Georgia Thanksgiving Celebration

Yesterday Joel and I were able to celebrate an early Thanksgiving with a group of friends here in Athens.  We had a good time enjoying all of the food and company.  Here are some pictures to show the fun:

 Our smorgasbord of food...Rolls, spiral-sliced ham, cream corn, sweet potato souffle, strawberry pretzel salad, zipper peas, green beans, macaroni & cheese, dressing, gravy, and broccoli casserole.

Not pictured: Apple pie, Pecan pie, and wassail for dessert

 Another view

 Clay and Marie's beautiful new table worked perfectly for our gathering.

The group

Fondue Fun!

I am thrilled to announce that Joel passed both of his qualifying exams that he took in August!! He studied hard for them all summer, and boy did it pay off!  Two down, two to go.

To celebrate, we had some fondue fun:

Strawberries, bananas, and rice krispie treats.  Yum!

Chocolate all ready for dipping

We are gearing up for a fun weekend.  Hope y'all have some fun plans!

Chocolate Chips...Yummy!

On Monday I was perusing through my usual reading of the blogger dashboard when I came across this new recipe on Our Best Bites. Once I realized I already had EVERYTHING I needed to make the chocolate chip cookies at home, I naturally decided I'd make them, that night.

So here is the recipe: Chocolate Chip Cookies.

Go check it out, and then immediately go make them. Just do it!

Candy Making

On Saturday morning we headed out to visit my sister. This is the third year that we have gotten together to make candy. The candy goes to my niece and nephew's teachers and we give some to some family members. This year we got bold and decided to make 5 different types of candy. The list includes: Martha Washington balls, Reese's cups, Turtles, Peppermint Bark, and Toffee.

Apparently I somehow managed not to get a picture of the Martha Washington balls!

Turtles before dipping.

Turtles after (sorry it's blurry).

Reese's cups...yummy!

Peppermint bark...yum, this is SO easy and tastes really good!

I also don't have a picture of the toffee!

So as you can see we were busy bees, but it all turned out good. We have the tins all filled and ready to give! We had a great weekend!

Our favorite food...

Last night Joel and I made pizza, which is by far on of our favorite foods. The recipe came from www.ourbestbites.com. You should check out that site, it has tons of good recipes. The pizza recipe includes the dough recipe (Joel made the dough last night, and it was good!) and a pizza sauce recipe. There is also a recipe for Alfredo sauce...next time we're going to try an alfredo chicken pizza...yum!

Doesn't that look delicious?


The process makes a pretty big mess...but it's all worth it!

Let me know if you try any recipes from that site so I can try them too! The two I've made so far have been amazing!

Thanksgiving

Well, sorry for the hiatus in blogging around here. Classes have started slowing down (finally), but only for a short time because exams start next week! I have a few more projects to finish up and then exams and I'll be done! Done as in graduating the next week, done. :)

I have several projects in progress right now, but I can't show you the work until after Christmas seeing as how several of them are gifts!

I mostly wanted to post today about this new site I have found...www.ourbestbites.com. I love it. They have really good recipes on there (meaning the recipes are some I'd actually like to eat!). You should go take a look and see what you can cook up this Thanksgiving holiday. This weekend I made Apple Pie. It was SO good. Joel's exact words were, "Now, this is how apple pie is supposed to taste!" I made the crust and lattice top (recipe included on the site). It was the first time I'd ever attempted to make my own crust...so good and really it was easy. You really should try it...it'll make you proud when the finished product turns out so yummy!

(Picture from www.ourbestbites.com, but mine looked pretty close :))

We are excited to get the Thanksgiving season started this week. Joel and I both love holiday's because it guarentees time to spend with our families. We will be having two separate Thanksgiving meals, one for each side of the family. Can't wait for that yummy turkey and dressing! What are your Thanksgiving plans? Any ideas to help your family realize all there is to be thankful for this season?