and a Happy Thanksgiving to you as well.....

ok, so....I am cooking dinner at home this year.....Our youngest works til 3:30 at the Kroger and so we will plan on eating at 4:30-ish....I opted to buy two turkey breats rather than a whole turkey, mostly to save myself the days of dealing with the bones....yeah, yeah, yeah....one can make soup out of them, but that still leaves the odious chore of picking through the bones to get the meat off before or after stewing those bones for the broth.....We will be nine at supper, with our daughter's Mimi coming, our children, the daughter-in-law to be and her mother...we will be meeting the mother-in-law to be for the first time at this gathering....hopefully the avoidance of politics will be enough to keep the conversation smooth rather than awkward...I have already made the stuffing and rice-stuffed onions, and prepped the green beans, the Brussels sprouts, and the roasted sweet potatoes that will go into the sweet potato apple pear salad...I am getting ready to peel the potatoes which I will attept to cook slowly in the crockpot this year.....that pretty much leaves the turkey breasts to season and roast.....mostly I will spend the day setting the table and straightening up the house......and maybe even sweeping the porch, though at 15 degrees outside maybe not.......but I digress from those roasted onion hlaves stuffed with rice pilaf....I already regret tossing in some sun-dried tomatoes to the chopped celery, shredded carrots, and chopped onion......and I already regret topping them with bread crumbs.....what was I thinking?