Hello dollies!
The gals at The Blended Blog are calling today’s TBB Asks post their giving thanks edition. We responded to questions about getting cozy for fall back in September, and about everything else fall related in October, remember? Refresh your memory right here and right here, if you need to.
Today’s questions center around things for which we are thankful. Let’s get started!
TBB Asks: Giving Thanks Edition
1. Have you ever kept a gratitude journal? Yes or no? Yes, I am keeping one now. It was gifted to me by sweet, darling Carrie at Curly, Crafty Mom. It is on my night stand as a reminder to write down my biggest gratefuls of the days in it each night. This is the one I have.
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Here are few others I found. By clicking on the images, I earn a few pennies per click. Thank you for window shopping!
2. Hosting Thanksgiving at your house? Yes or no? Always. However, this year I think my PC and I will be alone. Well, with the kitties, of course, but they prefer seafood to turkey.
3. Favorite food from the Thanksgiving meal? Stuffing or dressing. Then all the desserts.
4. What one thing in nature are you most grateful for? Sunshine. It provides warmth, helps things grow, lights our way, and brings the promise of a new day.
5. Pumpkin pie: Yes or no? Absoltively. Posilutely. With whipped cream.
6. Traditional cookbook: Yes or no? I have several and used to subscribe to “A Taste of Home” magazine. But Pinterest has kind of made all of that obsolete. Would love to have you follow my food related boards: 21 Day Fix/Weight Watchers Recipes,Apppeteasers and Salads, Breakfast, Brunch and Bites Before Noon, Cooking, Cuisine and Calories,Delectable Desserts,InstaPot Magic, Snacks,and my personal favSouper Chili and Stews.
7. Oven baked or deep-fried turkey? Oven baked although my sister often does a fried turkey or even a smoked turkey and reports that both are tasty. Just not sure if a fried or smoked turkey can be stuffed. And if not, no thanks!
8. Thanksgiving leftovers: Yes or no? Yup, for about a day. Have been known to take the turkey bones and scraps to the desert to feed the animals. But then Danielle at Family.Love.Inspiration shared her recipe for turkey soup. Thinking I will be using all of those parts to make a pot of soup this year. Sorry about that stray desert animals.
9. What is one household product you’re most grateful for? The word ‘product’ kind of tripped me up. My instant response is crock pot. But does that count as a product? I also really, really like Bath & Body Works fragrance plugs. I love snow…S*N*O*W and this year, B&BW has a couple of new snow themed plugins. Which to buy?
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10. Are you most grateful for home cooked meals or restaurant meals? I generally like to cook when I have time and the ingredients to make whatever it is I am hungry for. But I am married to the most considerate Prince in the kingdom. He will suggest we grab a sandwich, get Panda Express or just have soup to make things easier for me. He doesn’t cook (although he knows how) but is very appreciative that I do.
And those are my answers for this giving thanks edition of TBB Asks. You might recall that I do all of my grocery shopping the first of the month for the entire month. Only picking up milk, produce and odds and ends from Walmart as I need a few things. I did my big shopping for November last week without a thought about the upcoming holidays. In fact, I really didn’t even see turkeys and hams at the commissary. Or maybe they were all gone? Need to decide what I am going to fix for our Thanksgiving celebration because it will be ere before we know it.
Your Turn
Sometimes my sister, Valerie, plays along and answers the TBB questions in a comment below. Hope she will this month and would love to have you do the same. Here are the questions, if you want to copy and paste them into a comment with your responses. Have you begun thinking about Thanksgiving?
1. Have you ever kept a gratitude journal? Yes or no?
2. Hosting Thanksgiving at your house? Yes or no?
3. Favorite food from the Thanksgiving meal?
4. What one thing in nature are you most grateful for?
5. Pumpkin pie: Yes or no?
6. Traditional cookbook: Yes or no?
7. Oven baked or deep-fried turkey?
8. Thanksgiving leftovers: Yes or no?
9. What is one household product you’re most grateful for?
10. Are you most grateful for home cooked meals or restaurant meals?
Thank you for joining me for a few minutes out of your day. I have several posts in the works just need to get them finished up so you care cordially invited to stop back by again soon.
Have a productive week!
Hugs and kisses,
Dara
I love the stuffing too and we like to make turkey soup with the turkey carcass too!
Leslie Roberts Clingan
I have always taken my turkey carcass to the desert but this year will try making soup with it! Poor stray animals!
Danielle
Let me know how your soup turns out. It is delicious. And yes to pumpkin pie. But maybe more whipped cream than pie.
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Since we aren’t going to have anyone here for our Thanksgiving, I will probably cook the tiniest turkey ever. But that should be enough to make a soup for us, too. I think Thanksgiving is the worst holiday to be without family and loved ones around.
ShootingStarsMag
Mm…I’m all about the dessert, but I have to say I don’t really like pumpkin pie. I’ll take all the apple pie though!
-Lauren
Leslie Roberts Clingan
I like apple pie, too! In fact, just finished up one that I made last week. We had some really scrumptious vanilla bean ice cream with it. It was really good, if I do say so myself. With just two of us here, we can eat on a pie or cake for a week!
Carrie @ Curly Crafty Mom
PC sounds like my husband when it comes to cooking. Mine can (and probably better than I can!), but he gets home from work so late it is easier for me to cook dinner and warm his up for him. He doesn’t get home THAT late, like 5:30 or 6pm, but the kids have to eat a lot earlier sometimes due to their activities. Our family schedule is a bit crazy these days. Lol. I have never had a deep fried turkey before and I’ve only had a smoked turkey once and it was delicious. Aww, thanks for the call out about the Gratitude Journal. I hope you’re enjoying it. 🙂 Oh, and back to food. I love Pumpkin Pie (my mom makes them, just the recipe off the Libby can) and my husband makes a cherry pie sometimes!
Carrie
curlycraftymom.com
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Paul never cooks. His cooking is Subway or Panda Express, which at least means I don’t have to cook! When he was a single dad, he fixed a lot of steak and au gratin potatoes. I don’t mind cooking, and actually like it when I have some idea what to fix. But that’s the hard part, just thinking of what to cook. PC doesn’t get home late either, but we go to the gym and then I don’t want to cook when we get back!!!
Karen Strand
Have you ever kept a gratitude journal? Yes or no?I’ve been keeping one since
January 1st of 2017. I number my entries and am up to 1009.
2. Hosting Thanksgiving at your house? Yes or no? Yes for 14 this year.
3. Favorite food from the Thanksgiving meal? My cornbread/sausage stuffing!
4. What one thing in nature are you most grateful for? Hmmm..thats a tough one. I love all of it but lately am enjoying all the dark cloud formations.
5. Pumpkin pie: Yes or no? Yes. Give me all the pumpkin and whipped cream.
6. Traditional cookbook: Yes or no? I love cookbooks. I have been known to read them like novels. And Leslie – I also subscribed to Taste of Home – some great recipes there.
7. Oven baked or deep-fried turkey? Oven roasted.. I wouldn’t have the first idea of how to deep fry a turkey.
8. Thanksgiving leftovers: Yes or no? Love ’em.
9. What is one household product you’re most grateful for? Weird question. Um, scented candles?
10. Are you most grateful for home cooked meals or restaurant meals? I squarely in the middle. Both my hubby and I cook and enjoy it, but when I work full time, I sure appreciate a dinner out too.
Leslie Roberts Clingan
I knew you would keep a gratitude journal. Fits with the Karen I know. Do you write your entries at night or in the morning?
Wow, 14 folks for Thanksgiving? That is great and crazy. But mostly great. I guess when both of my daughters and families are here I have had 9 and one year we had a guest, a single non-family person, so 10 that year. It will be awfully lonely this year. And I need that cornbread/sausage recipe.
Wasn’t Taste of Home marvelous? I had a black bean soup recipe from T of H that I have lost and can’t find anywhere. Have tried online, Pinterest and even Taste of Home online. No luck. By chance, you didn’t happen to try a black bean soup recipe from T of H, did you?
I misread your answer to the one household product you’re most grateful for…thought you answered unscented candles. I was thinking “what good is an unscented candle?” then realized I had misread your answer. Yes to scented candles, Scentsy, plugins from Bath and Body, fragrance sprays, linen sprays…I love it all.
Thank you for playing along. Really, really enjoyed your answers!
Jill
Carrie is so sweet – the gratitude journal is such a thoughtful gift! I’m all about stuffing and pie too! Sunshine is a mood booster I need when it gets cold and dreary!
Jill – Doused in Pink
Leslie Roberts Clingan
I am so glad you are back among the blogging. And Carrie is a doll. Would love to meet her someday. I am thinking/remembering that you gals met once. Am I remembering right?
In El Paso we have sunshine something like 330 days out of the year. If not more than that. We are spoiled. But for us a rainy day can be a real treat.
Tamara / My Retirement Project
Hi Leslie, so enjoyed reading your fun, yet thoughtful responses!
I have only had fried turkey one time, and it was so dreadfully overdone as to be almost inedible. But my bigger issue/question was what in the world happens to all the leftover oil – inquiring minds really want to know! 😅
And I clicked on every single gratitude journal, so enjoy the pennies my dear!
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Thank you, doll, for clicking on my gratitude journal photos and earning me some extra dinero! I have been posting those affiliate photos for about a year now and have earned $30! Which I won’t see at all until I have earned $100 total. Still a long way to go. But thank you for taking time to do that.
I am not sure what ‘they’ do with the oil that they fry the turkeys in. I should ask my sister. Can imagine that a fried turkey could easily be overdone and become quite crispy. Which is probably why I should stick to baking mine. However, I have been fighting with my oven for a year now because it turns itself off at will.
Thank you so much for coming by. And for checking on your comments. I don’t understand why some comments go into a place where they remain pending til I approve them. But it happens to a number of comments on every post.
Tamara R
Hi Leslie, so enjoyed reading your fun, yet thoughtful responses!
I have only had fried turkey one time, and it was so dreadfully overdone as to be almost inedible. But my bigger issue/question was what in the world happens to all the leftover oil – inquiring minds really want to know! 😅
And I clicked on every single gratitude journal, so enjoy the pennies my dear!