It was a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend as we celebrated with both our families!
We headed to Fairfield on Wednesday to help with all the meal prep. DJ (after his success with the turkey last year) was the head chef for an 18-pound Butterball. He has really mastered the art of brining huge birds with beer, water, and salt (and this year, a bit of cognac).
Brining in addition to the use of our new digital meat thermometer (which has a turkey setting) equaled the juiciest, most delectable turkey ever!
The side dishes were also a treat for the tastebuds! Stuffing, potatoes, yams, corn, stringbeans, macaroni and cheese and sangria (courtesy of Hirut), and yummy cocktails (a whisky, ginger ale, cider concoction now dubbed "The Sara") made for a wonderful family meal filled with laughter.
Afterwards, Almaz was kind enough to secretly pack a huge goody bag of everything for us to bring over for a visit at the Bernardins. We had an awesome post-Thanksgiving lunch on Friday - it all tasted even better the 2nd day! :)
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Then on Saturday (after visiting Amber and Ava at the Rabines's awesome new apartment!), we met up with Dave and Elim for a tasty dinner at a new local haunt: Oxcart Tavern. This place got great reviews for its burgers, and it did not disappoint!
We all shared the onion rings to start.
Then Elim and Mel shared the crab cake sliders and fish and chips...
Dave tried the Good Ol' Boy burger, and DJ tried the bison burger with La Vaca toppings (fried chipotle and salsa!).
Then we closed it all out with a yummy sundae - one scoop vanilla, one scoop pumpkin, and one scoop chocolate.
We were stuffed and happy and definitely plan to make this a new local go-to spot!
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