So in the interests of saving money and giving the kids a trial run to see how well they would eat the typical Thanksgiving meal I bought a Turkey Breast at the store the other day for like $7.00....I was hoping we could eat off of it for a couple or three days and I knew Dave Ramsey would approve of my plan!
It took two hours to cook, we had mashed potatoes, green beans, stuffing and some biscuits....oh and did I mention the gravy made from scratch? This last addition was completed after only looking at like 20 different recipes on-line. There were so many and with different variations and all were difficult for me to process as my son was in the next room playing the Cars Wii game, which was fairly distracting as the television is right behind the computer cabinet where I was sitting. Finally, I found the recipe I was looking for...a not too involved one and whipped it up.
Everything was going well, dinner was done, time to carve the Turkey breast...the kids were even getting to eat on the glass plates - the "Nice Ones" - for some of you, you know these plates, they are the multi-colored ones that I received from my possible grandmother on my possible biological father's side of the family (I can explain more about this a different time). Kyle, my friend who lives in Montana calls them the Picasso plates.
Anyway, things were going fine, I put on some nice instrumental music on the computer when our three year old daughter threw a fit because she didn't like "that song"..... as she put it. She wouldn't stop until I lost my cool, and told her ever so sternly that she had better stop. So..um...yeah, she got to make a trip to her room....crying, while I carved the Turkey. Hopefully, this is not how Thanksgiving Day will actually go for us and we got this part out of our system.
She returned, everyone sat down, both kids prayed (as they both insist on doing) and we enjoyed the dinner....with both kids eating the turkey, mashed potatoes with the made from scratch and researched for 30 minute gravy.
(Of course there was the one part after dinner where my wife almost gagged due to me showing her an artery or some other tubular looking thing in the carcass, but other than that everyone enjoyed the preemptive Turkey day trial run.)
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