Goings on this weekend
Posted by Mandy on November 17th, 2007 filed in FoodyWe’re gearing up for our very first Thanksgiving holiday in our very first house as a family, Baby, me and my fella makes three. Plus his parents. And sister. So I guess that’s really six. And the cats, so eight. We usually travel to one set of parents or the other (alternating TG and Christmas each year), but this year it is kind of nice to be able to be in our own place. As much as I miss the traditions with my parents of which there are many, I am looking forward to being in our own home with our own baby making our own food. I am getting such deep satisfaction from cooking these days, and from doing the best I can to eat healthy/organically/freshly/locally foods!
I am contemplating getting another freezer to store food that I have prepared, either leftovers or stuff I made extra of just to have (encouraged by this post at Living Small). Our current freezer is very long and thin, and I had to actually remove a shelf to get a 13 lb turkey into it. I have been daydreaming recently of moving out further into the country and having a large enough garden to feed the three of us with enough to can, but for the moment I will have to be satisfied to support our local Farmer’s Market. I also want to get a pig, after reading Wooly Pigs. Not sure how much I would have been able to get done with a new baby, either!
In any case, I will be taking pics of our preparations. I don’t think we’ll be doing anything super out of the ordinary food-wise, but hey, it’s our first! Maybe one of our traditions will be to make something new and different each year.
November 18th, 2007 at 12:28 am
I love my freezer — I spent a little extra for an upright, because well, I’m very short, and I live alone, and I had terrors that I’d fall in and no one would find me! That and I just hate rooting around in a chest freezer — but even a tiny one like my friend Robert has in his apartment can make your life easier. Just remember to actually go down and look for things in the freezer — where people get in trouble is they put stuff in but don’t take anything out.
November 26th, 2007 at 2:49 am
Get a freezer and some masking tape. I decided to get some wide-mouthed jars after we talked about glass. There is someting friendly and homely about Ball jars.