yes, i have indeed been a very bad blogger. i am now finally blogging due to harassing remarks from nearly everyone i seem to talk to. "have you blogged yet?" well now i am.
let's see...last week was thanksgiving & i had the day off. my mom in law very kindly arranged it with everyone to have thanksgiving dinner on thursday just because i couldn't make it for saturday, the day we usually get together. i was so thankful for that. josh's aunt & uncle & 3 cousins & their grandma all drove down from glendora and spent the day (and night) with us. we had a blast. josh's cousins, bonnie, hannah and tracy are really great kids and a lot of fun. it was a perfectly warm day out (not too hot) and we played horseshoes, croquet and even had a water balloon toss! of course, we ate a lot too. my cranberry sauce turned out beautifully (thanks, zandra, for the recipe!) and the dessert spread was to die for with 3 different kinds of pies, cake and cookies. i think i was full for a couple of days after that. speaking of thanksgiving food, does anyone know of a good recipe that uses leftover cranberry sauce? i have some in my fridge & don't really want to throw it away.
we had bonnie, tracy & hannah spend the night that evening & unfortunately i had to leave for work at 6am the next morning for the store's after thanksgiving sale while josh and the girls had breakfast at his parent's house. for those of you who aren't american, the day after thanksgiving is the biggest sales day of the year, kind of like our boxing day. it was a crazy, mad day, but it sure went by fast.
last night i went on a much-looked-forward to girl's night! it was me, gia, sara, zandra & j'lene. we had a delicious italian dinner at bucca di beppo, shopped for a bit & saw pride & prejudice. when we first saw the preview for it, josh made it very clear the he would NOT see that movie with me. he is adamantly against everything jane austen. i, on the other hand, adore her novels & am a huge fan of most of the movies. the bbc version of pride & prejudice is my absolute favourite & i knew that this one would have to be pretty dang good in order to compete. well, it was very good and we all walked out of the theatre wishing we had english accents and could go to balls. (though sara commented that if she could pop into the movie, she would tell them all to walk faster and make keira knightly wear a padded bra. if i could pop into the movie, all i'd want to do is dance and dance.) i got home at 10.00 and was hoping that josh would be awake so that i could cuddle with him & tell him that he is my very own mr. darcy. he wasn't awake & that was probably lucky for him as i can be a bit mushy after watching chick flicks.
today was a lovely day off. i made 2 batches of peanut brittle this morning after my mom and i had our weekly phone date. then off to sara's to have coffee cake & coffee with zandra and kelly. then i did groceries so that i can make jambalaya for josh tonight & rented a couple of videos for us. then i cleaned like crazy. why am i telling you this stuff? sorry for being boring.
oh! in case you haven't read leah d's blog, she had her little boy last sunday. brody lovell delorme. he is an absoulte doll (can you call boy babies dolls?) and you must click on her blog to see pictures. i also have a couple of cousins that have started blogs of their own, naomi and lisa. i will add them to my links list. my little sister cherie just flew from scotland to madrid yesterday with her ywam team. please be in prayer for her as she is travelling back to morocco as well. my dear mum will be missing her 2 girls again this christmas. i hope one christmas soon we can fly up to bc. it's snowing in abbotsford today! i am so jealous.
will download thanksgiving pictures now...later :)
9 comments:
Heidi,
I have a really awesome chicken/turkey cranberry sauce recipe upstairs. I PROMISE to give it to you within the next few days, but I was just doing my before bed blog check and I'm very tired. But I PROMISE I'll give it to you!
P.s - It's in an Anne Lindsay cookbook - who is of course Canadian. So there;)
ABOUT TIME SISTER!!!!! You get me reading your blogs and then make me, and your other fans wait 12 days!!! Monday night was fun, a definite MUST and more often. And yes as beautiful as Kiera Knightly is she needed some help big time in those dresses.
Cranberry sauce left overs - I use it like jam on peanutbutter or cream cheese. I eat it with meat - meatballs, turkey cold cuts in sandwiches. Marsha made me cranberry chicken - chicken breasts ( or thighs as she prefers) skinless, put them in the bottom of a cake pan, mix cranberry sause, some soy sauce (maybe 1/4 cup per two cups cranberries), lemon juice and garlic (two cloves - More?? up to you), pour over chicken and bake. Yummy. If you do extra - you can freeze the individual portions. Serve on rice.
I always look for your blog and do not find you boring. I thought your thanksgiving was wondefully active.
Blessings,
Kathy
Thanks for blogging Heidi - and I too never find you boring - at all. Glad to hear how the cranberry sauce turned out. I may need to see Pride and Prejudice with my girlfriends - who are hardcore fans of the BBC version too. Aimee
jane austen sucks and so do the awful movies that follow.
from your loving husband
oh BABE!
I am just laughing at the comment Josh made. Men just don't get it! And think of all the brownie points they could score if they would just pretend to understand and appreciate the fine film. And Donnie is the same way, he says I am way to cuddly after a chick flick! Glad to see you back. Everyone is lagging on blogging. Tis the season!
Yeah, that's the same recipe Kathy. we also use ginger - we use fresh, but powdered works fine too. Hmmmmm, maybe 2 tsp powdered ginger per 2 cups of cranberry sauce.
Ok, here's the whole thing:
3 lb bone-in thick piece of turkey breast (or one small package of chicken thighs)
1 1/2 cups cranberry sauce
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup soy sauce
2 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp chopp[ed gingerroot or 1 tsp ground ginger
1 tbsp Dijon mustard, or 1 tsp dry mustard
1 large clove of garlic, minced
*Remove skin and fat from turkey; place, meat side up in baking dish sprayed with nonstick cooking spray or lined with foil*
If you are using chicken thighs, use boneless and skinless and just follow the rest of the instructions
In bowl, combine cranberry sauce, sugar, soy sauce, lemon juice, ginger, mustard and garlic; spread about half over turkey or chicken
Roast turkey, uncovered, in 325 F oven for 1 1/2 hours, basting every thirty minutes. If you are using chicken, check if it's done after a half hour of roasting
If using chicken, serve immediately; if using turkey, cover loosely with foil, and let stand for 15 minutes before sliceing.
Microwave remaining cranberry misture until hot, and use it as a sauce for the rice.
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