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Now it's Sunday before Thanksgiving and I've done a lot this weekend in preparation for the big meal so my list is falling into place for the rest of the week.  Before I make my list, I make the menu.  Once I have the menu, I get out all the recipes I plan to use to make the items on the menu.  Then I make my grocery list.  That is a real chore because not all the items on my grocery list are at one store so I have to make a point of stopping at various places to pick up all the things I need.  Today, we actually got the turkey at Costco where they had fresh, organic turkeys. I wasn't planning on getting it there but they had them, so I got one!  We are going to brine the turkey again this year so we will do that on Wednesday.  I'm off work on Wednesday so I can get a lot of preparations done on that day.  I'm still deciding on what special drinks to make and will mix up whatever concoctions I'll need for the drinks on Tuesday.  We usually have the white cranberry spritzer drinks but I feel like something different this year.  Lauren is really into hard cider now so I'm thinking along those lines.  I will figure it out by Tuesday because it's on the list.  Tuesday is also when I make the DELICIOUS green gelatin salad, a Thanksgiving tradition.  It really is the best green gelatin salad you'll ever want.  Thursday may look like a lot of stuff to do but really it's all very easy dishes to make.  I LOVE waking up on Thanksgiving morning and getting the turkey ready. Making the stuffing is always the first thing to do on Thanksgiving morning and I love making it.  I still have it written on my original scribble as my mom recited it to me the first time I cooked Thanksgiving dinner.

It was probably from the early 90's, maybe 1990, the first year we lived in our second house in Seattle.  I remember that I was concentrating really hard when writing this down as my mom explained the recipe to me because Nick and Lauren we being loud in the background.  (Probably fighting)  I suppose a handwriting analysis could read through this scribble and conclude that this was one stressed out mama!  Or a Abbott Pharmaceutical rep. could figure out how old this was by the products advertised on this pad, most which have not existed in years.  I've never altered this recipe by doing any of the fancy things like adding chestnuts or dried apricots or trying cornmeal stuffing, etc.  There are so many stuffing recipes but this one is the one and only for my family. Another tradition.
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