Happy Thanksgiving!

We actually celebrated Thanksgiving on Saturday, since we have to co-ordinate dates with the in-laws.
Val and I spent the afternoon scrapbooking, while Mike cooked the dinner.

He bought a fresh turkey from the local butcher. Usually we would get a frozen Granny's turkey from Manitoba. This turkey was very good, however. Doesn't it look great? It also produced a very silky dark brown gravy. The house smelled wonderful all afternoon. The dressing was traditional bread with lots of sage, pepper, rosemary, thyme, onions, and celery.

As accompaniments, we had brussels sprouts, wax beans, fluffy mashed potatoes and home-pickled beets. We always forget to have a dessert though. Mind you, no one could have eaten it. We had a Robert Mondavi California fumé blanc with the meal. And our new, improved, filtered water! It was a great day and we sent Val and Dave home with leftovers.

After they left, we watched Carlito's Way with Al Pacino and Sean Penn. As a Brian de Palma film, you just knew it wouldn't end well for the guy, but you wished it did. Now that would be a real twist to a de Palma film: a happy ending! Hey Brian: take a risk once in a while! Don't be so predictable!