Happy Faux-giving

Please note the sloppy, fresh out of the shower, into the kitchen hair and the fearful face.

Happy Faux-giving

For the love of living Turkeys, this years' Thanksgiving was exhausting. My family decided to celebrate a couple days early to accommodate all the various family members being pulled in different directions, which worked out quite well for the most part.

Tuesday morning, or "Faux-giving" as I have dubbed it, I woke to find out my mom was too sick to prepare the meal. This was a serious problem being that she intended to prepare almost all of the meal… Instead, my cousin, her husband and I donned the aprons and got to work.

I have been a vegetarian since I was fifteen, so I don't have the slightest clue of where to start when comes to preparing meat. I am a mediocre cook when it comes to the vegetable and italian dishes I am used to preparing, but a Turkey? I have no clue. My cousin, though brilliant in the kitchen, is also a vegetarian of sorts, so neither of us were particularly thrilled about preparing meat, so we stuck with the many starchy accompaniments to the meat. My cousin-in-law handled the Turkey, while my cousin and I bustled about cooking a traditional (sans the meatless stuffing) Thanksgiving feast.

Wednesday was a day of rest.

Thursday it was back in the kitchen to make my mom's famous mac n' cheese for My Fantastic Boyfriend's family's Thanksgiving. I think it turned out pretty well if I don't say so myself and even that I do say so myself.

Happy Faux-giving and Thanksgiving!