I turned 23 on Thanksgiving Day, and it was a great birthday! We have the luxury of a large supermarket nearby, so our team was excited that we would be able to buy food for Thanksgiving dinner. We were even more excited when we found a real Butterball turkey!
We did not, however, in our excitement, check out the kitchen before making our purchases. None of us had seen it at that point since we’d only arrived the night before. We returned home to find that there was no oven. Visions of a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, with toast to eat, momentarily ran through my head.
Unwilling to give up on our turkey though, we finally found a way to cook it. Our hosts brought us a small clay pot with coals, and we placed the turkey in a frying pan and set it over the pot. The rest of the dishes we were able to make on the stove-top with slight modifications. I did end up making a large plateful toast, but only to make into stuffing 🙂
After dinner my team surprised me with a carrot cake, my favorite!
cooking the turkey
Seth did the honors of carving it
enjoying our meal
