2 posts tagged “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.

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 :)

My long weekend was great.  :)

I ended up eating turkey every day last week - a Safeway sandwich on Monday, homemade mashed potatoes and open faced turkey sandwich on Tuesday, leftover turkey sandwich on Wednesday, and then of course plenty of Turkey for thanksgiving and leftover thanksgiving on friday :D  It wasn't intentional, but it made me giggle when I realized it!

Thanksgiving was nice, we had a good day hanging out with the family.  We watched the kids play with Andrew's fancy xbox that has games from a variety of other systems on it.  We did a big puzzle of the Columbia River gorge (Crown Point).  We ate a lot of food, and then a lot of pie.  Oh, and played with baby Leonard and Leah. :)

Friday, we rested and played and then went back to my parents for leftovers, and most of the family showed up at one point or another.  While Leah napped, we stayed and watched a movie with Sarah.

Saturday, we did nothing really.  Just hung out and played and all that, and I worked on looking for gift ideas online.

But Sunday morning, we got up and decided we should go out for breakfast, and there were a few things we could go look at for gifts while we were out.  It was amazing, the mall wasn't even that bad before 11:30ish.  It poured down rain on our way out of the mall, but we went to the holiday version of the farmers market anyhow, and thought the tent was going to blow over. :D  But it stopped raining by the time we came out of the next store, which was nice :)

It was just overall a great weekend, a lot of good kristine+eric time, and nice progress on gift lists, to boot!