Thanksgiving and other "interesting" news.

Well Thanksgiving went off pretty well, no food poisoning. The brined turkey was pretty good, and definitely had the best white meat I've ever had - it was actually juicy. I'll have to declare it a successful experiment. My hats off to Bill.

As for other Thanksgiving experiments - not so successful. The girls had their first "meat" on Thanksgiving, one of those "turkey" dinner things in a jar. They seemed to like that. So their T-day dinner consisted of turkey, sweet potatoes, and green beans. I also tried to feed them some homemade carrots - they were utterly rejected. I don't have a good food processor, so the thought might be that they were too fibrous for the girls. The second failed experiment, and don't laugh at this, was pumpkin "pie". I thought the girls should have the full Thanksgiving experience so I made them a pumpkin "pie" of their own. The crust was their rice cereal made with breast milk and then I put straight pumpkin into it, and baked it in a mini pie tin with the rest of the pies. Apparently pumpkin is too strong of a taste on it's own - the kids spit it up. Sigh. They just don't appreciate my creative endeavors at this point in their lives.

I hope all of your Thanksgivings went well, and that you had good food, good friends and/or family, and that you had a moment to reflect on all that is good in your life.