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MY FIRST THANKSGIVING
11/20/2010 7:10:49 AM

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I was so proud of my new apartment, a new job and my diploma. What better way to celebrate than to invite my family for Thanksgiving dinner?
I wanted the first Thanksgiving dinner I cooked to be for my family. Mom had no special instructions the night before, but offered to come early on Thanksgiving morning to help.
I changed the menu several times during the weeks before. I thought of all my favorites,turkey and dressing, candied yams, mashed potatoes and gravy, and Grandma's homemade rolls. And of course Grandmas pumpkin pies.
I never really helped Mom prepare Thanksgiving dinner, in fact I remember waking up on that morning to a cold room, and hurrying downstairs to the aromas of turkey roasting and pies baking, filling the warm kitchen. By the time I got up the potatoes were already boiling on the stove, not far from being mashed. Grandma and Grandpa were walking in the door carrying homemade pumpkin pie and her homemade rolls.
I knew I could do it,after all I'd survived "dorm" food, I could cook.
I set the alarm for 4 a.m. Thanksgiving morning. I remembered Mom talking about being up 'while it was still dark', so I thought I should do that too. I wiped the sleep from my eyes, and cut the netting off the turkey. Unfortunately it was still frozen. I wrapped the entire bird with aluminum foil, put it in the aluminum roaster pan that resembled the one Mom used. I popped it in the oven, and set to work making the table beautiful. Everyone had a place-card with their name on it. The table was also topped with a beautiful orange table cloth and my "china". The "china" was actually that old hard plastic stuff I think Grandma gave me. It survived dorm life with me.
I prepared all the other dishes on my list, checking them off as I went. See, this wasn't so hard, what's the big deal?
I was counting on Mom to make the gravy, a task I hadn't learned yet. They walked in, and I could tell by the look on their faces they were impressed. My teen-aged sister raised a suspicious eye-brow.
Mom went to work in the kitchen, pulling all the ingredients out of the cupboard she needed to make gravy. She lifted a few lids from pans on the stove and finally turned to me. "Where are the giblets for the gravy?"
I shrugged my shoulders, "I didn't buy any." I remember her smile as she stared at the stove.
I pulled the turkey out of the oven and Mom offered to carve it. I remember thinking gravy's not such a big deal, right? As she started carving, she pulled the neck and giblets out of the inside of the still frozen in the middle turkey.
Mom held up her treasure and said, "I usually boil all this and then use the broth for the stuffing and the gravy."
Sorry Mom, my stuffing came from a box.
I think we ate mashed potatoes, stuffing, Grandma's pumpkin pies and homemade rolls.
I'm not sure if any of them left hungry, but it was a Thanksgiving dinner we never forgot.

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