We had the traditional Goss appetizers of shrimp and spicy cocktail sauce and caviar with cream cheese on a cracker and cocktail onion. We had sparkling cider, turkey, stuffing, potatoes, rolls, cranberry relish and gravy as our meal.
Neither of us was feeling any type of dessert, so we were content with the cranberry relish. The recipe is below.
Cranberry Relish
One bag fresh cranberries
One can mandarin oranges
1/2 cup - 1 cup of sugar
Half tub of cool whip
Grind the cranberries in a food processor. To keep some of the texture, don't over do it. Empty contents into a bowl and add the sugar and then the cool whip. Taste to see if there is enough sugar to your liking. Fold in the mandarin oranges. Put bowl in the fridge for about an hour so the flavors can marry and the sugar can be absorbed by the cranberries.
I was going to bring my camera but forgot so I had to settle for using my phone, hence the poor quality of the pictures.
While the bird was cooking, Greg and I had our appetizers and watched 'Evolution.' During dinner we watched the movie 'Juno.' Nothing exciting happened but it was a nice relaxing day. It was weird to think though that this is already the 2nd Thanksgiving since Julie's been gone. Her favorite part of the meal was definitely the rolls. I only had one, but Greg had 3. I'd like to think he ate some in her honor. :)
