This year Corina and I hosted our first Thanksgiving dinner.  With my parents in the process of selling their house I seized upon the opportunity to host my favourite meal of the year.  As an avid fan of cooking I relished the opportunity to host a big, showy holiday dinner.  Since Corina and I moved into our own house we finally had a chance to do just that.

We prepared a turkey, who I dubbed Marcel for the meal.  I don’t know why Marcel, but it just came to me.  I also handled the stuffing, mashed potatoes and made some pumpkin tarts.  Corina handled a wide array of vegetables, including squash, cauliflower, carrots, zucchini and corn.  It turned out to be quite the array of food we had.

Family Thanksgiving dinner

As you can see we managed to fit 8 people around our dinner table rather comfortably.  I was rather surprised how well the table worked.  I think it’s the first time we’ve had a full table.

I used this opportunity to relaunch my blog deelish.ca, which had been neglected since before we moved into our new house.  I posted recipes for the sourdough and rice stuffing, how I went about preparing the turkey and making some great gravy.

Overall I was quite pleased with the whole meal and things seemed to go off without a hitch.  I’ve heard so many “first time” hosting a turkey dinner stories that I was kinda worried some type of calamity might befell my dinner, but everything went awesome.