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A Simple Project and a Healthy Thanksgiving Menu
We’re celebrating Thanksgiving early. As in 2 days from now. It’s going to be a small affair, (just my little family) but we’re going to make some memories anyways! I’ve got plans to make this table runner that Frantically Simple made for her own family… And of course, I always get excited about the food. This year I’m going to do something different. I’m going to make the majority of the meal using recipes from the book Nourishing Traditions. Here’s the menu plan presently… (NT stands for Nourishing Traditions) Turkey Onion Cranberry Compote – NT pg.392 (this is to replace the sugary cranberry relish I normally make and love!) Mashed…
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Thanksgiving Name Cards
For most of my dinner gatherings I use name cards. They’re fun to make and it just seems to add a fun touch, in my opinion. When using name cards, I try to seat people with someone that I think they’ll be comfortable with. Here are a few ideas I’ve found for Thanksgiving. Martha Stewart has this Mayflower centerpiece. Unless you enlarge it, the template is not big enough for a centerpiece. It also is much too time consuming and complicated. Have you ever heard of veneer for a craft project? I wouldn’t even know where to find it. For my Mayflower I used construction paper (after my first failed attempt using Martha’s…
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Thanksgiving Tablescapes Inspiration
I’ll be cooking away the next few days since the hubby and boys will be going on their last hunt of the year. I think we’ll be well stocked for the coming year. We already have 2 elk that’s ready to be picked up at the butcher and now we may have another one? This hunt is going to be all about horns so they will spending long days in the woods looking for that monster bull. I have to come up with 7 suppers that are easy for them to put together heat up. Lucky for them they will have my middle son, Zachary along to be camp chef. The rest…
