Well it is the Sunday before Thanksgiving, so I am getting psyched! I love to prepare the Thanksgiving feast. I've began to clean the Viking range. I started with the stove top yesterday and will run the self clean cycle on the ovens tonight after supper. Yesterday, we had our Historic Canton Homeowners Association Yard Sale. It was a fundraiser for our legal fund, and we did pretty well. We have some great neighbors, and it was fun to spend the day with them. We all bought stuff from each other as well, and I found some great treasures! The best thing was a series of cookbooks: The McCalls Cooking School! My friend Rajayne was so jealous that I found them first! I bought two other cookbooks, including the National Symphony Orchestra Cookbook, complete with hand written notes from the previous owner. I also found the strangest kitchen towel that has a rather masculine looking mountain girl smoking a pipe, and it has two raised puffy things for her breasts! Check out the photo. It is so odd, but I love it!
While working the sale, I had a long conversation with our friend and neighbor, Wanda Roach, about our Thanksgiving dishes. It made me very nostalgic for some classic comfort food, so I decided to prepare Julia Child's classic chicken pot pie for tonight's Sunday Supper! You really can't beat it on a cold, early winter night. Plus, I now have enough homemade chicken stock for my mother's southern cornbread dressing on Thanksgiving! I should be writing copy for a project, but making chicken in cream sauce with flaky pastry is so much more rewarding.
Wishing everyone a very happy Thanksgiving. Good luck with your bird and sides!
And as Julia would say, bon appetit!
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4 comments:
oh my brother boy that looks so good
sure will miss yall at thanksgiving time
It was delicious. I am looking forward to Thanksgiving.
Bill, thanks for the link to your Sunday Supper blog. It's good to know that there is at least one other graphic design foodie here in the ATL. Too many people around here don't even know what a kitchen, let alone how to use it.
I may have to steal some ideas from you, but I am willing to share some of mine.
Cheers,
Damon
Hi Bill,
Your food photos are great! I found your blog while searching for a Wanda Roach who contributed a recipe for banana bread to a cookbook that I bought many years ago. It's called Cherokee Entertains, printed in 1985. I've tried many banana breads over the years made by others, but none come close to the flavor and moistness of this recipe. It's awesome! Please pass my thanks on to your friend.
I'll be looking forward to your Sunday suppers.
Kind regards,
Diane
www.homebeckons.com
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