Typical American Thanksgiving fare, as dictated to my daughter,
“ham; mashed potatoes; dressing; green bean casserole; sweet potatoes; salad; pumkin [sic]-pie”
…minus the semi-colons.
We’re having a quiet Thanksgiving around here, just the four of us: me and the kiddos. We contemplated driving to my family in Kansas, but Conner nixed it: didn’t want to have work to make up from school. And I can’t say I was excited about a 14-hour drive myself.
I talked to some friends about spending some of the holiday day with them, but Conner nixed that, too: he wants the day to be “relaxing” and hanging out with other families with (more) small children isn’t his idea of a good time. Grumpy. But I don’t blame him, really. Seems like most of my friends have kids his little brother’s and sister’s ages, and circus music really isn’t his cup of tea.
So we’re cooking up some grub and having a whole Thanksgiving fare just ourselves, all cozy and comfy in our own home (which we do still own, by the way) and getting a head start on our favorite Christmas movies. With John gone, Conner is huge for motivating me to go all out with tradition and not pansy out by ordering out or just having pasta. And for that I am very thankful indeed. I’ve already made the salad, which is marinating (is that the word I want?) in the fridge. Conner mixed up a super-dooper easy pumpkin pie (looking very seasonal in his orange fleece, I must say), which is cooling on the stovetop. Ham will go in the crockpot first thing in the morning (recipe with apple juice, honey, mustard and sugar, m-mmm) and the rest will get done at some point during the day tomorrow, no hurry. It’s just us, after all.
I hope you are all enjoying a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday with family and friends near and dear. As for the non-American readers, have some turkey on us. (Or ham, if that’s your pleasure.) Bon Appetit. 
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Happy thanksgiving! Hope you all had a great day and that John managed to have one too!
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My menu was: Turkey, stuffing (found an awesome recipe for crockpot stuffing, and it was wonderful!) mashed potatoes, green bean cassserole (Paula Deen,) corn casserole (Allrecipes) gravy, cranberry sauce (Big Daddy-also terrific!) and rolls, apple pie, coconut cream pie, (both courtesy of Mrs. Smith,) sweet potato pie (for which I am famous, and I must say I did not disappoint, and pumpkin cheesecake (daughter.)
I only wish it was laid back and relaxing. I had my nephew who goes to school an hour away, and whom I had to pick up Wednesday night, my mom and my daughter and her two kids from VA, my daughter and her daughter and fiancee (and their dog-another whole “issue”) from also about an hour away. Oh, and my MIL. I had a plan, and a schedule, and I set the table in advance, and still I was on my feet cooking ALL DAY LONG. Although I do love to cook, I never really enjoy Thanksgiving because it’s just so much work, and I have to work the day before and the day after, so it’s crammed into my work-week besides. I have to focus on being grateful…….but I do try to do that every day anyway.
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From a Canadian – happy Thanksgiving to you!
Your menu sounds wonderful!
A favourite slow cooker ham recipe for our family is as follows:
mix 1/2 cup brown sugar with a little bit of ground mustard. MIx with enough coca cola to make a paste. Rub it all over ham and put ham in crock pot.
Poor another 1/4-1/2 Cup of coke over the ham and cook for 8 hours.
it’s delicious!
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Happy Thanksgiving to you all!
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