Curried turkey salad

Keep this in mind when/if you have leftover turkey next week because it was a really nice meal! Homemade curried mayo with cubed turkey, dried cherries, toasted cashews, scallions and arugula. I'll post the recipe under Sides & Salads (soon to be separate sections) soon. Fresh mayo is so light, unbelievable really being that it's just egg yolk and a whole lotta oil. Yum, yum.

Full-out Friday

Oh my gawd..................today was nuts. Fun and good overall but nuts. Ol's school hosted its annual Thanksgiving Feast this morning, so I went early to help carve turkeys and set up and then enjoyed the festivities with Ol and T's mom. It was a very sweet party, and the kids did a terrific job decorating and preparing. Naturally afterwards, Ol did not want to go to FunFit Friday but rather home with me. He has started chatting nearly as much as J sometimes and by the time we picked J up at school, my ears were ringing. Also I've got a hell of a cold and sound like Joan Rivers crossed with an old man. Unattractive to say the least. We did take a walk on what was a truly beautiful day, and just look at this tree. As if it's on fire!

The Thanksgiving prep crunch has started in earnest, and today I brought home two turkey carcasses from the school brunch and have been simmering homemade stock all day. It smells wonderful. For the feast, I made two pumpkin pies with my homemade puree, and I must say, those were darn good too. Tonight we're going to have a curried turkey salad and while I would love a glass of wine know that is not in the cards if I ever want to breathe again.

Did I mention that nearly fifteen folks are coming for dinner tomorrow night? Yowzers, I gotta get cookin!

Chicken Kiev is amazing

Y'all, T came home earlier than expected (bless him!) so I finished up supper while he finished up bedtime. We had a 10 minute dinner together before I left for my meeting (a very good meeting), but it was totally worth rushing to indulge in this treat. Seriously, y'all, is your mouth watering? Although I told you this dish is a labor of love, it took even longer than I was expecting. Again, totally worth it but never make just two, as I erroneously did tonight. My hot toddy (so medicinal) and I are now off to bed.