In which I eat all the cookies
I'll be the first to admit, things have been a little heavy around here lately. Maybe it's just preparation for the changing of the seasons, sloughing off that sweaty summer skin and wriggling into the woolly fall one. There are closets to clean out, clothes to sort through, linens to wash and inventory to be taken for the Most Epic Feast of the Year.
That's right, yours truly is already planning for Thanksgiving. Told you that we're going to get fat fat fat this fall. I've started brainstorming what to bake, cook, roast and I've tested out some recipes (nothing too successful). Almost more importantly, I've started visualizing how we're going to set the table. I'm thinking a bolder colour this year, something that'll really pop and also be fun and exciting for the guests. So if you have any table setting suggestions or any incredibly tasty family recipes that you'd like to throw my way, I'll be anxiously waiting here, eating a box of ginger snaps. What? I'm just following the instructions.
That's right, yours truly is already planning for Thanksgiving. Told you that we're going to get fat fat fat this fall. I've started brainstorming what to bake, cook, roast and I've tested out some recipes (nothing too successful). Almost more importantly, I've started visualizing how we're going to set the table. I'm thinking a bolder colour this year, something that'll really pop and also be fun and exciting for the guests. So if you have any table setting suggestions or any incredibly tasty family recipes that you'd like to throw my way, I'll be anxiously waiting here, eating a box of ginger snaps. What? I'm just following the instructions.
Planning Thanksgiving already! Wow! You must love to cook big feasts! Can't wait to see what you make! I woulda ate all the cookies too, even if the package didn't tell me to.
ReplyDeleteit has been heavy these days - must be changing to fall, getting colder, the excitement of summer is gone :( so sad!
ReplyDeleteMmm...ginger snaps. How does spice-rubbed cornish hens with a cranberry-date chutney sound? IT's one of my favorite things to do around the holiday season. Here's the recipe: http://jadekeller.com/2009/12/spice-rubbed-cornish-hens-with-cranberry-date-chutney/
ReplyDeleteAlso, if you like to get your drink on, try this eggnog. Just...try it at home, or get a designated driver. http://jadekeller.com/2009/12/grandpappys-damn-good-eggnog/
i love those instructions! pops of color sound nice. i can't wait to pick out recipes for thanksgiving dinner as well. i think we'll just spend it just the three of us in our little home. i do miss those big thanksgiving dinners though~
ReplyDeleteHa, that is my kind of packaging!
ReplyDeleteha! that's great packaging. so that fennel i made a few weeks ago was so good. crazy good. best thing i made all year good. i am for sure putting it on my thanksgiving menu. plus it doesn't have any sugar or gluten (i can't remember what your sis was staying away from) but it's pretty simple with only about 4 ingredients including the fennel.
ReplyDeleteps last night while i was kind of watching tv . . . what was i watching? i don't remember, i don't think i really was. anyhoo, it was on nbc and there was a christmas shopping commercial on! can you believe it? and of course there is already a small little aisle of christmas lights at my local one-stop-shopping store, it will grow and spread until it takes over. rightfully so of course.
Love those instructions! They make you feel a lot better about eating a bunch of cookies!
ReplyDeleteWell, the instructions DID say eat the whole tub for freshness, right?
ReplyDeleteAnd OMG! I've been obsessing over Halloween that I've completely bypassed Thanksgiving....eeeeeek!
Around here, we have Sweetzel's Spice Wafers, a Philadelphia original in a blindingly bright orange and black box. No one really knows them by brand name, just box color. Anyway. Ginger snaps never tasted so good. I squealed like a kid on Christmas morning when I walked into the grocery store last week and they were on prominent display with all the other fall favorites. Restraint has been tough. xo
ReplyDeleteI can't believe you're already planning for Thanksgiving! I've barely wrapped my head around the fact that October is next week. Time to break out the Halloween decorations!
ReplyDeleteno one needs to tell me to do this, I do it all the time haha!!
ReplyDeleteThose are the kind of directions I can really get in to...eat the WHOLE box at once!! :-) Didn't you host Thanksgiving last year? I'm having a flashback from your blog last year, and I think I remember you decorating for it. I could be totally wrong, though.
ReplyDeleteOh I'm so excited for Thanksgiving too. I love the holidays! And those interactions are ones that I can really get behind, haha. Although I usually finish whole tubs of cookies without being prompted to, haha.
ReplyDeletexx.
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Thanksgiving is my all-time favorite holiday! I say you can plan for it any time of year. As for that cookie packaging, it's always awkward when you've eaten a serving size and what's left in the package doesn't quite make a full serving for the next time. What do you do? Eat it all, is the answer.
ReplyDeleteIt's wonderful you're excited about and planning for Thanksgiving! Whatever you decide on, your guests will be in for a treat.
ReplyDeleteI think we need to try something different this year to jazz up the standard menu. Maybe pumpkin butter will be part of that.
I can't believe one of your commenters mentioned Cornish hens and egg nog in a single comment!
Ahahaha! I love that label. Yes, I've started in as well . . . I may have gotten a tad too excited when I saw 'Pumpkin eggnog lattes' on the menu at work. And the night before I had my first slice of pumpkin pie (with fresh whipped ginger cream, of course).
ReplyDeleteAlso, spiced rubbed cornish hens sound so very festive! It's usually a smaller gathering here, so that might be perfect!