We are doing something different this year:  not hosting.  This sounds like it would be a good thing for a family with a new baby in it, but in actuality, it's a big bummer for me!  (Emphasis on the "me", as opposed to the king, who is obscenely HAPPY not to have to run around like a chicken with his head cut off in preparation.) 

It is a bummer, first of all, because I love to host anything and everything anyway.  And secondly, it is an easy way to build memories of home for the kids.  However, my niece put her foot down this year and demanded that Thanksgiving must take place at Grandma's house.  Her version of voting me off the island.  My brother is flying in from Orlando for a quickie visit, which is always exciting.  He has many gifts (more on that in future blogs), and one of them is bringing the most thoughtful and coolest possible presents for the boys. 

I love to decorate, to experiment with new recipes and then [drumroll, please] eat them.  I will miss making creole turkey and jambalaya rice stuffing.  But, as tradition demands, my branch of the Miller family must indulge in peanutbutter pie and pumpkin pie on Turkey Day and so I'll be baking those to take anyway.  It has taken me the last hour just to mix the flour portion of the pie crust (had to make my own pastry flour).  Anyone got an easier and more foolproof method?  I'm truly losing my touch, if I ever had one.  I hate to think how long it will take me to make the fillings! 

I'm also making sangria to take and the king is making cranberry sauce with crystallized ginger.  What's everyone else making/taking/eating?

Note:  Cancel the request for other pie crust recipes -- this one rocks!  The secret is apparently in using "pastry flour", which is made by adding cake flour to all-purpose flour.  Ratio for 2 cups of pastry flour is 1 and 1/3 cup all-purpose to 2/3 cup cake flour. 

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Posted by eclecticityTia

which is to say....two boxes of rolled up store stuff for me!! I make horrid pie crust! Maybe you're recipe would help?

Yum yum sangria!!! My dad is bringing the wine and I'm so glad. For years we had milk with thanksgiving dinner, which is simply too heavy to drink with a meal like that!

You oughtta post that PB pie recipe too. A few years ago I went a hunt for the perfect one; never found one that was deee-vine and would love to take another shot at it!

Happy Thanksgiving!!! I"m thankful for YOU!

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Posted by DrHibiscus

you have to sing that a la Tevye from Fiddler on the Roof. While I am all in favor of experimentation, there are some things that are just sacred. Included in that list is Thanksgiving dinner. Around here, it never changes. Turkey (roasted, of course, although we do now have a turkey deep frier thanks to Sarah's parents); mashed potatoes with gravy; homemade egg noodles (which are traditionally eaten over the mashed potatoes in my family); cranberry salad; a relish tray (usually at least half of which is black olives which the Cummins side of the family devours five at at time - Duncan likes to put one on each finger ;-)

Hope you guys have a great time, and I've got to say that peanut butter pie sounds awesome!

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