Happy Thanksgiving!!!
 

To my friends,

Wishing you all a great Thanksgiving....so thankful for all of your caring support and wisdom!

Hope you get to eat well :) ;) !

Take care,
Tessa

and a very Happy thanksgiving to you too Tessa, as well as to all our members and visitors :)

We are blessed to have my oldest son home from college in RI till Sunday, so I am very thankful !

Doing an evening feast this year so I am leisurely getting everything ready........sure beats the usual Thanksgiving morning rush:p
I do so love the yummy smells of all this good stuff cooking:D

((((Tessa))))

I hope you both, and everyone else of course, had a wonderful day with your families. Enjoy the weekend. I take it that it's a long weekend? We don't have thanksgiving here of course, but I always enjoy hearing about all the food and celebrations. :)

thanks Lara :)

yes, it is a real long weekend with schools and many businesses closed weds, thurs & fri

I like Thanksgiving best of all here, as at least it hasnt become commercialized yet...well, unless you count the mountains of food people buy:eek:
Supposed to be a time of gathering the family and freinds and counting your blessings, while eating the traditional turkey, corn and yams with all the additional goodies

we had turkey, homemade cranberry & orange sauce, cornbread stuffing, buttered corn, cinnamon yams, mashed potatoes, steamed french beans and luverly gravy.
As none of us are all that fond of pumpkin pie, we had desert choices of apple/pecan pie with cinnamon cream and a dark chocolate cake...all washed down with sparkling apple cider

As I do all the cooking...........I always really enjoy the day after thanksgiving too, as everyone is real happy helping themselves to leftovers so i get to rest! :p

Thanks, Lara :) !! Does Australia have anything similar? A harvest type celebration?

Chemar.....I love Thanksgiving, too. Just great food and family and not frenzy!!! We had SO MUCH FOOD!!!! :eek: :eek: :D Our plates looked like something out of a gourmet magazine. Turkey, 2 kinds of stuffing, 2 kinds of homemade cranberry sauce, (canned cranberry sauce for the non-adventurous), mashed potatoes, gravy, candies sweet potatoes, creamed onions, roasted squash, roasted beets with orange, green salad with roasted bits of sweet potatoes and nuts, lots of appetizers, great wine, rolls, and oh, the desserts.....apple, pecan and pumpkin pies, cheesecake, brownies, fudge, cookies, ice cream and more :D :D :D !!

It was wonderful. I have a fairly large extended family and we all gather and bring something. We just love it and ooooh and aaaah over the foods everyone brings. So much fun and I'm grateful for all of this. I also send food to my sister-in-law's house where some of my husband's family gathers. Things I make each year and they love so I send it along because I can't be with them.

Wishing everyone a peaceful holiday season.

Take care,
Tessa