Let the Cooking Begin!

     Tonight, for me, is the official start to the culinary highlight of the year,  my favorite holiday Thanksgiving!  Yahoo!!  The magazines and websites have been thoroughly searched for gastronomic nirvana.  Tastes that will tickle the palate and boggle the senses!  My plan is to enjoy the next few days, and diet be damned!  Heck, I'll run it all off shopping on Friday anyway!  Plus, my daughter and a friend of ours are all going to the traditional "Family & Friends" martial arts class on Thursday morning.  My plan there is to get through the class as best I can without causing any harm to myself.  Afterall, I will be the one hoisting the turkey out of the oven in the afternoon.
     The cooking...my favorite part, begins tonight.  I'll be making an applesauce cake and whole cranberry sauce tonight, stuffing and pumpkin upside down cake tomorrow night and also the sweet potatoes.  That just leaves the turkey, green bean casserole and Asagio mashed potatoes on Thursday.  We are on the fence about rolls, they are easy to whip up.  I've got a couple of other goodies planed, just for fun.  No pies this year though.  I might whip up a sweet potato pie over the weekend.  I have a killer recipe for that from a dear dear friend at work.  She has sworn me to secrecy about that, and I feel very special that she shared it with me.  Miss Vicki, my lips are sealed!!
     Do you have any favorite things that are always a part of your Thanksgiving celebration?  Something that you always have to have?  I always have to have the sweet potatoes with marshmallows, Kaysie has to have green bean casserole.  The day after is the ultimate turkey sandwhich!  Turkey breast, with stuffing, cranberry sauce, mayo on good bread - dark brown bread is my favorite - Kaysie likes potato bread.  Then Saturday is soup day - you guessed it Turkey Noodle!  This is when we might have pie, but I think we'll be good with Applesauce cake and pumpkin upside down cake.  
     I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday.  Be grateful for all of the little things, and enjoy family and friends.  Cheers!