Thanksgiving Dinner – Part I – The Turkey

I hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving.  Yet another successful Thanksgiving has come and gone, and is now in the history books.  There were eleven of us all gathered together to celebrate my favorite holiday, Thanksgiving.  It was my husband and myself and my “sister”, her husband and all seven of their kids.  We had a full house, a full table, and at the end of the evening, full tummies as well.  We basically had two full Thanksgiving meals combined into one.  My “sister’s” husband, my husband and I all had the traditional Thanksgiving fair, complete with turkey, stuffing and all the fixin’s.  My sister and all of her kids, however, are vegan, so they had their own version of Thanksgiving dinner, complete with tofurkey (NO, I DID NOT make the tofurkey.  I hate the stuff.  We bought it and cooked it according to the package directions), and plenty of vegetables…