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Thanksgiving Prep

This year, for the first time ever, my mom will not be around for Thanksgiving. That means my sister and I will be responsible for cooking dinner for our family gathering. My sister, having spent the first four years of her married life in a foreign country on another continent, has some experience with this. I, on the other hand, have never prepared a Thanksgiving dinner. In fact, I usually get asked to make the frozen corn, and I’ve been known to burn it. I’ve never even considered making a turkey and in fact, have often joked to my family that if I ever had to be responsible for cooking Thanksgiving dinner, we’d been eating turkey hot dogs. (At this point, you will all be happy to know that my lovely sister is taking care of the turkey – I just have to help hunt down the recipe.) I am, however, responsible for more than corn this year, so I am researching and planning, and I am determined to make something not only edible, but incredible. Right now, I’m eyeing an “easy” pumpkin cheesecake recipe on Tasty Kitchen, acorn squash (which I actually know how to make because I love it and make it on days that don’t start with “Thanksgiving”), and the Pioneer Woman’s stuffing. And fresh-not-from-a-bread-machine bread because I already know how to make that, too, and find it somewhat fun. Stay tuned for an update this weekend…. we shall see if it gets filed under Kitchen Nightmares or not.