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If you’re hosting Thanksgiving this year, hats off to you. I did my first solo Thanksgiving preparation for my family last year, and after the potatoes were mashed, the Tofurky was out of the oven, and the table was set, I just looked at my grandmother wondering how she managed to effortlessly pull off this spread every year. The truth is of course that it wasn’t effortless. But like many ungrateful kids sitting at the Thanksgiving dinner table, I just assumed all of this food came together every year without the slightest care about who made it. I also learned firsthand that after everyone has eaten seconds and thirds and the leftovers have been packed away, the last thing people wake up craving the next morning is more of that stuffing. Everyone in my family always seemed to sense that we’d be living off those vegetables and cornbread for days and instantly craved something else. Because we had spent most of the week accruing every autumn spice and pumpkin-flavored whats-it to fill our pantry, prowling around the house Post-Thanksgiving didn’t reveal much more than bread for toast and maybe some cereal — a little anti-climatic considering the lavish meal we had just consumed. More »Post from: Blisstree