Thanksgiving links

and a slightly shaky promise

Oh hiiiii, my darlings! Are you scrambling? ME TOO! My god! The great Adidas-track-pants-and-a-fancy-blouse Wreck tour is over (sigh) and I am awash in shopping lists and to-do lists and just generally drowning in whatever the thing is that isn’t quite festivity yet. Preparations is what the thing is.

In that vein, I wanted to remind you of a few things! (In that vein? What a weird expression. That’s all you need in your vein!) One is this post, where I suggest two activities for your holiday gatherings, both of which we do literally every year: 1) setting up a still life for painting and 2) the game Fishbowl.

Someone here recommended adding a 4th Fishbowl round called, I think, “Under a Sheet,” and now we will never play another way. It’s the charades round, again, but this time from, yes, underneath a sheet, and it’s so funny.

Here’s me last year, trying to act out the word cubicle. I ended up on my hands and knees laughing for a full minute, beneath the sheet. Suffice it to say, this was not a high-scoring round for my team.

The other Thanksgiving link is to this post, which is itself mostly links to lots of recipes.

A few notes! Liz Prueitt edited her scrumptious but finicky gf pie dough recipe, and it lives here now. (It is easier to deal work with in its new iteration.) Also, this is absolute heresy, but I am not making the traditional green dip. WHAT? I’m making a dip that’s mayo, finely chopped shallots, lemon zest and juice, lots of chopped dill, and chopped capers (and if there weren’t a chile allergy amongst the guests, I’d also add finely chopped pepperoncini omg it’s my tuna salad without the tuna). I am also making these crackers. And this corn thing, but I’m using a full box of Trader Joe’s gf cornbread mix and doubling the recipe and calling it a main course for the vegetarians. Also, I should mention that I don’t make sweet potatoes because our friends bring a delectable version with creme fraiche and carrots, but when I used to make it, this old Gourmet recipe is what I used for years and years. (If you have a choice, use California apricots rather than Turkish ones.)

Please feel free to ask, if there’s anything you need, recipe-wise! And finally, I am putting the gift guide together but I’m not sure when it will be done. Feel free to peruse last year’s, which include all the prior years, in the meantime.

Happy everything. I hope you are getting to wrap your arms around the people and animals you love. xoxo