Coffee anyone ?

After prepping things for dinner, was up til 1am. My sister's birthday was yesterday, and she asked for rabbit sausage. I ground the 30 pounds of meat and fat that it requires for sausage and summer sausage while prepping for today's dinner. It doesn't require that much, but that's how much I had frozen. NO breakfast today, JUST COFFEE for me, please.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

My breakfast is over. Who wants to assist with cleanup? The turkey is in the oven for dinner.
So glad Christmas is a month away and no one is going to be here so NO more huge meals.....

How will you have room left to eat dinner after that big breakfast? Lol
I skipped breakfast to make dinner that we sat down to eat at 2:30. Took abt an hour to get away from the table
Need an emoji for loosening a belt.
Pie later when not so full. Maybe leftovers abt 8:00

Mother Hen said:

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE! Hey Al, if you want it quietly then don't come to my house for the Thanksgiving breakfast- eggs, bacon, sausage, pancakes, orange juice and last but not least COFFEE!

Click to expand...

eggs and bacon????

Baymule said:

Then ya'll mosey on over for eggnog at my house!

Click to expand...

aaaaaaaaah!

I had no one to make me eggnog. I made do with spiked coffee! yum!

Sourland said:

Coffee is brewed. 'Al' you're welcome here. It will be bedlam.

Click to expand...

bedlam? I am anti-bedlam.

I lost the giblet pieces in the stock pot. Can't find them.

I will have to live with only diced up neck pieces in the dressing. Found the neck.

promiseacres said:

Everyone have a blessed day. I was last one up.... now they are insisting on breakfast. Too bad I can't send them to one of your homes... but am very thankful
for my family and my byh friends

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Click to expand...

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! !!!

Pastor Dave said:

My sister's birthday was yesterday, and she asked for rabbit sausage

Click to expand...

rabbit sausage? Never had any but I love sausage so super drool!!!

I'm enjoying this plate of food and watching football (LA Chargers against Dallas Cowboys). Oops, I just sounded like I tried to eat before I wasn't able to enjoy it which isn't the truth at all. This is my only meal since this morning.

@Mother Hen - I totally understand. In the past, I would stress about having company, the presentation, the food, etc. Now I don't worry so much about it.

Usually -- but not this year -- I made something special for breakfast (usually trying a new recipe) for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Like a big pastry roll or something easy to do the night before.

It sounds like things went well for you! I hope you took a picture so you remember how you set everything up for the next time you host.

@Baymule - made your grandma's Sweet Potato Casserole with sweet potatoes from the garden. I added some chopped dates to the mix. It was a hit!

I also used the same recipe and made it with white, er yellow, potatoes from the garden. That was a hit too!

For the eggnog recipe - thank you!! I have to get some whiskey...think rum would work?

Any idea if using duck eggs would work? Meh - it will work. Going to make some after company leaves!

@Sourland - how were things today? Did you invite the ghost to be a part of things?
****

Last night, prepped the turkey, made turkey stock, cranberry sauce, croutons (for the stuffing), sweet potato casserole, potato casserole, and pecan pies. Folks, in my home, pecan pie means PECAN pie. LOTS and LOTS of pecans...

This morning, made the cheddar biscuits, the stuffing, the gravy, and the turkey.

The food was delicious! So many new to me recipes that turned out great!

sounds like a great spread!

We have 1.5 hours until "the meal" and the oven with the turkey was shut off.

this is going to be fun : NOT!!

Sara,
Please pretty please save me a piece of that Pecan pie so I can have it tomorrow with my coffee.
Al, stop being such a GRINCH and you might actually enjoy yourself and the family (or friends or BOTH) which have chosen to celebrate this holiday with you.
I wish I could have spent today with my entire family but I had 2 of my Uncle's and an Aunt plus a nephew here so yes all in all there was way WAY too much food.
If anyone wants a midnight snack later on the turkey is on my front porch help yourself. The more you eat the less I'll have to worry about not getting ate and spoiling.

@Sara Ranch, everything went well and everyone ate well. I promised the ghost that if he let the stove work today we would not host Christmas. I made a baked head of cauliflower. The first I've ever done that, and it was great. We had twice baked potatoes, the cauliflower, mushrooms in brown gravy, sweet potato casserole, stuffing, green beans, turkey and a gallon of gravy. The ladies got into the wine, and for dessert we had apple, mince, and pumpkin pie plus applesauce/raisin cake. I won't need to eat for a week.