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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!

Red Banner Day

Gordon Ramsey's Fast Food
(Photo courtesy of Textbookx.com)

Through the power of Twitter, I was made known of a cookbook giveaway sponsored by Food Network Canada. For correctly answering the question "What is Gordon Ramsey's country of birth?" two Grand Prize winners would each be awarded a copy of Gordon Ramsey's Fast Food. Guess who was one of the lucky Grand Prize winners?? That's right! Yours truly!! I received the news yesterday, and in a few weeks, I'll be receiving a lovely package from Canada with a cookbook inside. I can't wait!



Martha Stewart Salt and Pepper Mills
(Photo courtesy of Macys.com)

As if that wasn't fantastic news enough, I finally received the Martha Stewart salt and pepper mills I ordered about a week ago. I used them tonight on some pita chips I baked in the oven and the chips turned out marvelously. I know I'll be using them more and more as the weeks progress.

Finally, I've made some changes to the blog itself. I've cut down the number of food blogs in my food blog roll to five. So many people have contacted me about being added to the blog roll that I realized the roll would be way too long and would clutter the sidebar. To compensate for that, I'll be rotating the blogs I feature every couple of weeks, so if your blog was there before and isn't there now, don't worry. It'll make its way back onto the blog roll eventually. I've also created a FoodBuzz profile upon the suggestion of Zesty Cook as a way of meeting more food bloggers and of making Taste As You Go more visible on the food blogging scene. I've already been in contact with several FoodBuzz foodies and I've only had my profile up on the website for a day!

Things are developing so nicely, and I just wanted to share all the exciting news! Hopefully there will be more good things to share in the future!

PS. In case you were wondering, Gordon Ramsey was born in Scotland.

ETA 10/2/2008 10:11am: I didn't have to wait very long for my Gordon Ramsey cookbook to arrive... When I arrived at work this morning, it was waiting for me on my desk! Hooray!

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Comments

Zesty Cook said…
I am glad you are doing well Michelle!!
Zesty Cook - Thanks so much! I didn't realize just how much I'd get into food blogging. I absolutely love it!