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So, on Thursday we've been invited over to a friend from work's house for dinner. Apparently some people here at work get together and do a Thanksgiving meal together every year, and we got invited to this one -- probably not in the least because our kids play very well with my friend's son. :) I'm looking forward to it. I've never been invited to anyone else's house for Thanksgiving, and it was a very nice surprise. I'm told I don't need to bring anything, but that seems so... I dunno, ungrateful somehow. I need some suggestions as to what's good to bring to someone else's house for dinner.
Do not think for a moment that I will not be cooking my own feast, however. Oh no. For one, I need lunches for next week. For two, a free turkey came with my last grocery order. :) And three, it just wouldn't seem like home if I didn't try it. The tricky part will be that I'm still rather low on dishes and serving stuff as a whole, not to mention dining space. Ours is but to do or die, however.... onward and upward. If I can manage to get a hand-mixer and a bowl before I have to start in, I'll be a happy camper. Oh, and a round cake pan. Sigh.
Anyway, so this is the menu as it now stands:
Breakfast/brunch/snacks through the day: baked apple fritters, orange juice, hardboiled eggs (for Will), deviled eggs (for everyone else), carrot and celery sticks.
Dinner:
Turkey and the requisite gravy, made from scratch
Bruleed sweet potatoes
Mashed potatoes
My grandmother's cornbread dressing recipe
Steamed broccoli
Corn
Black olives
Cranberry sauce
bread -- maybe regular wheat bread, maybe bake-&-serve rolls. Someday I'll make fresh bread. This isn't the year.
Dessert: Pumpkin pie, chocolate silk pie.
Do I have enough dishes to store all this stuff. No. Do I plan to let that stop me? No.
Do not think for a moment that I will not be cooking my own feast, however. Oh no. For one, I need lunches for next week. For two, a free turkey came with my last grocery order. :) And three, it just wouldn't seem like home if I didn't try it. The tricky part will be that I'm still rather low on dishes and serving stuff as a whole, not to mention dining space. Ours is but to do or die, however.... onward and upward. If I can manage to get a hand-mixer and a bowl before I have to start in, I'll be a happy camper. Oh, and a round cake pan. Sigh.
Anyway, so this is the menu as it now stands:
Breakfast/brunch/snacks through the day: baked apple fritters, orange juice, hardboiled eggs (for Will), deviled eggs (for everyone else), carrot and celery sticks.
Dinner:
Turkey and the requisite gravy, made from scratch
Bruleed sweet potatoes
Mashed potatoes
My grandmother's cornbread dressing recipe
Steamed broccoli
Corn
Black olives
Cranberry sauce
bread -- maybe regular wheat bread, maybe bake-&-serve rolls. Someday I'll make fresh bread. This isn't the year.
Dessert: Pumpkin pie, chocolate silk pie.
Do I have enough dishes to store all this stuff. No. Do I plan to let that stop me? No.
