Mmmmmm hot pockets.
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Oh, that would not have been good at all! (Makes mental note to stock up on dish soap.)
With the DW on the blink, it was a marathon of washing and drying. We went through a lot of soap and nearly ran out of towels!
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The first thing I think when I see DW here, is dear wife! 
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Oof. We filled that dishwasher right up, and there were only two of us at the table!
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There were six full sized humans and a seventeen month old. Only two people were so oblivious they just kept using plates, glasses, and flatware and leaving them everywhere. Unfortunately we are loaded with plenty of all three.
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Thanks! But most of the credit re GF instruction goes to D3, who’s been living it for a while. I often cook GF/vegetarian when she’s home, but Thanksgiving and Christmas bigger meals she knows I’m kind of stressed and often takes over on tons of prep by herself. Daughter 3 is useful with some time-to-time minimal instruction, but D2 is super and already knows it all on her own (1).
Son (kid4) is 19 and despite lots of instruction, still needs step-by-step instruction to do anything. Oh Well. He does at least cook for himself at college sometimes (they have a kitchen on the first floor of the dorm) rather than going to the meal hall or FF all the time.
(1) Not to leave out D1, but she’s married and expecting her first son on Dec 12, so she and her husband were not involved in this Thanksgiving. We’ll visit them early next month, I hope.
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I think I ran mine 4 times in 2 days. Cooking for two. What can I say - the big skillets and food processor take up a lot of room! 
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I didn’t even use the food processor! I have no idea where all those dishes came from. Anyway, they’re clean now, and put away, and I can spend the next month cooking small.
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I’m making my personal individual Thanksgiving tomorrow, and have not had a working DW for more than a month. Let’s say I’m NOT looking forward to doing the dishes and pots and pans!
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Congratulations on your duck - very impressive!
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Thank you!
New tradition! Thanksgiving dinner eaten over the sink.
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Depending on the manufacturer, the pump and motor may be built together as one unit. It is fairly easy to replace. My whirlpool dishwasher’s motor/pump assembly started “growling” about a year ago, so I picked up a spare motor/pump assembly and have it in stock. I know it will finally break at the worst time, so I’m ready when it does happen.
Was your dishwasher making any noises before it stopped working??
Yes… I did one load last night and one load this morning. There was only two of us. I have no idea how I made such a mess, but its all cleaned up.
Sunshine finished off the leftover duck for lunch, she really enjoyed it!!
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I spend the holidays with one of those homes where the dishwasher is used to drain dishes after handwashing, and it was a non-stop handwash, drain, +/- put away, use, handwash, rinse, repeat.
My pitiful Thanksgiving😸
I have a non-functioning right shoulder and arm (am in PT) and a dead range hood/light/microwave (will be replaced Tuesday) so there were no Thanksgiving guests. I could hardly cook for myself! I was going to roast a spatchcocked chicken - which Bell & Evans sells in clamshell packaging, so, without my glasses, I pulled a clamshell package of poultry out of my freezer and put it in a drawer in the fridge to defrost. Except when I took it out to cook it Thursday - I’d pulled out the incorrect package. It was indeed a clamshell - (remember I’m not wearing my glasses) - but it was 4 chicken thighs. So… chicken thighs it was. I had made stuffing the day before, and had cranberry relish from Wegmans. Instant mashed potatoes with a huge hunk of Boursin garlic cheese stirred in, completed my pitiful repast for one.
But … I’d opened wine to prepare the chicken … so there’s that!
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That doesn’t sound so bad at all. Heal quickly!
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Well played given the circumstances!
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My second thanksgiving dinner was turkey-less, with a delicious lamb rack (well, 3) as the centerpiece.
Reported on WFD, but the highlights were the lamb, the beet cured gravlax (which my friend’s husband made us put away for breakfast , so not the app course i thought it would be), and the self-saucing chocolate cake her teen daughter made.
A very different day and tone, completely relaxed, a testament to my friend’s personality. She cooked the same amount or more as my previous thanksgiving meal, but it came together seemingly effortlessly over the course of the afternoon while we all chatted and hung out.
Here are the flowers I put together for her, the gravlax that was confiscated , the delicious and perfectly cooked racks of lamb, and the teenager’s delicious cake that was a first attempt!
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