Thanksgiving week -part 1

We are having Thanksgiving at our house this year with my mom, Linda, and Linda's boyfriend Ethan. It's not a large crowd, but you'd never know it based on the amount of food I bought over the weekend.

It's a traditional menu:

• Turkey with Stuffing
• Cranberry Sauce
• Mashed Potatoes with Gravy
• Roasted Sweet Potatoes
• Green Beans
• Rolls
• Pickles, Olives, Chevre, and Crackers
• Chocolate Fudge
• Pumpkin Pie
• Pecan Pie

And I'm doing what I can in advance to make Thursday's meal as easy as possible.

Today:

• Started the bread for the stuffing. I'll bake it tomorrow.
• Made cranberry sauce, with and without whole berries.
• Made, and sampled, chocolate fudge.
• Put the turkey in the fridge to thaw.

It was a full morning in the kitchen, especially since I made cranberry thumbprint cookies for us to munch over the next few days, and a loaf of ricotta sandwich bread for breakfasts in the meantime.

Definitely my kind of morning.