>>Thanksgiving is always easy, head cold or no. It is the greatest American holiday and my favorite. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
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>My favorite, too, but not easy. I've been making Thanksgiving dinner every year for nearly 30 years. I always try to make a few changes to the menu, and try some new stuff.
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>I'll be headed to the kitchen very soon to start baking (and to make cranberry sauce). Tomorrow is for the main meal, mostly--stuffing, then turkey, then sweet potato casserole (trying a new recipe), then any other prep. If all goes well, I'll have 2 or 3 hours to relax mid-day before people start to arrive.
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My biggest regret about divorce is that we are no longer Thanksgiving hosts. When Tricia and I were married we hosted the whole gang every year. Everyone else had local inlaws and did the Thanksgiving two step. My closest relatives live 1000 miles away. The main event was at our house, with waves of smart aleck remarks about coming into the city. Tricia's family consists entirely of crazed Lithuanians who make friends wherever they go and invite them to come over for dinner. Salud. We set the cobbled-together tables for 20 and sometimes had to run up and down the street looking for spare chairs or tables. I do miss that.