That sounds like a wonderful feast and terrific company! I'd love a report of your dinner!
What a meal! 8 people altogether; interestingly, no couples, 4 men, 4 women. Around 5:00, we started with shrimp with cocktail sauce and veggies with spinach dip. The main meal was a beautiful brined kosher turkey, sausage and cornmeal stuffing, mashed potatoes with lots of butter, pan gravy, Brussels sprouts baked with fontina cheese, butternut squash lasagna, cranberry relish with orange zest, cranberry sauce made from whole berries and walnuts, pearl onions in balsamic vinegar, cranberry-pecan rolls, wheat rolls and buttermilk biscuits.
Dessert was a beautiful walnut cake with maple butter cream frosting from Cupcake Cafe, compliments of John Gallagher (we belatedly celebrated the birthday of my friend Bev), apple pie, pumpkin pie, ice cream and whipped cream. John also made the most of the walnuts adorning the fruity centerpiece.
We also shared a bottle of Veuve Cliquot champagne and lots of other good drinkies.
Ann Marie and I cleaned most of it up after dinner, then spent Friday "laying like loxes", enjoying the clean apartment and the fridge full of leftovers. We both were nursing sore backs and muscles from all the cooking and cleaning!