The Thanksgiving Menu

Does this sound like too much food and work for 6 to 8 people? No. I didn't think so either...

Traditional Turkey w/ Grandma Gerty's Cornbread Stuffing
Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Giblet Gravy
Penny's Cranberry Relish
Deviled Eggs
Green Bean Casserole
Darlene's Homemade Yeast Rolls
Collins' Family Sweet Potatoes
Ham with Pineapple Glaze
Chocolate Cream Pie (for the hubby)
Pumpkin Pie with Caramel Whip Cream (for everyone else)

*Two of the recipes I'll be making are already available on Fat Girl Eats. I'll add the links to the others as I get them out to get ready for the holiday.

FatGirlEats Links

It has been brought to my attention that the sidebar link for Fat Girl Eats wasn't working this week. It is now. There are new recipes up too. Go check it out!!

Who's your favorite FatGirl?

When was the last time you clicked on FatGirlEats? There are lots of new and interesting things happening over there like family thanksgiving recipes and good old fashioned yummy fatgirl favorites. Click and check it out!

Menu Plan Monday

~Monday~

Fiesta Taco Soup or Stuffed Bell Peppers

~Tuesday~

Chicken & Mushroom Casserole

~Wednesday~

Pasta Carbonara (probably spaghetti)

~Thursday~

BLT Quesadillas with Guacamole

~Friday~

Chuck Roast with Red Potatoes and Carrots

~Saturday~

Italian Sausage and Balsamic Farfalle

~Sunday~

Chicken & Cilantro Soup

Go Eat

Today at Fat Girl Eats there is the recipe for the goodness that is above this sentence in a wonderful picture. Go there... eat things... leave comments.

This week on FatGirl Eats

This week on FatGirlEats we've had recipes for the Aunt Lois' Angel Food Cake (shown above), Barefoot Contessa Turkey Meatloaf, Just for Katie- Brocolli Cheese Soup, Pumpkin Fudge, Pork Chops with Apples and Onions, and Stuffed Bell Peppers...

Go check it out

FatGirlEats Recipes

Today at FatGirlEats I have the recipes up for Chocolate Chip Banana Pancakes and Muddy Buddy Mix.

Hey Look It's Food

Over at Fat Girl Eats there have been several posts this month including, Grilled Holiday Sandwich, Farmer's Scramble, Bacon Wrapped Stuffed Mushrooms, Tamale Pie, Quickie Alfredo Sauce and much much more.

So remember to hop over and check it out!

Great Grandpa Kenneth Turns 80

Tonight we'll be at a party for this Great Grandpa's 80th Birthday. This picture was taken during our visit with him yesterday. They were both rather smitten with each other.

An 80th Birthday Party in these parts means a 100 person outside BBQ in 97 degree heat and little shade and an open bar. We won't be drinking though being as we've decided to take the LaylaBug with us so everyone can see her. I'll post more pictures from the party tomorrow.

There is my super secret (not anymore) Shrimp Cocktail Sauce Recipe up over at Fat Girl Eats to keep everyone busy while we're out at the BBQ.

Butter Pie Crust

The recipe for my holiday butter pie crust is now available at Fat Girl Eats. I figure now that the central valley is well into the throws of summer you can put it to use with some fresh fruit pies.

7 Random Facts MIME

I got tagged for another MIME in email and as usual I'm posting it here for people to do if they would like as a cheap thrill writing prompt. Here are the 7 random things about me... as the instructions I was given in email these 7 wonderful things are all things still "CURRENT" and not about my past. At least not directly about my past. (evil grin)

1. I have been reading the Chowhound site for ages and looking at all the lovely posts and thinking to myself "Why doesn't any ever write about the food here in the Central Valley?" I mean afterall that is where most of the produce comes from. So today I got up the nerve to make my own new login. You see I had a log in a few years back... you know back in my bitter past... and it was time to start anew. While I was at it I created a food blog because I had one of those long ago when I was on Chowhounds and it seemed only right to jump in with both feet if I was really going to jump back in.

2. I'm currently looking for a job in that swiss cheese classifieds sort of way. I have never in my life seen so many crappy jobs posted while all the upper Administrative Management positions are missing. I mean really... a super walmart and a super target opening within 15 minutes of home in each direction. Come on people?

3. In the morning I sometimes pretend to be asleep so I can watch what my daughter does when she's left to her own devices and thinks that no one is watching her. As it appears, my daughter is very much like me and after a few minutes of trying to get her hands on the things she knows she's not supposed to she gets bored with the freedom of being alone and starts to crave company. Usually this means poking either myself or her father until one of us wakes up to play with her. She greets us with a big "hi" and lately with a wave that she taught herself to do. It's the best part of waking up... I don't care what Folgers says.

4. Despite thinking I should lose weight on Saturday morning I sent my husband for some doughnuts to put an end to a craving I had been having since watching Donut Paradise on the Travel Channel the night before. Then I ate 4 in one day.

5. My first mother's day wasn't anything like I imagined my first mother's day to be. So when it was over and I was in bed I laid there for awhile thinking of how I hoped it would be next year before common sense caught up with me and I decided being a Mom was more important than Mother's Day and that thinking about Mother's Day in advance just makes you end up in bed at the end of another Mother's Day pondering the same question.

6. This weekend I am going to the first of many food festivals this food festival season. This weekend is both the Hughson Fruit & Nut Festival and the Oakdale Chocolate Festival (which I find funny being as the Hershey's Chocolate Factory in Oakdale closed down) but I forgive them because they are having a $5.00 chocolate event that I can go to with family and friends. I am looking forward to teaching my daughter about cheap, fun, community based events like my parents taught me.

7. I have become addicted to the travel channel, showing particularly high interest to shows about food. (suprise suprise) Heck I'll even watch Anthony Bourdain or whatever the heck his name is.

Tag you're all it.

Fat Girl Eats

I read several recipe blogs and I read cook books like novels and for the last couple years I've been experimenting with tastes of my own. For that reason I've started another little blog called Fat Girl Eats where you can get a look at the sort of things we're trying out at our house.

It'll keep all the "foodie" talk off this blog and put it someplace where only the people interested in it can go to look for it. My first food post will go up this afternoon/evening depending on whether or not my child ever really takes a nap.