Green Salad
Roast Turkey (Cook’s Illustrated 11/04 p11)
Ham (courtesy of guests)
Gravy (Cooks Illustrated 11/04 p16)
Carrot Souffle (guests)
Kraft Mac & Cheese (for the kids)
Stir-Fried Sweet Potatoes with Brown Butter and Sage (MaDear)
Potatoes Mousseline (MaDear)
Spiked Cranberry Relish (MaDear)
Green beans (some kind of hazelnut thing)
Dessert
Cookies (guests)
Pumpkin Pecan Pie & Whipped Cream
We decided against the Turbaconducken.
Happy Thanksgiving!

So our thirdborn’s alias on this blog is SBJ, or sweet baby J, which makes his name pretty easy to figure out if you know the song.
What you may not know is that little she-who-is also has a song with her name in the title, and which also contains the word “Sweet” in it.
We […]

omigod, a post! Yay!
ohgeez, will she ever shut up about Obama?! Boo!
Part of my new job description focuses on evangelism. It seems that my main tasks are to educate people about what that word means and doesn’t mean, and to help Suburban Pres learn how to be welcoming, hospitable and even inviting in a way […]

I’m still alive.
All of the action is at Facebook right now, so if that’s your thing too… friend me!
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In 2004, when he said, “We worship an awesome God in the blue states,” I said, “He’s going to be President.”
In 2008, I’ve made 250 phone calls,
knocked on 100 doors,
hand-written 60 notes to undecided voters,
entered in dozens of pages of data,
worn the heck out of my Obama t-shirts,
signed up for four hours of poll work […]