Pre Thanksgiving
Grumble grumble.
I’m tired. I’ve been doing so much work and the sad part is it isn’t over yet. I’ve decided to take a break and do something I enjoy though, which is yes, writing in my journal. Believe it or not, writing is a great way of getting rid of stress, even if you write it for the entire world to see. Oh, and don’t get me wrong, I’m striving to be a hit whore, so I want the entire world to read this journal.
Yesterday I cleaned my ass off. The basement where the kids will play and football will be watched is clean, as well as the kitchen, living, and dining room are spotless. That is a good thing because the dining room is of course where dinner will be served. The bedrooms? Not as clean. The beds desperately need to be made, and toys need to be picked up, as well as it wouldn’t hurt to tidy the junk that has piled up on the dressers. Of course I’m fooling myself into thinking that no one will come up into these rooms, so I’m probably not going to clean them. After all since yesterday was cleaning day, today is prepare the food day.
Yep, thats right, prepare the food day. The point is all so I have less work tomorrow. I’m going to get the bread ready for stuffing, cut up all the veggies I need and store them in ziploc bags so I can just dump them out, and I’ve already finished preparing the star of the show, the turkey. Why prepare that today? Because I’m brining it for 24 hours! It is something new and different for me, and I think for both families that will be coming for dinner. For those who don’t know, brining is when you soak a turkey in a couple gallons of water, with a cup of salt, and a cup of brown sugar. You can also add other things for flavor. I added cut up oranges, cut up lemons, thyme, and rosemary. Yes, I know what I’m doing. I found a recipe, so it has to at least be semi good. If that and other recipes go over well, watch for them to appear on in the kitchen.
Ok, I have a confession. I’m clueless about turkeys. As such, I had no idea what I was doing when I was cleaning the turkey and taking out the neck and giblets. I did an ok job with the metal thing that tied up the legs together. Then I found the neck and took that out. I couldn’t find the rest of the giblets to save my life though! I looked inside the cavity and it was empty. Then I remembered the horrid thing I wanted to forget, turkeys have anal cavities too. So, I looked. Oh no, there they were. I didn’t want to touch it, the neck was gross enough. I grabbed and pulled anyway. Yuck, yuck, gross, ew. I quickly dropped it into the sink. I looked in the anal cavity again to make sure there wasn’t any more. Thank god there wasn’t. I’m not sure I could have taken much more of that. After I got it all out though, rinsing it with cold water wasn’t too bad though. So I was pretty much done in no time. Well, I did have problems with the turkey not fitting into my large 16 quart stock pot for the brine, but I got through that too. Well not really, I’ve just decided to flip it over in mid brine. Or I could make Joe do that, he is after all the one who chose to get the 19 pound turkey.
Hopefully that was the end of the pre turkey day festivities, and the rest will be easy sailing.
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