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Originally Posted by baddog
How many people will that feed?
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Not counting kids (could be anywhere from 1-6 of them from ages 1 to 7) there should be 15 adults expected. Amounts have been properly adjusted of course, like there are 2 turkeys being done instead of one massive one. I hate cooking any bird over 20 pounds as they are too fickle and take to long. Same goes with the pies and such, more than 1 of each.
Then to be perfectly honest. The thanksgiving meal is just the catalyst. In my mind the real reason behind cooking all of this (family aside) is for the left overs and more importantly the post thanksgiving sandwich.
My real only pain that I had which took a bit of work was making the olives. Had to really search to find a supplier of lye. Had no issue with obtaining the olives though as we have some friends with olive tree's that just grow them as well tree's, and let the fruit fall and rot. The whole process took me a bit of time aside from the lye treatments and also doing a brine cured version as well. Really can not stand salt cured ones myself.
Most of the fruits are also local and so was a few of the cheeses.