Happy Thanksgiving!

Just wishing you all a Happy Thanksgiving! Hubby and I will just cook a small dinner at home with our usual couple of slices of roast turkey from the deli instead of cooking a whole bird and I will make a few sides.  I also made pumpkin pies yesterday so that should keep us in food all day.  We have few relatives flying in tomorrow for a week or so, so this should be a busy start to the last month of the year.  I wish you and yours a wonderful holiday!

Preparing for Thanksgiving

We will have our usual, simple Thanksgiving meal at home on Thursday.  I have all of the "fixins" ready to prepare, I will bake pies and desserts tomorrow, and this morning, I went to our local deli and got a pound of thick-sliced roasted turkey (our usual shortcut which is much simpler and efficient over cooking a big turkey when there are only the two of us).  We might have hubby's cousin join us for our Thanksgiving meal which will be nice (she doesn't like holidays but I told her we were making a simple lunch at home on Thursday and she was welcome to come over and eat with us and she surprisingly said she would come over).  In other news...

• I still have no idea why the feral cats will sit for hours outside the kitchen door and just stare at me while I work in the kitchen.  They are well fed so I don't know what else they want!
• Apparently Target is offering a complete Thanksgiving meal for four for only $25 (which I think is a bargain as whole turkeys seemed to be $35 and up in the grocery stores this year).
• The 'Black Friday' deals have been relentless over the past couple weeks (fortunately we don't need anything so I am ignoring ALL of them!).
• One day I was scrolling Roku's 'Live TV' section and landed on the TV show 'Love After Lock Up' and was immediately transfixed by it (and subsequently binged an entire season).  It was like watching a slow motion trainwreck where you don't want to watch but can't help yourself.  I'm not sure what the attraction is but hubby was as eagerly watching as I was.  Spoiler, you can look up the people from season one who died after filming.  Sad.
• It seems like most of the YouTube channels I subscribe to have gone from informational and entertaining to long-running advertisements.  Nearly every video is either loaded with ads or has so many "sponsorship" call-outs during the video that the videos are hard to watch now.  So now I throw on the headphones and instead of watching the channels I subscribe to, I just listen to long classical music videos while I work or do other things.  It's very relaxing.

I wish you all a very happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope you are all having a wonderful Thanksgiving!  It's just the hubby and I for Thanksgiving this year so we made a quick dinner for two (with lots of leftovers!), watched the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, and then watched a movie on Netflix...IMHO a perfect Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hubby and I had a very small, very quiet Thanksgiving today.

We made a nice little dinner...

And I baked a couple pumpkin pies...

And that was the extent of our Thanksgiving dinner.

Even though 2020 has been pretty awful for a lot of people, we still have a lot to be thankful for.  I am thankful for my awesome hubby, my wonderful home, and having more than enough food.  I am also thankful for all of our wonderful friends and family members, the fact that no one we know has been seriously ill with covid, and that all of the kids and grandkids are doing fine.  The weather is fantastic, we aren't on lockdown so can go do things if we want to (with precautions, of course), our health is good, and we don't have any financial worries.  Besides missing traveling, we have more than enough good things to be thankful for and we are hopeful for the coming year.

I hope you and your family have a lot to be thankful for as well and I also hope that you all enjoyed a very Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope you are all having a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday today!  The hubby and I are watching the Macy's Parade and enjoying a quiet holiday at home but we may head out later to do some Black Friday shopping later.  It may even snow here today which is really really rare!  Of course we had a very frugal dinner today; since there are only two of us we went to the deli and got a few thick slices of roast turkey instead of cooking a whole bird, then I made all of the sides myself.  I also made pies...

Happy holidays to you and yours!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Just a quick note to say "Happy Thanksgiving!".  Hubby and I will eat a quiet dinner at home this evening (along with the yummy pie I made last night...see photo above).

Things we won't be doing today: early Black Friday shopping.

Things I'm not happy about: The Macy's Thanksgiving Parade.  There were so many musical performances and advertisements that the actual parade part--watching balloons and marching bands--were relegated to ten second clips here and there.  I was really disappointed as I wanted to watch a parade!

Things I'm thankful for: family, friends, blog friends (all of you!), my home, having plenty of food, the library, technology, social media (kind of), Kindle books, our health, the beautiful weather in our city this time of year...there really is so much to be thankful for!

On the schedule for tomorrow: and #OptOutside hike!

~~~Happy Thanksgiving!!!~~~

All Set for Our Budget Thanksgiving Dinner

Usually our holiday dinners are HUGE affairs.  We invite everyone in town over or go to the cousin's house but either way hubby and I end up cooking.  Last Thanksgiving we went super low key and had a mini Thanksgiving dinner at home for just the two of us and hubby said that was one of his best holidays ever (cooking for 50+ people makes him very tired these days then there is clean up...).

So we decided to do the same thing for this Thanksgiving.  We will probably go out and about looking at the various cool things in Las Vegas (Bellagio display, Ethel M display, etc) but as far as an official Thanksgiving dinner is concerned, I will cook something simple at home.  I did my shopping for dinner today and it came out to less than $10 for a nice dinner for both of us.  Here's how:

• Turkey.  We went to the deli of our local grocery store and got a few thick slices of the turkey that they roast at the store (we can't eat a whole turkey and don't want weeks worth of leftovers).  Cost $2.
• Mashed potatoes.  A 5 pound bag of potatoes was 57 cents so 1/4 of the bag for our dinner is about 15 cents.
• Gravy.  I use the packaged stuff.  One packet of turkey gravy is 50 cents.
• Yams.  A 5 pound bag is $1 so one pound of yams for both of us would be 20 cents.
• Can of green beans.  49 cents on sale.
• Can of green beans.  49 cents on sale.
• Stuffing mix.  $1 at the 99 cent store.
• Dinner rolls.  $1 at the 99 cent store.
• Can of cranberry sauce.  79 cents.
• Pumpkin pie.  I will make this myself.  The ingredients cost about $3.

We will probably have a big blowout for Christmas but at least for this holiday it will be simple and quiet (and we will still probably have a bunch of leftovers!).

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope you all are having/had a great Thanksgiving!  Ours went like this:

1. Plan #1--go to the casino and have a Thanksgiving dinner at the restaurant.  We got there, hubby played poker for a bit while I worked on my genealogy research.  When we got hungry we headed over to the restaurant and it was packed with a line.  We didn't want to wait.
2. Plan #2--go get a pizza from Dominos.  We weren't really set on a turkey+trimmings Thanksgiving dinner and pizza sounded good but when we got to Dominos it was closed.
3. Plan #3--we were surprised to see that the grocery store next to Dominos was open so we wandered around and settled on a steak for dinner.  We picked up the steak, went home, and hubby cooked the steak while I whipped up some stuffing (from the box), deviled eggs (they were already boiled), rolls (the pop in the oven kind), gravy (from the package), vegetables (from the can).  And "ta da" instant Thanksgiving dinner.  

Overall we had a nice Thanksgiving and now we are parked on the sofa.  We decided to skip Black Friday shopping but may venture out to the stores tomorrow after the rush.  

Happy turkey day!!