Featured Friday, Volume 1.8

Posted by Michelle Rittler November 14, 2024

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!

The last time I wrote a Featured Friday post, I was staring down the reality of a 9-mile marathon training run the next morning. That was back in August and I can now count the weeks until the Hartford Marathon on one hand. Tomorrow, I'll be pushing myself through the longest run I've ever done IN MY LIFE:

a 14-miler

I'm anxious and nervous that my body won't hold up and should probably go to bed to rest up. But I wanted to give a really quick shout-out first.

DIY Brown Sugar

Have you ever had your heart set on baking a delicious treat only to have that excitement deflated upon discovering the lack of brown sugar in your cupboard? Jump over to Joy the Baker, where Joy shows us all just how easy it is to make your own brown sugar. And, because you're in charge of how much molasses goes in there, making brown sugar in your kitchen falls right into line with my belief that you should taste as you go!

Wish me luck with my training run and have a great weekend, everyone!

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