Turkey Day Stats

Twenty-five people,
*Eleven of which were teenagers,

*Six in the ten-and-under crowd

One long, long table, consisting of

*One eight foot table and

*One six foot table pushed together,

plus

*One four foot "kids' table" in the kitchen

*Besides all the folks who propped their plates on their knees

*and ate while sitting on the couches in the living room

Three turkeys
*One baked traditionally with stuffing,
*One baked traditionally, stuffed with herbs and oranges,
*One fried by the "uncles" in the driveway

~ 57 lbs total

Thirty pounds of potatoes,

*Peeled by the children while watching the Macy's parade

*Half for mashed potatoes,

*Half saved for Thanksgiving Friday's traditional vat of potato soup.

Mushrooms

*Awesome baked recipe of my sister's I'll have to share!

Two kinds of stuffing

*One without nuts, one with

Three cans jellied cranberry sauce

One large serving bowl cranberry/jello/apples/celery/nuts stuff

One vat green beans

*Grandmom's scrumptious, southern-style green beans!

Two kinds of rolls, *Four dozen total

Sweet potato fluff

*With "smarshmellows"

Apple rings

*A family recipe, made with spiced apple rings,

Five gallon cooler of sweet tea

*And two gallons, non-sweetened

Pies

One apple

One cherry

One pecan (actually two, but I forgot about one of them and burnt it to a crisp...)

One chocolate cheesecake

One blueberry cheesecake

One plain vanilla cheesecake

*made by me...

Three pumpkin

Two oreo mud

*made by Michelle and our friend, Lisa...

One lemon meringue (that never did get its meringue...)

Two cookies and cream

One chocolate-peanutbutter

Three chocolate m&m

Two banana cream

*made by Jon...

Schedule

*Started cooking pies Wednesday afternoon, finished sometime in the wee hours, after Mom turned the kitchen over to Pie-man Jon.

*Started preparation of turkey by 8 a.m. Thursday, and finished with the savories by app. 2:30 p.m..

*Grace said at about 3 p.m.

*Meal finished and dishes washed by 5 p.m.

*Dessert still not finished...

Sum total

25 Happy, Stuffed Friends and Family