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Thanksgiving will be with Jane this year, hyounpark and I hosting again. Definitely feeling back in my stride again, I do love hosting Thanksgiving, even if for a relatively small crowd :)

And we got a good start on things today so tomorrow shouldn't be too harried. The turkey breast is brining, the onion confit for the stuffing is cooling, braised greens and mashed potatoes are tucked away for tomorrow. Still on the docket for tomorrow: the stuffing, persimmon quickbread, cranberry-pear chutney, cider-sage gravy, honeynut squash kaddo, buttermilk biscuits, quinoa cornbread, macapuno ambrosia, and cranberry-ginger upside-down cake. And the 🦃 itself. And ribeye steaks. And leftovers for dayyyys. Happy Thanksgiving!

We've made persimmon quickbread and a cheese plate to tide us over until Jane can get here after she had to work this morning. I'm especially proud of the cheese plate: comice pears from the farmers' market on a cheese plate with Cricket Creek's Sophelise and Ruggles Hill Ellie's Cloudy Down - an all-Massachusetts cheese plate! Then we'll move on to ...

* Roasted turkey breast with cider-sage gravy (three of us are not going to finish a whole turkey, this is honestly more to ensure we have leftovers)
* Grilled ribeye steaks
* Garlic mashed potatoes
* Honeynut squash kaddo bourani (so much easier than the pumpkin, heh)
* Coconut-braised kale with bacon (couldn't find collards, so subbed with dinosaur kale)
* Sourdough stuffing with onion confit
* Cranberry asian pear chutney
* Quinoa skillet cornbread
* Buttermilk biscuits
* Queso rebozado con miel - one of my favorite tapas at Dali. Deep-fried goat cheese balls with honey! And we have fancy truffle honey to try with them :)
* Macapuno ambrosia for dessert (we don't have all the fruits but we do have a jar of macapuno)
* Sweet tea apple cider punch
* a local maple icewine!

7/30/24: apparently this was also the year we managed to accidentally set the veggie skewers on fire! Pretty sure there's an Instagram post for this; I'll link it when I find it. I was reminded by Facebook that today is the anniversary of the time I accidentally set the lawnmower on fire, and then when I looked through my Dreamwidth archives, I was also reminded about the time I accidentally set my potholder on fire. Three times is enough of a trend for me to apply a label to these incidents "things i have set on fire," at least until I think of a more amusing tagline, hahahaha :D

Went to Knoxville again for Thanksgiving this year! We debated doing a bacon-wrapped turkey, as most of us think turkey is overrated, but Jane really wanted an actual turkey, so we went the classic route.

- roast turkey
- stuffing
- cranberry asian pear chutney
- garlic mashed potatoes
- cider roasted veggies
- quinoa skillet cornbread, yes, with the cream
- challah
- a salad that most of us ignored, heh

And then we came home and Deb Perelman was speaking at the Coolidge Theatre! She is sweet and extroverted and a total conversationalist and she sounds *exactly* like her blog. I didn't leave the Booksmith until 10 pm last night because she was having these conversations with *everyone* in her signing line, but it was still a ton of fun.