I like to plan things. I may never execute my plan, I may never hope to see it as a reality, but I still enjoy planning things. I love to share my plans with people, even though they don’t always love to hear them. My poor brother has endured thousands of party schemes and outfit ideas. I like to set goals too, but the ‘setting’ is much easier than the actual undertaking and achievement. My diary is solid proof of that! Anyhow, Thanksgiving day is in 2 weeks and 6 days and I have already started to put together a menu and a shopping list. I am very, very excited! Since Christian and Dad are not exactly partial to hearing my plan, I thought I’d share it on the blog.
Menu: (With the people who are making each dish put in parenthesis)
Turkey (Collaborative effort)
Cranberry Sauce (Out of a can (tee hee), or Grandpa makes it)
Grandma’s Gravy (Not sure whether Grandma will actually make it or not…)
Spicy Mashed Potatoes (Grandpa’s specialty)
Dinner Rolls (Christian, the dinner roll expert)
Sweet Potato Casserole (Christian)
Salad (Christian)
Some sort of vegetable, I’m thinking green been casserole (not very appetizing, but it’s a classic) or asparagus with garlic (Kelly)
Ambrosia Salad (Kelly)
Fresh Baked Bread (Kelly)Dessert
Fancy Apple Pie (Kelly and Christian, with some help from Martha Stewart 🙂 )
Pumpkin Pie (Kelly and Christian; I was trying to decide which one to make, but it was so hard that I just chose both. I think I’ll make them ahead of time.)
I have a chronological list of when we should prepare each dish, but that might be pretty boring to read. Oh, and I did consult this list with Christian and he’s fine with it! Anyway, Grandpa already told us he’s making the mashed potatoes and he’s always been the cranberry sauce guru. And Grandma’s gravy recipe is amazing.
So I think we’re all good! The only thing that really has me worried is the centerpiece…
Awwww, Kelly, I think you need a sister! This is such a sister thing! 🙂 So for this post, let
me be your e-sister! We’d pour over websites and back issues of my Martha Stewart Living magazines
(of which there is an embarassingly big stack) looking for that just-right center piece. Are you
thinking floral, edible, crafty…?
Your menu looks great…and your right on in thinking you need a green vegetable. The experts
(whoever they are) say that a well balanced meal has every color on the plates when they are
dished up. So a green vegetable, or yellow (corn) but with the orange sweet potatos, you’re hitting
yellow in a sense! You’re only missing blue….time for some more blueberry muffins? 😉
If your grandpa gets tired of making cranberry sauce…I’ve got a favorite to suggest. It’s really
more like a relish/salad, but definatly worth a try. And very easy too! You just take one bag
of fresh cranberries, one whole orange (with the peel on and everything!) sugar to taste and some
walnuts and throw them in a food processor and pulse until the whole mixture is chopped up.
That’s it! And ooooooh so good!
Hmmmm,I think it must be lunch time now…I’m hungry!
Aaaah finally someone who appreciates my excitement! Haha! Wow, that cranberry sauce sounds delicious, I think we’ll make it if Grandpa agrees! As for the centerpiece, I’d like something simple and autumn-ish. I’m thinking small pumpkins and candles or berries and leaves. Yesterday I went online looking for centerpiece ideas on Martha Stewart’s website and Better Homes and Garden’s website. Oh I’ve been recently obsessed with Martha Stewart! Her website is amazing! It has EVERYTHING. In fact after I get done checking my e-mail and all that, I’ll be making a craft that I found on the website.I want to subscribe to the magazine soon!
We will all have to get together sometime and cook!!!