Our 2008 Thanksgiving

This year was my very first time making Thanksgiving dinner. I was overly excited about what dish to bring, that my Mom suggested I take over, which is what I did. We picked out our recipes for the menu and went shopping for all of the organic groceries they bought. I was all set for 3 days of cooking! For appetizers we had veggies, fruit, nuts, crakers with brie, and chips with dip. Onion dip, a bean dip from a recipe we chose, and guacamole. Which we all had as our breakfast. I had made all of the pies in advanced. I'm kind of working backwards. For dessert we had coconut meringue pie (for Dad), a chocolate mallow pie (which was too chocolaty), a cranberry cheesecake that had eggnog in it, and my Mom bought a TJ's pumpkin pie for all the traditionalist. My favorite was of course the pumpkin pie:) But I'm a bit a traditionalist and I love pumpkin and fruit pies. Amongst those pies I also made a green bean mushroom pie for a side dish. That one turned out beautiful with the lattice crust I made. We chose an herb turkey that everyone seemed to enjoy and was pretty moist. We planned on a rhubarb corn bread stuffing but were unable to find any rhubarb since it's out of season, so I made up my own stuffing which turned out okay. I used fresh cranberries, walnuts, and the cornbread stuffing mix from TJ's. Comments on it were "interesting." I made fresh cranberry sauce which is the easiest thing to make. It took about 5 minutes and was so yummy. It's the same recipe as what went in and on the cheesecake I made. Potatoes were what everyone loved, my brother Jord made those with the recipe we chose. It was a rich Swiss cheese scalloped potatoes. I also made over 40 sour cream rolls that were yummy. I messed up on the roll recipe but it really didn't seem to matter. Good thing. Everyone seemed to enjoy dinner. We did have a fun time when the house filled with smoke because the cheese from the potatoes was burning on the bottom of the stove. That was exciting:) Brandon got the idea of going to the movies after dinner. I guess he likes the tradition that Judy and Jane have every Thanksgiving and we started it for our own family with this Thanksgiving. We went to the movies and saw Bolt with the my sister Heather and my cousins Max and Axa and her little one Rylie who is about Ethan's age, just a few days younger and is just as big as Ethan if not bigger. She's a doll. We left Sophie with my Mom and she napped while we were gone. Ethan and Rylie sat together in a seat at the theater and loved playing together all day, it was really cute. I wish I would of thought to take more pictures but I was too busy cooking. I was lucky to remember to take pictures of the desserts. Everything turned out really nice. Now it's already starting to feel like Christmas. I'm excited.