Once Halloween ends, people seem to look forward to Christmas and Thanksgiving flies over their heads. Don’t get me wrong, I am the biggest Christmas fan, but I do have to show my love for Thanksgiving a lot. It’s the feeling you get around Christmas. The family, laughter and food, maybe minus the presents. I would say my favorite part of Thanksgiving would be cooking and especially baking with my family.
Overall, my favorite dishes on the table each year will always be the Mashed Potatoes and Roasted Asparagus with Green Beans. Potatoes have got to be the most comforting vegetable there is, and I’ll take them in any shape or form. Whether it’s fried, boiled, roasted, or mashed, I will take it. Potatoes are the ideal food when it comes to Thanksgiving, especially when it’s cold outside and you need warm, comforting food that will fill you up. You might catch me eating mashed potatoes three or four times that night.
Then it will go on for the next few days until the whole tupperware of mashed potatoes is gone. Another thing you will definitely find on my plate will be the green beans and asparagus. One of my favorite vegetables would have to be asparagus. My sister loves to cook them with extra garlic and a sprinkle of parmesan cheese to really change things up. These are cleared out of their dish really quickly. It’s a family favorite at the table every year and will always be gone very fast. N
ow we have to move on to the best part of every meal, no matter the holiday: dessert. In my family, there are so many different kinds of desserts. The best dishes on the dessert table will always be the apple crisp and the banana bread. Living in upstate New York during apple season is one of the things I am blessed with. The apples are big, juicy and extremely sweet. When we pick the apples off our trees, they just keep coming. Next thing you know, we are boiling, cutting, freezing and drying apples.
When they are everywhere and there are so many, we try to incorporate them into many dishes on the table. Apple crisp will always be one of my favorites, especially when the apples are in season. It’s very warm and comforting and the perfect way to end a meal. We love ending our meals by having many desserts with coffee and tea. My cousins and I like to start our Thanksgiving movies in front of the television with our banana bread. These are the kinds of moments that make Thanksgiving magical.