My heart is thankful and my spirit is grateful for the wonderful blessings of my great God. He alone is worthy of praise is worship. Amen!
He has truly blessed me abundantly and has given me so much. I am especially grateful for His gift of salvation.
It was nice to be able to spend time with family yesterday. While the dinner preparation did not go without glitches, everything turned out okay.
- The turkey actually was really good, and my concern about marinating too long with lemon was unfounded. The rosemary and lemon smelled and tasted good. I also roasted the turkey in a bag with the breast-side down; and the it breast-meat turned out well. The drumstick and thigh, though needed a little more cooking afterwards.
- However, the beef stew was a disaster. First, when I was washing the slow cooker, it slipped and fell and broke. Then, I decided to cook it in on the stove, but I stepped away right before browning the meat; and the pot smoked and caught on fire; causing my smoke alarms to go off. Then, when, I was reheating the stew right before serving, it got burnt, and my whole kitchen (and the dish) smelled like it. Fortunately, this was the only ruined dish.
- The mashed potatoes were smooth and creamy - the milk was actually enough, and the sour cream wasn't really needed. Next time, I will probably just heat milk with butter and garlic; and skip the sour cream and chives.
- Raisins actually went well with the cranberry sauce - would probably do it again
- Stuffing turned out pretty well. Next time, I will not leave it in the oven to reheat, because it got dry. Also, I will not use honey cornbread or honey bread; since it caused to stuffing to be a little sweet; so regular cornbread and bread would be better. Putting cornbread in, is actually more work - having to bake it and then crumble it. I might just stick to just toasting regular bread and cutting it into cubes. I did add celery and that went well. I might skip the egg also next time.
- I did a thin layer of the mashed sweet potatoes and topped it with a layer of marshmellows. That turned out well. I added cinnamon, nutmeg, honey, and maple syrup. I probably didn't need the syrup, since it was sweet enough already.
- The spiced pumpkin bread was good; and pumpkin butter was a really good complement to it.
- I felt that simmering the apple cider in the slow cooker was okay; except that it seemed like it got less sweet over time.
- There was nothing really of note for the rest of the dishes - green beans, asparagus, gravy, dutch apple pie, rice, and corn soup
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