Eat your turkey, eat your vegetables...

Chocolate pecan, raspberry and pumpkin pies.












...and you can have some pie!

Hope everyone's Thanksgiving went off without a hitch and hope you were all sufficiently satisfied. It was nice to be inside baking and not have to be out in that hellacious wind, but hearing the waves roar was pretty cool. We decided to keep it simple this year with the basics and favorites that we save pretty much for Thanksgiving. Our menu was:

Turkey- stuffed with onions with thick cut bacon between the skin and meat and injected with Italian dressing and cooked on the grill.

Dressing- the basic with onions, celery, Bell's seasoning and a few sticks of butter worked into 3 loaves of bread, cut up, and a few eggs. Just like Mom used to make.

Sweet Potato Casserole- mashed sweet potatoes, honey butter, cinnamon, brown sugar, topped with mini marshmallows and cinnamon and baked until marshmallows are browned. (This ended up on the floor, smashed with the shards of the Corning dish one with the casserole. We eat it a lot, so we weren't too disappointed.)

Mashed Potatoes- good thing we had these with the casserole one with the carpet now. The night before you cook up bacon, crumble, drain and mix with a spoonful of horseradish. When you whip your potatoes the next day, use sour cream, add the bacon mix, add about another scoop of horseradish and these are so heavenly. I made enough to have leftovers for a few days or more.

Brussel Sprouts- Boil until they're tender, then drain. Fry bread crumbs in melted butter, then add the sprouts. Put in a dish and fold in sour cream. They are so rich and full of flavor.

Green Bean Casserole- I think you all know this one. The good old standby. Not much to it and you can prepare it the night before and pop it into the oven when everything's about ready. Throw on the fried onions and your good to go. The hardest thing about this dish is still having the onions when it comes out of the oven.

Assortment of rolls- I made corn bread muffins, crescent rolls, and basic dinner rolls. All go so well with the pumpkin spice butter. Mmmm...

We didn't do cranberry sauce because it just sits there and never gets eaten. The only true fruit we had was in the raspberry pie. It was good and it was simple and we haven't gotten tired of the leftovers yet.