Thanksgiving 2009

I know it’ll be January before this post goes live, but people seem to really enjoy my Thanksgiving posts or posts where I talk about what my family ate, and I really enjoy writing them… so it all works out.  Right?  Right 🙂

As I’ve mentioned before, it’s not a Feisty Family gathering if there’s no deviled eggs.  Thanksgiving 09 was no exception.  Yum!  (I won’t tell you how many I ate… it’s quite gross.)  This year, my sister prepped everything, but it was my cousin who actually scooped/plated them 🙂

Our usual crudite, this year with blue cheese.  Love those yellow peppers and grape tomatoes… so good. 

My brother opted to bring stuffed wings from Debasaki so our older sister could try them.  Having learned my lesson last time, I avoided trying any, but people did enjoy them!

A “panoramic” of the full spread… shot 1

Shot 2

Shot 3

The turkey, just out of the oven at my apartment.  Oh… I didn’t tell you?  I am now in charge of the turkey every year 🙂 so delicious is my turkey.  Yes it is, nommy nom nom. 

Here’s another beauty shot.

Maybe next year I’ll be allowed to carve my own turkey, too 😛

Yeah, you may have seen this in the above shot – my aunt & uncle decided to bring a ‘small’ suckling pig.  Farm animals, unite! on the Thanksgiving table. 

I couldn’t really figure out how to take a good beauty shot of it, though.

Two whole fish my brother-in-law cooked on the grill. 

3 of the 5 GINORMOUS lobsters he also cooked on the grill.  Holy crap these were HUGE. 

I think this was rib eye or some yummy cut of steak he also cooked on the grill… with Peter Luger steak sauce in the lil bowl. 

Carrots, made by FeistySis of course. 

Long beans made with ‘fu yu’ or um, fermented fish paste, I think it’s called?  FeistySis made these. 

Stuffing… which contains mashed potatoes in it… and is so freakin’ good, omg nomnomnom.  From FeistySis’s MIL. 

Brussels sprouts with bacon, FeistySis again.  She knew it and I knew it, these were better last year, but she’ll do it again next year I’m sure… and the better way 😉

My delicious and lumpy gravy (I like it this way; they’re crackers crumbled into it, lol). 

Pickles, courtesy of FeistySis’s MIL. 

Cranberry sauce, my own recipe, which I don’t really know what goes in it, but it was good.  And shhh… but last year, I bought two bags of cranberries, and froze one… and this was the 2nd bag.  :X  No one got sick… it’s okay!!!

Sweet potatoes with marshmallow topping – FeistySis’s MIL again 🙂

Mushrooms and onions, FeistySis. 

My first plate.  So good.  So FULL. 

My second seating plate.  I ate a few pieces of the suckling pig from the top left of my plate before I took the photo, and my brother-in-law made lobster salad with the meat from the HUGE lobster claws which didn’t make it onto my plate (because I heated it really quickly and I didn’t want to microwave lobster salad, err, ew?).  But yeah, I ate that.  lol!

Lunch the next day… sooooooo gooooooood *tears

Breakfast two days later- fried egg, fried slices of stuffing, turkey, suckling pig, a leftover tomato from my CSA (ummm, they gave us a green tomato and I forgot about it so it actually ripened, which I discovered does NOT mean you should eat it like that… LOL), and a ramekin of gravy, which I later admitted on my Facebook fan page that I uh, drank.  Well, I dropped bits of stuffing (“dressing” since it’s not cooked inside the turkey) into it first… but there was definitely way more gravy in there than dressing… teehee.  It was gooooood.

Here’s a closer up shot of my plate… it was the last plate of delicious Thanksgiving for a while.  Sad.  There will be more turkey… there will be more… maybe soon, maybe not… *drool

Hope you all had a lovely, delicious Thanksgiving!!! 🙂