Thanksgiving in the new kitchen

This was our first Thanksgiving in our new house, in our new city, with our new Newton. We cooked the entire meal ourselves(minus the cranberries) and it turned out just lovely. Our menu was a combination of old favorites and some new recipes. We were in the kitchen for the majority of the day, preparing both lunch and dinner feasts. For lunch, we made the same Butternut Squash Soup that we have been making for the past two years. It was just as good as I remembered it, and we were very thankful that our stock pot made it back from Virginia in time. In fact, all of our final kitchen items were shipped and we have a complete kitchen again. We also recently spent the day at IKEA purchasing some finishing touches for the kitchen, including some much needed storage for our pots and pans, and a butcher block table. These things made cooking our delectable smorgasbord much easier. 

For dinner, we prepared an herb and scallion bread pudding, a Tofurky with roasted carrots, shingled baked potatoes, a green bean casserole, and whole cranberry sauce from a can. It was a decadent meal to say the least. I can't tell you how many sticks of real butter we used, because if I did, it would put Paula Dean to

shame. There were also a great many onions and garlic cloves sacrificed to make the meal. If you don't like garlic, onions, or butter, don't come to our house. It's that simple. For dessert we had a store bought pumpkin pie with whipped cream. It was a nice easy ending to our homemade feast.

The entire day Newton wanted so much attention. He wanted to be held, I'm assuming so he could see the food being cooked. If we did not hold him he would scratch and bite our ankles. The compromise was, if we held him, he would wear a sweater the whole day. He did and it was adorable. He is getting very big. He weighs as much as Persie used to before we got him. She has put on some weight, probably from getting into the puppy food. One of Newton ears is about to stand up(the left one I think), and once that happens, the pups will look so much alike. I can't wait for everyone to meet him, especially Glorybee. 

I am happy with the way our Thanksgiving turned out. It was a nice relaxing day of feasting and enjoying each others company. We ate way too much, but that was expected. I can't wait for the upcoming holiday meals, which will be shared with family and friends back in Virginia. While preparing the whole dinner was a great experience, it will be nice to have someone else do it next time :)

We better get as many of these limp ear pictures as we can before they pop up! 

These are the carriers I'm going to fasten together to make one carrier for the plane
ride with Persie and Newton. Iggy is weird and like to get in them.
He wants to take another road trip.

So much garlic! Our new butcher black table from IKEA($58 including the legs).
I stained it myself with a lovely dark walnut stain. 

Our new IKEA things!

I like to have many dish towels ready when I need them.

Roastin' the butternuts.

Stirrin' the bread pudding, which to our surprise, is just egg bread. Like a savory french toast it was. 

Mmm... all roasty.

Sippin' on some egg nog.

Many inches of chopped onion in that pot.

Sweater goblin.

Mmm...

Chickenless Chicken Broth

Our amazing food processor and blender combo.

Giant bowl of soup.

Sandwich Face!

He was afraid of the blender!

Little old man.

It actually kind of look like a turkey.

Basting the Tofurkey with a soy sauce glaze.

So decadent! 

Teehee.

Butterball

Not the healthiest meal at all.

Carving it up.

It was well worth the effort...