The Feast

I have spent weeks preparing for the big day. -THANKSGIVING- After Sandra gave me a speech about having people over to my house even in its unfinished state I decided to host Thanksgiving at our house for some of the other law students and their wives. I spent days researching what would be the perfect turkey, I did trial runs on my mashed potatoes, and spent evenings shelling pecans from our tree for pecan pie. In the end the menu ended up being:

Frothy Punch
Cheese Ball
Alton Browns Turkey Brine Recipe
Martha Stewart's Cream Cheese Mashed Potatoes
Stuffing
Green Bean Bacon Bundles
Carrots
Pumpkin Chiffon Pie
Pecan Pie
Apple Pie

We planned on 11 people and nowhere to sit them so I came up with a brilliant idea, if I do say so myself, of taking down two of our bedroom doors and stacking them on our food storage boxes. I had some butcher paper to act as my rustic table cloth, and for the final touch, I made Bryan climb our oak tree to get just the right leaves for the center piece (what a good sport). We have no furniture in our living room so it made it really easy to set up. For my fist Thanksgiving I feel it went pretty well, everyone seemed to enjoy the food and company. I have to work of a couple of things next year, such as timing ( the turkey finished ahead of schedule, the gravy took forever, and the green beans where on the extreme mushy side) quantities ( we had enough mashed potatoes to sink a ship, that is what happens when you tell Bryan he can watch a football game while he peels, he would have kept going if he could, anything he could do to keep watching the game)

Thank you all for coming and for your help with a tasty meal and a fun evening!

Sorry for the lack of pictures, it was a busy day!