An 812 Thanksgiving

Hi everyone! Happy Thanksgiving! I am so happy to be back writing to you today, it has sure been a while. I apologize for not keeping up with everyone the past week. I have been busy with school and various things and since Kara was gone in Honduras, Juli and I were the leftover queens. So there was not a lot to write about since we ate leftovers and ate random things we had lying around.

But on Tuesday night, we decided to have our very own Thanksgiving dinner! We put it together before we all dispersed for the holiday, so we could enjoy the feast together too. Boy was it good! It was a triple date night too, with Kara and Tim, Juli and Sam, and Mike and myself. I couldn't have asked for a better group of people. The food was drop dead delicious too! Our Thanksgiving dinner did not include a turkey, however we did have a 6 pound chicken. And to be honest, if you were to close your eyes and take a bite, it would be really hard to decide if it was chicken or turkey. So that's a juicy win in my cook book. Along with the chicken we savored some green bean casserole, homemade cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes and stuffing. I can praise it all I want, but the food speaks for itself.

Now unfortunately this time I do not have all the recipes for this dinner, but I do have the green bean casserole recipe and the stuffing, which was just a box mix. Kara baked the chicken, Juli made the cranberry sauce and together they made the mashed potatoes. I threw together the green bean casserole and stuffing. So I do not have exactly everything that went into all the food, but I can tell you about the stuffing and green bean casserole. The stuffing was just a stove top box mix that was super easy to make. Just follow the directions on the box. As for the green bean casserole, I found the recipe on French's website (www.frenchs.com).

Ingredients
1 (10 3/4 oz) can cream of mushroom soup
2 (9 oz) bags frozen cut green beans, thawed
1/4 cup milk
1/8 teaspoon black pepper
1 1/2 cups French's fried onion crisps

Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix together in a baking dish: cream of mushroom soup, thawed green beans, milk, black pepper, and 3/4 cup of fried onion crisps. Place in oven and cook for 30 minutes or until warm. Remove from oven, sprinkle remaining onion crisps over the top and bake an additional 5 minutes or until golden brown. Serve hot!

This recipe is pretty standard for green bean casserole and it super easy to make. Green bean casserole is my personal favorite at Thanksgiving, so I was excited to be able to make this! We gathered around the dinner table and gobbled down some delicious food and shared some laughs.

Sitting around the dining room table, I was looking around and I am so thankful for every single person that was sitting at that table. I couldn't ask for anything more and to be able to have our own Thanksgiving dinner was just the absolute best. I got to share it with my Laramie family, and now I am sharing it with my Denver family. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!