Praise then darkness, and creation unfinished

cattitude, adrian_turtle, and I had our usual cozy Thanksgiving dinner: roast turkey, a big pan of roast vegetables, a rice-based stuffing, cranberry sauce, and then apple crisp for dessert.

Traditionally, we make a cranberry-orange relish. This year, I got out the cranberries and oranges on Wednesday afternoon, discovered that the food processor had died, and consulted Adrian. She had a food processor and cranberries, but no oranges, so I decided to try a cooked cranberry sauce. What I came up with was edible but boring; she added orange marmalade, orange juice, and more sugar, and it was good. I had yogurt with cranberry sauce for breakfast this morning.

Wegman's came through [via instacart] with a fresh twelve-pound turkey, a reasonable size for three people, but failed miserably in selling us a very dubious bag of apples. So the crisp was a mixture of fruit and all the random apples we hadn't eaten in the last couple of months, including a Roxbury russet from the farmers market.

The crisp was fine, but we are now completely out of apples, and after this Instacart failure I think I'll go over to WhatsGood and get another quarter-peck of Macouns, despite the delivery fee, and think about what else to get. Smoked fish for certain. This really doesn't seem like the time to go to the supermarket so we can select our own produce, given the recent Covid-19 numbers and likely effect of Thanksgiving.

We have plenty of leftover turkey and cranberry sauce, some roast vegetables, and about one serving each of crisp.