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Far from family and short on space and funds, a traditionally gluttonous Thanksgiving was not in the cards for us this year.  This does not mean, however, that we weren’t able to make ourselves a special dinner anyway.

The Incorrigible’s convection oven is laughably small for cooking a turkey…so we found ourselves some laughably small turkeys.  Actually, they’re Cornish hens of course, but they roasted up just fine, and combined them with greens (turnip and mustard, with chopped ham), some Bisquick drop biscuits and Lexie turned some of our pureed pumpkin into an incredibly delicious pumpkin soup (dolloped with Cool Whip of course).  If you ask nicely, she may give you the recipe.  Hm, that wasn’t supposed to be a great big product-placement spot, but oh well.

Unless of course, it gets us free stuff.  *ahem*  We’d also like to thank Tyson, Gatorade, and PBR for their contributions to our Thanksgiving dinner!

Note the fine melamine cafeteria-tray china and real-silver mismatched antique silverware.  Nothin’ but the finest for this crew!  Last night we ate well, so we’re in a good mood today.  Cornish hens don’t seem to put you to sleep the way turkeys do, either.  This was a bonus.  It was a nice day out (65 and sunny) so Lexie and I went for a bike ride before making dinner, then settled down to couch-potato out and watch movies (Pieces of April, Stranger than Fiction and Mean Girls, if you’re curious.  PoA is probably one of the best Thanksgiving movies ever made, by the by.)

During the movie there was also more providence from that pumpkin, in the form of pie.

The Halloween pumpkin isn’t as flavorful as a pie pumpkin, but it turned out tasty nonetheless.