So much to be thankful for. Family, friends, health, our jobs, our beautiful boy, blessings and most of all, a loving Savior.
We spent Thanksgiving day with the Hanson side of our family. We decided to try something new and cook the turkey in our pizza oven! Yummy! It took about 4 hours and was really tasty... slightly stressful because I wasn't exactly sure how long it would take!
I started the bird upside down for the first 45 minutes. I flipped it breast side up after that.
I want food now!!!
The top was slightly charred but it didn't really matter. It was very flavorful and moist.
We did two different types of stuffing. A traditional stuffing with bread, celery, cream of mushroom soup and thyme. I tried a new kind with corn bread, apple sausage, cranberries, caramelized onions, parsley, sage and apples. The last dish was a sweet potato casserole with pecans.
Hong, a family friend and his family brought some delicious desserts!
Margie cooked some zwiebach...translated double buns... SOOOO GOOD!!!
It was great grandpa Harold's birthday so we celebrated with a candle in one of great grandma's home made pumpkin pies!
Some how, great grandpa couldn't blow out the candle :) so he had Jed help him.
It was also James (Hong's youngest') birthday next week so he got to blow out another candle!
HP and Margie celebrating completion of radiation.
Grandpa and Jed
Jed and his grandma and oma.
Doug, his friend El and sister.
Hong and his entire family.
Hong gave Jed some shoes for his birthday (which was a few weeks ago) they 4 sizes too big but they lit up so we put them on Jed and he loved them!
We did out turkey(s) in the brick oven too. I fired it for 2 hours to heat it up, then let the fire die out and waited about an hour for the temps to even out (door off). It was about 450-475*. Turkeys in at 12:30, out at 2:30. I wonder if the time difference would be due to weight of the bird (both of ours were 12's). Either way, looks like all of them turned out great. I still can't commit to the method of your first turkey.. still doesn't seem right. =]
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