cooking for thanksgiving

We always divide up the cooking between all the couples in our family when it comes to Thanksgiving.  My dad gets the core things that have been cooked at their house, and the rest of us divide up the rest.

So this year, like the last few years, I'm making the following:

• Green Bean Casserole.  We are going to try something new with it this year, though, and hopefully it will be better.  We watched Good Eats: Bean Stalker where he made his own sauce instead of cream of mushroom soup, and that looked so much better.  So I'm combining the two recipes, where I'll use storebought fried onions (French's), but make the sauce from scratch.
• Corn Casserole.  E's mom usually makes this, and so we've been adding it each year too.
• Coconut Cream Pie.  This is my fav pie, besides pumpkin, so I like to add it to the pile of pies we have.  The betty crocker cookbook recipe.  I usually buy a premade crust, but this year, I'm going to try something different.  I saw the idea in my Real Simple this last time (recipe) where they took shortbread cookies and almonds and butter and made a crust that way.  It looks like shortbread cookies are really easy to make, so I'll do a batch of those, and then use some of them for the crust.  I'll bring the rest to snack on.

Some years, I've made my Pumpkin Bread, but Sarah's got that covered, and hers is really good.  I'll just bring cookies instead as a snacky thing.

I'll be doing the pie today, but the other two have to wait till tomorrow morning, which is slightly stress inducing because I worry doing things right at the last minute.  But these dishes are much better when they are fresh, so that's how it has to be.  E's going to help, though, it will be okay.

Thanksgiving dinner is always fabulous, I'm looking forward to it so much.  (So much that I went and had an open face turkey sandwich last night at Boppin' Bo's, I couldn't wait for Thursday to eat turkey!)  And it should be a good day with the family, too :)