The holiday season is here! And even though we’ll be celebrating as a duo this year, the first Thanksgiving away from home and our families, Thanksgiving means a table full of wonderful food.
Of course, Thanksgiving also means plenty of other things: the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, football, a full day in the kitchen with new and old recipes, opening a bottle of wine, stories of holidays past and those we’re missing, and the excitement of creating new traditions for a new life. But as transplanted Midwesterners in southeast Texas, turkey and pies come before all else. The only adaptation to our new southern home in terms of food will be wood-smoking the breast, and adding a sweet potato buttermilk pie to the dessert lineup.
Today’s main task, aside from making the orange-ginger cranberry sauce and fighting the crowds at the grocery store for butter, will be for cobbling together the pies. Yes, pies plural. It’s funny because grandmothers and aunts would give me the evil eye when I’d scrape out the filling and discard the crust.
In recent years, however, I’ve come to appreciate the process of making pie. And since I’ve been eying up that sweet potato buttermilk, him a traditional pumpkin [pecan, too -- but we'll get to that later], I’m baking two small pies to satisfy us both.
While I still had bows in my hair, Martha Stewart schooled me on the finer points of making pastry dough. Here’s hoping they live up to the Thanksgiving hype [and his discerning pie palate]!
From our teeny tiny kitchen to yours, Happy Thanksgiving!
Glad to see you’ve come around on pies. We’ll all miss you tomorrow but it sounds as though you have a wonderful and delicious Thanksgiving planned.
Love
oh,how i’ll miss you tomorrow! However, it surely sounds like the two of you will have a wonderful and delicious Thanksgiving; i can’t wait to hear how it all turns out. Enjoy the day together! Love, Mom
Happy Thanksgiving! Have a great time in Austin. Bet your ears were ringing as the conversation at dinner kept returning to you. You missed out on playing Twister and Monopoly. Have to go eat our pies – lemon, cherry, and pumpkin.
Love you, miss you, can’t wait to see you!
Actually… if your ears were ringing it was because Momo was complaining that she couldn’t reach you on your cell. (Clever that turning the ringer off!) I also wanted tou report the pumpkin tiramisu was a great hit. The dark chocolate Godiva liqueur was great, and the sweetened mascarpone with pumpkin and pumpkin pie spices was really good… I gave you partial credit, so sometime you should try it. Hope the last of your holiday weekend is great. PS, Meghan and I were in Kohl’s at 3:45 AM… great fun, and a few good buys had by all.