I was a little nervous about making the full Thanksgiving dinner for the first time, but almost everything worked out really well! I hadn't had time to make the milk chocolate pecan pie before my parents got here, so I did that on Wednesday night. I had a huge mess to clean up when quite a bit of the filling overflowed the pie shell, but once we got the pie plate unstuck from the baking sheet (thank God someone suggested I put a baking sheet under the pie!), the pie was absolutely heavenly!!


I was hoping to use Shawn's mom's recipe for dinner rolls, but she remembered that the recipe she uses has been tweaked and adjusted over the years for her to use at high altitude. That obviously wouldn't work for me down here at sea level, and she's not sure where exactly the original recipe is. So instead she sent us a roll mix. :) I still had to add a few ingredients, knead the dough, and let it rise...so I say it counts as making homemade rolls! The package had a suggestion for adding some herbs to the dry mix, so I did that, and the rolls were so good!!
The rest of our meal consisted of steamed green beans, mashed potatoes (one of the few things I can make without having to look at a recipe), and fried sweet potatoes (which my dad cooked, since mine never turn out as good as his). When everything was ready, Shawn happily used our electric knife (a wedding present) to carve the turkey!



5 comments:
That pie looks do good, Carrie! Will you send me the recipe? My email is my nest sn at gmail.
Everything looks beautiful and the pie looks delicious!!!
Everything looks so good! I'm so happy your parents could be with you for Thanksgiving. Well done on the cooking!!
And how fun that Shawn got to use power tools at the meal! I'm sure that made him happy as a clam!
Yummm...... was all that food for 4 people????
It looks so good.
It all looks good. Glad your parents got to come out there. That pie does look good.
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