i know most people will consider this a complete crime, but i never cook a turkey anymore. i used to, but then a couple years ago i discovered a wonderful company called the honeybaked ham company. so, each year i'll order one of their meat combos...this year i ordered the 1/4 ham, prime rib and half turkey breast trio. i started doing this a couple years back when we had a small thanksgiving and i didn't feel like cooking a huge turkey that would go to waste. also, the only organic turkeys around here are preordered through whole foods and i just was lazy to go through the whole ordeal. after that first thanksgiving we were completely sold on honeybaked because it always tastes good and it is much more economical. more importantly though, ordering this portion of our meal allows me to focus on what i love the most which is cooking up appetizers all day and having no less than five side dishes that are piping hot because the oven isn't cranking all day with a huge turkey in it.
the other portion of the meal that i have been purchasing are the pies. eventually i want to bake my own pies...hopefully i can start next year :) but for now we've been ordering our thanksgiving pies through bakers square, but they recently closed down all their california locations, so for the first time ever we ordered our pies from a little place called shari's restaurant.pies. they offer buy two get a third free, so we ended up with a pumpkin, a pecan and a northern berry.
i wont be able to post a review on these pies until tomorrow, but i will say the place was packed and they were turning people down who hadn't ordered in advance!
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