{"id":11856,"date":"2012-11-23T08:44:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T15:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=11856"},"modified":"2012-11-23T08:57:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T15:57:22","slug":"our-thanksgiving-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2012\/11\/our-thanksgiving-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Thanksgiving Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yep, I completely wrecked the turkey. I’ve had and made great turkey and ok turkey and it is really pretty hard to wreck one…overcooking is one way and that is what I did. It was a smallish, fresh turkey and I prepped it like I do a fresh chicken and set the timer at what I thought would be the halfway mark. But the halfway mark was already too late. Bob, Bear and I all had some of it – I actually roasted the bird the day before TDay…and although it certainly didn’t taste “off” as in tainted, it just did not taste good and I realized it had never smelled good and I dithered about what to do. Thinking I was just disappointed and my taste might be off I thought: gravy! But eventually in some moment of angst, I wrapped the whole bird up and put it in the trash. And I wasn’t sorry the next day! And the thought of turkey did not appeal.<\/p>\n

Plan B.<\/p>\n

Plan B was actually my original Plan A. Looking at the turkeys when I first went to buy and thinking about the lack of room in both my refrigerator and budget – and it was just me so I could have what I wanted…I thought buffalo (bison technically) – VERY American West. My mother had just given me a recipe for a buffalo meat loaf that she and Bill liked. AND – I recently purchased a meatloaf cookbook:<\/p>\n

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The Meatloaf Bakery is a restaurant in Chicago and most of the loaves are shaped into individual servings in pastry shapes: cupcakes, pie wedges, etc. and topped (decorated) with pipped mashed potatoes.<\/p>\n

The change from turkey dinner back to meatloaf was easy to accomplish, but I admit to an initial loss of confidence. If I could wreck something as simple as a roast turkey, could I still make meatloaf….or pie???<\/p>\n

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I relaxed, got my kitchen mojo on…<\/p>\n

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…enjoyed the process…<\/p>\n

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And all was well.<\/p>\n

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It was a balmy (for late November) 44F.<\/p>\n

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We were all outside most of the afternoon<\/p>\n

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I didn’t make meatloaf cupcakes but I did make cheesy-garlic red mashers, smothered my piece of meatloaf with them and browned the potatoes under the broiler. Garden green beans with cherry-basil-balsamic syrup on the side. I was happy and full.<\/p>\n

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Bob, Bear and I hope all had a Happy Day.<\/p>\n

Let the season of holiday madness begin :) !!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yep, I completely wrecked the turkey. I’ve had and made great turkey and ok turkey and it is really pretty hard to wreck one…overcooking is one way and that is what I did. It was a smallish, fresh turkey and I prepped it like I do a fresh chicken and set the timer at what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-pets"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11856"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11870,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11856\/revisions\/11870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}