Our Thanksgiving

This year we had no Thanksgiving dinner invitations.

We should probably have done something more radical, but

I like what we did.

My hubby decided that each of the children should pick one or two dishes and make them for our feast. He chose the turkey and gravy.

Joe chose the mashed potatoes and cheesecake.

Hope made broccoli salad and candy kabobs.

Faith made pumpkin pie and pilgrim hats.

Shekinah made jello.

I made little chickens....actually I did make baked corn.

Much of it could be prepped on Wednesday, but the turkey needed careful watching on Thursday.

We actually only made a half of turkey that's why it looks so small.

He added apples and onions and fruit juice to the pan (he wanted cider but didn't see any at the store he shopped)

After church on Thursday Joe was chopping potatoes for the kettle

and Zeke was measuring the ingredients for corn bread.

We actually sat down by 1PM. I even pulled out some glass plates!

We might need to make this a tradition!

It was all very tasty, but we learned that pumpkin from a tin can does not taste as good as home canned pumpkin. We also learned that reading recipes is very important  1/4 does not equal 1 .Raisins are not necessary in broccoli salad at our house and "salad dressing" does not mean Ranch dressing.

The only thing that kept it from being perfect is that we were missing Ben. We had a record of 3 people dreaming the other night that Ben was home.