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Nov. 27th, 2020 08:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
madbakerThanksgiving was about as nice as it could be under the circumstances. I stayed in bed until the decadent time of 7:30. The wife went for her workout, I picked her up, and we eased into the cooking.
Dinner was the four of us - the two couples in the building, since we've shared lockdown the whole time. In previous years we have each cooked a turkey, in part because we all have different traditional stuffings. But I just was not feeling it this year so the neighbors did theirs (stuffings: oatmeal for him, cornbread for her; my family's is sage bread) and we cooked a variety of side dishes: cranberry-onion chutney, which was quite good and had no ridges; brussels sprouts; sous vide carrots, which were adequate but nothing special; and baked yams. I also made an apple pie and the curvy upstairs neighbor made pecan. We had a nice bottle of local Cab Sauv with dinner and we provided port for dessert.
I was pleasantly replete, not overstuffed. But I did not sleep well nonetheless.
I am thankful for our health, for our constrained social circle, and for the kitties - in a normal year, we would not have brought them home so soon after losing Galen. They have been a bright spot.
Dinner was the four of us - the two couples in the building, since we've shared lockdown the whole time. In previous years we have each cooked a turkey, in part because we all have different traditional stuffings. But I just was not feeling it this year so the neighbors did theirs (stuffings: oatmeal for him, cornbread for her; my family's is sage bread) and we cooked a variety of side dishes: cranberry-onion chutney, which was quite good and had no ridges; brussels sprouts; sous vide carrots, which were adequate but nothing special; and baked yams. I also made an apple pie and the curvy upstairs neighbor made pecan. We had a nice bottle of local Cab Sauv with dinner and we provided port for dessert.
I was pleasantly replete, not overstuffed. But I did not sleep well nonetheless.
I am thankful for our health, for our constrained social circle, and for the kitties - in a normal year, we would not have brought them home so soon after losing Galen. They have been a bright spot.
