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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
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11 Years

On Saturday, Holly and I celebrated our eleventh year of marriage by realizing that we’re old.

I wanted to do something nice with her so I made reservations at Ye Lion’s Den, a restaurant in Ogden specializing in deliciousness.  When we usually go out to eat, I try and get something that won’t break the bank; anniversaries are different though.  I like good food and if I go to a place with really good food, I want to enjoy it.  Needless to say, I enjoyed it.

Holly decided that she would be a bit adventurous and order her rib eye steak medium.  (Normally, she likes her meat very well done.)  I think that she mistakenly asked for medium rare though because that cow just needed a few band-aids to get it back out grazing in the fields.  She ended up sending it back and a few minutes later, she received a piece of meat that was no longer mooing and was absolutely amazing.  Fortunately for me, she couldn’t eat it all so I got the leftovers.  The meat wasn’t as good the next day but it was still very tasty.

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