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2024 Thanksgiving Menu and Meal Prep Timeline

* image These past few months have been busy for our family, especially since our oldest joined a local swim team. Between juggling our work schedules and balancing school with practices... we're all pretty wiped out. Although it's a lot of work, I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving. Preparing the holiday meal for our family fills my heart with joy, and I can't wait to get started. To make things easier for me, I don't deviate much from  our first Thanksgiving  as a family. The dishes I make are familiar ones, and the recipes for them live at my fingertips. Keeping the same menu year after year means I don't have to spend time researching recipes or planning a new one. Here are my tried-and-true Thanksgiving recipes, as well as my prep timeline for the big day!

Barefoot Wine & Bubbly Summer Beach Giveaway

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If it hasn't come across in any of my previous posts, creating a food blog has been one of the best decisions I've made to date. Not only does this blog give me a chance to keep writing in my days beyond graduate school (is it wrong that I actually miss writing research papers?), but it also gives me the opportunity to attend fun events throughout New York and the opportunity to try new products.

A box of something new-to-me arrived in the mail this past week. The generous folks at Barefoot Wine & Bubbly sent me a couple of bottles of their favorite summer flavors to try. When I opened the box, I found a bottle of the Barefoot Pinot Grigio and a bottle of the Barefoot Bubbly Brut Cuvée. If it hadn't been 11am when I opened the package and if the bottles had been chilled, I probably would have opened them right then and there at work, but I restrained myself and made a mental note to save the Barefoot Bubbly Brut Cuvée for my boyfriend's visit next weekend. (Check back later to find out what I did with the Barefoot Pinot Grigio!)

So, as promised, it's time to announce another amazing Taste As You Go giveaway! I mentioned earlier that the folks at Barefoot Wine were generous. How generous? Generous enough to provide the prize for this giveaway (a tote bag, wine opener, stemless wine glass, and a big soft beach towel) if I would agree to spread the word about their new online Barefoot Republic Community and Facebook page!! Having this blog makes it incredibly easy for me to do that.

Do mental images of a beach vacation invade your thoughts throughout the day? Does the idea of winning a tote bag full of summer essentials appeal to you? If so, then you should enter the Barefoot Wine & Bubbly Summer Beach Giveaway for your chance to get your hands on some really great stuff!

You get three chances to win the Summer Beach Giveaway prize:
  1. Comment here and tell me which Barefoot Wine & Bubbly flavor you'd like to try and where you love being barefoot. -- Initial Entry

  2. Blog about the giveaway (make sure to link to this post), then come back here and leave an additional comment with the link to your blog post. -- Bonus Entry

  3. Tweet about the giveaway. Include two things in the tweet: 1) the URL to this post and 2) my username (@maizey12), then come back here and leave an additional comment with your username. -- Bonus Entry
This giveaway is open to US readers only and will end on Friday, July 3, 2009 at 11:59pm EST. ONE winner will be chosen with the help of Random.org on Saturday, July 4, 2009 in honor of Independence Day and will be announced here.

Good luck!

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