Thanksgiving Advice

Some important lessons to learn:

#1: NEVER add flour to your big flour bin that has an expiration date of 1998. It's really not a good idea.

#2: If you DO happen to add the rancid flour to the flour bin, DO NOT attempt to make rolls out of it. They will smell so bad that you will have to throw out the entire bowl of dough.

#3: If you happen to stupidly overlook lessons #1 & #2, DO NOT repeat step #2 with another can of rancid flour. People will begin to wonder at your IQ level. Plus, you will have to throw out your second bowl of dough, which will consequently make your outside garbage smell really bad. You might even have to call your sister in law and ask her if she happens to have any Rhodes roll dough she can pull out of the freezer. If this happens, it's quite possible that the dough could be freezer burned, and the usual favorite item could be forgotten in the background under a lovely plaid cloth.

#4: Please remember to put the homemade stuffing in the oven. It's really not very good unless it's cooked. If you don't put it in the oven until dinner has started, not only will people have to suffer through Thanksgiving dinner without stuffing (a travesty), but when it finally comes out of the oven, people will be so full they will not even be able to sample it.

#5: Making gingerbread houses on Thanksgiving is fun. The only drawback is you might eat so much candy that you have to pass on raspberry bread pudding with vanilla sauce, ice cream, and pumpkin pie. That would be a real bummer.

We hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. We did, in spite of some very blonde-ish mistakes.