One More Recipe...

I will be trying one more new recipe for Thanksgiving, so I thought I would share it. Click here for the recipe for Mac 'N Cheese with Bacon and Cheese. I already have a big block of (yellow) cheddar cheese on hand, so I will be using that instead of white cheddar, but I'm sure it will still be yummy.

I'm looking for a good baked macaroni and cheese recipe, so if any of you have one and would like to share it with me, I would appreciate it. I will be sure and let you know if this recipe turns out to be a winner!

This is my menu for Thanksgiving:

Roasted Butter Herb Turkey
Stuffing
Grainy Mustard Mashed Potatoes
Mac 'N Cheese with Bacon and Cheese
Sweet Potatoes
Broccoli with Sour Cream
Sweet White frozen corn
Cranberry Sauce
Olives
Deviled Eggs
Vegetable Tray with dip
Pumpkin Pie
Chocolate Cream Pie
Cheese Cake

Mmm, mmm, this is going to be quite the feast! Wish you all could come and eat with us!

Thanksgiving Recipes!

Just thought I'd share the mashed potato recipe that I will be cooking with our Thanksgiving meal. I saw it on the Tyler Ultimate show, while I was sick on the couch and even with my stomach bug, I said, "Hey those look like they would really be good!" So I asked Andy to bring me a pen and piece of paper and I jotted down the ingredients. That was the only thing I accomplished, while glued to that couch for days. lol

Anyway, here is the link to the video where you can actually watch him as he cooks them.
Grainy Mustard Mashed Potatoes

And here is a link to the Recipe.

I can't wait to try them!!! If any of you try them, please let me know if you liked them. :)

As for the turkey, I'm still trying to decide on the recipe, but I think this one will be it Roasted Butter Herb Turkey My sister used this recipe the last couple of years and she said it is so moist and delicious! I will have one alteration though.....I will drape peppered bacon over the whole bird. I do this when I make turkey breast and oh yumm, not only does it flavor it so well, but it also makes it moist too.

Hope you all have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving Day!

Tim and Misty invited us to spend Thanksgiving with them this year and it was a very relaxing day. Misty and I were smart and cooked what we could the day before, so that made Thanksgiving so much more enjoyable. It was so nice to be able to just kick my shoes off, not wear any makeup, play with Tucker, and play Jenga with Misty, Kasey, Tori and Timber.

The food was fantastic despite what Misty thought of my casserole......she's just jealous because my casserole was better than her cheese-meat thingys! Yeah that's right! No really it was all good and I especially loved the Raspberry Pepper Jelly with cream cheese and her sweet potato casserole. I ate so much food that my stomach hurt! The day would have been perfect if Michael and Jaymie could have been with us. (P.S. A little fairy swooped in and deleted the pictures of Kasey that I had taken. I've seen this fairy before and I think her name starts with a K. Mmm hmm, I bet you can guess who it was......)

Ok, I'm not that short, Andy! You really didn't have to bend down!

Awww! Aren't we a cute together?

Timber took this picture of Andy and I right before we left last night. He's a good little photographer!

Tucker and Misty!

This is the best lookin' turkey I've ever seen! Isn't he handsome?

Tori and Timber start to wrestle.

Brotherly, Sisterly Love!

They were so cute! This reminded me of when Michael and Kasey were little.

Look what Tim did to Tucker's hair!

Andy, Tori and Timber pose for a picture!

Tucker, Andy, Tori and Timber! I wonder what that is in Andy's sweatshirt pocket? Do you think maybe he's smuggling some turkey in there?

Oh that figures.....after the meal is finished and the dishes are done and it's time to leave.....we find the REAL turkey!!!!

Tucker Destroys Jenga Game!

Remember to pause the music player at the bottom of the page before clicking on the videos.

Tucker says, "Wow!"

Tucker playing with a candle!

We ended on a good note....

To top it all off we ended with some strawberry cheesecake and chocolate cream pie! Oh man it was so good!!! And I'm not going to mention that we ate a whole chocolate cream pie the night before too. Shhh! Don't tell anyone! I think we started a new tradition....Pre-Thankgiving Pie the night before. Sounds good to me!

I ended up bringing a whole cheesecake home, so guess what I had in the middle of the night last night? Yep, it was cheesecake. It's so good it calls your name.....so how could I resist? If anyone wants the recipe I would be glad to post it. This is a super easy recipe and I've never found a person who didn't love it.

As for the chocolate cream pie, well Tim and Andy put a ton of that away. It turned out to be Tori and Timber's favorite. Next year I will have to make 4 instead of 2. I will probably only do 2 cheesecakes again though, so that way I can make pumkin pie and pecan pie too. Kasey was shocked that we had no pumpkin pie this year, poor thing. It's been hard living without an oven to make those special dishes and pies my family loves. Next year everything will be back to normal again though and I'm excited to have Thanksgiving at my house again.

Of course, we have to return the favor and have the Guest's over, since they so willingly fed us turkey dinner this year and the year before last. I think they were afraid we were going to starve or something and they felt sorry for us. Ha ha, just kidding. Last year we stayed home and ordered turkey dinners from the Pig n Pancake and watched movies. It was a quiet relaxing day, but I have to admit the food wasn't that great and there just wasn't enough of it. I mean come on I want leftovers!

Thanksgiving Memories...

I can't sleep tonight, so I thought I would post my thoughts on my blog. I was thinking about how much I loved spending Thanksgiving with family when I was just a kid. It was so much fun playing with my cousins, my brother and sister, and eating all that turkey and chicken and dumplings or gumbo etc. Oh how that makes my mouth water right now! What I would give for some collard greens. We would always go to my Little Granny's house and also to my Mammaw's at the Hargrove Hotel. I always looked so forward to those holidays!

I also have such fond memories as a teenager too....oh the fun I had with Karen Kay, T.K. and Debbie! I so enjoyed spending holidays with them. Of course the food was always fantastic, but the fun we had together was the best! I remember discovering that I loved dressing (stuffing) and I don't mean stove top stuffing either. I can't believe I had been missing out on it all those years because for some reason I thought I didn't like it! Silly me. I also discovered broccoli and sour cream, which now has become a tradition, as I have to have it every Thanksgiving. Yum!

And oh how I miss Thanksgiving at Andy's mom and dad's with a house full of people, kids everywhere and food that never ended. Seriously I'm talkin' lots of food...pies, cookies, candies, cheese cakes.....you name it, we had it, plus the turkey, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, rolls, dressing etc. Oh and I can't forget Evelyn's chocolate roll...Andy still raves about it! Wish I knew how to make it. How I loved watching my kids play with all of their cousins because I knew they were having a blast, just as I did when I was growing up.

I have so many fond memories....too many to mention them all. As I reflect on these special times in my life, I am ever so anxious to make many more Thanksgiving memories!