Thanksgiving With the Friedmans

 Sheila and I were invited to share Thanksgiving with Jordan's family and what a feast and what fun we had. We met at Dan and Rosie's new house in Dunwoody; They've only been there about a month.

Rosie and Dan had a huge turkey in the oven, and it took a good bit longer to cook than anticipated so we divided our feasting into an afternoon salad session, then a musical interlude, and finally a coma inducing indulgence.

A Friedman family tradition is musical sessions at their get-togethers. Jordan and Dan both play assorted instruments and sing. Lou was also in a band in his younger days. And now they have added Lillian to the mix. What fun! Lillian and Jordan sang "Ruby" (Dave Rollins Machine), Stephen Foster's "Hard Times Come Again No More", "After Hours" (The Velvet Underground). Dan sang some Byrds songs. We also watched an old video that Martin Scorsese directed  "The Last Waltz"  of the Band and assorted artists including Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan.

Once it was time for the real Thanksgiving meal we had an unbelievable spread. Besides the huge turkey there was: marinated veggies, cranberry/orange relish, whole cranberry sauce (Sheila), wonderful mac & cheese, green-bean amandine, (Lil & Jordan)  twice baked mashed potatoes, a delicious salsa verde, stuffing and stuffing dressing, gravy, (Rosie & Dan) sweet-potatoes, a wonderful green salad (Leslie and Lou).

For dessert we had Leslie's chocolate cake with chocolate morsel embedded (a Vogelman/Schnieder family recipe), Lillian's apple-caramel pie, and Sheila's cranberry ginger cake.

Here is photographic evidence that a good time was had by all.

2023

This was not Lillian's first Thanksgiving Apple Pie!

2008

2009

2020 Her Mom can also make a mean apple pie.

It took a while to get the huge turkey to the required internal temp, but it was well worth the wait.

Rosie checking the bird's temp again.

Elwood the eight year old lovable rescue named for Harvey's friend Elwood P. Dowd. Rosie and Dan should print up some business cards fr the pup.

Finally time to carve the bird; Dan accomplished the job well while his efforts were recorded from all sides

The plate at the bottom left is mine and this us before I got to the turkey!

This may be the best mac and cheese ever made.

This is not my plate.

The Friedman family includes Lillian now. L-R: Jordan, Dan, Lil, Graham, Rosie, Leslie, Adam, Lou.

Friedmans and Shaws: Jordan, Lou, Lil, Leslie, Graham, Adam, Sheila, Terrell

Dan with Elwood