Happy Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.  Family, friends, cozy against the chill outside and wonderful food.  The smells alone make the holiday wonderful.  Here are some links to great websites that will help you with roasting the perfect turkey, great side dishes to make and how to make perfect pie crust.

Ina Garten takes the mystery out of roasting a turkey and her short video shows just how to prepare the turkey for perfect flavor.  Her roast turkeys and whole chickens are moist and tender and really easy to do.  Here is her link:

Ina Garten's perfect roast turkey

Calli Taylor shares great side dish ideas on her Make It Do blog.  The cranberry sauce is full of apple and pear chunks and flavored with orange zest.  It is yummy.  You can also get recipes for rolls, beans, broccoli casserole and much more.  You can find this recipes at this link:

Make It Do - Thanksgiving recipes

I know.  I know.  Pie crust always seems to be a mystery.  Here is a tutorial for pie crust from Orson H. Gygi here in Salt Lake.  It it 53 seconds so you could watch it over and over until you felt comfortable with trying it yourself.  They use butter flavor Crisco, I use plain Crisco.  It is just a flavor preference so either one works in the recipe on this site.

Gygi's - How to make perfect pie crust

Hope you have a wonderful holiday!

Gratitude is a constant attitude of thankfulness and appreciation for life as it unfolds. Living in the moment, we are open to the abundance around us and within us.  We express appreciation freely.  We contemplate the richness of our life.  In life's trials, we seek to understand, to accept, to learn.  Gratitude is a continual celebration of life.        -Unknown