What I learned this Thanksgiving dinner

 Our annual Thanksgiving this year was a bit of a disaster....on the morning of the dinner I did the following:

-Nearly melted my Iphone on the stove.
-Burned the stuffing altogether.
-Decapitated our little plastic William Bradford statute. 

-Ruined the salad bags leaving them outside the fridge for 2 days.

I nearly had a meltdown had it not been for Kenton. But basically I learnt a few things that I need to write here so that I don't forget. 

1. Stuffing CANNOT be made the day before the dinner. It will get absolutely disgusting. I burned our stuffing but it was already disgusting on the morning of the dinner....so I had to do it again, so even though it was really stressful to make it again, I was kinda glad because it was 

so gross. You can see my stuffing in the trash here.

2. It was the first year I cooked a big big turkey of 6,5 kg. So I followed my own recipe of the turkey that I always do, plus I covered the turkey with a blanket of cheesecloth of butter and wine so that it would not dry and it worked (see photo at the bottom). You can see it in this link in the first 10 minutes, it is super easy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viwXUmXTyBI

3. You do not need a fancy container for the turkey. One of those chino foil trays work as long as you put it on your heavy duty tray of the oven. Then, you place the turkey of onions, in a bed of onions and you eliminate a lot of equipment.

4. The puritan hat and the pilgrim bonnet that the Martha Stewart's page has are fantastic! also the measurements are not for kids but for adults. I have done them now many years and they are great and easy. 

https://www.marthastewart.com/908657/paper-pilgrim-bonnet

https://www.marthastewart.com/917670/paper-pilgrim-hat

5. Keep all your Thanksgiving food that is tough in a bucket all together in the same place so that you don´t go crazy looking for it. Let's be honest, most things will be okay outside because it is winter. Remember to keep the salad in the fridge, cause I ruined mine cause I was too optimistic.

6. Use plastic cups and plastic glasses. Honestly no need to complicate yourself with real dishes....plus, real dishes make the dinner cold in 5 minutes. It is pointless. 

7. I eliminated mashed potatoes altogether. This dish stresses me out because it is so hard to heat up on the same day. Getting rid of it was a brilliant idea. Instead I boiled Brussels sprouts and corn.

So I think this is it people, great findings this year. I thought I knew it all, but nope, still messed up so much. But it was a super fun dinner, we did a quiz at the end of Thanksgiving and we had so much fun.