We had a lovely Thanksgiving celebration at our house yesterday with Jamma, Grandpa Bill, Grandma Therese, Uncle Bob, Aunt Vanessa and Thomas. Bruce — always looking to switch things up in this traditional meal — spatchcocked the turkey and made a cranberry molasses glaze. It was really good. Here’s the money shot.
Uncle Bob, of course, made a little bread.
The boys had some outside play time while the meal was cooking. Finn and Thomas played on the digger, while Ezra did his own thing.
Finn, who had gotten the one-day random fever Ezra had the day before, started to fade just before dinner and ended up sleeping through the whole meal. Poor little guy.
The best moment of dinner came early. While Grandpa Bill was saying grace, Thomas (who was holding hands with Bruce and Vanessa) couldn’t wait any longer and put his face right into his dinner. He managed to stay pretty clean and just got a few bites of something delicious, while the rest of us laughed through the prayer. Sadly, no one had a camera ready but here are a couple of pictures from later at the table.
And then there was pie.
Oh, we would have loved to be there with you!
and thanks a lot for the link about the turkey! We will try this 4sure
here we sometimes have turkey as a x-mas meal
where we will have finish piirakkas and karjalan paisti this year
would have loved to see more pics from all of the family,
best wishes to all!
Merja & Jokke
We would love for you to be here! As for pictures, I always find that at the end of the day I’ve taken very few pictures. Bob took a bunch so hopefully he’ll post some to Flickr soon.
Bruce wants the recipes for your Finnish dishes when you have a chance. Maybe we’ll make them for Christmas, too!