Thanksgiving

Hey All! Just wanted to give a summary post for Thanksgiving. I actually started doing this blog right around this time last year... soooo, this means this is the first holiday (with lots of cooking) that I get to post. 

All in all, my Thanksgiving was a success. The past two times (my first two times) of hosting Thanksgiving, I hadn't worked out the timing correctly, so this year I made appetizers for people to snack on before the actual Thanksgiving dinner. However, it seems that I was actually able to manage the timing and we got the food out of the oven at around 2 pm. (I am awesome).

I also wanted to thank certain people for being a huge help with getting everything together (and since it's Thanksgiving, I feel "thanking" is very appropriate):
My handsome fiance for helping cut all of the vegetables; my mother and brother for cleaning all the dishes; Shelby for helping me out with the turkey, the fried mozzarella with honey and figs, and a couple of other dishes; and my dad for helping out with random tasks (aka mashing potatoes with his über man strength and rolling the sweet potato balls around the marshamallows).

One last thing, there are a few other recipes that are ready to be posted, but I forgot to take pictures of them. Fortunately, I still have leftovers, so I will be able to post them tomorrow. Here are a couple of other random shots that were not posted:

 

(PS. Thank you to all my friends, family, family of friends, and friends of family following my blog. It makes me so happy that my recipes are being used.)