Butter turkey

Butter turkey before Thankgiving.

Butter turkey after Thanksgiving.

Happy Thanksgiving!

All suited up and ready for Thanksgiving dinner production.

We got these aprons for our Thanksgiving cooking team. Gobble gobble.

The QA team was ready to test the turkey to make sure it was okay when it came out of the oven.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Really looking forward to Thanksgiving! I'm in full on turkey dinner planning mode.

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Turkey nails

Now I am REALLY ready for Thanksgiving!

Turkey Jamberry nails!

Stuffing Waffel - It's a good idea

After hearing about stuffing waffles I couldn't stop thinking about it. My mom caved and let me shovel leftover Thanksgivng stuffing into her waffle maker.

It turned out just as fantastic as you think it would. The outside is crispy and the inside warm and delicous. Pour on some turkey gravy and shredded turkey and float away to leftover heaven.

Glorious Thanksgiving Leftovers

I love turkey leftovers and my mom really hit it out of the park by making waffles and serving them up with leftover turkey gravy and turkey. I think it makes total sense... it's like chicken and waffles but with turkey!

As soon as I posted photos of our turkey and waffles, I heard from several friends about stuffing waffles. The idea is to fill a waffle iron with leftover stuffing and cooking into a warm, crispy waffle shape. Some recipes add eggs or stock to the stuffing before adding to the waffle maker. Either way I think this is a fab idea and might have to make some more stuffing just to try it out.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope everyone is having a warm, wonderful and relaxing day with friends and family.

The pugs spent the morning worrying about where the turkey was.

They were thrilled when it came out of the oven.

So was Wally. It was delicious. We will have fabulous turkey leftovers for days.

Turkey leftovers

After we grilled the turkey last weekend, we ended up with lots of leftovers. We have been feasting on turkey all week. First night was hot turkey open sammiches. Then turkey bacon clubs (with grilled bacon!)

And then turkey noodle casserole! I'm taking some turkey home to my mom to make turkey salad sammiches this weekend too!

Grilling a turkey

Last Thanksgiving I bought a turkey on sale and put it in the deep freezer. Then I read in Martha Stewart Living about how you can grill a turkey. We thought we would give it a try.

We just rubbed it with olive oil and sea salt, stuffed it with rosemary, thyme, onion and garlic, then cooked it on the grill for a little over three hours. An aluminum foil pan underneath the bird caught all the juices for gravy.

I thought deep fried turkey was good, but grilled turkey has topped it. So good!

Turkeys

I needed a little Thanksgiving in my office.

Thanksgiving decor

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. You don't the stress of black friday shopping but you still have a focus on food, family and reflection.

There aren't as many decorations for Thanksgiving... which can be a good thing... they don't show up at stores right after the Fourth of July... but I do enjoy putting out the items I have collected. Mostly turkeys.

I always keep an eye out for turkeys.

I especially enjoy saying things around the house like - "Have you seen the little Aaron candle holders?"

Hah hah. Turkey humor never gets old for me.

Turkey lust

Look at #6 on this list of "10 Pictures of Dogs Lusting After Turkey". That's Oscar in my Grandma's kitchen two years ago, lusting after the turkey my Grandma just pulled out of the oven. I took a similiar picture last year too. I should have taken one this year... it was the same scene really.