Thanksgiving Chicken

Thanksgiving Chicken

Written by my friend Anita Glenn

With Thanksgiving around the corner, I am reminded of our version of the traditional family feast. Unlike most families, we don't usually invite our relatives over for dinner because of how far apart we all live and the hassles that come with traveling on the week of Thanksgiving. So it's usually just myself, my brother and my parents. Since my parents moved down to Los Angeles 6 years ago, we've always had dinner down there.

Another thing we do differently is that we don't get a Turkey for Thanksgiving. Technically, we used to get one when I was little. Somewhere along the way my mom found it to be too much trouble and started getting one of those precooked rotisserie chickens instead. Nowadays my mom focuses on making her homemade stuffing and gravy while I help by making the mashed potatoes. My dad usually helps out by making the cranberries and steaming up the corn. My brother is the only one who doesn't do anything cooking wise as he is adverse to doing anything outside of playing video games.

Cooking the meal always takes longer than we plan because we end up chatting for the most part. Thing is no one talks when we actually sit down to eat. Instead, we always end up watching all the football games on satellite TV from DirectStarTV.com while we eat.