Jon and I are hosting a dinner party tonight. We have a "Thanksgiving in Spring" dinner every year (well, this is the second annual) for a bunch of friends. Last year we made a turducken, to rave reviews. This year we wanted to do a suckling pig, but Central Market never ordered it. We confirmed with them three times, but when we showed up there was no piggy (last year they never ordered the turkey for the turducken). Central Market is obviously not the place to order meat.

So we're doing two turkeys tonight, for 14 people. We're having a first course of gazpacho, and we're making cranberry sauce, sweet potato spoonbread, mushrooms, bread crumb stuffing, andouille sausage stuffing, and garlic mashed potatoes. Jon has no aprons, so I'm using one of his old T-shirts while we cook all day. It works quite well, actually.