Thanksgiving Week

Today is shopping day for Thanksgiving week.  I need to get:

• dinner for tonight (whatever that turns out to be)
• ingredients for latkes, homemade applesauce, and chicken for Hanukkah on Wednesday
• ingredients for apple cake, cranberry sauce*, fruit salad, and yams for Thanksgiving

I generally tend to go to the grocery store every day, or at least every day.  So planning on going to the store for enough food to cover 3 entire days is kind of crazy.  My goal, of course, is to avoid the insanity of shopping either the day before Thanksgiving, or, God forbid, actually shopping on Thanksgiving.

I predict this shopping will bring me to two grocery stores (at least), and the farmers’ market.  Meat I like to get at one store, a lot of other less expensive things at another store, and then apples and other timely produce at the farmers’ market.

I love Thanksgiving.  It’s a great holiday, and this year, my parents are coming to visit from Oregon.  Should be lovely indeed.

*I tried a new cranberry sauce recipe last year, which was very close to my regular (cranberries, sugar, water), but it added a pinch of salt.  The flavor was good, but it didn’t set very well.  So this year I’m going back to the tried and true, saltless version.