Mealtime Memories
Thanksgiving Meal Prep: Everything from potatoes and rolls, down to delicious pies.
I don’t know about you, but my meal planning starts months before Thanksgiving day. Even though I have favorite recipes, I’m always looking for the very best! I check cookbooks, Pinterest and ask friends and family what their go to recipes are. Often I do trial runs just to make sure the recipes are keepers.
Cinnamon Crumb Apple Pie: savory cinnamon and sugar covered apples in a crisp crust.
Apple pies are my absolute favorite fruit filled pie! There is something so delicious about eating a warm apple pie topped with vanilla ice cream. It must have something to do with childhood memories of eating them, but I can never turn it down!
Tollhouse Pie: mixing the sweetness of a chocolate chip cookie and placing it in a pie crust.
Traditionally Thanksgiving pies come in pumpkin, fruit or cream. This pie will take you out of your comfort zone and into a new area of pleasure. Tollhouse pie is one of our family favorites. It mixes the sweetness of a chocolate chip cookie and places it in a pie crust.
For me, nothing says Thanksgiving more than mashed potatoes! I remember one year my grandma was assigned to make potatoes. She used dehydrated potatoes, thinking no one would notice the difference. Boy was she wrong! She was banished from ever making potatoes again for Thanksgiving. I get it, it is laborious and requires a time and dirties lots of dishes, but totally a must for Thanksgiving!
This week flew by! I feel like pregnancy sometimes takes a toll on me. I hate doing most things like cooking, cleaning or leaving the house. I’ve decided though that this time around it won’t get to me! Thankfully the blog is keeping me cooking and my kids are pushing me out of the house. Life can get rough as we’ve all seen this week, but sometimes we just have to get up and get to work! This week I finally started to feel better and did just that and I feel a thousand times better. [Read more…]