Thanksgiving Day @ Mom's

     Yesterday I went down to Mom's for Thanksgiving and it was a mixed bag. Being with Mom and spending time with her and my brother was good but my brother's Alzheimer's is eating him up, aging him well beyond his years. He's never been known for a great attention span nor regard for the feelings of others but he is rapidly becoming your stereotypical grumpy old man.
     The most disturbing thing to me is his inability to see how some of his words to Mom hurt her feelings. We realize he doesn't mean to be mean or rude so we just try to accept that he he can't help himself sometimes.

     Enough of the not so good, onto the good stuff. Mom cooked a turkey, dressing, gravy, sweet taters, tater salad, corn & rice & cheese casserole, peas and opened a can of jellied cranberry sauce.
The ham that I bought had a packet of glaze with it but when I read the list of ingredients I saw stuff I couldn't pronounce nor had any idea what they were. So I just covered the ham with foil and put it n the oven at 275 for an hour then slathered it with plain honey and put it back in for another half hour. It turned out quite well for my first bone in spiral sliced ham.
   
     My electric carving knife worked like a champ! I carved up the bird and took the meat off the ham bone as if I knew what I was doing. For years I watched people using the electric carvers and thought the whole idea and process silly. Had I only known I would have bought one myself 20 years ago.