cooking project

This weekend, I'm doing the majority of my Thanksgiving Day prep for our luncheon at the office. Today, that means prepping stuff that can be stored in the fridge or freezer, then thawed in advance, if necessary, and taken to the office: mashed potatoes, sweet-potato casserole (w/candied pecans, no marshmallows), creamed corn, peas & bacon w/mushrooms, and cranberry sauce (using the Korean version of Craisins since there's no SSG Food Market at which to buy fresh cranberries).

Tomorrow, I'm devoting the whole day to making stuffing and then transporting everything I've made to the office. All that will be left, after that, is prepping turkey (or chicken—still up in the air*), gravy, and ham, leaving me with little to ferry over to the office on Thursday morning. These are the things you do when you're prepping a meal for several.

I am, however, going to cheat this year: dinner rolls and pumpkin pie will be provided courtesy of Costco. Costco makes a solid pumpkin pie, whereas I've fucked up pretty much every attempt at making a pumpkin pie for years. I'd rather serve the troops something good than something that's mine if it comes down to that choice.

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*Coupang is being a bitch about turkey breast. I'd tried to order a 1.5-kilo block of turkey breast, but Coupang wrote back a day or so later to say they were out of stock. I talked it over with my boss, and he found the same breast on Coupang, but for about W5000 more, so I'm trying again. Murphy's Law says that this one, too, will be out of stock, but we'll see. My Plan B is a chicken Cordon Bleu. God just gets into that pissy mood and says, "How can we best thwart Kevin today?"—which happens a lot in my life. It's rarely possible to go straight from A to B without being thwarted. In that sense, the Mission: Impossible films might be a moral lesson on how to handle such crises with aplomb. Improvise, adapt, overcome.