Turkey day is delayed!!!

Posted on Nov 26 in Life in Evansville, parenting, personal storiesby TalinaPrint

Most of you are cooking like crazy today huh? We are just plotting, no cooking here. Our Thanksgiving will happen tomorrow instead of today.

I’m planning menu items, we are going to do a few things different this year. Like buying an organic turkey direct from the farm as opposed to buying one in a store. We had a heck of a time finding a turkey last year that was free of injected junk.

If you check the fine print on your meat packaging and you’ll often find something like “20% injected solution” or similar. Some people see this as a means to rip consumers off, you can read more here.

Personally, we aren’t jazzed about the injected meat because of all the unnatural chemicals. We are pretty set on avoiding as many chemicals, artificial ingredients and added hormones as possible in our diet after our eye opener.

This year in we got our injection free turkey and we even managed a free range, organic one that is hanging out in my fridge right now. Yay!

So, the organic turkey is one change. The other change is gonna be from scratch stuffing using stale bread we’ve accumulated. I wanted to try repurposing the several stale loaves of bread we discovered in our freezer as opposed to throwing them out.

Other than that we’ll have our usual turkey, mallow topped sweet potato bake, green bean casserole, ginger cranberry sauce, maple pumpkin cheese cake and rolls. I might even make up some turkey gravy this time around but we wont be giving thanks or feasting until Friday.

Hopefully you are having a great day and enjoying some good food. E and I are just cuddled up and lounging around the house. Supposedly it could be a white Thanksgiving for us.

So, once we do eat turkey do you think the tryptophan will pass through my breast milk to E making her all relaxed and sleepy too?

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4 Comments

• maiden53 says:

  November 26, 2009 at 8:54 pm

  Happy Thanksgiving! We tried Sizzler’s Turkey dinner today. The ham was good but the turkey was horrible… if you could call it actual turkey. So, I feel bad for my family and am going to cook a small bird tomorrow. And go light on the extra stuff! LOTS of pie tonight, though.
  love to all
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• Becky says:

  November 27, 2009 at 5:16 pm

  We didn’t do Thanksgiving on Thursday because I had to work. So, we’re doing it today (Friday). I can’t wait for turkey with all the trimmings…..yummy! Enjoy your feast
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• Donna B. says:

  November 27, 2009 at 7:11 pm

  Homemade stuffing is the best, though I don’t think I’ve ever made it with just loaf bread. Ours is always at least half cornbread. The other bread usually gets ‘repurposed’ too often into bread pudding.

  I didn’t ask questions about the roast turkey and chicken my step-sister served yesterday… I just ate (and ate and ate…) But there’s a good chance both were organic and free-range as there were both in the yard until they had to be penned up to protect them from the numerous children who were having way too much fun chasing them.

  Anyway, having been around free-range fowl from an early age and observing what they will eat… I didn’t really want to know either way!
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• N says:

  November 28, 2009 at 1:54 pm

  What a meal! I’m glad we waited until Friday to do our Thanksgiving. My wife did a great job with all of her cooking of side dishes and desert. I dried out the turkey a bit or maybe it’s because it wasn’t injected with chemicals…hmm…either way I still enjoyed supporting a local farming and getting some good meat. We now have lots of leftovers to play with and maybe, we’ll whip up some turkey gravy for the leftovers!
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