Happy Thanksgiving to you!

Thanksgiving 2009,

Bonnie arrived safely at our house Wednesday evening. We were all very excited to see her. I made up pancake mix Wednesday afternoon so we could have yummy oatmeal, blueberry, banana pancakes on Thanksgiving morning. I found an airplane and truck mold at Kitchen Art. Everest was very surprised to see his pancakes. Needless to say, he ate just about everything.

Thanksgiving morning and afternoon was spent cooking, baking and playing in the kitchen. This is Leaf's idea of helping in the kitchen.
I know some of you are wondering what on earth crazy vegetarians eat on Thanksgiving. Well we had a wonderful feast -Spinach, chard mashed potatoes; whipped sweet potatoes with banana and honey; leaf pies; salad; cranberry sauce; salmon; and braided bread. I also made toasted coconut shortbread cookies (from Smittenkitchen.com)
I made braided oatmeal wheat bread. I have never made braided bread before. We had fun rolling the dough and playing in the left over flour. I taught Everest how to braid the bread. He was done helping after the first one, the draw of flour on the counter with a few trucks, was too much for him. He spent most of the day, playing...I mean washing.. the dishes, helping roll out dough (while really playing in the flour), and pushing Leaf around in the stock pot. And of course, playing, playing and more playing with Grami.
The leaf pies have sauteed veggies inside. Aren't they pretty? The recipe I used should have made 12 leaf pies. Ours only made 9, Everest helped roll out the dough. He did well rolling, and cutting out the shapes. When it was time to gather up the dough to roll again, somehow half of it kept ending up on the floor. Might have something to do with the playing in the flour part. Sigh...such is life when cooking with a (almost) 4 year old. We will make these again, they were fun to make and very yummy to eat. Leaf ate 2 of them!
Black Friday...We had extra veggies left over from our leaf pie filling. I added a few more veggies and black beans.....
plus some eggs and viola..... omelets! Leaf couldn't get enough of them. I thought he was going to eat Nathan's entire plate.
I got the leaf pie recipe from thepeppermillinc.com (I would link it to my page, but I haven't read how to do it yet. I am sure it is very easy, but getting the 5 minutes to read about it, hasn't happened yet).

We hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving too.