Happy Turkey Day, everyone!!
Of course this year we'll be having having a dry-cured, smoked ham for dinner tonight,
since tomorrow during our "Black Friday Bash" we'll have a house full of people ready to devour another helping of the more traditional holiday fowl. Moving our Turkey Day to Friday has become something of a tradition for us here in Colorado, since we have no extended family within 1200 miles of this place and all of our friends are usually with their families tonight. But after an "intense" morning on Friday of hitting the stores and malls (or alternately, after an equally intense morning of recovery from the first round of holiday engorgement!), it is funny how everyone is usually hungry again for our special roast turkey and mead-based gravy, not to mention all the other goodies (and bottles of mead) that happen to show up around the table!
For that matter, if any of you happen to be nearby and want to join in the festivities, feel free to show up tomorrow around 4PM. I come from a very traditional, very HUGE Polish-American family (For instance, I have 54 first cousins!!) so it isn't really a holiday party at our house if we don't have at least 30 invited people here, with most of the neighbors and the occasional random visitor off the street dropping by to see what all the fuss is about! ;D (If you're seriously interested, PM me and I'll send you our address.)