Happy Pre-Turkey Day!

Y'all know I am so excited about tomorrow I can hardly stand it!! Thanksgiving, the greatest of all the eating holidays and the one with the shortest visiting allotment. Unlike Christmas, where the danger of being trapped in the livingroom with your dullest of relatives lasts at least 2 whole days, Thanksgiving is specifically designed to fit the between the hours of 2 and 7. Four of those hours will be filled with a football game because regardless of how little you care about sports the rest of the year, when faced with grunting or conversation, you'll be shouting at the TV in no time...especially the Y-chromosomes. The women, of course, will be discussing the essentials of gravy-making in the kitchen, where we belong apparently(please read with sarcasm, as you know I'd never subjugate woman-kind like that).

Fortunately, I quite like my family, and with the addition of alcohol which I described for you in detail last year, I can withstand the kitchen, the football game and even the dish washing without the slightest twinge of relative stress...relatively.

So now I've arrived at the yearly struggle that precedes any holiday gathering...what to bake. My mother-in-law (can you believe I even have one of those!), she insists upon trifle for her Thanksgiving dessert, which I find both delicious and odd. I mean, everybody knows Thanksgiving was made for pumpkin pie. Sweetpotato says the first Thanksgiving probably did have trifle, seeing as the settlers were English and all, but y'all know the Indians had the pumpkins and even they knew not to let the Brits do the cooking!! I'm actually considering pecan pie (pronounced pee-can, not pi-cahn, and that's not Southern, it's Webster's) but y'all know I don't really prefer nuts in food where a perfectly good chocolate chip could be hiding, but we'll see. If anyone needs me I'll be browsing recipes online for the remainder of the day.

Happy Thanksgiving...pass the cocktails and carbohydrates!!!