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Saw someone post about this (Kathryn?) - Anyway, the husband has insisted that we have both every year for Thanksgiving. A few times, there has been a bit of unpleasantness between us over it - I do all the cooking and often we have a very full house. He doenst seem to recognize how difficult it is to get all the meat, casseroles, pies , etc in and out of one oven.
Just wondering if anyone else has (or has a spouse) that insists on BOTH?
My IL's used to do that every year for T'giving, when there was a really large gathering of 20 or more. It wasn't so bad, whoever was hosting the dinner made the turkey, and someone else brought the ham. People would also bring sides and extra desserts, too. If you were doing it all yourself though, it would be very difficult. Why not have others bring some sides, or possibly a ham?
I do when we have the gathering at our home, the ham is cooked the day before, all items that can be prepared the day before are, others bring all the desserts, drinks and vegetable trays and we both work on food preparation together. We get in each others way a lot because we have a tiny kitchen but it just gives us another excuse to grab a quick kiss when we are belly to belly trying to get around each other.
Nope my husband is not difficult at all when it comes to food for the holidays. Turkey IMO is traditional. Never knew anyone that had both ham and turkey. My mom does the cooking for Thanksgiving but since she broke her tibia recently we may be having Thanskgiving at my MIL's.With so many side dishes plus a huge turkey who even has room for ham? I am not a big fan of cooked ham anyway.
We've had 60 people for Christmas before. I made a number of beef roasts, and we had turkey as well. You need to borrow somebody's Nesco roaster, apparently you don't have one or you'd have nothing to worry about! Between a toaster oven, a microwave, and a grill as well as the oven there should be a way to keep everything warm. Or borrow a Nesco. Good luck!
My IL's used to do that every year for T'giving, when there was a really large gathering of 20 or more. It wasn't so bad, whoever was hosting the dinner made the turkey, and someone else brought the ham. People would also bring sides and extra desserts, too. If you were doing it all yourself though, it would be very difficult. Why not have others bring some sides, or possibly a ham?
My husband is a retired military and now works for the Dept of Defense (with military folk) - so most years, our guests have been a bunch (sometimes as many as 20!) sinlge military guys who live in the barracks. A few have shown up with a store bought pie or can of cranberries over the years. Sweet gesture - but I make both those things from "scratch". They are VERY good at bringing alcohol, LOL.
Our group is usually around 40 and we always have a spiral slices ham, a baked turkey, and one or two deep fried turkeys, along with all of the other things.
If my husband insisted I cook specifically what he wanted even though it made more work for me and he didn't offer to help he would be eating dinner by himself while I went away for the weekend.
We always have both. When I had one stove, I put the ham in the roaster oven and the turkey in the range oven. While the turkey was resting, I transferred the ham to the range oven so the glaze could achieve it's golden glow. Roaster ovens go on sale around Thanksgiving; they are huge and will really solve your problem.
I think I like ham even more than the turkey.
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