Let’s be honest with each other. I love food. Those around who know me laugh that I have no shame in admitting how much I love food, chocolate, and desserts. Fortunately, there are many around us who are willing to share their cooking abilities in the form of cookies, pies, cakes, sweets, and other deliciousness.
This year some of our friends spent Thanksgiving at our house for dinner.
One nice thing was that we didn’t cook a turkey this year, but ordered one from Rudy’s (the BBQ place). I had the pleasure of exercising our new electric knife on the said bird.
Speaking of birds, we are really going to miss our friends when they move away in the coming months.
On the menu this year for Thanksgiving was:
- Turkey, from Rudy’s
- Homemade cranberry sauce – awesome
- “Marinara” sauce, actually, it was a barbecue cranberry sauce
- Homemade stuffing, with cranberries – excellent
- Mashed potatoes
- Rolls
- Green bean casserole
- Rasberry jello with the pretzel crust – surely as if it had fallen from heaven itself
- Pineapple/7-up beverage
- Salad de Maison
- Bugle snack food mix
- Cheeseball and crackers
- Coconut cream pie
- Almond Joy pie
- Pumpkin roll
- Pecan chocolate/caramel goodness
You can hopefully see my dilemna. The amount of quality food versus my limited capacity to eat in one setting.
In all seriousness, we feel blessed to have the luxuries we enjoy. This month, we have tried to each take a turn at each dinner to express something (or things) for which we are thankful. I have loved hearing the girls express their gratitude for simple things like the dinner their mother made, and more significant things, like their little brother and family.
What a great post! On a selfish note, I like the way your pictures were all available in one window. That was fancy.
I laughed out loud at your segue into missing the Birds. Hilarious!