Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours! We hope you all had a wonderful day full of laughter, family, friends, hope, love, joy and of course more food than you knew what to do with!! That is EXACTLY how the Provost-Martin family spent their Thanksgiving. We just did ours the Saturday prior so that Bella and Zo could go to Tahoe with their dad. Anyways, we hosted it this year and I prepared every last bit of it- from scratch, by myself, with ONE exception, my mama made the cranberry fluff salad.
Not to toot my own horn, but I'm pretty organized and was able to manage time and such just fine so that it wasn't a big deal. I've also hosted a full Thanksgiving meal by myself more than once, so it wasn't my first rodeo. That's not to say it still wasn't a ton of work and I vow to only do it once a year, we will NOT be having a repeat at Christmas, I will be doing a prime rib, which is just as nice, but far less work honestly. I do enjoy doing it, and it is worth every last minute spent cooling just to have good times spent together around the table.
And ,just because I'm truly a creature of habit- these pictures are out of order. I get them off my phone and Louis' phone and then just upload them how they appear..sorry guys! :)
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| Gathering the goods: groceries, I got some new Thanksgiving linens: a fall apron, wishbone Thanksgiving hand towels, a new table cloth and 8 cloth napkins. Plus, who doesn't need a cornucopia of mini pumpkins at their Thanksgiving feast?!?! |
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| Making the turkey brine. This year I decided to do things a bit differently, and it resulted in a pretty darn good turkey if I do say so myself. I concocted my own brine recipe using bits and pieces of three I found online. Then I combined that with cooking methods/from another three websites and voila- it was a delicious bird! |
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| some of the warm dishes: turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, stuffing or dressing |
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| some of the cold dishes: homemade cranberry sauce, cranberry fluff salad, ambrosia, creamsicle salad, double layer knox blox and deviled eggs |
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| more warm dishes: sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole and of course homemade potato rolls. |
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| let the feast begin! |
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| I did decide on scaling back this year on my pies. I normally make 6 different pies, but this year I only made 3, well 4 technically, since each of those pumpkin pies are different recipes. We had a pumpkin pie showdown this year. And of course- the mud. Mississippi Mud that is. A family tradition for my entire life, this 4 layered ice box type dessert with chocolate pudding, a walnut shortbread crust, creamy sweet cream cheese filling- is a hit to EVERYONE who tries it. Bella doesn't like pie (whaaat?!?!?) so it is now more than ever a necessity on our holiday table, so she can have dessert along with everyone else. Anyways, there are two pumpkin pies, pecan pie, coconut cream pie up there. Homemade pie crust and homemade whipped cream. |
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| Im sorry I look like some weird robotic half bent freak in this picture. I dont know what I was doing. We were trying to get Zoe to notice the stuff that "rikki" brought and she was down there for like 20 minutes without noticing it and it was only when Louis finally took this picture, theres a mirror behind him and she noticed it all in the mirror |
