First Thanksgiving

I hosted Thanksgiving for the first time ever this year. Despite all the stress we'll pulled it off and, everyone had a wonderful time.

Since we were out of town the weekend before Thanksgiving, all of our prep got condensed to the day before and the day of. It definitely contributed to my stress. Thankfully, Boyfriend had managed to delegate a lot of the food to our guests, so I didn't have a ton of cooking to do. But getting the house clean was no small feat. I was definitely driving Boyfriend bonkers by the fifth time I asked him to vacuum the stairs and was refusing to let him put dishes in the dishwasher. Ultimately, I managed to get the house up to company standards in time.

Boyfriend was in charge of the turkey and I was on stuffing duty. Since we were cooking the turkey on the grill, we opted not to stuff it, which gave me a lot more time. And that's definitely a good thing. I was chopping ingredients for over an hour, which just goes to show that I'd never make it on Top Chef. It didn't help that when Boyfriend saw how much I'd chopped, he asked me to double the recipe because he didn't think we'd have enough. we ended up having more than twice as much as we needed, but that meant I got to eat stuffing for breakfast all weekend.

Boyfriend told me that people would be arriving around 2. In my family, that means that people show up at 2. In his, it apparently means that people start trickling in around 3. On the plus side, I was good to go an hour before everyone arrived and actually had some time to relax a little - and listen to Alice's Restaurant Massacree.

Dinner was a wild success. Everything was delicious. Everything except the cranberry sauce made it to the table on time, and I remembered to grab that shortly after I sat down. The eight of us went through 14 bottles of wine while we ate and talked and generally had a great time. It's a good thing I didn't have to drive anyway afterwards.