Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving this year was done at our house and I cooked dinner.  This is my first thanksgiving doing everything myself, with the help of Brian.  We got a fresh natural/organic turkey and I had all the fixin's.  Green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, homemade dressing, cranberries, noodles.  You name it it was there.  For dessert, I decided to not make a pumpkin pie, but a pumpkin bread pudding.  It was Bobby Flay's recipe.  A lot of work went into it, but was worth it. Sadly I do not have any pictures of the fest.  I'll have to work on that for next year.


Since I liked the halloween pumpkin centerpiece, I also made one for thanksgiving.  

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Halloween decorations have been replaced with Thanksgiving decorations.  I must admit, this is one of my favorite times of year.  I am able to put out things that I've collected and items that have been made for me.

I decided to make a pumpkin pie for dessert this year, but I didn't want to use canned pumpkin.  I made the pumpkin pie from a pie pumpkin.  One pie pumpkin will give you enough pumpkin puree to make one pumpkin pie.  It sounds harder than it really is and I have to admit, it was easy and simple, that from now on, that is how I will make pumpkin pie.  The pie was made from homemade pumpkin puree and a gingersnap crust.  Delicious!