It's almost Thanksgiving!

It's Thanksgiving week, and today I'm going to start cooking. First, I'm going shopping. Then I'll salt the turkey and brine it in the downstairs fridge until Thursday. I'll make cranberry sauce too today, and that will be enough. At least I'll have those two tasks out of the way.

We're having 8 for dinner on Thursday - both family and friends and friends of family. It will be fun! If you'd like to take a look at recipes for some of the side dishes I'll be serving, click here. That'll connect you to my cooking blog Two for Dinner, where you'll find recipes for Cauliflower Sformato, Candied Sweet Potatoes, Cranberry Sauce, Kale Salad, Wilted Spinach Salad, and Bread Stuffing.

Of course there are many other recipes on my cooking blog that don't have anything to do with Thanksgiving. You might like some of them, and we give thanks for all good food, don't we?!

Have a wonderful holiday! I hope you're as lucky as I am, and get to spend it with family and friends. I'm thankful for them, and for your friendship, and for our lives of bounty and plenty.

Into the wild

Yeah, I know I've been absent. It's that time of year. I've been so darn busy I hardly have time to ....well, you know.

Anyway, more on this later. I just looked at a blog that a lovely lively young 20-something lady named Jeanna is putting up called 50 Food Truck Dates. Jeanna got tired of the truly tiresome old dating scene - how is it this hasn't really changed in the 40-some years since I was that age????? - of waiting for some hopefully-cool guy to chat you up in a bar, or waiting for answers to your match.com emails (well, that's changed, but it's still basically the same thing). So unbelievably boring. She decided to take matters in her own hands and have a little fun and adventure while looking for love. Take a little read, and keep on reading past the first part until you get to the "philosophical" part where she talks about what she's up to with her project and life. What a smart smart young lady!

And what does this have to do with me or you? I say it doesn't matter what your situation is - whether you're still or again lookin' for love, or whether you've found your soul-mate and that's where you're staying - life is meant to be lived to the fullest. Ask my friend Beppy, who went for a walk in her neighborhood last week and got run over by a car coming out of a driveway. And died, age 59. Live, people!!! Have fun!! Act as if there will be no tomorrow, because there just might not be.

So here it is http://the50dates.com/food-truck-date-25-wild/.  You go, Jeanna! Remind us how to do it.