Turkey Coma

[elfs]

I woke up Thursday with a bit of a hangover; I had spent the previous night finishing Halo and had lost track of time. Omaha was already furious cooking away at lots of different things. She was having the usual problem with her pumpkin pie crust and eventually wimped out and bought a store-type. She made the innards herself and it came out great this time. She really did a very heroic job, making carmelized sweet potatoes and stuffing and, of course, the bird. Thirteen pounds of it, well-brined in salted, herbed, spiced apple cider, fresh from Zeigler's farm.

She asked me to make bread rolls, and I did. They came out great. It's nice to see that I can still do yeast breads, even though I ignored two parts of the recipe: I used some of the sweetener early to activate the yeast, and I rose it in a canvas bag rather than a "greased bowl." Thank you, Julia Child.

fallenpegasus and intrepid_reason came over. Pegasus brought an amazing black punch that was chilled beyond reason with dry ice, and Reason brought a delicious cranberry relish. Thanks to both of you for being here. It would have been a much smaller Thankgiving without y'all.

I can barely move now, and my brain feels shut down. I think I'm gonna go to bed early tonight.