I woke up smiling this morning.... My little sister and my niece will arrive tonight! Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays, and I especially love having a big group over to my house for a nice dinner. This will be the first dinner I've had where I've been able to have a family member here....Not that having friends over is a less than ideal thing in and of itself. I wouldn't change a thing from any of my wonderful Thanksgivings past. I'm just very excited to have my very own sister here. (Though I will be missing my other sister! I will get you out here for a visit soon, La.)
Thus far, on the table for Thursday:
Smoked turkey
fresh cranberry sauce (courtesy of friend)
cornbread/sausage stuffing
apple/cranberry stuffing (courtesy of friend - we all have our favorites so we
just agreed to put it all out there)
green salad (courtesy of friend)
pumpkin soup (though I'm thinking of changing this to sweet corn soup...?)
apple pie with whipped cream topping (courtesy of friend)
goat cheese and carmelized onion topped puffed pastries (courtesy of friend)
lots of good wine
I'll also do something with potatoes and probably the broccoli/rice/cheese casserole that we always used to have (I'm suspecting Tra will want this). I want to come up with some good appetizers and another dessert. And for sure we'll have a blazing fire in the fireplace and candles and good music.
I also really really really like ham with these dinners, but I've run out of oven space.
Today's plans are to clean out the fridge and the oven, buy more wineglasses, replace broken dinner plates, buy new tablecloths, return the carpet cleaner, and wash windows. See how I spend my vacation leave hours?!
5 comments:
Wow, sounds delicious! We'll join Betty & Jimmy and their offspring along with Mamaw. You know Aunt Betty is the "cooking queen" of East Texas.
You need pear pie....
Oh god that sounds good. You've got a recipe for that up over at sheknows, don't you? Do you need any special pears for that? We're fairly limited here - though maybe Trader Joes would have some good ones? Yum.
I wish...I was there!!!!!!!!!!!yum!
ENjoy, how nice to have a relative at the table...LT
Your other sister wishes she could be there for that meal! Yum! we are having a healthy dinner due to all of us working on weight loss...but I will have mashed potatoes because one of my dinner guests would not show up if I didn't. lol Give Tra a hug for me!
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