If you’re hosting Thanksgiving dinner, I’m going to share my favorite Thanksgiving tip – make the gravy ahead of time! You can make this a couple base DAYS before you need it! This is a time and stress reducer! I had no idea this was possible until a couple years ago. I thought you had to have the turkey drippings to make the gravy. Wrong.
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Simple Inspiration for Hosting Thanksgiving
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What memories does Thanksgiving evoke in your mind and heart? Is there a special year that stands out to you? My very favorite memory was the year before my husband and I were married. That was the year I had the joy of hosting Dale and our parents in my humble home.
I was a school teacher living in a 14′ x70′ trailer. The kitchen was so small that if I needed to open the refrigerator while there were people at the table, someone would have to stand and scoot their chair in! Because of the size of that space, I decided to take the table into the living room and make it the “dining room” for the day. This was long before the days of Pinterest, of course, so Good Housekeeping Magazine was the source for my simple decorations, part of which included gingerbread place cards. The guest’s names were written in icing and set at their place at the table.
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