The best by-product of spending your whole day cooking Thanksgiving Dinner is that it might be a couple days before you have to cook again. At least…in theory. We had a wonderful dinner yesterday, thank you Southern Living Magazine. I decided that I would follow an article written about a woman here in the South who serves 8-10 folks. Because there were only 6 of us this year, I bought a turkey breast that cooked in under two hours. I marinaded it and even made the same shrimp appetizer in the article. All was delicious!

KayKay peeled nearly 10 lbs of potatoes and we have mounds of mashed potato leftovers, which LuLu promptly ate for breakfast (made with chicken broth and margarine, in case any of my casein-free friends are wondering).

Super Dad is in hog heaven. He loves Thanksgiving Dinner – from the turkey to the dressing to the pecan pie. And he ran a 10k benefit run yesterday just to make himself even more ready for the feast! Getting the kids to consume the leftovers, however, is a bit trickier. KayKay won’t eat anything that’s leftover, and she’s not high on turkey. She’s going to get pretty darn hungry this weekend (unless there’s shrimp left.)

I’m equally thankful for whoever invented microwaves…heating all these leftovers would be so much more difficult without them!