About an hour ago, the last of our 13 guests left a very successful Thanksgiving bash. We were left with 4 pies, leftovers from a 19 pound turkey with a sherry gravy, cranberry relish, mashed potatoes, 2 kinds of stuffing, sweet potato casserole, green beans with caramelized shallots, succotash, and several bottles of unopened wine, champagne, and eggnogg.
It only took Dave and I 14 hours of grueling work between food preapration and giving our place a face lift. We literally made everything from scratch...from the salad dressing, to the homemade whipped cream atop handmade pies (fyi, those pie crusts were not store bought). Thanks to Dave The Iron Chef, the food was superior!
It was the first Thanksgiving spent in our place. Aside from some donated wine and pie, we stubbornly refused assistance. I began to feel overwhelmed and lost my focus as our peeps poured in. We pulled it off with the assistance of my amazing mother. I feel so drained and yet overjoyed of our super duper husband-wife capabilities. Without any hesitation, we will do it again next year, with some experience and a better understanding of hosting a crowd of 15 in a 800 sq foot closet.
We are taking advantage of some of that left over champagne and will be hibernating tomorrow. =]
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