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We are having a pretty traditional Thanksgiving.

For appetizers:

Roasted spiced nuts
A cheese board
Roasted Vegetable tapenade served with toasted pita chips

For the main meal:

Roast turkey + an additional breast that I'll roast the day before
Amazing gravy (my favorite part of the meal ... everything tastes better with gravy!)
Mashed potatoes
Dressing with sage
Carmelized pearl onions
Broccoli cheese casserole
Corn that we cut off the cob and froze during the peak of corn season.
My great great grandmother's clover leaf rolls ( I made these this past weekend and froze them)
Brown sugar glazed sweet potatoes
Homemade cranberry sauce

For dessert:

Something pumpkin-- not in the mood for pie. Don't want to make a cheesecake. I would love any suggestions from the SE crowd.
Apple pie.

Brussel sprouts and bacon!

Cheese popcorn --It is my favorite road trip snack. I will only eat it on a road trip.

My mom's tacos nothing fancy, but always one of our favorite family meals.

Cheese
bacon
perfectly ripe strawberries

Tortellini cooked in chicken broth -- "Ravs and Broth" is what we call them.

Right now I am munching on Trader Joe's Teriyaki Turkey Jerky -- It is so good!! Unfortunately it is really expensive. I wish I could find a lower cost alternative that even came close to this.

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Joy of Cooking -- I still use it quite often. It is probably the most used cookbook I own.

ILike Smokey07, I contacted them for a recipe that was published in the late eighties and they sent me a copy via snail mail. It took some time, but they did send me the recipe.

Robert Parker's Spencer books. Not about food but it is clear that Spencer enjoys good food and can cook good food. His descriptions often make my hungry. It doesn't hurt that I love his books.

Michael Simon!!

I was just out of college living with three roommates. I woke up early one morning and decided to make my roomies breakfast. I used an apple muffin mix but decided to doctor the recipe a bit. I sprinkled a cinnamon/sugar mixture on top of each muffin before baking -- much to everyone's surprise, I used cayenne pepper instead of cinnamon.