Spice_Weasel
My ipad did not display the photo but I appreciate the attempt. I’m a retired NICU night nurse so I am a professional connoisseur of babies. I love them all and they are all beautiful. Sometimes I can’t believe I got paid to love babies. I had quite a reputation for being in love with them all.
That’s weird, it shows up on my phone. But it’s not showing up in my Chrome browser on PC. Have you tried clicking on it? I can see the photo when I click on it.
My Japanese husband cooked me sukiyaki and chawan mushi* (and rice of course) for our 2-some Thanksgiving dinner, accompanied by a lovely domestic sparkling wine. It was delicious and filling.
*Chawan mushi is a savory steamed custard served in a covered cup, with mushrooms and shrimp and, in this case, green beans. It really warms you up on a chilly evening.
Thank you. Clicked on it. Told me I needed to sign up for Flickr. Signed up, 12 !!! Character password, confirm my email, Yada, yada, went back, clicked, entered password, then told me I wasn’t ‘eligible’ to see this photo.
I think he is adorable no matter what. I mean, how could he not be?
WTF? I’m sorry. I didn’t know you had to have an account to view the photo.
I’ll try Imgur. If it doesn’t work, I give up.
Absolutely adorable!!!
(I see both pics inline.)
We spent the day in Haleiwa, on Oahu’s North Shore. A nice Thanksgiving lunch at the Beach House, which served a sizable turkey plate. Pumpkin pie and lilikoi (passion fruit) cheesecake for dessert. A nice balmy day, the restaurant has the ocean/beach-facing wall completely open. A perfect day.
The only thing that would have made it even more perfect would have been if Matsumoto’s, where we always satisfy our shave-ice jones – and it is shave ice, NOT shaved ice – had been open today, but they closed for the holiday.
I didn’t get together with family because of covid and I’m not going to cook a turkey for myself. I had a chicken breast stuffed with ham and cheese and a sweet potato on the side.
That’s strange. I’m using Chrome on a PC and I can see the picture with no special steps needed.
It worked!! Thank you for all the effort. He is gorgeous, the cheeks, the sparkly eyes, that grin!
And I love the Thanksgiving costume. Many will enjoy it in years to come, girlfriends, at his wedding reception, when he outfits his baby in one.
Did he enjoy his taste of turkey day food? My granddaughter loved, loved, loved pumpkin pie (just the filling) when she was 6 months old. Three years later that was still her first request for the menu.
Thank you again for all your effort-I’m still smiling from seeing Wee Weasel.
Thank you for giving it another try. Your Spice Kit is ADORABLE.
Show of hands: who else is simmering a carcass today?
Hell, I didn’t even host Thanksgiving or nuthin’ and wasn’t responsible for the turkey. But my hostess gifted me the entire carcass, to I think both our equivalent delight. No cleanup for her … soup for me!
This is a great sub-nickname for the Spice Kit who is cute enough to merit all the nicknames he can gather. I love the alliteration. It’s fun to say: "Weeeeweeeeasel!’
He liked the cranberry sauce and did not care for the mashed potatoes. This is a shocking development but I’ll teach him to love them soon enough.
No carcass, but I do have a ham bone in the freezer and plenty of leftover ham in the fridge. I foresee a pot of ham and bean soup cooking this weekend!
Me! We put it in the Crockpot overnight with some celery, carrots, bay leaf, and peppercorns. Requires zero thought, and easier than trying to find space in the fridge for a turkey carcass.
For the past 6-8 years I’ve spent every Thanksgiving with my best friends, their son, and their extended family; usually about a dozen people. Yesterday it was just the four of us. Since February we’ve gotten together for the occasional outdoor chat/meal, but it was my first time back inside their house. The three of them have been very careful because a member of the household is in a high-risk group, and I had been self-quarantining since Election Day (when I worked as an election officer) just to be on the safe side. Up until a couple of days ago the forecast was for rain and cool temps, making it super tricky to plan a way to eat outside, and after some consideration we all agreed that in light of everyone’s caution the risk of me being inside their house was low/acceptable. It was a really nice touch of normalcy. (And then the weather wound up being unseasonably great…oh well!)
This year’s menu wasn’t much different than usual; just smaller quantities. The 18-pound turkey roasted very nicely, and there were sweet potatoes (with marshmallows), two kinds of cranberry sauce (whole berries and cranberry-orange), steamed broccoli, homemade challah bread, stuffing, and both pumpkin and apple pies. There were plenty of leftovers, even after packing some up for a local friend who was home alone, an older family member who usually joins us but couldn’t this year, and me.
It was a good day and a great meal, but we felt the absence of the others the whole time and are looking forward to getting back to “normal” next Thanksgiving.
In the meantime, though, I’m looking forward to leftover turkey, sweet potatoes, stuffing, and apple pie. 
I thought the turkey would be done by 3:30, but the thermometers disagreed – and the one I had in the stuffing is one we never use. (I turned the turkey and swapped the probes after a couple of hours.) Anyway, it wasn’t done until five. I hadn’t eaten all day (except, as I noted elsewhere, for a Landjäger, a slice of cheese, and later, a handful of smoked almonds), so I finished eating by 5:40.
To recapitulate: I roasted a turkey with stuffing (with cranberries), and made mashed potatoes (with butter and cream), gravy, and Pillsbury crescent rolls. Mrs. L.A. made ‘candied yams’ and green bean casserole, and opened the can of cranberry sauce.
Amusement: I was sitting in the living room, and Mrs. L.A. asked, ‘What kind of gravy are you going to make?’ I was like, 'Ar? 
’ I told her I was making turkey gravy. It turns out she wanted to know if I was making packet gravy, and what kind. (Of course, I make the gravy from the drippings.)
She’s lucky to have married you.
A fun holiday feast! Check out the guys using chopsticks, and the one sneaking a nip from his flask.The cat is just wondering, “How did I end up with these bozos?” 
Well - That worked out well for my crew. We ate about 1/3rd of what I made which means about 2 more big meals apiece, plus a carcass for stock/soup that I should be actually cooking today instead of just writing about.
The 2yo was only a PITA for a few minutes. She & her infant sister had adorable turkey outfits though not as elaborate as @Spice_Weasel’s boy’s (FWIW, I don’t have an account at Imgur, Flikr, or anywhere else similar, and I saw all the posted images using Chrome on Win10).
There was a bit of a mad scramble at the end of cooking as there always is with one dish running slow, followed by quickly changing clothes, packing up the feast to take it to niece’s, and getting underway before anything got too cold. Fortunately she’s not even 10 minutes away and it’s warm here.
After we finished there a few hours later we came back home with most of the leftovers, SIL delivered MIL to the old fart’s home, then she joined us for a quiet bottle of champagne & some chocolate (and to collect her share of the leftovers 
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Between demanding 2yos & demanding 95 yos, sometimes it’s nice to have a mini-party with just us low-maintenance folks in the middle.