Two days to go before Thanksgiving. Have you got your menu planned and ready? If you are like me, probably not. I know turkey is somewhere in the picture although some girls are trying their hardest to save the turkey and go for dim sum instead. I am leaning towards fish or duck, but my die hard all-american husband claims it wouldn’t be a real Thanksgiving if the main dish did not gobble at least once in its lifetime.

This soup that we recently cooked up has that harvest look and tastes delicious too. It’s amazingly simple and healthy carrot soup. This would be a great starter for any Thanksgiving Dinner.

I was going to post some photos we took at the Christmas Tree lighting at Southpoint last night but I am exhausted! Today was hubby’s birthday and I have been cooking all day.

On today’s menu:

Chili con Carne
Corn Bread Casserole
Carrot Cake
Green Tomato Chutney – will post recipe for this soon.

I received this via forwarded email and I thought it would be fun to share it here. Especially with the upcoming holidays, you may need a few more cookie recipes to add to your repertoire.

Just click on the name of the cookie and bam the recipe is there. Good to keep handy
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I have to apologize I haven’t been bloghopping lately. For you who keep visiting anyway, thank you. The girls are almost out of school now, and my interns are off in the field, so I should have more time to blog and visit other blogs soon. To my regular reads, I miss reading your blogs. I know I’ll have lots to catch up on.

As the weather gets nicer, we are out in the garden more often and we are getting more inspired to cook.

Asi cooked up this georgeous looking dessert In Our Kitchen. It had so many steps that it’s one of those recipes I would never have dared to attempt especially since it uses so many darn dishes! You know how I hate washing dishes. But, Asi said she would do all the work and she would just need very little little help. I said go for it so long as you clean after yourself. And she did! She did it all by herself from start to finish, and it was delicious too. It was a great after dinner treat.