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So, my husband turned to me last week and said (and I quote) ” Wanna cook thanksgiving dinner?”

It prompted a complex set of emotions:

• Satisfaction: clearly he thinks I am decent enough cook to pull it off if he asks like that
• Fear: I have NEVER really COOKED a traditional meal (Jamaican OR American) for anyone but myself or my parents … I was SO going to blow it because I KNOW I am no good at this.
• Excitement: at the “project” aspect of the idea
• Anxiety: at having to debut my dubious cooking skills to perfect strangers

Perfect strangers, you ask – well, hubby wants to invite the 2 soldiers he supervises and their significant others; well, one significant other anyway.

At first, I thought I would leave it until I could actually present this awesome home to people – you know the one with the coordinated furniture and the beautiful wall hangings, etc. Then I thought, that isn’t likely to happen too soon, I can find ways to make this house work as is – why not just DO IT already? Then, he said he wasn’t sure it would actually work because he and one of the other soldiers were going to be working on Thanksgiving day.

Long story short, we are going to be doing our thanksgiving dinner on Sunday the 29th instead. Frankly, I don’t really care whether we coincide with the day or not. I am just happy for the opportunity to make this work.

So I set to work: I reached out and asked a very good friend of mine who is a guru in this area (wink at mistikhal1) and he sent me some links. First thing I had to do was choose my recipes, then make my ingredients list and go shopping. Next I had to plan the cooking and split it over 2 days.

In my usual fashion, I avoided thinking about it until this morning when I got up to feed the kittehs and realized I needed to get moving on it or lose out. So I sat down, chose my recipes, made my ingredients list and priced it and showed hubby who ok’d all of it and we made a date to go shopping.

Of course, I shall keep you all updated on this “project” of mine… if nothing else, it gives me something to blog about.

What’s that? The recipe list? Bah… ok, ok. Well, these are the basic recipes, but rest assured there will be a Jamaican flavor in there somewhere:

Honey Glazed Carrots http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_164269,00.html Do Nothing Turkey http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_35203,00.html Mashed Potatoes http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_27724,00.html Turkey Gravy http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_34635,00.html Pumpkin Cheesecake http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_83689,00.html

Wish me luck!

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