"Bird" - The Birthday Bird, That Is!

About a week before my baby's birthday, I ask her what she wants to do for her birthday. Does she want a dinner, does she want to go camping, does she want a kid party, what?

"Mom, I want tacos and a big pasta salad." Yikes...mama is having a hard time digesting the combination. So I did what any mother would try to do...talk her into something else, right? She loves baked potato so I suggest a nice bake potato bar dinner. "Well, mom, sure but I want mashed potatoes on the side." What?

I then explain that the two would be the same. So she says, "Ok, then I'll have mashed potatoes and chicken." Great. I make a regular crumb baked chicken breast that she loves with potatoes and gravy. I think we're set. So, I recap the dinner and she kindly responds, "No mom I mean bird." Bird?

Oh, I tell her you mean fried chicken like what I did for super bowl? "No. Bird." Hmmm...bird?

Oh, so she must mean chicken pieces like wings and drumsticks, which are parts of a bird. "No. Bird."

Bird?

"You know mom, the bird you sometimes make that looks like a bird and you clean and season."

The ah ha moment: The Bird, aka Thanksgiving TURKEY!

Yep, turkey in June. Call local grocery stores and you'll find out that "the bird" is seasonal! The Smith's butcher gets a kick when I call and says that he has about 20 he's trying to get rid of from Thanksgiving...so I trot on over and lo and behold he was right...it's Buy ONE get ONE free! I had 2 birds! Yep, two birds in June.

Thank the Lord for refrigerated air and freezer space and that fact that Daddy got a smoker for Father's Day cuz Bird #2 is all his!

Binky, you're 8th birthday dinner will always be a sweet, sweet and yummy memory.

 

Cheers to her b-day menu request:

Turkey,

mashed potatoes,

gravy,

red chile for the adults,

steamed carrots,

salad and

fresh bread topped with everything