Early Thanksgiving Dinner

This Thanksgiving it is my dad’s turn to have the kids, so my mom had her Thanksgiving dinner, this past Saturday. The dinner started with half a grape fruit with a little powered sugar on top, to as my mom says, “cleanse our palates”. Next came the main meal, it was a mix of all different side dishes and of coarse a perfectly cooked turkey. The side dishes are the same dishes we have every year, and I LOVE them, Thanksgiving would not be the same without them. Some of the side dishes were your standard Thanksgiving sides, the green bean casserole with French onion rings on top, bread roles, white-mashed potatoes and gravy, canned cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes chopped into blocks with butter, a spread of different olives and pickles, candied yams, sautéed carrots and green beans, and a broccoli, sunflower-seed, and red onion salad which is a family recipe passed down from my grandmother. And for dessert we had a choice of pumpkin or pecan pie. The whole afternoon ended with a fun family competitive game of touch football. ~Katelynn M.