Even she (I) is confused. Why am I talking/writing in third person?
OK, xanax has been taken and wine poured. Breathe.
HERE WE GO!
The one thing I am sure of- to borrow Oprah's silly expression - (because seriously, she's probably sure of about $2.7 billion things) is that it's my favorite time of year to cook --- yay Thanksgiving! Oh, and Christmas! And my birthday!
But I will chill. Let's get through Thanksgiving first. Which I already did last week! HA! 15 people at the house. Best turkey ever, football, laughter, leftovers, blah, blah, blah.
But I am doing it again. On Friday, Nov. 29th in Canada. With my son and some of his friends.
Ahhh, youth.
So until tonight I thought I was cooking/warming stuff up in my hotel room for the three of us. But silly me did not check Facebook. It's 12 guests! YAY!!
Luckily I started cooking items like cornbread and wheat bread for the stuffing. Cookies. Ginger pecans.
And cranberry sauce. Yummy, sweet and tart cranberry sauce.
Last week I phoned the cranberry sauce in. Who cares, with all the cheese plates and dips and chips and gravy right?
But I do love turkey sandwich leftovers created with Best Foods and cranberry sauce. To...die...for.
So finally I will cut to the damn chase:
I grabbed the usual suspects from the freezer/cupboard and store:
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That is NOT a martini. It was the closest glass I had to pour in the maple syrup. Truth!
I tossed the ingrediants..except for that chocolate bar- what, am I some kind of hoser?- into a pan and boiled it all up into a frothy, yummy mess.
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OK...that photo is not frothing....I think I was distracted when it did the bubble dance.
So then I added some damn oranges that cost me more than I could have sold the whole orange tree I have in California.
And THEN...bippity boppity boo...I made cranberry sauce.
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Pecan/ pumpkin pie (all in one pie!) to be made tomorrow... because why make two pies when you can also eat cake?
" Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before." Rita Rudner
