Innateness

If this is even possible, I grew to love my mom more than I already did on this past Thanksgiving. If you've read previous postings on this blog then you gather that when it comes to me and the kitchen, disaster and mistakes tend to occur! Well, on Thanksgiving, I was so validated and felt totally comforted because I learned that I come by this culinary clumsiness naturally! Yes, folks! It's a miracle! I am not alone! Wonder of wonders! There is some one else out there that I can relate to! Awww, the comfort and relief...
R E L I E F!!!!!!!

Do you know what it's like to have realized that I'm not the only one in the world who makes mistakes like cutting beef log into cute little triangles and then realizing, after you have all these cute little triangle pieces, that maybe you should have peeled off the skin before cutting all of these cute little pieces, which now need to have the skin peeled off individually? I love that those same goofs happen to my mom! I feel such relief, so much, much relief that I cannot effectively describe it in writing!

See this face that my mom is making:



I make that face countless, numerous, MANY times when I'm in the kitchen! Unfortunately, this is no joke. That is the face of, "CRAP!" The face you make when you realize that you've made a silly (I'm being nice by calling it silly) mistake in the kitchen.

This realization has made me think back to all the past years of holiday baking that my mom and I have done. We should have had a video camera on us. It would have been a hoot, I'm sure.


And even though I inherit this kitchen ineptness naturally, my mom's mad kitchen skills still far surpass those of my own. She's a kitchen goddess compared to me! She can make quiche and Paula Deen cookies and I don't think she's ever set anything in the kitchen on fire!


Here's a few more Thanksgiving pics...I'd have more but Paul started pouring mimosas and I had to drink them or his feelings would have been hurt. I had to drink all three that he made me throughout the course of the day. That kind of replaced picture taking. Sorry!


You rarely see me making this face in the kitchen...unless I'm sitting on my butt and eating something!

Our Thanksgiving chef (look at how happy he is...in the kitchen!):

Our Thanksgiving beverage maker:

This is what I love about Thanksgiving:

That's the extent to which my kitchen gets used on turkey day and it's to prepare this (which is a hit by the way! I'm not going to tell you that I almost set another fire because I pre-heated the oven, then thought that I had better make sure nothing was in the oven, which was a good thing because there was a pan of brownies in the oven covered in tin foil. That could have been bad; but, we're not going to dwell on that!):

Up next for the blog: some holiday pics of Missy and Dave's inside decor and their tacky, tacky stocking that Dave just LOVES- UGH!