It’s become a tradition to have Ee-bin and Patrick to come over for Thanksgiving. Grace and Ee-bin usually starts the day by prepping the Turkey (which takes a good portion of the day to bake in the oven) and making all other side dishes from scratch. This year was no different, except that they decided to get Turducken (chicken stuffed inside a duck which was stuffed inside a turkey) instead of plain ‘ol turkey this year.
Weeks before Thanksgiving approached, Grace and Ee-bin started planning what were to be included for the Thanksgiving dinner. Starting with email exchanges several times a week, just days before the BIG DAY, they started calling each other several times a day. And when they finally decided on serving Turducken, Ee-bin ordered from Hebert’s Meat Specialty down in Louisiana, which Ee-bin and Patrick saw in National Geographic.
One side note about the turducken: It arrived a day later than Hebert’s Meat had promised. Ee-bin tried calling to complain about the missing bird, but the line was busy. But Grace got through the first time she tried, and they decided to send another turducken free of charge since they couldn’t immediately locate the FedEx tracking number. And sure enough, the original Turducken arrived the next day, and the “replacement” arrived the day after that. So we got two turduckens for the price of one (~$110 each). All three birds were de-boned (read: a lot of labor), which means they probably aren’t making much on each turducken. I told Grace the poor mom’n’pop shops like this go bankrupt because of customers like them. Hah!
As for the rest of the Thanksgiving day, Grace and Ee-bin spent seven hours getting everything ready. But when it’s all said and done, it took us only half an hour to get really stuffed with all the food because we waited all day for this one big meal.
Last year, Kyung joined us on Thanksgiving. That was kind of cool. But that damn turkey was so big that it took Grace and I the next week and a half to finish everything they prepared on that one day.
Stupid turkeys.