It was actually pretty nice just having a quiet dinner at home this year. There’s a lot more pressure when you are cooking for a large group. For example, when I completely ruined the mashed potatoes (turned them into glue, oh yes I did), I knew I had a box of Betty Crocker Roasted Garlic instant potatoes in the pantry, so I just made those. It would have been a lot harder to make a quick subsitution if I was cooking for 16 again this year.
We don’t eat fancy in our house, so our dinner might seem plain to some people, but it was delicious. Turkey, the mashed potatoes with Heinz gravy, Stove Top cornbread stuffing, steamed green peas, and sweet potatoes sauteed with butter and brown sugar. Oh, and crescent rolls, which were good even if they were garlic butter flavor (my husband did the shopping and just grabbed a can without looking.) Simple, and so good.
Then later after we digested, we had bakery apple pie served warm with scoops of vanilla bean ice cream.
It was really a good dinner. Today for lunch we had leftover turkey on white bread with mayo, another simple yet delicious sandwich, and for dinner, we’ll have the leftovers of all the foods from last night, so basically another Thanksgiving dinner. Yum, yum, yum!
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Good to see your Thanksgiving dinner; almost makes me think I’m there to eat it!
If you ever come to the States, I’ll make you a Thanksgiving dinner!
I’m not a big turkey fan (I think its dry and rough) so I tend to focus on the other parts of the meal instead. LOL Glad to see you had a nice thanksgiving.
No cranberry sauce? My son kept complaining about the potatoes. He said they got hard, and my daughter said they needed more milk and more salt. They were fine. They just wanted to complain! Really, they were good, but potatoes do get a little stiff when they’ve sat for a while. I’m not sure how you turn them into glue, but I’m not going to try and find out.
Our Thanksgiving was good, and now I need to get some of those leftovers ready to heat up for dinner tonight. Jeffrey and I had turkey sandwiches for lunch, too - on wheat with Miracle Whip and cranberry sauce. I love leftovers!
Not sure if Tover showed you this, but in case he forgot, I made http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=9583954368 for ya
As far as Thanksgiving, I’m thinking that us kids should start a tradition in the future of Thanksgiving in comfy clothes, stress free, with yummy foods and lots of help and no expectations. We’ll only be able to share it with you guys every other year but as soon as we own a house we’d be happy to host it at our place and hell, you guys could show up in your flannel jammies even.
My Thanksgiving dinner consisted of some very dry turkey and a salad. *sigh* Gotta look stunning in that wedding dress, ya know?
The boys had some super yummy food though and Monkey’s sister commented on how much it looked like my week and a half of dieting was working already so that was dessert enough, right?. 
Anyway, I’m glad you had a nice cozy dinner. I would have loved to have shared it with you guys. 
Those sweet potatoes (my FAVORITE part of Thanksgiving) look SCRUMPTIOUS.
Anna-I don’t like cranberry sauce, never have! As for the potatoes, I googled “why mashed potatoes turned to glue” and got my answer-I had asked my husband to peel and boil the potatoes for me, but then they cooled before I could mash them. Cool potatoes plus cold milk and cool butter=glue. According to a recipe I found linked on Slashfood, you are supposed to use HOT potatoes, and warm the milk and butter before adding them in. I won’t make that mistake again!
Sissy-Thanks for “elfing” us, that was so cute! I would love to spend Thanksgiving together, either here or at your place. Thanksgiving should be about family, and I agree that there does not have to be ANY pressure to make it “perfect”. Any year you are available, please let us know!
AND, I hope you know that you are going to be a BEAUTIFUL bride, no matter what. I for one think you look fabulous just the way you are
I eat a hell lot of Turkey which made sick
Our Thanksgiving was yummy. I have to make stuff from scratch because of my allergies/kids’ sensitivities though (plus then my heart-disease-prone uncles have healthier options). But yeah, yummy leftovers. I still have two birds left to cook, and even sent some leftovers home with the uncle(s) that aren’t so great at cooking healthy.
Every time I watch that elf thing I look at a different one of ya and just crack up so bad. I think I found the perfect picture of Nathan for it. Friggen hilarious. And yours, with the little shoulder shimmy at the end gets me every time, or Princess Muffinest with the whole Ms. Thang or Ryan with the jazz hands *snort* omg I can’t take it anymore.
Looks good to me! We usually cook a huge family dinner and about midway into cooking, there is usually a huge family blowout…this year it was about Peter Pan…the book! Don’t even ask! lol!!
Lanna-I bet your dinner was yummy!
Jenny-You got into an argument about the book Peter Pan? I have to hear that story!
I forgot to tell you that the sweet potatoes are your Grandma Edwards’ recipe-cut canned sweet potatoes into chunks, melt half a stick of butter in a skillet, sprinkle with brown sugar, stir it together, then add the potatoes and stir them gently into they are coated. SO good!
Thanksgiving this year was, although crazy and hectic, full of good food. This was probably the first year I actually tried to just sit back and enjoy the food. It was a pleasant surprise!
I’m glad you had a good Thanksgiving. The simple ones are the best. Thanksgiving may have a lot to do with food, but it’s still about family first.
man… I’m starving (cooking dinner now) and that looks so good!
We had “just us” too! Yes about the pressure! There wasn’t any at all! I just bought a turkey breast this year and did stove top stuffing and canned gravy instead of the “whole kit and kaboodle” and it was yummy! And we had roasted potatoes (Thank you Rich for introducing me to those!!!) and fresh greenbeans. It was perfect — just like yours sounded!
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