This has been a long day and the hardest. I find making stuffing to be very tedious and I hate making the base for the gravy.
We did have one disaster this afternoon. I am brining the turkey this year. I've never done this before. We had a brining catastrophe. I didn't have Sukie on hand to hold the plastic brining bag. Let's just say that a one point, the kitchen in Eastwood Manor resembled the wave pool at Typhoon Lagoon. A gallon of salt water splashing down the counter and onto the floor. The only good thing was that I wasn't up the specified 2 gallons yet.
So, I had to start all over again. Wash the turkey, drag it back down to the fridge in the basement, make the brine, cool the brine and then start again.
This time Sukie helped. The brining bag is huge zip bag, but after that was sealed we also tied the top. And we tied the top. And we tied the top.
By the time we were done, the whole thing resembled some bizarre act of poultry bondage.