As I write this, it is the Monday before Thanksgiving. We had our official Thanksgiving dinner yesterday, the Sunday before Thanksgiving. I had to do it on Sunday so that my local son, Hunter, could help. He's the one who requested the traditional dinner with all the trimmings and not the *easy* versions.
We made turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce - all from scratch. I found elevated recipes for a sweet potato casserole and a green bean casserole. The only *lazy* side dish was the Stove Top dressing. I do love a good dressing, but, decided to add a surprise pie into the mix - so I had to cut one corner. It was a ridiculous amount of food for 3 people, but I sent some of it over to my brother and sister-in-law and the three of us love leftovers.
Everything was tasty - and the only glitch was that after dinner (we eat early) - Hunter looked at the clock and saw that he was right on time to watch *the football game* and then he realized that it was not Thursday. The dinner had fooled him into thinking it was actually T-day. So, he ended up doing the bulk of clean up in the kitchen. That's reason enough to move our T-days to Sunday, permanently.
Hunter added that he would like to do the T-Day dinner more than once a year - so I guess we can do another one in Feb - both Hunter and MrWilson have Feb birthdays.
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One more holiday - and then we can settle into winter. Unless we observe John Hancock's birthday. I tend to forget it every single year.... or as someone pointed out - only 7 weeks until Valentine's Day....
It’s a great idea to have Thanksgiving more than once a year. I need to bake more pies!
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