use real butter

Trudi came over for the authentic Chinese dinner last night. She’s hilarious. We had not seen her in months. I always feel like I’m rushing to tell her things and hear her stories because we have so much to catch up on. I appreciate how honest she is about herself, and also that she has a great sense of humor. Hope her eyeball surgery went A-OK today. This is what we had for dessert – apple cranberry crisp:

And then I sent Trudi home with most of it. Too many desserts – I don’t want them in my house anymore!! That girl is too thin, anyway. I need to fatten her up with more cooking…

**Jump for more butter**

I’ve been hearing all of these Thanksgiving stories on the radio, from co-workers. How people hate cooking t-giving dinner and how people love eating it but hate cleaning, etc. I’m not doing any of that this year because we’ll be in New Zealand hiking, but I do love to cook Thanksgiving dinner. Stuffing and gravy are my favorites! I’m sad we won’t be celebrating t-giving with friends or family here, but that is completely and utterly outweighed by the fact that we’ll be in New Zealand getting rained on. Actually, we’ll probably cook a t-giving-ish meal upon our return – no reason why we can’t eat turkey for a week. We’re both huge fans of leftovers. Turkey salad sandwiches, mmmmm. Turkey reubens, drool. As all of my friends know, I have an ongoing love affair with sandwiches.