Turkey Day Menus!

[Sparky]

What are you having for Thanksgiving this year? For those of us who are responsible for feeding the family, now is the time to hammer out your menu and hit the store, before all the good frozen birds are gone. I am cursed with a rather picky and unadventurous family however (as well as most of us being diabetic), so I must juggle being traditional with being creative with care. Too traditional and not everyone can enjoy everything and too creative and people flee screaming. My goal is to one day marry into an adventurous family with no nutritional problems.

Here is the Read Family menu for this year:

Devilled Eggs: A patented Read Family recipe! They are required fare on all major holidays.

Celery Sticks-With-Cream-Cheese and Olive Platter: I hate olives but my dad inhales them, so we have to have them.

Stuffed Turkey-In-A-Bag: Oven bags are where it's at when it comes to flawless roasting without losing moistness - though the birds to tend to fall apart a bit. For the dressing I'll have to just make something out of a box so I don't scare anybody. (But they had chestnuts at Trader Joe's so I bought them anyways!! I'll just have to eat them myself later or something, but I *have* them. They make me feel adventurous, anyways.)

Mashed Potatoes: I could personally do without these because of the dressing but we just *have* to have them, God forbid we don't!

Turkey Gravy: From a can, baby!

Biscuits: Also from a can!

Cranberry Sauce: HOORAY FOR CANS.

Sweet Potatoes: I may actually make these from scratch, but don't tell the can people.

Green Beans: NOT a casserole, ew. Just fresh steamed green beans. I insist on a green vegetable NOT swimming in cream of mushroom soup. Sorry, Dad.

Apple Pie: I'm going to make this from scratch so I can make it low-sugar.

Pumpkin Brown Betty: I expect a mutiny, but I am making this instead of pumpkin pie this year. It is so freaking GOOD, I just threw the recipe together last month and the test run was a smashing success (with the test subject, me). I cook and can my own pumpkin, too.

There will be vanilla ice cream and fresh whipped cream for the desserts.

And there will only be FOUR people at this thing, lol. Well, the bird can help us with the leftovers.

What are you guys having, those who celebrate?