So it snowed last weekend. Our first snow! Today I went for a run and while it was very nice (I do enjoy running in the (somewhat) cold), I also quickly realized that my shoes are serious dry-weather shoes. So I’ll be buying some new ones that don’t get my feet soaking wet.
LG enjoying the snow.
Anyway, this week is Thanksgiving, aka: my favorite holiday ever. We’re sticking close to home this year (uhh, by which I mean we are just…staying home), which is sad, but good. Sad because no family, we have to do all the cooking. Good because no family, we get to do all the cooking. Here’s what’s on our menu this year.
Breakfast
We debated on doing Bloody Marys and bagels with lox, but then I randomly bought bagels and lox a few weekends ago and so that didn’t sound great anymore. We decided to just do Bloody Marys and appetizers instead, so here’s what apps we’re having:
Meat, cheese, and crackers
Brined items
Potstickers (Costco, from a bag)
Jalapeno poppers (leftover cream cheese from bagels and lox day + bacon that needs to be used + jalapenos that need to be used)
Shrimp and cocktail sauce (homemade sauce, Ina’s recipe)
Dinner
We’ll probably eat around 2pm or so. Maybe a little later, depending on if we’re starving or if I decide to make an emergency flatbread with the pizza crust I stress-bought last week.
Turkey with sage and Kerrygold rubbed all up on it
Stuffing with sausage
Mashed potatoes (from a box! But I am roasting garlic to add in)
Green bean casserole (topped with onion rings, Chris’s favorite)
Maybe a salad (the produce here sucks and so the spinach we bought a few days ago is already bad. It’s either go to the store this week for new salad ingredients or…just forgo a salad)
Possibly roasted carrots (this is the portion of the show where I start to worry we won’t have enough food)
Cranberry sauce
Gravy
King’s Hawaiian rolls
Dessert
Smitten Kitchen’s Pear, Cranberry, and Gingersnap Crumble, but with apples instead of pears, and vanilla bean ice cream on top
Irish coffees
What are you having for the big day?
Well we are going to Garrett’s bachelor uncle’s house so we may end up having Tostino’s Pizza Rolls for dinner. I’m not sure, but I am very nervous. Thank god my mom/aunt has postponed our leftover-producing family thanksgiving until Friday. 🙂
Costco pot-stickers always remind me of when I travel for work because Garrett buys them and just eats them FOR DAYS. I come home and he’s like unrecognizable from dehydration. lol But I sort of understand because man they are delicious.
The weather looks so seasonally appropriate which is so cool! Our big backyard tree that always has beautiful autumn leaves is still green, which is weird. Que sera…Miss ya!
I want to go to your house for the day! Sounds amazing!!!
Whoa Nelly! That’s like Tahoe in a good season!