My first Thanksgiving away from home <sniff> ;). And it was an astounding success. George, Luke and his wife (Jean) were the first people to experiment on my first large home-cooked meal. Below you can see the results.

Here you can see what my brand new roaster looked like after I added some vegetables and fixin's to help make the gravy from the turkey drippin's.

Here's a wider view as I'm getting ready to cook. That's a 20 lb. turkey sitting there in my sink. I picked up that roaster free after rebate at Linens and Things just a few days prior to Thanksgiving....it's maximum weight limit? 20 lbs.

This little bugger took at least a 1/2 hour of my life away. Seriously! The turkey was still kind of frozen and it took forever and a day to get this thing out of the damn turkey so that I could start cooking it.

Ah... what a beautiful thing. Had you attended my magnificent feast, you too could have chowed down on the following eats: 20 lb turkey, home made gravy, stuffing, potatoes, corn, green beans, freshly baked homemade wheat bread, 2 home made chocolate cakes, Egyptian treats (freshly brought back from Egypt and generously donated to the meal by George) and a mighty cook rice noodle dish that Luke's parents made.

A far away shot of the two cakes....I specifically wanted to make a round cake, but it came out a little flatter than i had wanted. Neverless, it tasted damn good.

We were four people. It was a 20 lb. turkey. What did you expect? As for the piss poor carving job? All me baby, all me.

Jean (Luke's wife), Luke, George, and me. Mighty full and damn happy. (Did you know it was the first time Luke or Jean ever had Turkey? I almost felt bad that mine had to be their first experience, but they liked it...go figure.)