November 26, 27, 2009

Thursday 26~~~~~Kent and I were up pretty early this morning to prepare the food for our Thanksgiving Breakfast. Each year Tress and I scan all my cook books and new magazines for new breakfast idea for our breakfast and in the end, I fix about the same thing because the grand kids like the basic simple breakfast foods and if I leave one of the items out, they notice it is not there. Kent fries the bacon (this is a real big job, using 2 grills) while I make the sausage gravy and get the eggs all cracked and ready to scramble at the last minute. I use my big electric roaster oven to keep everything nice and warm as we cook. We have half of the French toast made before the gang arrives. Pammy and Jean Marie set up the bar making mimosa's (orange juice and champagne) in my old kitchen Hoosier in the pantry to drink before we eat. There are a lot of people lifting the lid on the roaster sneaking pieces of bacon to nibble on so that is why we have to practically cook a whole pig! My kitchen is the favorite gathering place for all of us and everyone takes a turn at the griddle making the rest of the French toast and scrambling the eggs or putting the biscuits on a baking sheet to bake. Bodie brought his center piece and it was sure cute. He had a turkey candle and he used his army men with their guns surrounding the turkey on a board with foliage around it. It was very unique and he did a great job with his theme. (picture) After we ate, we enjoyed a couple more pots of coffee with the Carmel rolls and mimosa's and the girls planned their shopping for the big sales tomorrow from the ads in the papers they brought over. Kent and I had a quiet evening after everyone left as we didn't go to the beach house this year for the Mosher Thanksgiving dinner, we are going there tomorrow because Nathan has ball games and they have to be in Portland for them. That is OK, as change is sometimes nice.