When I retired, my wife went to work. She works for Loving Care Hospice and does in home care. Well when that happened, I inherited the cooking chores! I do all the cooking and she says that it is really nice to come home from work and have a hot meal waiting on her. So I have started working on the Thanksgiving dinner already. For dinner today I have a big slow cooker on full of homemade spaghetti sauce. But I have a home made pumpkin pie in the oven and the smell is about to drive me crazy! It may be missing a piece by the time it reaches the table tomorrow. I also have a 5 lb. turkey breast defrosting and we will have stuffing, mashed taters and corn and dinner rolls. I am about to starve just thinking about that meal!
How very nice Capt not many men would even bother.Sounds like you got it under control.My compliments to you. My brother and his family (jubabe's family .She really loves to do this.)always go to the Golden Corral every Thanksgiving for lunch.Thats been since his wife(her mom) passed away.I would miss the leftovers so much.
You sound like Ian when it comes to cooking CK. He loves to cook on his days off and I really appreciate it as much as your wife does. :-D
I cookj probably 5 days a week don't mind though I have actually gotten pretty good at it . Of course I was 25 when Sharon and I got married so I had to learn out of self defense. Why guys think it unmanly I just don't understand
CK, that is really great that you do the cooking now. You too Richard and Ian. Randy learned to cook by taking hints from his Dad's cooking style......when the smoke alarm goes off, dinner is ready. He was eating and enjoying blackened food before restaurants made it fashionable. He can fry spam, heat up canned chili and has brought microwaving a frozen dinner to an art form. Before we met he alternated between two meals, Spaghettio's and frozen shrimp cooked in a Fry Daddy. Before we really started dating, he would do repairs on my Pinto and I would cook supper for him. My car, being a Found On Roadside Dead....Put In New Transmission Often was always needing work of some sort and by that time I had seen the kitchen in his apartment and felt sorry for him.
Three pies, two pumpkin and one raisen/apple, are done and chocolate chip cookies are finishing up. Dishes are cleaned up. Time to have more tea. DR cooks sometimes but he does dishes and laundry all the time. Dooley
The pie turned out great. That's the first time I have done a pie. It still remains to be seen if it will survive the night as a whole pie or not!
I have two pumpkin pies in the oven but we only have to take a relish tray to dinner tomorrow. Wannabe
2 pumpkin pies out of the oven, 2 more in. Then the overnight salad to do tonight and the banana pudding. I have to debone the chicken for the cornbread dressing. Will do the rest tomorrow, rice dressing, turkey, ham, gravy, peas, corn and rolls.
I used to live in a place with a loft. The ladder was in the kitchen next to the counter. Just imagine two pies cooling on the counter and a pussy cat leaping down! A right mess. Not cooking this year. My mother is a GREAT cook and enjoys doing it all. muddy
Great Thanksgiving dinner! We did a 5 lb turkey breast this year. Easy to fix and not all of the leftovers. The 3 of us ate about 1/2 of it and we will slice the rest of it up for sandwiches. It had a great taste and was nice and moist. Will definately try another one. And we didn't have the carcass to get rid of either. We also had mshed potatoes with turkey gravy, stuffing, baked apples, scalloped corn ( my favorite) and dinner rolls. And the pumpkin pie was great tasting!
