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My First Crack At Christmas Dinner
That shithole nursing hell took Thanksgiving away from me, I’m glad I’ll be home for Christmas!
So, on Christmas Day, 36 hours from now, I’ll be working on Christmas Dinner for my family. This’ll be the first Christmas I do this, I’m really feeling excited about doing this because I’ve mastered cooking everything else so I’m challenging myself to do this.
The thing is, I’ve never cooked a whole bird before, but I feel like I’m up to the task. I’ve conquered some pretty tough challenges over my 42 years of life, I was among my high school’s top 20 to graduate which was pretty huge. If you know about Lew Wallace High School and Gary, Indiana then you know what I’m talking about.
I first started learning the cooking arts in 7th grade, I was all of like 13 at the time. I didn’t know what I was doing, but it gave me a chance to really throw my hat in the ring and really try my hardest to create whatever it was through cooking.
By the time I was in 10th grade, I started taking a beginning and advanced foods class which had me at the helm of creating food. Everything from corn bread, to spaghetti noodle meals etc.
I took to it like a fish to water. I was 16 at the time and I really felt like I could’ve gone places with that…
