Thanksgiving
Nov. 28th, 2013 08:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingI really hate the way Thanksgiving has turned from a holiday about family and being grateful for what we have into a holiday about shopping for all the things we don't have and probably don't need either. Especially when I cannot even watch a damn football game without being bombarded by hymns to commercialism. Bah. Bah humbug.
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In other news, Thanksgiving dinner itself was excellent. We had turkey, stuffing, potatoes au gratin (scalloped with cheese, basically), wild rice with mushrooms, some kind of sweet potato dish, asparagus with vinaigrette dressing, green bean casserole (without which no holiday meal is complete), and spinach salad with craisins and goat cheese. Also gravy and cranberry sauce.
YUM.
Dessert was pumpkin pie, tiramisu, and champagne cocktails. Also yum! And before dinner, we had a long period of somewhat disorganized nibbling on various hors d'oeuvres accompanied by sangria, which was, to continue the pattern, yummy. :-)
Dad and I made the pumpkin pie, and I did the spinach part of the salad, which is more food preparation than I usually do. I do table-setting, table-clearing, and general packaging and putting away of leftovers.
Aunt Cara opened her birthday presents tonight, and is taking a bunch of Christmas gifts home with her so the rest of us won't have to pay postage to Chicago in a couple weeks. And that reminds me I need to put together my holiday card list and think of some little crafty knick-knacks to include in them -- last year I did tiny paper snowflakes, but I don't want to repeat the trick two years in a row. I'm thinking something with glitter, maybe... *ponders*
Anyway, best wishes to all!
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In other news, Thanksgiving dinner itself was excellent. We had turkey, stuffing, potatoes au gratin (scalloped with cheese, basically), wild rice with mushrooms, some kind of sweet potato dish, asparagus with vinaigrette dressing, green bean casserole (without which no holiday meal is complete), and spinach salad with craisins and goat cheese. Also gravy and cranberry sauce.
YUM.
Dessert was pumpkin pie, tiramisu, and champagne cocktails. Also yum! And before dinner, we had a long period of somewhat disorganized nibbling on various hors d'oeuvres accompanied by sangria, which was, to continue the pattern, yummy. :-)
Dad and I made the pumpkin pie, and I did the spinach part of the salad, which is more food preparation than I usually do. I do table-setting, table-clearing, and general packaging and putting away of leftovers.
Aunt Cara opened her birthday presents tonight, and is taking a bunch of Christmas gifts home with her so the rest of us won't have to pay postage to Chicago in a couple weeks. And that reminds me I need to put together my holiday card list and think of some little crafty knick-knacks to include in them -- last year I did tiny paper snowflakes, but I don't want to repeat the trick two years in a row. I'm thinking something with glitter, maybe... *ponders*
Anyway, best wishes to all!
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Date: 2013-11-30 03:29 am (UTC)treescats!It's hard to find something to stuff inside cards to make it fun. How about making your own confetti? http://www.squidoo.com/make-your-own-wedding-confetti There's some hole-punchers out there that aren't expensive and you could chose an interesting pattern...