Thanksgiving 2016 🦃

Again, despite fears to the contrary, we did not starve on Thanksgiving!

Ray and Shirley recently returned from Hawaii, Sam flew in from San Francisco… Thanksgiving at our house in Fort Collins in 2016, extending a long tradition of intertwined family holidays.

fullsizeoutput_6aa4 — *Kim, Sam, Shirley and Masirah, Ray and Sally*

On The Menu:

Sally and I made..

Simple Cranberry Sauce (cranberries, sugar, salt, water)
Grandma Steyer’s sage, onion, apple stuffing (using Italian sourdough bread)
Best Turkey Gravy (many comments, this was the best ever I made)
Old Fashioned Stuffed Turkey – a kosher brined, air dried Glatt turkey
Coconut-Scented Garlic Sweet Potatoes
Corn Casserole (Sally’s family recipe)
Moosewood Pumpkin pie (Sally)

Shirley, Sam & Kim made awfully yummy dishes including:

Sam’s Mashed Potatoes
Shirley’s signature Stuffing
Shirley’s Cranberry-orange sauce
Yang Family Squash Casserole

fullsizeoutput_6aa5 — *Ray and I finish off the last of brother Tom’s gifted bottle of Willett Bourbon*

Author: David Willett

Worked at Agilent Technologies and Hewlett-Packard, attended University of Washington and Michigan State University, lived in the Netherlands, the Peoples Republic of China and the United States, visited 36 countries, 11 of 13 Canadian Provinces and all 50 U.S. states, living in Fort Collins, CO, USA View all posts by David Willett