One Ridiculously Absurd Thanksgiving Feast

This thanksgiving, we switched things up a bit and went to my uncle's house, thus totally erratically my opportunity to do any sort of cooking.  But it just so turns out that my lust for cooking might actually come from my uncle, who completely out did himself.  He prepared an absolutely delicious, and not to mention excessively large, Thanksgiving feast that for the first time in my life actually put me into a food comma. For appetizers alone we ate an entire meal.  Raw salmon with an amazing dill sauce, blue cheese tart, spinach and cream cheese rolls, and crackers and cheese.

Before we hear about and look at delicious pictures of all amazing sounding things, let's have a quick discussion about my dad and the turkey.  My dad's a fairly seasoned turkey carver, and was called in as back up when the rest of us didn't want to bother.  His technique is fantastic and he always displays the turkey in a picture perfect presentation.  This time however, he decided that throwing some of the turkey on the floor enhanced our thanksgiving, and thank goodness that he did as we had an outrageous amount of food.  But just to hassle him a bit.. let's check out my dad's floor turkey...

Oh and I guess we can look at his non-floor turkey  

Now back to the rest of the food-- if we weren't bursting at the seems after all those appetizers, we had to suck it up and move on to a deliciously seasoned turkey, a pork roast, mashed potatoes, homemade cranberry sauce, homemade stuffing, green bean casserole, roasted carrots, roasted acorn squash, roasted cauliflower, and roasted brussel sprouts.

Oh and that's not where it ends... no there was dessert.  You see, this Thanksgiving meal was indeed not for the faint of heart.  No, this was for the glutton.  So of course there was coffee and dessert.  Homemade pear and cranberry torte, apple crisp with ice cream, and pumpkin pie.

And now I'm fasting... for the next week.