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Hi everyone! I’m always glad to have time with you all.
I’ll jump right into today’s blog post. In my upcoming novel-length story, Augusta, (due out next summer) Augusta served time for a crime she didn’t commit but was framed for, and now discovers she’s in danger. Her presence also poses a danger to both her sister and to the newly found family of friends she’s made. The outlaw gang she briefly ran with is now hunting her down. She has no other choice but to leave the creature-comforts now familiar to her and hide while she bides time.
Her hiding place? A marriage of convenience to a man who is bent on defying his father while still working for him. His father sends him to work the winter in the shabby line shack the man built himself. He had cut corners when he built it, and now he’s the one having to live in the mess he created. Unknown to his father, he’s taken a wife, one who is an ex-con and who, strangely, wants to accompany him to the line shack for the winter.
A line shack was a temporary shelter located in a strategic remote place on the far boundaries of a ranch. Cowboys, or line riders, used the cabins when they were charged with patrolling the boundary lines of the ranch. They kept cattle from straying beyond the ranch property before ranches were fenced. The cowhand’s job was to bring the strays back to the ranch, no matter the weather. As barbed wire fencing started being used, the cowboy would ride the line to make fence repairs, as well as checking on any cattle grazing or stranded far from the rest of the herd, especially checking on them in severe weather. There was little time for rest or relaxation.
The shacks were simple, usually a single room. There were a few that were constructed of raised tents on wooden platforms, or of three-walled tents attached to a single wooden wall. Other types of line shacks were built into the side of a hill with a single wood framed wall, a door, and perhaps a window. You can see one similar to this on Pinterest by typing in the app’s search bar: Line Shack.
The shack had enough room for basic activities such as eating, sleeping, and storing horse gear, medical supplies, and water.
Some shacks were stocked just before winter with supplies for bread or biscuits, for dried meats, and for grains.
Sources of heat were a fireplace and/or a small wood pipe stove. While fireplaces could provide more lighting, they were not as efficient of a heat source as the flat top wood stoves one could cook on. In winter, one needed to have a good stockpile of split wood built up.
In Augusta, she and her husband of convenience need to learn to live together as she’s a no-nonsense gal; and he’s quite full of nonsense, that is, until danger comes knocking at their door. Then he, for the first time in his life, must weigh what’s really important to him.
I thought I would have Augusta done and ready for release by now, but this past year has been full of adventure with major life changes such as retiring, moving several times, buying a new home, and having some struggles with my mom’s health—she’s a feisty fighter, but thank you for keeping her in prayer.
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Just for fun, please share your favorite Thanksgiving side dish.
Mine is my mom’s rustic cornbread dressing. Oh my, it is so tasty, it’ll knock your socks off! I’ll post the recipe in my newsletter next week (another reason to join!).
One of the side dish commenters for this blog post will be chosen to win a Thanksgiving platter from Amazon!
I’m not sharing a picture of a specific platter since this is the season when their in-stock items change so quickly.
Thank you all for joining me today! I always enjoy my time with Petticoats & Pistols readers. I’ve made my covered wagon story, Emma, free today and tomorrow. Please visit my historical pen name Kaitlene Dee’s Amazon page here to get Emma free for a limited time
I love the traditional sides for Thanksgiving… my sister & I will be working out who is doing what, it’s fun… so definitely mashed potatoes & green bean casserole…
You all sound wonderfully organized, which I think makes it so much more enjoyable. Half my family passes on green bean casserole and the other half loves that they do so there’s more for them! Lol! Have a great Thanksgiving!
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I think in our family, the turkey is the side dish. The must have, main dish is chicken and homemade noodles over mashed potatoes. There would be a mutiny without those! Not much turkey is eaten but we sure go through the chicken and noodles! If that doesn’t work, then I guess it would be a broccoli casserole. 🙂
Lol! I love this—turkey as the side dish! I love the visual of a golden browned roasted turkey at the table but it’s the side dishes I can’t wait to dig into! I would love your chicken and homemade noddles recipe if you don’t mind sharing. You can reply here for everyone to see or email me at Tina @ tinadeebooks dot com. No worries if it’s a family secret and you can’t share, we have a couple of those recipes in our family, as well. I hope you have a great Thanksgiving and please have a helping of the chicken and noodles over mashed potatoes for me!
I don’t have a recipe per se but if you want to take a chance on me rambling through what I do, I would surely be happy to attempt that. Just let me know. :)))
I would love it! Thank you so very much, Mits!
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Since you mentioned your family’s rustic cornbread dressing, I have to say my favorite side dish was my late husband’s oyster dressing. It was so creamy and moist, and had a wonderful unique taste!
Your post was really informative. it’s so fun to connect with a new author in my favorite genre.
Hi Susan, I’m so sorry for the loss of your sweetheart. I bet his cornbread dressing was delicious and is very missed, as well as he is greatly missed. I pray your heart is full of treasured, joyful memories as you celebrate the holidays this year and always. Thank you so much for sharing about your favorite side dish and the someone very special who made it. Thank you for reading my post and I hope you’ll follow me on Facebook or on my newsletter for when the series first book re-releases and the pre-orders for the rest of the series. Please feel free to email me anytime at Tina @ tinadeebooks dot com – I have a few openings on my street team if you’d like to be a beta reader or proofreader, or on my prayer team. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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Any vegetable casserole. Thank you for the free book.
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We love our side dishes—in my family, more than the turkey! Lol! Some years we get sweet potatoes two different ways, but I love the corn pudding I make from a recipe I got from Monell’s Restaurant owner in Nashville years ago, as well as my mom’s Rustic Cornbread Dressing. Happy holidays and a blessed one!
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Mashed potatoes and gravy!!!!!!
My favorite! I love mashed potatoes and gravy any time of the year. It’s a favorite side for sure. I love several kinds of gravy, depending on what protein we’re having, but for a long time as a kid I just loved mashed potatoes with a lot of butter and salt and pepper. Thank you for sharing. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving, Sabrina!
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White, cream gravy over sliced turkey breast.
Yum! Is that cream gravy also called milk gravy? I just learned about milk gravy a week ago. You’re making me hungry for Thanksgiving dinner. I hope your Thanksgiving is full of yummy food and sweet memories!
We enjoy a family recipe of green beans with bacon and some spices.
Hi Debra, oh my, that does sound very delicious! Green beans has been a favorite veg of mine as far back as I can remember. I hope there’s plenty of green beans and bacon around your table this year, and precious conversation with dear loved ones too!
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Stuffing with gravy and a vegetable medley baked with velveeta.
Hi Elaine, that sounds delicious and like something I might try for my son, who still doesn’t like to eat veggies, but add some cheese and bake it and who wouldn’t love that! I don’t know why I’d never thought of that before. Thank you for sharing! I love stuffing and gravy, especially my mom’s recipe! I hope your Thanksgiving is abundantly blessed and joyful!
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Mashed potatoes and gravy
Yes! One of my very favs anytime of the year! I’m glad to see you like it too. Sometimes we make garlic mashed potatoes but we’ve had them so many years in a row that I’m just looking forward to plain buttery mashed potatoes or potatoes with gravy. Have a great and delicious Thanksgiving and I hope you enjoy the yumminess for several days! Thank you for stopping by today, Barbara!
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I’m a stuffing and homemade yeast rolls gal.
Hi Denise! Yes, love those! The first time I made yeast bread, I killed the yeast. The loaves of bread were literally like bricks, heavy and dense. So glad they weren’t for Thanksgiving dinner with the family…lol! Here’s to hoping your yeast rolls are light and fluffy and wonderfully warm and that the rest of dinners is absolutely delicious. Thank you for dropping by today!
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I love so many sides during thanksgiving. My favorite though is Sweet Potato Casserole.
thanks for sharing about the line shacks.
Hi Lori, if you read through the comments you’ll see that I, too, love all the sides, lol! I wouldn’t miss the turkey if we skipped it. Well, maybe a little bit but it’s not on my favorites list. Did I mention that sometimes we have two different versions of sweet potatoes show up for dinner—I love it! Have a very wonderfully blessed Thanksgiving!
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My favorite Thanksgiving side are the rolls! One of my favorite Christmas songs is “Christmas on the Line” by Michael Martin Murphey, about a cowboy who is spending Christmas in his line shack, with the beauty of nature around him.
I feel like something is missing if the rolls aren’t there on the table. Some Thanksgivings they weren’t but I looked for them because I love dinner rolls. I am not sure I’ve heard the song, Christmas on the Line but I am going to listen to it tonight, and maybe even as I write Augusta. Thank you so very much for sharing the song! Have a very Hapoy Thanksgiving!
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My favorite side dish is roasted balsamic brussels sprouts.
Hi Anne, do you have a favorite recipe for them? I just had some from a restaurant a couple of weeks ago. They were delicious! I would love to make those because cruciferous veggies are supposed to be good for us and I’m trying to bring them into my diet a lot more Thank you if you do, and no worries if you have no way to share. Have a great Thanksgiving and holiday season!
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Mashed sweet potatoes
Hi Karijean, I love sweet potatoes (and yams too). Do you season yours or eat them undressed? I like butter on them. I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving and get to enjoy mashed sweet potatoes to your heart’s content. Thank you so much for stopping by today and sharing!
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Living here in Arizona, we always have tamales as a side dish.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Oh Joye, tamales any time would be magnificent! I wouldn’t miss thoroughly enjoy tamales as a part of my Thanksgiving meal. Do you purchase them premade or do you have a recipe you’d be willing to share? It’s on my list of things to make/have for New Year’s Eve. If I’d thought to have them for Thanksgiving, we would’ve! We have always bought ours and it’s never been for a holiday. I did see a recipe I want to try on Whooperwill Holler’s YouTube channel that I want to try. Thanks if you have a recipe to share, I’d love it! Have a great Thanksgiving!
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Having not written a line in a new book since May, I can appreciate that life CAN get in the way! One of the simpler sides we all enjoyed was “corn pudding”–a can of creamed corn beaten together with an egg and baked until firm and lightly browned. Quick and easy fallback when groceries were scarce or extra company arrived. Best wishes things have calmed down and your new circumstances bring joy!
Huge hugs, Elissa! You’re always such a huge support to readers and authors. You will be in my prayers for life stuff, writing, and for good health. Huge hugs. I will DM you over the weekend. Huge hugs! Praying your Thanksgiving is blessed and full of sweet memories! Corn pudding sisters, we are!
I love my homemade stuffing with gravy.ty
I bet your stuffing is delicious, Jessica. Is it one you came across, invented yourself, or one that’s passed down through your family? I’m quite excited for all of the sides we usually have but this year I’m looking forward to making my mom’s Rustic Cornbread Dressing. Have a very Happy Thanksgiving!
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My mom taught me how to make her sausage stuffing. It’s a favorite & I love making it.
Hi Norma, sausage stuffing sounds delicious and is very different from what my mom traditionally makes. If you’d share your stuffing recipe, I would love to pass it on to her. She’s always wanted to try a sausage stuffing. Hope your stuffing and all your other Thanksgiving dishes are the best ever this year! Happy Thanksgiving!
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Crock Pot Macaroni and Cheese and Sausage Balls
Oh boy, Daphnee, my husband and son would line up for seconds and thirds helpings at your house. Those are very popular side dishes in our family. Were always in search of the perfect recipe for macaroni and cheese and sausage balls were something my mom-in-law made every holiday. We only have those on the holidays nowadays. Thank you so much for sharing and have a very blessed Thanksgiving!
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I love sweet potato casserole
Yes! I love that potato casserole, Linda! It’s what makes the turkey all the more delicious when both share a place on my fork. My mom’s favorite is the kind in chunks of sweet potato with butter, brown sugar, and marshmallows. My sister’s favorite is made with brown sugar crunchy topping and a few ingredients mixed into mashed sweet potatoes. Have a very blessed and yummy Thanksgiving, Linda!
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A family favorite which is created every year and enjoyed greatly. Roasted Vegetable Strata.
Oh, that sounds delicious, Ellie! Please feel free to share the recipe—I’m always looking for new, yummy ways to enjoy veggies. Thank you for stopping by today and sharing! Have a great Thanksgiving!
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Wonderful blog post. Glad you’re well and getting settled.
My favorite side dish is moist stuffing with gravy. Happy Thanksgiving! ?
Thank you, Maria! Thank you for stopping by today. We hope to be settled by January for sure. Stuffing with gravy sounds so delicious. I love it with a little cranberry relish if it’s my mom’s dressing. They compliment each other so well. I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
This sounds like a fun read. The line that got me was when you said she was no nonsense and he was full of nonsense. Intriguing!
I loved my moms homemade yeast rolls! None of the family would fix them because it took lots of time.
Hi Teresa, thank you for sharing about your love of your mom’s yeast rolls. I hope you’ll make them someday when you have time for the risings, maybe on a reading day. I love making yeast breads and would love your mom’s recipe. Please do feel free to share it with us. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
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I like dinner rolls, and stuffing!
Hi Bridgette, I love your name! It needs to be a name for one of my characters. I love those wonderful bready side dishes too. Does your family have a recipe or do you get store bought on the stuffing and rolls? For us, it’s store bought Mrs Cubbison’s cornbread stuffing, plus my mom makes Jiffy cornbread, both for the base of her dressing. Because the oven is so busy, we usually buy rolls, but my husband and son absolutely love homemade rolls. I hope your Thanksgiving is full of delicious foods and beautiful smiles around your dinner table.
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Good morning! I love all the traditional sides of Thanksgiving. My favorite is Sweet Potato Casserole. My least favorite is green bean casserole. It’s odd because I love green beans. I just don’t like them made that way. I hope you are looking forward to Thanksgiving as much as I am. To me it’s a special way to thank God for all the gifts He has bestowed on me. Although I should do that every day. I pray His Blessings On You and Your Family this Thanksgiving!
Hi Kathy, it’s so great to see you here and on social media places where we’re both hanging out. I wouldn’t mind some sweet potato casserole right now for breakfast with some e bacon and a cuppa hot tea, LOL. It’s funny that you mention green been casserole like that because I only like the way my late mom-in-law made it. Any other version is a pass for me—I’m only realizing from your comment that I even do that. I don’t make her recipe as well as she did, a lot of things she made that I just can’t duplicate it—even when we were side by side making it. I told her it was the way she stirred her love into it. Lol. But I think that is true, though she only laughed when I would say that. I hope you have a delicious and magnificent Thanksgiving!
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I love my Mom’s stuffing!! It was soooo good! I still have the recipe, but since it’s just me, I’d be eating it for a very long time!
Hi Trudy, than you for stopping by and visiting! Yes, it’s funny how something so regular over the holidays becomes a valued treasure because of the memories and love that we’re attached. My mom’s recipe is packed with my other recipes and stored with the moving company but I sure am eager for those recipes to arrive safely. I have generations of recipes from my husband’s mom and grandmother, and recipes from my mom, grandma, and great grandmom and they mean more to me than most of my furniture, maybe all of the furniture except the few pieces handed down through generations. There are recipe converters online that allow you to adjust the servings to make a smaller recipe, but I’d rather have the leftover! Lol. Have a very blessed Thanksgiving, Trudy!
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Candied Yams is my choice. But of course I like all the other foods accompanying the turkey.
Hi Jackie, thank you for hanging out with us and sharing your favorite side dish. I think we all might like the sides a little more than the turkey. Maybe the turkey makes all the side dishes stand out more. I do love the slices that make it on my plate but, admittedly, I take smaller cuts of turkey to accommodate more sides, Lol! Have a very blessed and wonderful Thanksgiving!
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A delicacy is unstuffed peppers with roasted cauliflower.
Hi Laini, wow! That sounds very intriguing! Would love your recipe if you wouldn’t mind sharing. I’m always glad to have all of my traditional fav sides but I do love doing one new dish every year for the adventure. Please feel free to share your recipe if you’d like! Have a great and tasty Thanksgiving!
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I love green beans wrapped in bacon.
Hi Linda, oh yes! Bring on the bacon! That sounds like a fun way to enjoy green beans. Do you wrap a small amount of green beans in the bacon or just each individual bean? Do you add any seasoning or let folks season on their plate? I might give this one a try these upcoming holidays. Sounds easy and delicious. Have a great Thanksgiving. I hope it’s full of joy and yumminess!
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So many to choose from! It depends, but generally speaking I either like our sweet potato soufflé or carrot soufflé (it sounds weird but is sooo good!) 🙂
Hi Bridget, those soufflés sound yummy! Would love it if you shared the recipe. I might look online too. Thank you so much for sharing and I do agree—there are so many delicious sides to choose from! Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
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Sure! I’ll add the recipe below. My mom found it several years ago and we have been enjoying it ever since! 🙂
Carrot Soufflé (we double it and bake it in a 9×13 dish. We also top it with cinnamon sugar mixture before baking)
1 lb carrots, coarsely chopped
1/2 cup butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 eggs
3 Tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup white sugar
Preheat oven to 350° F. Lightly grease a 2 quart casserole dish.
Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add carrots and cook until tender, 15 to 20 minutes. Drain and mash. Stir in butter, vanilla extract and eggs; mix well. Sift together flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar; stir into carrot mixture and blend until smooth. Transfer to prepared baking dish. Bake for 45 minutes.
Ohh, that stuffing sounds good! My family usually just does ”Stove Top Stuffing” (lol) 🙂 We put most of our effort into our other side dishes, and dessert. Which is weird considering we even make our own dinner rolls from scratch! My favorite side dish is probably our sweet potato soufflé. We used to just have marshmallows on the top, but “improved” it a few years ago by adding a crumble topping as well. 🙂
Hi Sabrina, yes, mom’s dressing is the best. I’m so excited to get to share it in my next newsletter. Yes, my favorite are all the side dishes and dessert but my mom’s is to prepare the turkey. She really does put a lot of care into that. I do love the sweet potatoes in any form they make it to the table, though I will say that we started zesting a half a teaspoon or orange peel into the recipe (a little goes a long way!) and it was delicious. I think I will try the soufflé with that plus your crumble topping (I love crumble topping!) Have a very blessed Thanksgiving!
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potatoes
Hi bn100, yes, I agree—potatoes are a must! Do you have a favorite gravy you drizzle over top of them? My mom’s usually has a brown gravy and also a giblet gravy and I love either. Thank you for stopping by today and spending time with us. Have a very happy Thanksgiving!
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Mine is Artichoke Casserole!
Hi Kim, thank you for stopping by and sharing today. I’ve never had artichoke casserole but I love artichoke so I would love that recipe if you cared to share it. It sounds absolutely delicious! I like to try one new side dish every year and I’d love to make that one this Christmas! Have a very happy Thanksgiving!
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My daughter’s homemade stuffing it is so yummy!
Hi Sara, I bet her dressing tastes delicious! Is it a recipe from in laws or passed down from previous generations on your side of the family, did she invent it herself or maybe find it on the internet? Is there an ingredient that just makes it especially delicious? I would love to know! Have a wonderfully delicious Thanksgiving, filled with the smiles and voices you enjoy most in life!
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I love stuffing and my son in law makes the best homemade stuffing, I also like the sweet potato casserole that my husband makes, he learned how to make it from me and I learned it from my mom.
Hi Alicia, I love that it’s a family event, the cooking of the feast! What a wonderful way to make memories. I love that you have a recipe passed down from your mom and that your husband makes it. That makes the holiday all the more special. There must be so much love and thankfulness around your dinner table! Have a very wonderful Thanksgiving!
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I love all the traditional sides of Thanksgiving. I always fix Sweet pea salad which I love. Noone else ever eats it but it is something my grandmother always made. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.
Hi Darlene, Thanksgiving, Easter, and Christmas (and 4th of July) are my favorites, but especially Thanksgiving and Christmas. Thanksgiving is my mom’s favorite too. Sweet pea salad sounds yummy for any time of the year. Please feel free to share your recipe, I love veggies! Have a wonderful and delicious Thanksgiving!
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Really enjoyed this article. I have always been interested in line shacks since a number of the books I have read mention them. Sounds like it would be hard to spend any time in one, especially during winter. Thanks for the opportunity to win the Thanksgiving platter. I make cornbread dressing also. My grandkids love it. One even said, “Nana, this is so good you could sell it.” He is new to the family. lol
Thanks again for the great article, and for the free book. Can’t wait to read it.
Hi Sarah, Thank you so much for sharing about reading books with line shacks in them and for sharing about your grandcutie loving your cornbread dressing. That’s pretty adorable. I hope you have a great Thanksgiving and all the beautiful hearts you love are around the table then and for Christmas too!
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Hi Tina. Welcome. My favorite side dish is my Mom’s stuffing recipe. I am trying to recreate it. She never measured anything. She made it be sight. Thank you so much for sharing. God bless you.
Hi Debra, my family is the same way (except my sister, she measures things and keeps a great and tidy recipe book (I envy her of that recipe book—some fantastically yummy things she’s made). I’ve had to follow my mom around the kitchen and copy her on some of her holiday, and everyday, family-favorite dishes. I hope you figure out your mom’s yummy stuffing recipe and I would love a copy when you’ve figured it out. Have a wonderfully cozy and special Thanksgiving, which I hope is filled with joyful memories and yummy food and someone else to do the cleanup. Lol!
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My favorite is the homemade cranberry sauce!!
And I can’t wait to read Augusta!!!
Hi Kimberly, I love the cranberry sauce! A little on my fork right next to my mom’s dressing with giblet gravy is a heavenly bite! I recently became fond of whole cranberries being in the cranberry sauce. So yummy. I’m looking for a homemade recipe this year that I can try. Thank you so much for stopping by and sharing! Happy blessed Thanksgiving! I believe you are already subscribed to my newsletter but here’s the blurb I forgot to include in the blogpost, just in case you’re not and would like to be (I can’t wait for you to read Augusta either! And if you got Josina, I’m asking Amazon to update the story—huge updates to the story—and push the updates to readers who’ve already bought it, but don’t read it if you haven’t already, until the re-release, please!):
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Garlic Mash
Hi Mary, yes! I’ve made my mashed potatoes with garlic for the last several years, only recently stopped to give a little change but will probably start again next year. This is making me hungry for some now though, LOL. I hope your Thanksgiving is filled with delicious foods and fun company! Happy Thanksgiving!
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The homemade dumplings like my granny use to make. You just can’t beat turkey with dumplings.
Hi Quilt Lady, that sounds so yummy! I love dumplings. I’ve only made the fluffy rounded kind, not yet the flatter kind. Which do you make? Please feel free to share your dumpling recipe, especially love that they are the ones your granny made. I love family recipes. Turkey and dumplings sounds absolutely delicious! Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
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My favorite is my sweet potato casserole.
Hi Cherie, I mentioned to another commenter how I could eat sweet potato casserole with some bacon and hot tea for breakfast. It does sound so delicious right now! Thank you for stopping by and sharing your fav side dish. I hope you have a great Thanksgiving and make special memories either way your loved ones!
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Stope top stuffing!!!