Thanksgiving wrap-up and cider-brined turkey
Alcoholic beverages
It's become a tradition to summarize our Thanksgiving every year, here in this space. I mean, what good is a food blog if not to post about your holiday meals? More as a visual record of everything we cooked and ate more than anything. It's kind of neat, looking back and seeing a photographic record of our past Thanksgivings. For some reason I didn't do an overall wrapup of Thanksgiving in 2011, although I did post a few recipes after the fact. This year it was just the two of us. We've had family in and out during the months of September and October, and were ready for some down time to ourselves. We picked up a half turkey from local Wedge Oak Farms, where we've gotten our turkeys for the past 4 years. They had a crop of unusually hearty birds this year, so instead of getting a small 7 or 8 pounder (they didn't have many) they had a few larger birds cut in half. It was a bit macabre to look at, the bird being cut right down the middle, but the 6 3/4 pound half-bird was the perfect
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