Thanksgiving Dinner Preperations
I love Thanksgiving dinner. A few years ago, I started doing the cooking and now I seem to do it every year. I don’t especially like spending three days cooking for a meal that lasts maybe thirty minutes tops but I love having leftovers for the week and a half after Thanksgiving Day.
I’ve used a few recipes over the years but for the last three or four, I’ve stuck with the same basic menu because it’s got something for everybody and everything for me. Our feast consists of the following:
- sausage stuffed mushrooms
- deviled eggs
- French-cut green beans with almonds and fried onions
- ranch mashed potatoes with bacon
- baked sweet potatoes stuffed with marshmallow and pecan strudel
- savory mushroom stuffing
- regular stuffing
- potato crescent rolls
- German chocolate pie
- pecan pie
- pumpkin pie
Our meal this year will have an additional stuffing dish because I found a sausage and cornbread stuffing dish that I’d like to try out. If it’s good, I’ll keep it in the rotation. If nobody likes it, then it will go the way of last year’s salmon pate and the butternut squash with thyme and Parmesan from two years ago. Boy were those bad recipes.
With this much food on the menu, I’m sure that you can imagine that the grocery trip beforehand is full of adventure. Today, Holly and I took the kids to the store with us to try and get enough food to feed us for the next few weeks. We were about half done and I started becoming amazed at how short my list looked yet how much food it was turning out to be. It was at this point that Holly and the kids went to get another shopping cart so that we could fit everything.
Just as we were finishing up, I looked at Hannah and realized that she was fast asleep on a box of Lucky Charms. I guess all of the excitement of knowing that there will be food in the house was too much for her to handle. Fortunately she woke up in time for us to pay for her makeshift pillow.
When we were checking out, Holly handed over $50 worth of coupons and immediately realized that we were going to be talked about for days to come because we were all of a sudden “those people”. You know the ones with two carts and lots of coupons. I can live with it because between the sales and coupons, we saved over $150. (Yeah, we bought that much food.)
I’ll probably start preparing dinner on Tuesday. I can hardly wait to eat on Thursday afternoon.
NOTE: If anybody would like any of the recipes that I use, please let me know. I’ll be happy to provide them.
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November 22, 2008 3:26 pm | 
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Hannah is adorable! That’s the cutest picture that I’ve seen in a long time. Good luck with Thanksgiving preparations. You should make a cheesecake too. Because certain people that will be coming over for dessert that night I’ve heard really like cheesecake….
I’ve heard that certain people that will be hosting others that like cheesecake are going to be handing out bills at the end of the evening with a 20% gratuity included.
You smashed her nose! Besides maybe she’s tired and you should let her have a nap someone comfortable rather than a cereal box. She is sweet.