This is "The List". I'm crossing things off the list one at a time. (Yes, Thursday has "take a shower" on the to-do's! If I don't block off time visually, I'll get flustered and end up in the shower when guests are arriving!) I started "x-ing" last night. I didn't want to make "real food" last ...
To brine or not to brine, that is the question.
I'm kind of stumped with this one. Our family prefers the standard turkey. No lemon rosemary stuffed in the cavity, no frills, just cook ol' roasted turkey. I've been reading eveywhere that brining is the way to go, my mom says throw it in the pan and baste it every few hours, a few ladies I ...
TICK TOCK
The clock is counting down! There are 4 days to go. I'm freaking out excited about hosting Thanksgiving for the first time! The menu is set. It's going to be a full blown feast. To feel more at ease about all of this, I am doing my food shopping tonight. I picked up a few things last week. ...
Chicken Tortilla Soup!!
Everytime my girlfriends and I would make a trip to the mall, there was no question we were stopping at California Pizza Kitchen. Their pizza was meh, just okay, but their chicken tortilla soup was ridiculous! The only complaint was that it always repeated on us (gross). That soup tradition stopped ...
Chocolate Peanut Butter Protein Muffins!
Well, my new friend Lindsay over at CotterCrunch has these gooey filled chocolate muffins as her blog background. After drooling noticing how great these looked, I had to ask her for the recipe. I tweeked it a bit because I didn't have the orange ingredient, or almond butter. I used natural peanut ...
