Corduroy Orange

I’m not going to have any say whatsoever over the meal this year and everything’s going to be just fine

“If you’re making crusts for the pumpkin and the pecan,” I tried convincing my wife and my sister who are stepping up to take care of the whole meal this year, “why not just make crusts for the apple pie, too? It’s just as easy to make four crusts as it is to make two,” but that’s about as far as I got in my argument before Aurora shushed me, saying that I didn’t really have a say in it this year, now did I?

Unfortunately, she’s right. If I were in control of the meal, I’d be in full prep mode right now. I’d be dicing bread and toasting it for the walnut stuffing, cutting onions, celery, and carrots for the same purpose, making pie crusts and the fillings to go in them, salting the turkey, boiling eggs to be deviled, cutting vegetables for appetizers and making dip to accompany them, and occasionally poking my head into the living room to see what’s going on in the television show everyone else was watching. We’d have six pies for six people instead of the paltry four; the crusts would all be homemade; the turkey would be injected with garlic-infused hot sauce and deep fried in peanut oil instead of roasted; the vegetables would be cut more quickly than they will be… but all that having been said, truth be told, the differences will be minor and the meal we’ll be eating will still be damned tasty even if I had no hand in making it.

Whether I’m cooking or not, my family still wants to eat well. The pumpkin pie will be from scratch, as will the cranberry jelly and the dinner rolls. We’re still going to have the walnut stuffing and a free-range Pennsylvania bird. we’ve never actually had a fried turkey on Thanksgiving before; that’s more of a Mardi Gras thing for us, but I was going to try something a little different this year. When everything’s said and done, our meal tomorrow will be pretty much standard fare for what I’ve eaten on Thanksgiving day for most of my life. I’m not going to have any say over the meal at all whatsoever and everything’s going to be just fine.

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