Thanksgiving Dinner

FIRST OF ALL...wanted to tell you that tomorrow, November 22nd, I'm going to be on the radio!! Oh goodness. I'm nervous!!! If you want to listen, here are the details:

Where: WBCL Radio in Ft. Wayne, Indiana (90.3 FM)

What: Mid-Morning Author! Author! program

When: The program airs from 9:05-10:00 Monday morning, and my spot is 9:45-9:55.

They do stream online if you're unable to hear it on the radio, and the Mid-Morning page does have an archive list of the shows, so if you can't hear it live and want to check it out later...that's where you can find me!

This concludes my public service announcement. :)

Since it's Thanksgiving week, and since I made broccoli salad to take to Chapel Pike's carry-in dinner today, I have been doing some thinking about Thanksgiving dinners. Our family is very small and very scattered, and I will be honest...I struggle with Thanksgiving. I hear people talk about their eating-all-day-while-watching-football bashes and I wonder what a gathering like that would look like! I don't often mind being the caboose of the family but when it means you miss out on family gatherings because there's no longer a family....it's kind of hard.

So.

If I were doing my own Thanksgiving dinner (yes, even for just one!), this is what I would make for my menu.

I don't actually like turkey all that well. It's kind of dry for my tastes. But it's not Thanksgiving without the turkey, so this is my favorite turkey. I know. It's probably all processed and not even real meat. But it's my Thanksgiving, so this is what I'd make. (And I did, in fact, purchase this one this week so I can have my own Thanksgiving dinner!)


This is my favorite dressing/stuffing, which I make from scratch. (It's over on the recipe list if you need a recipe.) My mouth is watering just thinking about it.

I'd make broccoli salad because I would actually get to eat it. (When I take it to the carry-in, it's always gone. Sadness.) This recipe is over in the list, too.

I haven't made mashed potatoes in years. Literally years. But I love them. Extra butter, please.

Actually I probably would skip vegetables entirely because I don't like them. But for the sake of nutrition and color, I would do cooked carrots. I really do love them.

Macaroni and cheese. HAS to be Paula Deen's recipe. My favorite.

And for dessert? Pumpkin cake!! (Recipe in the list.)

Bought this today too - my favorite thing. Sparkling grape juice.
So that would be my favorite meal. What is yours?