Eastside Swell: TurkeyZilla!!!

This past Saturday night, what had originally started as a complete joke, actually came to fruition. As we've slowly accumulated we've known that we are having Thanksgiving dinner at our place again this year. We bought our dinning room table a long time ago and spent quite a bit of time trying to find a good deal on chairs. I would have never thought that chairs could be so expensive. Chris would constantly say "here are some for only $300" to which I would reply "wow, that's a great price for a set!" I was amazed to hear that was per chair. Thank god for Craigslist because we found a person who had just moved and needed to sell barely used dining room chairs. But Chris' jedi craiglist skills are not the point here. During these conversations she mentioned that we needed to get chairs before Thanksgiving because we aren't going to have anywhere to sit. I suggested that we "just sit on the floor around our coffee table, we could have Thanksgiving sort of like people eat Sushi, screw it, let's make Thanksgiving Sushi." My idea, roll up the usual ingredients for Thanksgiving, stuffing, turkey, mashed potato's, sweet potato's, cranberry sauce, gravy, the whole nine yards. Why go big, when you can go huge?!
It all snowballed from there. We began bringing it up to friends, to which we always got the same reply, "whoa, that sounds awesome." Guess we have to try this. So last Sunday night, we had a test run with some minor stuff to see if it was actually possible. We were stoked to find out not only was it possible, but it was delicious!
Saturday rolled around and we were off, our 15 pound turkey full of stuffing went into the oven at 2. Potato's were cooked, even busted out the wasabi too add to spice it up. There were all kinds of amazing rolls happening and you wouldn't believe it, we actually came up with a drink to replace a Saki Bomb. We invented the Turkey Bomb, which consists of Honey Wild Turkey and Newcastle brown. These are dangerously good, so tread lightly. There were tons of rolls, people rolling their own, we even had Tempura(thank you Brent for bringing up your deep friar). Everyone was excited with how well it came out and the food was amazing. Nice job Chris taking this idea and going way overboard with it!

Carving up the bird