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Showing off my T-day dinner because it was awesome

Am I going to brag about about Thanksgiving dinner?

YES.

Why? Because it was awesome and it took me three hours and I burned my hand AND cut my finger in the process.

What do we have here?

Chicken — my family is too small to cook a turkey. I roasted it with lemon, thyme and garlic stuffed inside the bird and it was delicious.

Sweet potatoes — scalloped (thinly sliced) with layers of apples and pears, with brown sugar and sunflower seeds. Yum.

Stuffing — a mixture of Stove Top sage recipe and fresh baked and crumbled Jiffy sweet corn bread. Sauteeed onions and celery was added with chicken broth poured over the top before cooking it about 30-45 minutes or until the edges started getting crispy.

Green beans — fresh. Sauteed. With bacon, which was cooked until crisp before adding the beans. Toward the end of the sautéing I added a little dash of balsamic vinegar, lemon, olive oil, salt, pepper and chicken broth.

Broccoli salad — Main ingredient is chopped broccoli. Add to that a small amount of cucumber, more bacon, sunflower seeds, diced red peppers, dried cranberries, and a lemon-mayo-balsamic-dijon-type dressing that I concocted and stirred in, making it all cohesive. This dish is, hands down, one of my favorite things ever, and so many things can be substituted, as long as there is broccoli, bacon, some type of dried fruit, some kind of nut (pecans are good to use) and a couple other dice-able raw veggies and a vinaigrette, either sweet-ish or tangy.

Mashed potatoes — While the potatoes were boiling I threw in some fresh carrots and then I mashed them all up together with a little bit of sweet cream butter, salt and some parmesan cheese.

Gravy — from the lemon-y thyme-y juice from the chicken, stirred in about half a packet of instant chicken gravy mix and a splash of cranberry juice to sweeten it up a bit and give it a tangy flavor.

I put a spoonful of cranberry sauce on the stuffing. I don’t even like cranberry sauce, but I felt like I should have it, even though I didn’t even have turkey. And it was well-recieved.

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