Thanks @heidicooksandbakes - if I try again, I’ll post a little update. It did smell delicious as it was being put together, and while baking. The soup out of the carcass had a great flavor, so not all was lost.
@retrospek - sorry your meal didn’t hit all the right buttons! That’s disappointing. I’ll tell you, if our mashed potatoes had been bad, I would have been crying. IMO, for T-day, the holy trifecta is dressing, potatoes and gravy, something I look forward to every year. Hopefully, next Thanksgiving will be better, with everyone back on their game.
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Due to my retail years before retiring we usually ate out on Thanksgiving. Then there’s the fact that the day can be somewhat contentious due to different likes and cooking styles of the bird.
There’s just two of us and we’re good cooks but we can never get a turkey to come out right to please us both, she’s dark meat and me the breast.
So we went to Grotto Houston where they had turkey on the menu but it was gone when we got there at 4 so we regrouped and the Wifeacita got scampi with really good spinach and I had pepper tuna with pea risotto.
The food and service were great and we had a relaxing day. Now that the weather has cooled I can fire up the oven and do a breast, assuming it still works as it hasn’t been used since March. I need to eat turkey skin.
Houston, TX | Hours + Location | Grotto (grottorestaurants.com)
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Sorry to hear …
All our best wishes during these highly challenging times worldwide.
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Thanks Barca. Nephew is low-functioning autistic who has been living in a group home of five for the past few years. Sis and BIL brought him home every two weeks before COVID, but haven’t been able to since March–they could just visit at a distance (yeah, that went well 
Now that he’s positive they can remove him from that home to theirs 
We’re all hoping for the best.
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Best wishes to your sister and BIL. They are in a horrific position. I’m glad you decided to stay home. Clearly your family is an object lesson in the very real impact of COVID-19 on regular people leading regular lives. You and your family are in my thoughts. Please tell your sister that at least one rather odd fellow on the Internet is hoping she can usher her family through to health with minimum upset.
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I’ve started calling it as end of calendar year 2021 in late July or early August. I haven’t seen anything to make me change my mind. Too many “anti-'s” to go faster: anti-vaxx, anti-mask, anti-distance. Too many people who think a tent in a parking lot is outdoors instead of just uncomfortable. Too many people who think outdoors is safe period. Too many people who think family and friends get a free pass. How do they think the virus spreads? I’d rather get on an airplane than go to a family backyard barbecue. Just stay home and cook for yourself. Use the phone, video, write a letter.
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Thanks @Auspicious I have two sisters (and one predeceased) and two of the best BILs ever (this is my brother Mike and my other brother Mike). They helped mom walk the steps so she could go home.
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It seems as though some think when the calendar flips to 2021 all will be ok. It’s not happening.
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@gaffk, please let me add my hopes for a full recovery for your nephew, and no further transmission to other family members. What a worry, on top of other worries. Wishing you all the best of health, while you wait out this situation.
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Spring . I assume summer of 2026 or … I can’t vision the mask coming off in my lifetime.
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