Monday, November 2nd
Have you given it any thought about where you'll spend Thanksgiving this year or what you'll be fixing if you have a large meal to feed your family?
What about if you have a Family Tradition that you'd like to share this Thanksgiving?
Are there special dishes you like to fix for family gatherings?
Have any plans?
If you ask me Thanksgiving Dinner without Dressing just isn't a satisfying Thanksgiving Dinner. I like Dressing, Turkey, Sweet Potatoes, Cream Style Corn, Green Bean Casserole, Dinner Roll with Butter, and a slice of Pumpkin Pie!!!
The first Thanksgiving Turkey I ever prepared was one to remember because I truly had no idea what I was doing. I was about 28 years old, a Wife and Homemaker with three children. My sister and her family were coming to our Omaha, Nebraska home back in 1983 or '84. By the time I took the turkey out of the oven, she looked beautiful. Picture perfect and if I had been blogging then, I would have blogged about it. Everything was on schedule and going well until I noticed something sticking out of the neck area.
I had stuffed the bird with dressing in the bottom half, but had no idea that the giblets were bagged in the neck. Had a big laugh over this.
These days, I really like the Baking Bags that you can bake your Turkeys in. Easy clean-up.
No Tofu Turkey for me.
I'm so thankful for the real stuff,
~Deanna~
DAUGHTER'S PIE CRUST RECIPE
Pie Crust Recipe.
With her permission I share her recipe with you. BLESS your family, friends and your taste buds with this wonderful crust.
Pie Crust Recipe
1 cup flour
3 heaping tablespoons of shortening
A dash of salt
A tiny bit of ice cold water
Mix ingredients together well.
Roll out on wax paper.
Assemble pie.
Spread a little milk on top of crust before baking.
Simply delicious,
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DECORATING
I knew a very frugal Lady named Edith that shared with me a excellent guideline for decorating. She said with ease, "If your room has clean ceilings, floors, and walls, and the windows have nice curtains, you'll have an attractive room."
John 3:7
“Marvel not that I said unto thee,
Ye must be born again.”
King James Version (KJV)
PSALM 118:17
I shall not die,
but live, and declare
the works of the Lord.
By wisdom
a house is built,
and through understanding
it is established;
through
knowledge
its rooms are filled with rare
and beautiful treasures.
SALVATION
Romans 10:9 King James Version (KJV)
9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Acts 4:12 King James Version (KJV)
12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
"HOME is a wonderful place to LIVE. No matter the size of the rooms, ones HOME is a place to call ones own. I so LOVE my HOME." ~Deanna~
PSALM 90:12
SO
TEACH us
to number OUR days,
that we may apply our HEARTS
unto
WISHES
NO MATTER HOW BADLY YOU WISH with all your might that the something devastating that happened in your life hadn't happened and want so badly to go back in time to prevent it from happening...it isn't humanly possible to do this. You can't change the fact that it happened. IT DID. But JESUS can change the MEANING of what happened to you and give you PEACE. He can show you the way in which you are to go. God richly BLESS you. ~Deanna
8 comments:
Ditto! No tofu turkey for me. I love turkey, and the dressing and cranberry sauce are the highlight of the meal as far as I am concerned. Then of course, the left-overs are the #1 benefit of having the Thanksgiving meal in your own home!Oooh, I am getting hungry.
I loved the vintage pictures. It brought back many memories of my childhood. I love Thanksgiving. On Thanksgiving we take our bread and a bottle of wine to Mass for blessing for our meal. I love that tradition. Your post of the leaves and neighbor the day before was a treat for the eyes. Thank dear one for sharing.
QMM
Every year we invite tons of people over for dinner. This year we are inviting single young adults. So basically a lot of hungry college students! Lol!
Our tradition is to always have the house decorated for Christmas on Thanksgiving Day. After we eat, I'm ready to move on by looking at the Black Friday ads.
Dressing is a must on the menu. In my opinion there is a difference between dressing and stuffing. Lol!
Have a great day my friend :)
I love Thanksgiving but haven't given it much thought because we have been so busy. I think it is an Amercian tradition that most cooks forget to remove the giblet bag before cooking their first turkey-it's a right of passage into the Thanksgiving Turkey Club:). My husband now fries our turkey each year and it is delicious. I cook everything else. I have combined the Thanksgiving menu from my childhood with some Lowcountry traditions. Our menu consists of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, sweet potato casserole, greenbean casserole, crab cakes with dill sauce, and oyseter ramake (oysters wrapped in bacon and baked). Boy, I sure am hungry now!
Blessings,
Kim
HI Deanna!!!
I lOVE Thanksgiving!!!!The true meaning of it all and of course the food!!!!!
I think at this moment , Thanksgiving is going to be here at our house!!!! Not a big crowd, or at least so far not a big crowd, maybe just us and my daughter's in laws!!!! So maybe 10??? Ok with me, Well I would really like all my BIG family here, but I understand it cannot always be that way.
I will make my turkey in the bag this year, I have only made about 5 Thanksgiving turkeys!!!! We are usually somewhere else!!!!!
hugs,
jamie
Love the pics. It will just be the three of us, but I have bought the traditional fixins.
I would like to spend Thanksgiving Day with my family in my home. Not traveling at all. I'm planning on just watching the parade with my little one and enjoying the rest of the day and maybe just baking for the two of us. Unless I feel like going to the big gathering. Really it is so stressful with everybody rushing to get there and then rushing to clean up and leave. No thank you no rushing for me :O) I've gotten slow!!
Hi Deanna,
Your Thanksgiving dinners are making me hungry.
Yes, no tofu for me either, you can't beat the real turkey.
Laughed with the bag of giblets, I did that with my first chicken I cooked.
As Kim said ~ it's a right of passage.
Hugs
Carolyn
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