleep (8 in my bed, 2 during a movie at JoeJoe's last night). I woke up about 5 minutes after my sister Nat got here, and she was convinced that we wouldn't then be able to leave for the movie at 11:45. I showered, did my hair, got dressed, ate breakfast, did my makeup, checked my email, checked livejournal and checked my web stats and was ready to go by 11:35. :)

So we went to go see "For Your Consideration." It was a good movie and funny, but no where near as good as "Waiting for Guffman" or "Best in Show" or some of their others. There were definitely some funny quotes and such, a lot of funniness over people not knowing anything about the "internet." "That's the thing with email right?" Anyways, it was enjoyable.

So, that is one Bromann Family holiday tradition: my sisters, mom, and I always go to a movie. Well, this year my sister Jen went to her boyfriend's house. So she didn't go to the movie today. She also insisted that we don't have Thanksgiving dinner without her. Did I ever mention that my sister is a VEGETARIAN? And that she doesn't even eat turkey???

So, since we weren't allowed to have regular Thanksgiving tonight, instead we went to this restaurant "The Clubhouse" that was having a really nice buffet. A reaaally nice buffet. The number one reason we went was because they had Turducken!! TURDUCKEN!!!!!!!! If you don't know, Turducken is a duck cooked inside of a chicken cooked inside of a turkey. YUM.

So, ladies and gentlemen here is a wonderful pictorial of everything I ate (yes, I ate ALL of this):

Turducken, Prime Rib, Whipped Sweet Potatoes, Red Skin Mashed Potatoes, Sage Stuffing, Green Beans Provencal

Roasted Turkey, Wild Mushroom and Fontina Penne, Selections from the Cheese Display, More mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, and stuffing

Pumpkin Creme Brulee, Carrot Cake, Chocolate Covered Strawberry, Marshmallow with chocolate from the chocolate fountain, Mimosa

Pumpkin Square, Strawberry and Rice Krispie Treat dipped in chocolate from the chocolate fountain

:)

(although, I am not quite sure if it counts as eating it all if I came home and threw up a little) :(

And tomorrow is real Thanksgiving dinner...

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