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| our 2010 Thanksgiving turkey |
Today I went with a friend to a Williams-Sonoma Technique Class, The Perfect Turkey. It was fun and, what's more, I learned a few things even though I've been roasting turkeys for more than twenty years. We even got to taste a turkey prepared with their dry brine. It was really juicy, but maybe a little too flavorful for me, and too salty for my friend. I like my turkey mild so that the stuffing can carry the flavor. My parents like to joke that I dump a whole container of rubbed sage into my cornbread stuffing. This is not exactly accurate, but I do like sage. A lot.
Being Williams-Sonoma, of course, the instructor was a little snooty and gave disapproving glances to a woman who confessed to using a grocery-store aluminum pan to roast her turkeys. The store's
roasting pans are very nice and were even on sale, but really? who wants to spend $199 on a roasting pan to use once or twice a year? They have an even bigger model for $279. What? And these are
sale prices, kids. After lunch we stopped in Home Goods, and they had an equally fabulous Cuisinart roasting pan for around $59. Personally, I use my grandmother's old enamel roasting pan. Anyway, the class was fun and we got to save 10% on our Williams-Sonoma purchases. I managed to control myself and only got a couple of whisks that I
really needed.
Are you wondering about the "bubbles" in my title? Since my friend signed us up for the class and was doing the driving, I wanted to give her a little thank you. So I crocheted a dishcloth/hot pad for her. You know that I only
learned to crochet very recently, but I think the cloth turned out well. I made a similar one for my daughter last month. I found the pattern,
Bubble Dishcloth, on Ravelry; it's easy and pretty quick to make.
Two and a half weeks until Thanksgiving. I'm already feeling thankful today -- for my old pan, my new whisks, crochet thread, and mostly my family and friends.
