Domestic Bones hand pies

It had potatoes, and a nice spice but beyond that, I don’t remember what it was when i ordered it. Pretty good.

Italian Sausage and Scrambled eggs

A bit of a spicy sausage and some eggs, probably more sausage than could be good for a normal ratio, but overall, pretty good.

Bratwurst

Good as always

Thanksgiving

I really need to find a way to get the amount of food per person right. So there’s more then enough, but not an overwhelming amount of food for everyone. Like 1.25x? or 1.1x. We have a lot of leftovers, which is fine.

I missed a handful of ingredients, that I just assumed I had the items for. I over bought a couple of things that I assumed I would replace something fatty with something very fatty for. I had just the right amount of unsalted butter (1.2 sticks to spare).

I like doing the sous vide of the turkey to just under done. I’m allowed to add fat, seasoning and salt, and not having to worry about over whelming the timing of the day off or having to watch it so closely. I did have to make adjustments to the water level when I took out the breasts (they were done) and added the thighs, wings, and drumsticks. But running them separately you have the same flavor and the right, underdone ness. So they can finish off in the final dish, without over cooking. That being said, I have a pile of turkey leftover, I may freeze it and make turkey soup in a week or two.

Due to space limitations, we normally would have people serve themselves through the kitchen, however, since we did not have the same limitations, we dished things out into serving bowls. This had positives and negatives. Everything was on the table which meant that most things were in reach or an easy pass away. On the other side, some things got cold, pretty fast. Frustratingly so.

I started the potatoes too early.

My gravy had lumps. I did however run it through a strainer and back into the pan, so tada! no lumps. I was still upset with myself.

Since the I made the stock, it was dramatically low in salt, so to get the things up to a tasteful level, I had to add a lot of salt. Like a lot a lot. But when you triple a recipe it can work like that too.

Overall nice to see my family that could make it. our house is relatively small so it’s hard to have a formal(ish) dinner for a lot of people. After a couple of years off (one due to health, one due to pandemic), it feels like a pretty good success.

21 loads of dishes. From 11/22/2021 at ~1:PM to 11/26/2021 at ~11:AM.

Time to start thinking about next year.