Saturday, November 24, 2018

Strange New World


We’re home from a delightful visit to our daughter’s for Thanksgiving, where she produced a spectacular meal. Yes, food always tastes better when someone else cooks it, but it really was beautifully done.

          Granted, an entire generation has grown up and produced another generation in the length of time that I’ve been the designated turkey cooker. It wasn’t exactly Schadenfreude, but I did feel a lightening of the heart when I spotted my daughter’s lists, timetables, and casseroles with post-it notes, exactly what I did for umpteen years.

          Then there was the weird experience this morning of waking up without a breakfast of leftover stuffing, eaten with a fork at the open refrigerator door. I’m protected for now from my automatic 7-10+ holiday pounds.  All the leftovers are safely in New Jersey, with the family of three growing boys, the perfect place. The pecan pie, my personal Achilles’ heel, was vacuumed up in a matter of minutes, and as we left, the apple pie and pumpkin pie looked like they wouldn’t be long for this world.

          Still, we did have leftovers when we arrived home - vegetable soup and pizza.

9 comments:

  1. 'Tis the season for overdoing it. And what a great thing when the leftovers are elsewhere! :-)

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  2. Vegie soup and pizza sound like excellent leftovers to me.
    Glad that you have handed the Thanksgiving cooking crown on. And can avoid insidious weight gain.

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  3. Leftover sausage soup and biscuits last night and leftover curry on noodles tonight. Then tomorrow I have to cook...yuck.

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  4. Vegetable soup and pizza sound pedestrianly wonderful to me. Too bad there wasn't a scrap of pecan pie, though.

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  5. We still do the turkey but not most of the side dishes.

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  6. Leftover stuffing? I never heard of such a thing. I made a pecan pie once, from a recipe I found in a magazine. Maybe I did something wrong or maybe just because I'm Australian, I didn't like it. But we all love apple pies and there's never any leftovers from those either.

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  7. Glad you had a good holiday. I can imagine it must be an immense relief to not have to cook!

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  8. my daughter always sends us home with enough leftovers for one more meal. as for the pecan pie, my husband simply made another one.

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