1. We bought grass-fed gelatin.
2. We had an early Thanksgiving with a yummy, local, free-range turkey (and I cooked it!).
Gelatin is one of the many things I've wanted to add into our diets but couldn't justify the cost. We do, of course, have gelatinous bone broth, but I like my broth a little less jelly-ish. Now that I went AIP, the egg substitute in the few baked recipes I can eat is gelatin, which gave me a good excuse to buy it! I do admit, however, that it won't be used on a regular basis. I am determined to contain my baking desires. There is still plenty of sugar and FODMAP foods in the baked goods so I am plan to limit baking to a Sunday activity and pawn all the leftovers off on my husband (who doesn't seem to mind). The banana bread Mark made for me with the gelatin was absolutely delicious! You can find the recipe here (but no chocolate for me, it makes me sick!). James was my grocery helper and carried the gelatin for me. He wasn't about to let it go. He even went to bed snuggling it that night.
We've never cooked a Thanksgiving turkey. One year we hosted a couple people in our tiny house, but our oven wasn't big enough for a turkey so we cooked two chickens. My husband's family is here visiting from California so we planned an early family Thanksgiving. We picked our huge turkey up from the farm on Saturday and popped it in the oven late Sunday morning with an rosemary-orange glaze, laying on a bed of butternut squash and oranges (we didn't have a roasting pan so the bed of squash and orange was a great substitute). It was pretty delicious. Our daughter enjoyed a piece as well.
We are hoping for Thanksgiving day we'll have a little more time to brine the turkey. Hopefully we'll get a good picture, too!
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