OMFG! My sister is whacked!
She literally made whatever anyone wanted… AND the kick-ass, punk-rock turkey from hell!
I think it topped Mr. White’s bacon-wrapped bird… Prosciutto wrapped rosemary sprigs skewered with garlic and stuck into the legs.
The stuffing was bread and sausage and celery and onions and apricots. Get this… she loosened the skin from the bird and stuffed the dressing between the skin and meat. All that sausage dripping into the bird over five hours. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…. The bird baked on a bed of carrots and celery, which later went into a gravy with sherry.
For the appetite-encumbered in our family, she also made traditional gravy and my mom’s chestnut bread stuffing (which wasn’t stuffed), baked sweet potatoes AND candied yams, mashed potatoes, Gulliver’s corn (a type of creamed, soupy corn), pearl onions in cream sauce (my favorite) David’s handmade cranberry relish (with Rum!) stuffed celery, homemade parker house rolls…Whew!
And of course pumpkin pie!
Argh! Amazing any of us can still fit in our pants!
Tomorrow, we get to spend the evening (including dinner) with the two most fabulous Southern Lesbians ever EVER! I adore them! I always feel sad if I don’t get to see them while visiting Louisville. They are Chris’ best friends.
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