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I’m making my lists and checking them twice. Chopping onions and celery, baking Grandmother Bread and cornbread.
The dressing is coming, the dressing is coming!
The turkey is thawing in the refrigerator.
Pie dough is chilling. Pies are coming, pies are coming!
Small pumpkins are being carved out for candle holders for the table. Homemade whole berry cranberry sauce is chilling. Thanksgiving is coming, Thanksgiving is coming!
It’s time for cleaning and cooking, decorating and primping.
We will be having turkey, cornbread dressing, cranberry sauce, gravy, mashed potatoes, green beans (home-canned), scalloped corn (fresh-frozen from the farmers market), cornmeal yeast rolls, and pies and cookies, oh my!
Here are some of my Thanksgiving recipes that you can find here on the blog:
Old-Fashioned Cornbread Dressing.
I haven’t absolutely decided yet which cookies and pies I’m baking.
All my cookie recipes are here.
All my pie recipes are here. Don’t forget the best pie crust in the world.
I cooked a big pork butt this week to make dinners easy while I’m focused on the feast. Rolls for sandwiches one night. Fajitas with homemade tortillas another night. Pizza the next. It leaves me free to play with Thanksgiving.
I like to get as much of the prep work done early as I can. I will fix the cornbread dressing today and put it in the fridge (unbaked). Wednesday I’ll even fix the mashed potatoes in advance and put them in a crock pot to be heated up on Thursday. I’ll bake pies and cookies today and tomorrow. I want the actual day to be relaxed and fun!
I love fun.
And now I am going to break my own rule and actually acknowledge something said about me on another site. Which I never do. However, I thought this was so hilarious, and appropo to this post, I couldn’t resist sharing it with you.
From the comments on another site: “Look out for chicken lady because she is only other candidate that is not painfully annoying, however, I have a sneaking suspicion that she has a full time staff like Martha Stewart.”
Staff?
Staff!
GET BACK HERE!
P.S. How is your Thanksgiving prep coming? Are your chickens helping you? BECAUSE IF THEY ARE, SEND THEM OVER HERE.
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