This year was my daughter's first Thanksgiving in her new (to her) home. Early this past Summer she and her family bought and moved into a two bedroom mobile home (a trailer to most of us)
As she's scheduled to work tomorrow (the actual holiday) we opted to celebrate today instead. As usual, it was a group thing with different family members bringing different parts of the meal. I was assigned to make the cornbread dressing (stuffing to my Northern friends) and to bring collard greens. Barbara was assigned the task of making the green bean casserole, Stephen had the honor of smoking the turkey, baking the ham, and making the cranberry sauce. Nikole, my daughter, made the pies (one was a straightforward sweet potato pie and the other was a sweet potato-pecan pie) and the deviled eggs.
I also brought an additional surprise of about two pounds of boiled shrimp tails left over from a shrimp boil Barbara and I attended yesterday.
As usual, everything had to be gluten free to accommodate Nikole's Celiac Disease.
Here's a few pix of the spread and the relaxation afterwards:
Stephen in the foreground with Barbara and me seated in the background and James in between before the feast
Carson waiting (none too patiently, LOL) for food
James working on a drumstick as the rest of us try to maintain some decorum. LOL
As she's scheduled to work tomorrow (the actual holiday) we opted to celebrate today instead. As usual, it was a group thing with different family members bringing different parts of the meal. I was assigned to make the cornbread dressing (stuffing to my Northern friends) and to bring collard greens. Barbara was assigned the task of making the green bean casserole, Stephen had the honor of smoking the turkey, baking the ham, and making the cranberry sauce. Nikole, my daughter, made the pies (one was a straightforward sweet potato pie and the other was a sweet potato-pecan pie) and the deviled eggs.
I also brought an additional surprise of about two pounds of boiled shrimp tails left over from a shrimp boil Barbara and I attended yesterday.
As usual, everything had to be gluten free to accommodate Nikole's Celiac Disease.
Here's a few pix of the spread and the relaxation afterwards:
Stephen in the foreground with Barbara and me seated in the background and James in between before the feast
Carson waiting (none too patiently, LOL) for food
James working on a drumstick as the rest of us try to maintain some decorum. LOL
