The Monday After

The Monday after...

The Monday after Thanksgiving.

Let's just stay I am STILL at home. Going to work later.

I did too much yard work yesterday and I am STIFF. Like Frankenstein.

That's another post.

Anyway, I had a very fine Thanksgiving. Our family rarely gets together for anything. So we all just have to make due where we can.

My sister called the week before Thanksgiving, wanting to know what I was going to do for Thanksgiving. I try to make sure she is straight. If she is, I kick out to someone else's house. But she wanted us to spend Thanksgiving together.

"Well girl, what you want to eat? What you want me to cook?"
"It don't matter," she said. "You can make a ommelet if you want to."
I laugh hard. "Man, no! I'm cooking!"
"You can fix sandwiches if you want to."

LOL. She cracks me up.

But I know my sister: she loves Thanksgiving comfort food.

So I was going to COOK!

We had some good food.

I bought an organic chicken!



That sucker cost $13! I think that's more than a turkey costs, isn't it? Well it's the price you pay for a hormone and antibiotic free chicken, one that has been running free in the barnyard.



It cooked up well. She looks a little, uh... relaxed, spread out. LOL.

She was VERY fresh. (Or maybe it was just me, since I rarely eat meat. Who knows.)

We had collard greens!


I didn't cook those. My natural foods store has those on the hot bar a couple of times a week, and I LOVE them. Hot and spicy. Cooked just right. Kentucky loves those too.

Cornbread dressing!



That is my sister's favorite thanksgiving food. So I made a big pan. As you can see, a corner of it is gone. I had to check it out, make sure it was good. And it was!

Green bean casserole!


That's another one of my sister's favorites.

Those fried onion things... they only sell those during the holidays. Or maybe they sell them all the time and I just don't see them. Hmm.

Moving right along.

Oven roasted potatoes!

Uh those were for me. They went the fridge for eating later on in the weekend. Not a typical Thanksgiving dish for me.

Macaroni and cheese!


Nice and cheesy. With bed crumbs. Nice and brown and crunchy on top. YUM!

Haven't cooked that in a couple of years. Haven't cooked like this in a good 3 years.

My sister was in heaven!

She spent the night with me. We hung out and watched movies and regular TV all day.

I enjoyed that time with her. We talk on the phone, but we don't hang out as much as we could.

THAT has got to change, man!

My thanksgiving was GREAT!

And I hope yours was too!

So let's make it a great week... on purpose!