So, I traveled to Massachusetts to visit my sister for Thanksgiving. I was driving all day Wednesday, and she had no food in her house, so we were going to go shopping Thursday morning. We had a menu all planned out ( Read more... )

I have been feeling extra Chuck-like lately, what with the unusual flurry of pie baking. I dropped off a home-baked pie at the house of a friend who was spending Thanksgiving sans family for the first time just before I left for DC, and then I came home and promptly baked more pies. Pie pie pie. Making pies is fun. I think I am going to bake ( Read more... )

So since I can't get Thanksgiving weekend off, I decided to have myself an early Thanksgiving-like dinner yesterday instead. thegreatmissjj was going to be in town, so I picked her up from the train station and then we went shopping. (For groceries. Although I also got a lot of socks and legwarmers ( Read more... )

In the nick of time, I swooped down to my local co-op and got Tofurkey, saving us from the fate of last year! (Not that it was all that dire.) Apparently my family has a hard time understanding what "get something in advance" means. Though me being the procrastinator I am, I shouldn't talk ( Read more... )

Now that it's the day after Thanksgiving, and everyone's slowly awakening from their food-induced comas, I can update lj again. My family managed to forget again that leaving grocery shopping for the day of Thanksgiving itself is a very bad idea, and thus we were not able to get any tofurky. I was briefly upset, but then decided to substitute it ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving was good. I made roasted butternut squash with garlic, and brussel sprouts, and apple crisp (courtsey roommate's recipe). Anna made salad and fried plantains with cranberry syrup, and other stuff I don't remember. She also served cranberry sauce, but that was from a can, so it didn't count. Mom made yams and potatoes and tofurky ( Read more... )

I spent today not doing any reading, but instead, quite literally, at the mall. I think that browsing through Shopaholic Ties The Knot, or whatever that book is called, before bedtime yesterday must have somehow imprinted hidden messages on my subconcious, because I managed to buy way too many things and spend rather too much money. I went in ( Read more... )

So how was everybody's Thanksgiving? Our was definitely... unusual. In an amazing turn of cluelessness/stupidity/I don't even know what, we managed to end up at 6 o'clock with no food save some stuffed fish, and all the stores closed. But! We found an open Chinese restaurant, some yams, cranberry sauce and some gravy, and with some simple re- ( Read more... )