Thanksgiving

I have been waiting to get some more Thanksgiving day pictures, but it may be a while. So here are a few of the things I cooked. We decided to do Thanksgiving with Noah's parents and T and I split up the dishes. They made the turkey, gravy, stuffing and mashed potatoes and bought some pies. I made butternut squash puree, zucchini rolls, cranberry sauce, sweet potato casserole and a pumpkin tart.

The morning of Thanksgiving, Mr. M woke up not feeling very good. I thought he was being whiny because whenever he has a headache, he gets all grumpy and I have to force him to drink water and take Advil. But I did feel bad, because later as I was in the shower, he started vomiting in the toilet. I guess the honeymoon is over. Don't worry, he was all better by the end of the day, but I had to leave him and take all the food since I cooked. (I am not being a mean wife by leaving him. He warned me before we got married that he gets grumpy and wants to be left alone when he is sick. So I just left him alone.)

But I was in love with my sweet potato casserole. Here it is in all its glory. With a butter, brown sugar and pecan topping. Yum. I will have you know that I did NOT use canned sweet potatoes. I roasted them and scooped out the insides.

My favorite thing. A pumpkin-banana tart. Sounds strange I grant you. But hey, the Barefoot Contessa made it, so it has to be OK, right? I don't think I could go back to plain old pumpkin pie. And there is no crust to roll out, what could be better?