Happy Eating Thanksgiving Edition

We had our Thanksgiving dinner on Friday this year because Abby was working on Thanksgiving day. We divided up the cooking and made most of the dishes earlier in the week. On Friday, we got up and made the pies and turkey. Here’s a photo of all the food.



Beginning at the turkey centerpiece that Abby crafted and going roughly clockwise we have a basket of onion bread and crescent rolls, carrots with onions and bacon, pumpkin pie, homemade cranberry sauce, the Angermeier family green bean casserole, a brined turkey breast, corn pudding, a huge amount of stuffing, mashed sweet potatoes with a pecan streusel topping, the Zander family green jello salad, pecan pie, and mashed potatoes. You can also see the Elizabeth Spencer Grenache we had with dinner. And we did have gravy, but we couldn’t fit it on the table.

If you can’t tell, we made enough food for at least 8 people. We barely made a dent in any of the dishes during dinner. At this point we’re just hoping to finish our Thanksgiving food by Christmas.

This is what the table looked like when we removed all the food and sat down to eat.



Here are photos of both of us in our turkey headbands that Abby crafted for us.





We hope that everyone had a great Thanksgiving and we want all our family and friends to know how thankful we are to have you in our lives.

Love,
Abby and David

David's 30th Birthday Week

My 30th birthday was last week (on the 11th) and my lovely wife made sure that I’d have a present every day of the week leading up to the big day. Here are some photos of my presents.

This is the beer and books that I bought with the mad money I got from various gift givers. I had a great birthday shopping spree looking around the beer store and the book store. Thanks to Grandma Carol, Jeff and Holly, and Ann for the fun shopping and all the drinking and reading yet to come.

This is me modeling the beautiful kilt I got from my folks, my birthday t-shirt from Abby, and my birthday beer glass from Aunt Martha. (I’m also wearing my hand-knit kilt hose from Ann as a wedding present. I’m still incredibly impressed by them.)

I got this t-shirt from Abby. It’s from Wilson’s, a BBQ spot we ate at on Route 66 in Oklahoma. It’s kind of hard to read, but the slogan is one of the best I’ve ever heard—“You need no teeth to eat our beef.”


And now for Happy Eating!

For our birthday entry, we have campfire pie. It was my favorite dessert in Napa Valley from Cindy’s Backstreet Kitchen just a half block from our house in Saint Helena. We made our own version. It’s an oreo crust painted with homemade chocolate sauce and then layered with homemade marshmallow fluff, chocolate pieces, toffee pieces, and oreo pieces, then more marshmallow, chocolate, toffee, and oreos, and finally topped with another layer of marshmallow. Then we browned the marshmallow under the broiler. I think that it’s safe to say that it’s the tastiest and most unhealthy pie in the world. Here’s me blowing out my candle.

For non-birthday happy eating, we rubbed a pork shoulder with roast garlic, mustard, and herbs and put it in the slow cooker. We shredded it and topped it with mole, avocados, radishes, and cilantro for tacos. We accompanied it with some braised red cabbage and a Hennepin (Belgian-style beer called a Saison) from Ommegang Brewery in NY state.


Hope everyone is well.
Love,
David and Abby