Thanksgiving '09

Since we'd invited waay too many people to fit in our house, we decided to have our dinner at the restaurant. It was closed for the holiday and the manager, Joe, is new around here with no family or friends nearby. So he volunteered to cook our turkeys and I made the rest of the dinner as well as the desserts. Oh and the appetizers, of course!
I didn't even have time to photograph the bacon wrapped jalapeno thingies because they were served during "go time." That's the time that I run around making sure all my main dishes are sufficiently heated up and ready to go.



But there were more than 60 bacon wrapped jalapeno thingies. Really. 60. That's a lot of cholesterol.

Remember my goal? The decorative pies?
Well guess what....





Then the big exciting part of the dinner was the flaming creme brulees. I had no idea it would be such a hit:





At the end of the night, Shay, Steve, and I cleaned the entire restaurant by ourselves with Joe's help. We took just a few moments to sit and go "Aaaaah...."



And then we very happily made plans for next year. I think I'll volunteer some time in a soup kitchen and then we'll have a small little Thanksgiving dinner. Cleaning up after 20 people just isn't as fun as it used to be.