Confession: growing up, my family would go OUT to dinner on Thanksgiving. We would go to a very nice restaurant about 25 miles from our house and, surprisingly, we weren’t the only family to take the easy way out. I was and still am the only carnivore in the family and never had a real turkey dinner until…. last year. In Paris, no less. I certainly never felt the effects of tryptophan quite like this before! The spread was unbelievable for Thanksgiving dinner and you better believe I ate until I couldn’t even sit or stand comfortably. Probably not the wisest eating strategy but I’m not going to pretend to possess self-control. Day one with Chloe, Amber & friends had me laughing as much as I was stuffing!
The tableGrandma Casey’s Spinach casserole… MUST get my hands on this “secret” recipe
Heaven on a plate aka the source of my intense lethargy…Pecan pie. Goodness #1
Goodness #2: who needs pumpkin pie when you can pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting?
For Thanksgiving dinner part 2, I prepared a pumpkin pie with a cream cheese layer and almondy topping. It’s a modified version of this drool-worthy pie from Bakerella.
Pumpkin purée from Picard (great…
