I decided at the last minute to make corn bread casserole.
Does anyone make theirs different? This seems pretty basic. Do you add cheese?
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We are ready for some Thanksgiving football. I’m at my daughter and SIL’s house (Lions fans) with my daughter (Packers fan) and her husband (Giants fan; sorry Tom, once again in last place). We have snacks, we have thanksgiving sides (but haven’t decided on the meat yet, just that we don’t want turkey).
I think it will be a fun day.
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Thanks to this thread I pulled out our slow cooker and tried mashed potatoes to keep heated in it when we go to our neighbors for Thanksgiving. I also ordered a slow cooker vegetarian cookbook to try out some recipes before our D and family visit.
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Yum. I’d add cheese!
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I’m at my DD1’s home. New home, she’s only been here about 3 weeks and she doesn’t have a job yet but will probably start. He husband is building a new HUGE facility for AI computers. Other SIL is not his boss but higher up in the company and doing the financial oversight for the project. Monday and Tues off they went to the site to work for the day. Very cute, sort of a ‘take your BIL to work day’ even though he’s the big boss (of the money for the project).
DD2 worked from home (here) and today her husband is also working from home. I have a new appreciation for how much work they do, how often they get calls from their offices for little things others can’t handle without them.
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The kind we have does NOT have cheese.
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I have made that corn casserole in years past and it is very good with or without cheese. We are cooking our turkey today - I made a herb butter for it and our house smells really good. Butter, garlic, rosemary, thyme. Cavity filled with more thyme, sage, lemon and onion. This is a new method from Downshiftology, so I hope it is good! We will be eating turkey for a while so it’s a good thing we both like it.
Decor for Thanksgiving - two Pilgrim candles I bought when I was a child at Woolworth’s, two harvest figures made from cornhusks and beanie baby turkey. All fun and sentimental.
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I think I’ve done everything I need to today.
- Sourdough Rosemary Garlic Focaccia is fermenting in the refrig overnight and I’ll finger it out and bake in the morning.
- Stuffing/Dressing is put together - I’ll add more chicken stock and bake tomorrow.
- Tomorrow I put together the pineapple casserole - only takes a few minutes.
- Pumpkin bread was made Tuesday! Just slice it tomorrow.
I bought some sinful new Costco bakery treat for breakfast - a sweet croissant/blueberry rolls and we will make some scrambled eggs and have fruit.
Tonight just heating up some dumplings for dinner with a salad!
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And jalapenos.
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I might try it. It’s not the main side dish anyway.
Broth for tomorrow’s gravy and stuffing is simmering on the stove. Added some moringa and Mexican oregano from the backyard, along with the other regular things (garlic, onion, celery, other spices, etc). Also making pasta salad at younger daughter’s request.
Forgot to get lingonberry sauce so my kids are headed to IKEA later to get a jar of it. 
And yeah, those are flowers in the pot. They’re from our moringa tree. The flowers, leaves, and young seed pods are edible. The flowers are spicy. 
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Bonne Maman fans I found a seasonal flavor at the grocery store this week that is DELICIOUS. Cranberry cherry. I’ll be serving it With my sourdough rosemary garlic focaccia.
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Oh that sounds yummy!!
Oh that sounds great!
#1D has caught something, so she and SIL won’t be at dinner tomorrow. The hazards of working in a hospital. H is stopping by their place to pick up the salmon SIL smoked.
#2Ds BF went to spend the weekend with his family and a niece has broke up with her long-term BF, so it will be a smaller crowd than usual for us. 
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I am attempting choux pastry tonight. Will fill the puffs with the homemade vanilla pudding I made yesterday, and drizzle with chocolate chip icing…cream puffs. Tomorrow morning I will bake a blueberry dessert- boil blueberries with lemon, sugar cornstarch, pour in casserole, top with puff pastry and sprinkle with brown sugar, the bake. Much better than pie in my opinion!
Will also cheat in making a green bean casserole..4 bags of TJ’s frozen green beans with mushroom sauce, sprinkled with their onion bits, bake in oven. luckily DS and DIL are making the turkey, the other in-laws the gravy and wine, and DD and other DIL rolls, potatoes, etc.
So glad not to be in charge of everything!!!
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Marinating half a turkey using the teriyaki marinade recipe from the local paper. This better be good! 
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To spatchcock or not spatchcock?
Let Leslie Jones help you handle Thanksgiving with the family.
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OK, my little survey - how do people peel their potatoes? I find it easier to use a knife, and I don’t mind that I “waste” some of the potatoes. My aunt (we’re going to her place tomorrow) is a “peeler” (the utensil) person.