Happy Thanksgiving!

It's been a quiet day here today. I woke up late, watched some TV, played on the computer, talked on the phone. Just took things easy. I have to work tomorrow so there wasn't any use in traveling anywhere. This morning I realized that I'd forgotten a vital Thanksgiving ingredient at the store yesterday. I didn't have any gravy. It was about 10:00 and I hadn't even showered yet. The last thing I wanted to do was make a dash to the store. It was raining and cold out, a lovely day to not go outside at all. I called mom to find out if there was some magic way to make gravy without any gravy-like things in the house. Apparently there isn't. I did have a can of Chunky Chicken Soup. While on the phone I asked her if blending that up and adding some cornstarch to thicken it might be a viable substitute. Always the optimist, Mom said to give it a try. All I can say is, don't try this at home folks. Now, you'd think that I would have known better. After having two gastric bypass surgeries where I was relegated to stuff that came out of the blender for several weeks post-op, I know what stuff that wasn't designed for blending tastes like when you blend it anyway. Chunky Chicken Soup isn't made for blending.

So, off to the store I went. Oh, and apparently I've broken some Thanksgiving law since I bought a Costco rotisserie chicken for "Turkey day." I was teased endlessly yesterday at work. Talk about narrow-minded. It's a bird isn't it? Probably even a cousin or something. I'm not an expert in fowl lineage, but they seem awfully darn similar to me, other than the obvious size differences. Lilly (my cat) loves those Costco chickens too. I swear she can smell it when I'm still out in the hallway. By the time I get halfway to the kitchen she is tangled up in my feet. I'm sure she's hoping I'll fall and then the whole thing will be hers. Anyway, Albertson's had that turkey gravy in a jar on sale for $1.00. Since the regular price is like $2.80 this seems like a steal to me. I bought 6 jars. Just can't pass up a deal. Now I know you're thinking... but didn't you just say you were having chicken, not turkey. Yes, good to see you were paying attention. I would have bought chicken gravy if they had had chicken gravy, but they didn't. This seems way out of line to me. There are one, maybe two times a year when you cook up a big turkey to eat it and need the accompanying gravy. But we eat chickens all year long. They aren't constrained to such a short holiday season. Why wouldn't they have chicken gravy in a jar? Maybe I should have asked.

Now that I have a spare 5 jars of the stuff in my cupboard it seems like a bad time to find out that I don't really care for the taste of the turkey gravy in a jar. I don't know that the chicken gravy in a jar (if there were such a thing) would have been any better, but there is something just not right with the turkey gravy in a jar. It looks normal, so it's not a consistency thing. It just tastes funny. Dangit. I'll have to find one of those food donation bins I guess. Sure glad they were only $.1.00 each. I really just prefer a bit more butter on my mashed potatoes anyway. I should have skipped the whole gravy fiasco.