Cooking up our Thanksgiving!

So, today is the day before thanksgiving, and my madre and i had the cooking fevah. well, technically i had the chopping fevah cuz she was the one who was shaking and pouring and mixing all of the stuff together. i guess she doesn't trust me to make the food taste, well, good. i can't even make an omelet right.

a few days ago, i made omelets for me and my lil bros to share, and i thought it was pretty darn good, so i thought hey i'll make one 4 mom too. i was WRONG. evidently i burned it (i thought it would be crispy and good, but as i said before, i was WRONG,) and according to my brothers, it was too salty. now, at this point, i'm just like WHAT???

lemme tell you a little somm-somm about my darling little brothers. they like to irritate me to no end and also they like to get me in trouble with my parents. see, when i first gave them the omelets, they were like "this is so good!" and all "i want another one". so when i hear them saying that they didn't like it and that it was gross to my mom, i was just like grrrrrrrrrrr.......... if you have a little bro or sis, you know how it feels.

about gobble day, my mom just got the turkey out of the garage. he is fully thawed and i have named him stanley. which wasn't a good idea, because how could i possibly eat something with the name STANLEY????? anywho, she got him all nestled in this big pot with sugar, salt and water which she calls a brine. she learned this from alton brown.

she's been going all out this year. see, we are having the thanksgiving dinner at my grandma's house and she is getting too old to be doing a turkey. the only thing she will be doing is the desserts--cheesecake, corn pudding, pies of various sorts, you get the drift. all of my other family members are making the rest, though we are doing the bulk of it--turkey, cranberry sauce, gravy, dressing, green beans, sweet potatoes (my specialty--i make it now--the only thing i know how to make good other than toast, which i occasionally screw up), and mashed potatoes.

my mom went online and got all of these gourmet recipes for this stuff. the main thing that she will be doing differently is the dressing. now i personally never liked dressing, and i vowed to my mother that i would never place the horrid, foul crap in my mouth for the rest of my days on this big mound of dirt and lava we today call the planet earth. but now, it seems really good, now that i looked over the recipe. it's got apples and cranberries and sausage in it. the only problem with it is that my family (on my dad's side--we're celebrating thanksgiving with them) may not be too open to the concept of trying new things. she asked my dad if there would be a riot if there was sausage in the dressing, because they probably aren't familiar with it. i personally think that they will enjoy it.

i'll continue in a bit-- i have to go to bed so i can get to work on the sweet potatoes in the morning. PEACE