Just give me ALL the sides.
Growing up my mom made both Chinese dishes AND American dishes.
As I aged into adulthood, I totally took on the American way.
I got Grandpa Teenie's recipes and I haven't looked back since.
Steve gets a turkey each year from his work, so we gave that to Peck (Papa) so he could get that ready on Thanksgiving.
I'm preparing the following:
Mashed potatoes
Southern squash casserole
Green bean casserole (with fresh green beans and my own homemade mushroom cream sauce with bacon). Yeah. I said it. Bacon.
Grandpa Teenie's dressing (or stuffing, I call it stuffing, but the official recipe says dressing)
Don't forget that I'll be making a separate batch of each for the girls. I know they won't eat it, but I have to have it ready just in case! They'll eat the potatoes...and corn.
I'm excited that the girls are off of school and we can have a lazy morning. No alarms. No driving everyone everywhere.
Just jammies and coffee.
And TV.
Cooking channels all the way. I love watching holiday baking shows on repeat. The only thing that would make it better is if Steve was home.
One of my most cherished items from Steve's family. They gave me all the family recipes in one book for my birthday one year. I cried.
Grandpa's dressing recipe (with a few changes).
Prepping is part of the fun for me.
I made my own mushroom cream sauce
Shred your own cheese, people! It makes a difference!
Southern Squash Casserole
This is not in the recipe, but I added it
and two pans of stuffing!
I didn't get any pictures of the food before we dug in, since we were in the moment and just waiting for the turkey to finish cooking lol. All in all, it was delicious and we had a lovely time at Steve's parents house.
We spent pretty much the whole day there and relaxed. We chatted, the girls played, had a generally good time.
I also spent a good amount of time laughing at my husband and his dad.
His dad was a really good football and basketball player in his high school glory days. He makes sure to mention something about those days every time we visit. It's cute...but it gets old.
He apparently spent an entire day looking for a VHS video from 1968.
lol, like what the fuck is this?
Trying to explain this to the girls was hilarious.
And they actually found it. And yes, he made us watch it for about an hour. You could barely see it.
We called it an early night and headed home around 5. The girls played nicely while Steve and I chilled in a food coma before bedtime.
Tomorrow, we're actually going to go look at houses! It's a really short story, and I'll explain later. But some things happened over the weekend and it looks like we'll be looking at 3 houses tomorrow morning.
Stay tuned!
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