I was listening to the Nutcracker Suite and thinking about what to make for Thanksgiving dinner. I have the list of normal foods; I would love to make something new and exciting, a vegetable dish in fact. I'm starting to love more and more vegetables all the time, but since I've spent most of my life loathing them I've not had much practice with making fantastic ones.
When I was a child the only thing I could stand to eat was corn. I hated green beans, and peas and beans of any kind. Lima beans were terrible horrible child abuse as far as I was concerned! How could my Mother do that to me? Anything squishy was terrible and that was every single vegetable that my family cooked. My Grandmother (Nannie as she will hence forth be called) would cook her vegetables in a pressure cooker!
The most depressing thing about that is I grew up on/around a small farm. We always had enormous gardens with all of the fresh vegetables you could think of. I long for that now that I know a green bean shouldn't smoosh to nothing when pressed between your fingers.
With that. I think I'd like to start making 1 new meal a week. Something I've never made before. Force myself to do it too, not just do it every once in a while. One thing I really want to make is a really fantastic Tomato soup/bisque. I love the stuff, but I will generally pop open a can of Campbell's because I know it will always taste like childhood.
How to fit that into life with being a Mom, doing school work, and all of Tyler's activities? Maybe coming into the world of blogging will help me keep myself on track, virtual accountability (if you will). In fact, publicly writing my goals just may force me to make it all work a bit better!
So, what should this Sunday's family dinner be? I'll have to think on this. Tonight, though, the Cub Scouts are getting their S'more Brownies I promised them! Maybe I'll toss my pumpkin pies in the oven too, yum!
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