Thanksgiving the Way I Like It
You’re pleased too, I bet, when your plans for a holiday turn out just like you planned, right? My plans for Thanksgiving turned out just as I’d hoped. I worked most of Sunday afternoon in my kitchen, getting the turkey ready, then the stuffing, and the potatoes. Then I took a rest, and finished my intercession lists I had not completed in my morning prayer time because I went early for the breakfast served at church.
Mid-afternoon I decided that I’d make a dessert after all. I had said that I didn’t think it would be necessary, but I had cooked a squash the day before, so it wasn’t that hard to make the chiffon filling, and I mixed it with some dream whip too. For the pie crust I just used graham wafer crumbs and some coconut and sesame seeds.
About 4 pm I realized that the turkey was done, so I began to take it apart, and then made gravy, and just about the time that I was ready for them, the potatoes were ready for mashing too. I had it all packed up and ready for the car at 5:30.
On Friday, at the office, I had talked with one of our Board members. Allen is a single man and he wondered which relatives he could get himself invited to for a Thanksgiving meal. I offered that he could join my brother Tom and me. He accepted gladly, and promised to bring the cranberries.
I gave Tom and Allen each a quick call to say I was on the way, and we enjoyed a good meal together in Tom’s apartment. It always has a lot of clutter, but Allen said his was the same way.
He really liked my new experiment with the crockpot stuffing, which incorporated some mixed vegetables and creamed corm with the herbed bread and mushroom soup. (I liked it too, and must jot it down somewhere so I can recall the ingredients next time).
That was Sunday. I spent yesterday, the actual Thanksgiving holiday quietly at home, doing the things I love, and coming away with some great new ideas. Perhaps the main one is going to affect this RoseBouquet, as I plan to shift away from my haphazard methods and get a good plan going. I hope you’ll get excited too as you see it happening.