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Dear Reader,
I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving because I love to cook a traditional turkey dinner with all the trimmings. I make everything from scratch. I like my table to look festive too, but I cheat big time. Over the years, I've learned some little tricks to "fancy things up." Guests think I've slaved over the dinner and table preparations, when in fact it's simply a well-rehearsed twist of the paring knife to jazz up garnishes and a glue gun that adds an artist's look to my water glasses.
I can't even draw stick men, so if I can make glasses look fancy enough that people ooh and ah, then anyone can.
Here's my secret: You'll need stemmed water or wine glasses--they don't have to match and they can be inexpensive. (Go to the local resale shop and buy some mismatched ones.) I prefer the eclectic look. Buy some ribbon (in colors that reflect the holiday), a few silk flowers and a glue gun.
First, tie a piece of ribbon around the stem of the glass. Then snip a piece of silk flower, add some strands of a different colored ribbon and tie them into the piece of ribbon that you put around the stem of the glass. Now put a dab of hot glue on the backside of the ribbon--so it attaches to the back of the stem of the glass. And then glue the flower into place in the front. When you are done with the glasses you can just snip the ribbon and the glue peels right off. I keep some of mine decorated year-round and use them for a couple of years. When I need to wash them, I just hold them upside down and wash them by hand.
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My traditional Thanksgiving dinner menu: turkey, dressing (my crock pot recipe), mashed potatoes, yams, fresh green beans, sweet-mama squash, deviled eggs, skunk beans, shrimp salad, relish trays with fancy cut radishes and green onions, coleslaw , dinner rolls. And I roll out two kinds of pies--pumpkin and apple--topped with whipped cream, of course.
If you'd like to see the recipes for skunk beans, shrimp salad, crock pot dressing, and my pie crust click on Thanksgiving Recipes (on the right-hand side of this blog).
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne@DearReader.com
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P.S. I enjoyed reading A Redbird Christmas and hope you do, too.
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