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• Nov. 19, 2007 - Not cooking on Thanksgiving?

Posted in Food and Cooking

This will be the first year since 1995 that I will not cook Thanksgiving dinner. I am only contributing a sweet potato dish and some wine.

I'm not sure I can handle it, having Thanksgiving dinner at someone else's house. Three years ago we had dinner for 24. Two years ago it was about 20. Last year it was family only and boy were we lonely.

This year we are in a new city and planned on an "orphans" Thanksgiving. Lots of seminary students would need a place to go, we figured. But we were invited to another family's house.

So. I'm not cooking. I have to decide on only one dish. But there are so many sweet potato recipes! Do I want to go goopy and sweet, or savory? The twice-baked with sage, or the butter-pecan? I can't go too goopy and sweet. I just can't. No marshmallows, please.

• Nov. 19, 2007 - <i>Untitled Comment</i>

Posted by Frogmom

I can't go goopy and sweet this year either. In fact, I'm ditching our traditional candied yams/apple pie filling/brown sugar/tons of butter dish in favor of *just plain simple and good* baked and mashed sweet potatoes with a bit of butter.

I am, however, still making our traditional and sugar-laden cranberry sauce/raspberry jello dish. Can't change too many things at once or I'd have a mutiny on my hands!

I know you're going to miss having a crowd over to your house, but I'll be praying that you all have a wonderful day, anyway! :- )

Edited by Frogmom on Nov. 19, 2007 at 10:27 PM

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• Nov. 20, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Ingrid

Butter-Pecans all the way! No marshmallows please.
Come stop by. I just set up my blog:)

Ingrid

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• Nov. 20, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by norwezter

Hehe! We do marshmallows. I always loved the novelty of it when i was a kid and the children would be bummed. I guess we just aren't all that culturally advanced. :)
We usually have Thanksgiving by ourselves. We just don't have all that much family and all our friends are busy. And this year too. It can be kind of nice and quiet that way..

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• Nov. 20, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by hsmomof2

Ha ha, culturally advanced, you're too funny! Now if she'd asked me to bring a jello salad... that'd be different. I'd put marshmallows in there. But potatoes... uh uh. Never have been able to do that. Maybe 'cause I didn't grow up with it? My mom would toss one in the oven for my dad. Once a year, he got his sweet potato.

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