I decided to document my day in pictures. It really was two days of pretty much bliss for me in the kitchen. The kids played WONDERFULLY! with each other and I was able to just enjoy myself. For future years I wanted to journal about it here. :)
Thanksgiving cooking day 1:
After the kids had breakfast, I started by peeling 5 pounds of potato's and roughly cutting them into 2 inch size pieces and put them on to cook till tender. Then I started the cranberry sauce and the cranberry jello salad. The cranberry sauce is simple- 1 cup of water, 1 cup of sugar, bring it to a boil, and add in one bag of cranberries. Let it simmer at a low boil for 10 minutes, and then turn off the burner and let it cool. Then package it up into a container and put in the fridge until the next day.
Then I made the Jello salad... I forgot to take a picture of it though... but it's easy too. Mix one package of jello with the hot water it calls for. Stir it until it's dissolved and then place it in the fridge for about 10 minutes to cool. Mix sour cream, can of whole cranberry sauce and 2 cups of chopped walnuts together. Then mix that into the dissolved jello, and pour it into a 9x13 dish. Cover and chill until it's set up.
After that the potato's were cooked so I drained the water out of the pot, and dumped it all into my great bosch mixing bowl. I put some butter in the bowl first, and then dumped the hot potato's on top of it. Then I put the lid on and let it sit for a few minutes while I unloaded and loaded my first load of dishes for the day. (I normally don't like doing dishes, but when I'm spending the entire day in the kitchen, I don't really mind doing them) I got the dishwasher started and by then the butter had plenty of time to melt in with the potato's. I added a little bit of salt and pepper and a touch of garlic powder, a splash or two of half and half, and then turned the mixer on and whipped the potato's right up.
I pulled out 2 cups of mashed potato's for my rolls, and then the rest fit perfectly in the bowl.
Then it was time to start on the rolls. I won't go into all the details, but I really like my roll recipe and it's a potato roll recipe, so it's a little different than the standard rolls. I made a double batch because Alex could Live off of these rolls and I knew he would be sneaking them every time I turned around, so I had to plan for that as well. :)
I have to let it rise in two bowls because I don't have one bowl big enough for a double batch to rise in.
Dough rising in the oven, preheated to the lowest temperature and then turned off...
By then I was ready for another round of dishes lol!
While the dough was rising, I decided to clear out space in the fridge for all the food I was making and the leftovers the next day.
I found an avocado... perfectly ripe that I had forgotten I had, and some queso sauce and since I just happened to have some chips in the pantry... I had myself some guacamole and queso for lunch. yum!
The dough rose beautifully, and I almost let it rise too much, right over the edge of the bowls!
Then it was time to roll them up into rolls... 2 batches made about 69 large rolls... you could make them smaller and get even more!
The girls got a chunk to play with and made their own rolls after using it as playdough for about 20 minutes... I'm not sure if they actually ate their rolls that night or not. lol! I'm sure they were pretty hard.
Let them rise, and bake them for about 15-20 minutes...
And that was all I did on Day 1...
Oh... while I was cooking all day, the girls played beauty shop.
and then later that day when I left the kitchen for probaly one of the few times that day that I was gone more than a minute or two... someone decided to take beauty shop to the next level and I returned to find this:
That's Angela's hair... luckily her hair is so wild with the curls, that we can hide small cuts like that, but still... ugh...
1 comment:
Oh-oh. LOL I loved how you phrased it though: "Taking beauty shop to the next level." LOL
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