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Thanksgiving 2012

I love thanksgiving and I'm glad my husband is home for the holiday.  He almost had to work.  We were supposed to go be with family for the Thanksgiving holiday but the kids came down with the stomach flu.  So our little family had Thanksgiving together, just us.

It was a complete bummer to not be around other family but it was also completely perfect. It was so relaxed.  

Cooking together with our kids is awesome. One of Harlee's favorite jobs is to wash potatoes. She is such a goof, her MOST favorite chore is cleaning the toilets. 

They were so excited they had to 'cheers' their forks.



Turkey veggie platter

I threw this handsome gobbler together on a whim this morning.  It was fun and actually really really easy.  I'm sure you could use any veggies you wanted in the body but I used yellow and red bell peppers, olives, and cucumber.  The carrot legs and the face really top it off.  I used a triangle piece of cucumber for the beak, a bit of red pepper for the waddle and olive for the eye. 

My kids loved eating him up! Turkey veggie platters are way cooler than regular veggie platters.

Make ahead stuffing recipe

OK this recipe isn't mine.  It's my Mom's so of course it is the best.

Here is what you need.

3 loaves of bread
1 celery stalk
4 medium onions



Kitchen Helper

8 eggs
1/2 cup melted butter
6 tablespoons Poultry Seasoning
2 tablespoons Sage
2 tablespoons salt
2 tablespoons pepper
4 cubes beef bullion

At our house, we don't like to eat the heels of the bread.  So I save those all year long(in the freezer of course!!).  I also save all our hamburger and hot dog buns leftover form birthday parties and BBQs.  I like using buns better than bread, they are easier to crumble.  Bread you have to tediously tear apart.  Buns are for lazy efficient people.  So I just pile all my heels and buns up til it looks like 3 loaves worth. 




Crumble all your bread.  Chop onions and celery in a food processor until it is very fine. Add all the Poultry Seasoning, sage, salt, pepper and beef bullion to 4 cups of hot water and dissolve.  Pour it over your bread/onion/celery mix. Add the eggs and melted butter. Get your hands all up in it and mix it up....way easier and funner than using a spoon. Add 2-4 MORE cups of water.  It should be juicy.  Pour into greased loaf pans.  Double wrap with foil.  Pop those babies in the freezer.  The night before you wanna cook them unwrap one layer of foil and them in the fridge.  Bake for 3-4 hours at whatever temperature you cook your turkey.  Whalaa  easy as pie.

Remember stuffing is easy.  It's forgiving.  Only have 7 eggs? No problem!  Wanna use a whole cup of butter? Knock yourself out!




Now I have all my stuffing done for Thanksgiving AND Christmas.  Score!  After that color some turkeys.  Turkey Coloring Sheet 1 and Turkey Coloring Sheet 2

Harlee can't get enough projects so I had to come up with one more. I seen this on pinterest and we gave it a go.  I thought it was more of a pintrosity than anything.  But Harlee said it was "super duper cool".  And for that I am thankful.

Homemade poultry seasoning

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