If you know anything about how my holidays go and my extended family, you know it's usually painful and that the family is board certified batcrap crazy. Holidays have always been something we've dreaded as it usually meant pickeled herring and lutefisk for appetizers, a brawl brought on by too many cooks in the kitchen, too many drinks in grandma and minced meat pie for dessert (wtf). It wasn't unusual to stop by McDonalds before or after Thanksgiving dinner because we were hungry and dinner couldn't satiate the appetite. Oh, then there was that Thanksgiving (or was it Christmas?) when my uncle put a gun to his head in front of his kids and threathen to commit suicide. Needless to say, holidays around the extended family is often less that enjoyable.
However, in recent years and since the grandparents have passed, the holidays have been spent with close family friends with traditional thanksgiving goodness. Take a look:
A table set for royalty, or at least 7 hungry gluttonous Americans.
The hostess with the most and the poor (but delicious) bird. She cooked two just to that we could have leftovers to take home. That's friendship.
My menial contribution to this dinner were the baked from scratch honey rolls that were melt-in-your-mouth delicious doughy goodness.
Let's talk mashed potatoes. It is no secret that I can eat my weight in potatoes, particularly of the mashed variety. Now that being said, these mashed potatoes are hands down the best I've ever had. The secret: the potatoes are boiled in cream, butter and 24 gloves of garlic for a few hours and then mashed in all its cooked goodness. Surely these potatoes will be served in heaven.
Dad's famous sweet potatoes.
Obviously, larger plates are needed.
Same time, same place next year. Please?
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