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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!
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Grilled Chicken with Lemon Orzo Pasta

Grilled Chicken and Lemon Orzo Pasta | Taste As You Go

This recipe for Grilled Chicken and Lemon Orzo Pasta first appeared on Taste As You Go in 2013. It appears here with updated photos.

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Last Saturday marked the ninth anniversary of the launch of this blog. Every now and then I like to go back and read my earlier posts to see how far I've come. The frequency of posts has definitely increased... but the quality of my writing and photography has improved quite a bit. 

(At least, they have according to my standards.)

But I haven't stopped trying to find ways to continue improving. With that in mind, I've been combing through the recipe archives and marking the ones that need work. I've taken new photos for have rewritten some of the recipes to breathe fresh life into them. 

This recipe for Grilled Chicken and Lemon Orzo Pasta is one of those recipes.

Now, the photos in the original post weren't terrible... but they weren't among my favorites. The lighting was horrible. Rather than take the photos during the day to take advantage of the natural light, I shot them after dark... under the harsh lights in our kitchen. I didn't make that mistake this time around.

Plus, as an added bonus, I had Stephen's help with the plating. It's said that we eat with our eyes first, so he sliced the chicken thinner than I did the first time around. Then he arranged the chicken slices alongside the orzo rather than on top of it. This way you could actually see -- and appreciate -- the pasta in its own right.

Grilled Chicken and Lemon Orzo Pasta | Taste As You Go

Much, much improved.

What things in your life are you continually trying to improve?


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