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Happy Thanksgiving!
The apple pie is cooling on the counter (and smells delicious) and the banana bread is in the oven. The carrots are just beginning to steam—they will end up buttered and dilled. Then, long about 3:00, I’ll be heading out to Thanksgiving dinner. I’m hoping not to embarrass myself too badly with the banana bread. It’s rather experimental. Somewhere along the line, over the last year, I loaned out my bread loaf pan and it never came home. So, my options for banana bread were a regular 8x8x2 inch dish or a new and untried pan with 8 individual sized loaves. I opted for the 8 individual loaves. Dunno how they’ll turn out. It’s kind of risky to try something brand new for Thanksgiving dinner. But whatever. It’s real banana bread with real bananas and it already smells utterly ambrosial.
From what I hear, the turkey is rounding the last half hour lap, the gravy is almost done, and the potatoes are about to go on the fire. We did all the prep work last night, so it was a pretty easy meal to put together today. Sounds as if I have enough time to get cleaned up and presentable. I’m a messy cook. Just glanced at myself in the mirror and I’m wearing a lot of flour....
Interesting observation: The grocery store was cashing in on last minute Thanksgiving shopping yesterday. They charged $6 for a five pound bag of potatoes. That’s double the normal price. People were not pleased. Gotta wonder what possessed them to do that.
Anyway. Happy Thanksgiving to those of you celebrating. There are a lot of things in the news these days that make one nervous about the future and there are certainly those who truly don’t know where the next meal will come from. It makes having a full table shared with friends an especially sweet moment. That’s a lot to be thankful for.
And, of course...we have a new President!! Just had to slip that in somewhere. 
Happy Turkey Day to you and the rest of my fellow commenters (ors?)!
Have you dug into your turkey eats yet, L? Happy T-Day to you. I’m suffering (not too terribly much) from the tryptophan drowsies. I had to brew a pot of coffee to keep my eyes open. But oh, what delights on the table today. And not the least was watching two very large lads (6’5” and 6’7") pack away the most amazing amounts of food. It was fascinating. ;) Good friends, great conversation, dark turkey meat....heavenly.
We finished about an hour ago. It took three hours to prepare (Safeway heat n’ serve), 1/2 hour to eat. Fortunately there was a lot of help cleaning up.