Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving in my family means lots of cooking eating and
as a lot of you know I love cooking and I love cooking even more when I get to cook with my twin sister.

Here is our Thanksgiving Menu.

Snacks:

• Pumpkin Bread (a moist semi sweet loaf cake),
• Carrot Sticks (from my mom's organic farm)
• Dried Sweetened Sour Cherries (from the COOP)
• Chevre (From Vt Butter & Cheese Co. formed into a ball and rolled in fresh ground black pepper and dried oregano from my mom's farm)
• Carr's Water Crackers (from the COOP as well)
• Apple Cider (pressed at Ciderfest in Oct)
• Toasted Spiced Almonds (whole almonds toasted with salt, sugar, cinnamon, cayenne pepper and beaten egg whites. The almonds come out toasted with spicy crunchy bits on them. This is my sisters recipe, definitely something to add to the cooking brain files)
  

Dinner:

• Turkey (a heritage bourbon red grown on my moms farm)
• Stuffing (bread cubes, apple, celery, onion, butter and harvest blend (a family herb mix)
• Mashed Potatoes (purple potatoes from my mom's farm, butter, cream, salt & pepper)
• Gravy (the drippings from the bird to make a cream sauce)
• Yeast Rolls (mom's specialty melt in your mouth rolls)
• Stuffed Delicata Squash (baked delicata squash stuffed with rice, pine nuts, caramelized onions, canned pears (from my dad's old place) and shaved parmesan cheese.)
• Creamed Onions (onions from my mom's farm in a cream sauce),
  
• Naked Broccoli (from mom's farm),
• Cranberry Orange Relish (my recipe)
• Sparkling Apple and Pear Juice (from the COOP).

Dessert:

• Pecan Pie
• Pumpkin Pie
• two Apple Pies
• Lemon Squares.

Are you full yet?

In other news I am the proud parent of a new camera and two new lenses.
I got a Nikon D200 Digital SLR, a Nikon 12-24mm f4 Zoom lens and a Nikon 24-85mm f2.8-4 Zoom lens.

Here are some photos taken with the new toys from the last week or so.

Water in Motion in Royalton Vt.

Rain drops on a leaf in Burlington Vt

Afternoon Light in W. Fairlee Vt.

Ripples in Burlington Vt.

Last Sunday my sister, my mother and I took a a photography walk around Mom's farm. The idea of the walk was mostly to teach my mother to use the camera I gave her, It is her first digital camera and she is lost when it comes to even the simplest aspects of the camera.

Thats all for now. See you on the dance floor soon,
~will