Our Early Non-Traditional Thanksgiving Feast

Happy Almost Thanksgiving!

We had an early celebration last weekend since my son, 

Philip, and his family are busy on Thanksgiving.

We don't really care for turkey -- I know -- sacrilege on Thanksgiving, right?!

But . . . we love the sides like stuffing, mashed potatoes

 (thanks Lisa K for the recipe many years ago), 

fruit salad, jello, dinner rolls, pie and fudge.
Yes, fudge is Thanksgiving food!!!

So, I called it our Non-Traditional Thanksgiving feast!

We had chicken strips, mashed potatoes, salad (fruit and green)

strawberry jello, pie and a first for us on Thanksgiving --

chicken enchiladas!

Oh my word, those enchiladas were SOOOOO delish!
I patted myself on the back for days about how good they were!

The original Boucher clan

Since we also have Miss Frannie Doodle now, the kids

ate fast and ran outside to play with her!

Bingo -- kept the pup and the kids busy!

I also baked some carrot cake muffins (from scratch, no less)

and they were not good - awful -- blech!
 In fact, I tore the recipe up

and threw it away. 

Definitely should have stuck with brownies!

Pappa Rickster and the youngest -- Gloria

I'm not sure what the Rickster, Connor, Maddie and I

will have on the real Thanksgiving, but again,

it won't be turkey!