By Brooke A. Brown

Last weekend, the Lovely Miss S and I were lucky enough to be invited to a pre-Thanksgiving Day Thanksgiving feast. This premature activity felt perfectly appropriate to me as I have plenty to be thankful for this holiday season (this blog, great friends, good health and my sweet Miss S, of course). Naturally, I’ll be celebrating again come November 22nd.

Anyway, this particular feast was especially memorable for two very distinct reasons: (1) It was our first taste of deep-fried turkey, and (2) it was also our first taste of ‘pump-can’ pie. Let me first say that the turkey prepared in such dramatic fashion was hands-down the most delicious and moist bird we’ve ever encountered. One may think such a thing would be unbearably oily, but such was not the case. Knowing beforehand that this was the type of turkey we would be having, I was well-prepared for the tastiness that ensued. The same cannot be said of the pie. (more…)