We start Thanksgiving morning
with Praise and Pancakes at our church, it is one of my favorite things about
Thanksgiving. Our church has this
special service at 7 AM, we sing a few songs of worship to the Lord and then
one by one whoever would like goes up front and says what they are thankful
for. Most people are in their pajamas,
its nothing fancy but special. After we
give praise to God for all we have to be thankful for we enjoy pancakes
together and sweet fellowship. My father
in law makes the best pancakes he has been the pancake cook at this event for
many years.
We come home and watch the Macy’s
Day Parade while we chop and prep stuff for our Thanksgiving Feast. I say we but it is usually me with a little help from my hubby. I love every minute of it though and I do a
lot of prep work the night before so I mostly have to drain/strain and put
together things, put all the stuff out
on platters and such.
We usually eat our Thanksgiving
meal early in the day around 1 PM. This
gives us ample time to enjoy the turkey and fixings all day long. The guys usually watch football in the living
room and my mom, sister and I usually play games or do some kind of craft with
the kids in the other room. The guys
usually fall asleep watching football, and we girls go over the Black Friday
ads in print and just talk and hang out.
It’s laid back and relaxing and I love every minute of it. Most years we have great weather and watch
the boys play in the backyard, I think Thanksgiving day would be perfect for a
rain day, since everyone stays inside and hangs out, but rarely does that
happen.
Our Thanksgiving Menu looks like
this:
Appetizers:
Ranch Dip with Veggies, Spinach
Dip, Shrimp with cocktail sauce, Bacon Wrapped Smokies, Chips and Salsa of course doesn’t everyone
have chips and salsa on Thanksgiving, guacamole and fruit salad with yummy marshmallow dip.
Main Course and Sides:
Turkey of course (sometimes we
have ham also), salad, (which there is usually no room on the plate for and
everyone says they will come back for but never does), mashed potatoes, sweet
potatoes, corn, classic green bean casserole, broccoli salad, macaroni and
cheese (for the kids and my dad) and rolls.
I use Trisha Yearwood’s Sweet
Potato Soufflé Recipe, it has become a family favorite, here is the link:
And if you haven’t had cold
broccoli salad here is the recipe. It’s
light and refreshing and great with leftovers the next few days, it’s quite
addicting if I do say so myself. This recipe
calls for sunflower seeds, we usually use slivered almonds instead.
Dessert:
Pumpkin pie, apple crumb pie,
pecan pie, cherry pie and vanilla ice cream. Never
fails as well we usually have some kind of cheese cake, pumpkin flavored or
plain.
I try to do as much as possible
the day before so I have time to relax on Thanksgiving too. I chop everything that needs to be chopped
the night before and make all my desserts the day before. I pull out all the platters I am going to use
and leave them out so I don’t have to search for them the morning of. I usually menu plan for light and quick easy
meals the week and days leading up to Thanksgiving, makes it easy on any budget
since we usually splurge on the Thanksgiving meal and it has a lot more
involved and preparing quick and
easy meals the week before makes for less time in the kitchen.
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