What I'm thankful for...

This Thanksgiving I'm thankful that my good friend (and fellow author!) EM Lynley's in my kitchen cooking our dinner! I made a New Year's resolution to learn how to cook, but roasting a turkey and making stuffing from scratch is beyond my very basic skills. Judging from how wonderful everything smells, this is going to be a great meal - if my rumbling tummy holds out!

In fact, here's the turkey and stuffing, fresh from the oven!



And here's EM sitting at the table!



Looks so ladylike, doesn't she? You should've seen her fisting the turkey!

And here's what the table looked like after we were done:



Yup, we were hungry!

All in all, it was a rather low-key day, a far cry from all those Thanksgivings spent with my dad's boisterous Italian family when I was growing up. And now, time to dig into the pecan pie!