Tag: Events

So, here it is, two days post Thanksgiving weekend - yes, we've successfully prolonged this one-day holiday into an entire weekend, and if your school system is like ours, it's a 5-day weekend, according to my teenage son, which made yesterday quite the rude awakening for said teenage son. In reflecting on our holiday, and writing this blog post, I came across my dinner preparation to-do list, as follows: Make cranberry sauce  Start turkey  Put turkey in oven no later than 2 p.m. Mix together mama’s sweet potato casserole Take rolls out of freezer Start Brussels sprouts Start pumpkin soup when turkey is resting Open pinot noir Make turkey gravy Put in rolls and sweet potato casserole Of course, as with all cooks, the recipes were tweaked to the tastes of the cook (moi) and the family members. We enjoyed our Thanksgiving meal in the evening, which is unlike my traditional family T-day schedule, a noonish feasting so one may graze the rest of the day. Why, you ask, did we...