Happy Thanksgiving!

Enjoying the cooking part of Thanksgiving.

 

From our home to yours, our very best wishes for a wonderful Thanksgiving.

 

Bon Appetit!

 

 

 

 

 

Our Culinary Thanksgiving

Our kitchen blackboard shows our daily dinner menus.
I like to add a quote at the bottom of the board.

To say that our family loves food would be an understatement. So when a special occasion like Thanksgiving comes around it is a major project of entertainment and culinary delight for all. It all begins with the menu selection. Then come days of what I like to call hunting and gathering, a.k.a. food shopping. And finally the fun begins with the preparation. Both my husband and I enjoy cooking so we make an excellent team in the kitchen. Our children also participate in the cooking.

Let the games begin!

Maya Supervising

And after a full day of culinary orchestration comes the moment when all of the dishes are completed and arranged for serving. We gather around with anticipation and excitement waiting to serve and savor our delicious Thanksgiving meal.

I hope you and your families enjoyed your Thanksgiving traditions and celebrations as much as we enjoyed ours. And of course, what makes these celebrations special is being able to share them with our loved ones. “Happy Thanksgiving”

I found a wonderful Oprah Winfrey quote that I would like to share with you:

Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.

Then after all the fun comes even more fun, the cleanup!

A Winter Village

This year I got inspired to set up my holiday winter village in early November. This ritual begins the holiday season for me. As I write this, I’m looking at the snow coming down. Although we are only expecting two to four inches of snow, it is enough to turn the outside into a real winter village.Thanksgiving is “beginning to look a lot like Christmas”.

My Winter Village 2014

Snowing the day before Thanksgiving 2014
A Real Winter Village