Happy Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving morning we will eat our "turkey coffee cake"

our new tradition ever since I bought those turkey cake pans a few years ago.

I was lazy this year and just used a boxed mix for this breakfast bread but I've used it before and it is really yummy

especially when eaten on our cute turkey plates.

I've got to keep everyone in a good mood this morning so I don't cause a riot because I've changed a couple of our traditional recipes this Thanksgiving. That's what happens when I have lots of time to think about things. Lauren's favorite pecan pie has been changed this year to an old-fashioned version which I think is going to be really good! Hopefully, she won't even notice that it's different. I won't say a word…The other recipe change I made this year is a new version of the cranberry sauce making a more spicy version. I'm sure people will notice this but people don't eat that much cranberry sauce, just enough to compliment the turkey. Speaking of the turkey, it is still busy brining as we speak.

We've decided we love our Thanksgiving turkey when it's brined, so that's what we do now. The turkey is so moist and juicy. This year I wanted to use my new favorite spice this year, star anise.

It is in the above new cranberry sauce recipe and in our new Thanksgiving drinks I plan to make today using hard cider. I'll post it if it turns out to be a blog worthy holiday drink…Lauren is into hard cider this year so I decided to try a drink recipe using hard cider. We are having a leisure morning watching the Macy's Thanksgiving parade since we don't eat dinner until later - 6:30 - so my brother can eat with us. He works every year on Thanksgiving as a local police officer and comes over during his dinner break. Then his work gets very busy after that when all the families and relatives start fighting and call the cops. I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving Day, don't call the cops because of fighting, please.

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