Sylvia's Scenario

Green bean casserole, turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, yams, green gelatin salad, rolls...you know the drill. It's Thanksgiving, once again, with all the usual fixin's.  Our family has never made green bean casserole for Thanksgiving.  This year I wanted to make it only in a healthier manner.  So, I did and people liked it!  Instead of canned green beans I used fresh green beans so there was a big difference right there.  Then I used my homemade mushroom soup .  I was going to make homemade onion rings but opted for the easier version of just buying some Funyuns which I'd never had before so I tried them and they were pretty good!  Plus, they were cute, as you can see from the above photo.  I used a tube of the "minis".   For whatever reason, I just didn't feel like the usual Brussel sprouts for Thanksgiving this year so the green bean casserole sounded really good to me.  Now, I think I will make this each Than...

My cooking usually runs pretty simple with not a lot of exotic ingredients but I try to make each dish as tasty as possible.  One of my favorite things to do is to invite guests over for dinner and ask them if they can guess "the secret ingredient" in a dish.  I did this with my peach pie  recipe this past summer when I added the secret ingredient, cayenne pepper.  We served that at two different times with guests here and played that "secret ingredient" game while we enjoyed our dessert.  People are intrigued by it.   It's a fun bit of entertainment while you savour a new dish.   This month, we played it three times when I made my  pumpkin flan  recipe for guests who came over for dinner.  After such a busy month of October with baseball, our November has been very low-key so we decided to get caught up with friends and ended up having four little dinner parties serving a nice, fall meal at each one. I love fall food anyway after barbec...