Ladies Home Journal arrived with a lovely cover photo of Paula Dean and one of those beautiful, golden brown turkeys on a platter. Inside is a several page spread of Paula's menu plan. This treat included a recipe for something interesting to do with canned jelled cranberries. I'm personally anxious to try that one! It was a nice spread: corned bread stuffing, a cola basted ham to go with the turkey, sweet potato casserole with 900+ calories per serving. Yep, good stuff all the way around. There were however, some glaring omissions. Nothing pumpkin. I can live with that. But there were no mashed potatoes! Can you imagine? No mashed potatoes. You know what that leads to: no gravy!!!
To cut Paula some slack here, there were potatoes, but they were new red potatoes and cooked with the green beans. Now Paula, that's a lovely idea, but seriously!
What I haven't told you is that Paula deep fried the turkey. While some might say that explains why she didn't make gravy, no pan drippings. Why would she make mashed potatoes if there's no gravy. DUH! You have a whole fryer full of oil! Make all that into gravy! Hello!!! Have these people never planned a meal before? That's food utopia, a deep fryer of gravy and the stuffing and mashed potatoes to absorb it all!!!
Can we work cheese into that equation? Just asking, sheesh.
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Hello! Deep fry the cheese and make gravy balls and deep fry those. What could be better? Oh, by the way...your suggestion of grease gravy made me gag a little.
I am SO with you. New potatoes just won't cut it. And sorry, Kristi, but grease gravy sounds good to me!
As for cheese, can we just have a nice (pasteurized) cheese platter to go with the pickle tray? Crackers optional. LOL
OK, SERIOUSLY.
When do we get Halloween photos of Mr. E?
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