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Simple Thanksgiving dinner
By Elizabeth | November 23, 2007
It was actually pretty nice just having a quiet dinner at home this year. There’s a lot more pressure when you are cooking for a large group. For example, when I completely ruined the mashed potatoes (turned them into glue, oh yes I did), I knew I had a box of Betty Crocker Roasted Garlic instant potatoes in the pantry, so I just made those. It would have been a lot harder to make a quick subsitution if I was cooking for 16 again this year.
We don’t eat fancy in our house, so our dinner might seem plain to some people, but it was delicious. Turkey, the mashed potatoes with Heinz gravy, Stove Top cornbread stuffing, steamed green peas, and sweet potatoes sauteed with butter and brown sugar. Oh, and crescent rolls, which were good even if they were garlic butter flavor (my husband did the shopping and just grabbed a can without looking.) Simple, and so good.
Then later after we digested, we had bakery apple pie served warm with scoops of vanilla bean ice cream.
It was really a good dinner. Today for lunch we had leftover turkey on white bread with mayo, another simple yet delicious sandwich, and for dinner, we’ll have the leftovers of all the foods from last night, so basically another Thanksgiving dinner. Yum, yum, yum!
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November 27th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
It does look absolutely delightful. And you definitely sealed the deal with that desert….vanilla bean…oh my! :)