I hope everyone had a lovely day yesterday. I love my traditional turkey dinner. Old-fashioned bread stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, fresh cranberry-orange sauce, pumpkin and pecan pies. i know some folks like to try new recipes, but for me, once a year, i like the old ones. I must confess that I did almost succumb to Ina Garten’s chocolate bourbon pecan pie recipe though. I will have to try that sometime. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.

Theresa, thank you for always remembering us on the US Thanksgiving. I hope your day last month was special too. I wish ours was in October, putting a little more space between this and the Christmas holiday. Oh, well. Happy Thanksgiving to you all from Minnesota.

I love you guys too. :) plllog, about the stupid places that boxes are left after delivery: I just got a large heavy box delivered directly in front of my storm door. Do you know how hard it is to open a storm door that's being blocked by a huge heavy box? Thankfully that's only the third time it's been done to me. lol! neely, your plated meal is gorgeous! I only thought to take one photo of any of the food I made. The obligatory dinner rolls that are actually destined as leftover turkey sandwiches. :) Annie, I'm glad to hear that all is well there and your dinner with Elery sounds lovely. I can't even remember the last time I enjoyed a meal with an atmosphere like that............... agmss, it sounds like your nephew is a cooking phenom! That's a shame about the make-ahead blueberries. I had a similar disaster once when I attempted a make-ahead cheesey-creamy topping for an onion flambe. :p My butter/herb turkey breast was wonderful!!! The only drawback was a lack of drippings to make good gravy for my BF.... had to use the stuff that came in a package with the turkey.

Happy Thanksgiving to my neighbours. Hope you all have a wonderful meal and time with loved ones.