Go maple pecan! I think this holiday needs far more maple desserts!

My alarm clock's OS was updated a week or so ago, and now I have a skip/unskip button that lets me skip the next scheduled alarm so I don't need to actually turn it off and risk forgetting to turn it back on.

Yay, Chumby! I luv you!

It's cool to see all these posts updating us on T-day kitchen preparations. Americans (me included) so often go for fast food or just easy-to-make stuff. It's neat to see everyone getting in the kitchen at the same time and making a several course meal from scratch.

I love the annual Tday prep-and-post!!

It makes all the work a little more fun, and when you're scrubbing/baking/brilloing/cussing at running out of milk, you have someone besides the cats to yell to.

We just had a visit with Jon B. and FAQ!Wife. Much fun. I showed them lots of groovy French sixties pop, and they treated us to Asian noodles from the Citrus Club. Then I made a new cocktail and named it after FAQ!Wife, and fed them my first pie. (Which was good.)

Now everybody's kind of crashing.

I did break out the new mandoline to thin slice up the potatoes for the Pommes Pommes Savoyard (potatoes and apples, plus melty cheese and garlic and stuff).

Tomorrow equals: much cooking. I think I'll make a little onion tart thingie to put into the puff pastry shells.

We'll see if I'm really that ambitious.

Made cranberry sauce. It is more orange-y than I think I like. I do have more cranberries, so I might make another attempt tomorrow.

We watched Pangs while working in the kitchen. Ritual sacrifice with pie, indeed.

Got most of the prep work done for the ginger cookies, but I had run out of steam and will pop those in the oven in the morning. We aren't due at KCD's until 1 or 2, so plenty of time to play in the kitchen.

If you want to try a quick one, Suzi, I usually go with the ocean spray bag recipe but I halve the sugar and add orange zest.

I've done 2 songs for the bonus EP I'm trying to put together. I can't play any instruments very well anymore but I don't want the whole thing to sound samey-samey because of that. So I am toying with what I need to back this particular song. Took out my kalimba (mbira or thumb piano) and messed with it for the first time in a couple decades. Beautiful instrument. Wish I could play it better. Being stuck with only the key of G kinda sucks, though.

Thanks Trudy, I'll look at that. Might do something simple and mix in some of what I made today.

I have had the traditional night-before-Turkey pasta dinner, with some good wine and great bread. And I have made a maple-walnut and a pumpkin pie. And the turkey is in the brine. Luckily it's cold here tonight because the cooler went missing and we're putting the turkey on the porch in an old laundry bucket.

And I have caught up with The Good Wife and OMG so good. Hmm, do we discuss that in Procedurals?