Thanksgiving Dinner '09

This is my first year actually cooking for just my family for Thanksgiving. I opted out of the super turkey that I bought in favor of a smaller bird. I used Alton Brown's Butterflied and Broiled Chicken recipe. It turned out ok, but I had a small issue with my broiler, it being the first time I have ever used it. So the skin of the chicken chard a bit more than I had expected.

Chicken Butterflied and ready to be put in oven.

Into the old ass oven.

My son taking the picture for the lovely Tamara's Blog give away. (see sidebar for link to Drabby to Fabby)

Bird done and resting. a little more chard than I had planned.

Wine for de-glazing the pan to make the sauce. I had to have it once I saw the name. Plus it was only $10.

Sauce reducing. I didnt have time to reduce it as much as I would have liked.

Bird quartered and plated with baked potato and the kids have some whole cranberries.

Even though the skin was slightly singed the bird was flavorful and moist. Even the breast. We had a simple chocolate pudding for dessert.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Pink Elephants

My New blog is up and running. All dedicated to making alcohol and Tintures. All of the recipies from this blog are being copied over to Pink Elephants.

Bottled Blueberry Cordial

I finally got around to bottling the Blueberry Cordial. It tastes great and I have not even diluted it yet. I think I will, but not with water. I am going to get a hold of some 100% blueberry juice bottled or from concentrate. Why add just water when blueberry juice will also add a bit of flavor. I bottled in a recycled Brandy bottle I recovered from the hotel I work at. 

I also am going to poor off about 1/4 of this bottle for medicinal use. Yes I said medicinal use. Blueberry Tincture can be used to treat UTIs and kidney stones and diarrhea . Being a woman I am always at a high risk for UTIs and having something around to help with kidney stones sounds like a good idea to me.

Trick or Treat '09 Pictures

I know. Halloween was 2 weeks ago and I am running very late getting these up. But, like I have mentioned the last 2 weeks or so have been more than a little busy for me. Better late than never though. Here are our pictures.

First the costumes:

We went to Roseau for trick or treating on main street and then headed to DQ for dinner. Talon was not feeling well so he almost didn't get to do anything more. But he begged and I gave in. I told him only 1 hour and then home for an early bedtime. He said "deal".

Out we went after dinner to trick or treat around the town. Notice how amused this first lady is by me being dressed up.

This next pictures are funny because of the story behind them. First the spider. Talon went walking through the yard after getting candy and my husband yelled at him to watch were he was going. He looked down and screamed at the site of this huge spider at his feet. He almost dropped his candy. We were laughing about it for the rest of the night.

This next picture is of a cat. This cat was doing tricks in honor of the holiday. I went walking past the tree and the cat scared me. almost as bad as the spider scared Talon. I did not scream, or drop the candy but I jumped back about 3 steps as my husband laughed his butt off. 

Happy Halloween and Blessed Samhain to everybody from all of us. (Even Hubby who is hiding behind the camera)

Drabby Day Post w/ a Side of Guilt Trip

Ok. I have been so excited about starting to do this Drabby to Fabby thing on my favorite blog site. But as soon as i get excited about something, all hell breaks loose. 2 weeks ago I promised to do her Drabby to Fabby Hair day and then everyone in the family got sick. No coloring my hair, no getting a hair cut. Only bundled up on the couch with a death grip on by tissue box. So I missed the hair fabby competition.

The next one, due today, is the just plain drabby day. Cool, this should be easy enough. Oh crap. what a bad week for it. I am in my last 2 weeks of classes. not just for the term but for my associates degree. As of last week I was flunking Intro to Psych due to a few missed assignments. My own fault for falling behind, but am in the progress of fixing it. In fact, I turned in 2 assignments yesterday that should pop me up to a C.

Now the drabby to fabby hostess with the most is sad because no one is wanting to post pictures and enter. Well hun, here you go. It is not me at my most fabby but it will do:

And to make you smile a bit, I included Wyatt's drabby pic. This is the last day of his cold.

So there. Pictures in a drabby way. PLEASE no more guilt trips!!!