Turducken

Am I the only one who was not aware of this?

It’s a chicken…shoved inside a duck… shoved inside a turkey.   I am fascinated by this.   Not fascinated enough to try it of course, but fascinated none the less.    I may be a great cook (and trust me, I am…) but when it comes to Turkey, the one thing I am thankful for is that I have found ways to completely remove myself from the daunting process of getting anywhere near it during the cooking phase.

I’d like to tell you that I slave over a hot stove at Thanksgiving, but I don’t…I take the lazy route.    Each year we load the kids into the car after a massive lecture on manners and being polite (wherein tell all letters written by us to Santa are thrown in at least ten times for good measure) and head over to my in-laws house.  My step Mother In Law, who trained at the Cordon Bleu,  has dinner ready and waiting for us.   I love it.    At Christmas, we prepare the feast and turkey is involved but once again, I manage to skirt all responsibility for the bird.   My only job is to pray The Man does not catch the house, or himself, on fire while he stands outside deep frying it.     To get out of  cooking the turkey, however, it’s a risk I am willing to take.

Also, to the great consternation of my family, I’m planning on breaking the annual Bitchmas festival into several days and nights, tackling one room at a time, instead of the entire house in one day. (And if you are new around these parts CLICK HERE FOR BITCHMAS explanation)   As with any major change in strategy, there are pros and cons to this approach.   The con is that the entire family is subjected to my screaming and cursing over getting poked by needles, nativity scenes that are missing all important camels (and one year the baby Jesus…but let’s not go there again) and lights that malfunction.    The pro side is, I don’t wear myself totally out trying to get it all done in 24 hours.   See?  Everyone wins.

All that being said, I’ll likely be missing for the rest of this week as I stuff my face make reasonable dining choices and terrorize my family hum Christmas carols while thoughtfully decorating.

Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving and remember….

PS:  This post done in consideration of Sprite’s Keepers theme of “What Are You Thankful For?”    If you want to know what bloggers are thinking with more deep thoughts than I have, CLICK HERE.   Come on, what are you waiting for?