Turkey Day!

It's Thanksgiving time!! Phil and I have Christmas worked out pretty well between our families, but Thanksgiving is a little more difficult. It's kind of hard to split 2 dinners in such a short period of time. So I stay at home with my family and he goes to his Aunt's with the rest of his family. Over the years Thanksgiving with my family has expanded from just me, my mom, my sister and her husband, to include some of their friends as well.

Here is everyone sitting around the dinner table getting ready to eat (minus my mom who is hiding in the kitchen, and me...because I'm taking the picture). Mandy, Jack and Tam:
Mike, Rehan, and Nina:

Special appearance by the lychee martini...

And of course Thanksgiving dinner. Mom decided not to carve the turkey at the table, so no giant bird, just plates of turkey slices. Not as visually exciting, but tasty none-the-less.

I was in charge of picking up the turkey this year, and I ended up picking up "young turkey", which apparently is different from regular turkey...who knew...supposedly it's supposed to be more tender than regular "old" turkey. Not sure if I could taste the difference, but it was yummy.

We also had bacon wrapped asparagus and bacon wrapped scallops. I think the only reason we didn't have more things wrapped in bacon was because there were vegeterians at dinner. It's probably better that way...

Then we had stuffed mushrooms and green beans with sliced almonds.

Asparagus, brussel sprouts (yuck...those were for Tam...), mashed potatoes, stuffing balls (stuffing made into the shape of balls), and in the right corner you can see some garlic cheese bread and baked yams.

And of course dessert. Homemade apple pie and Kahlua cookies, and a layered cheesecake of sorts that Jack brought, which was really good. Apparently he bought it at a place called Lady M's in New York.

Hope everyone's Thanksgiving dinner was delicious!