WHY DO I TRY?!
Thanksgiving is a pretty simple affair for our family. There are only three of us here in Ohio, with the rest of our clan on the west coast. Our parents are older and don’t want or enjoy traveling to cold destinations and we generally visit them in the summer rather than winter.
The good news is, that cooking for the holidays only has to be as complicated as I make it. After hearing from my daughter this weekend, apparently I’m working too hard. I was discussing what I planned to make for our holiday meal. I mentioned cranberry sauce and she asked if we could have “the special kind Grandma makes that tastes like jello.”
Ummmm… could that be the kind that comes out of a can and needs to be sliced? Gee. And to think I was going to go through all that trouble of making it fresh!
November 26th, 2008 at 11:55 am
for our family, all us siblings are grown adults, so my Mother makes the main dish (turkey) plus a few other dishes that aren’t covered by us, but each of us is assigned to one or two dish(es)…either a side dish or dessert. It helps takes the burden of all the cooking and the burden of the expense of Thanksgiving dinner off our mother. We are each happy to bring a dish! We do this with our once a month family dinners as well.