stuffing

Stuffing is hands down my favorite thing on Thanksgiving! More specifically Grandma's stuffing. Unfortunatley for me Grandma has been making stuffing for so long that she doesn't use a recipe of any sort. Here are a few that look good though.

Apple, Shallot and Herb dressing

Pioneer Woman's stuffing

hallelujah!

Cafe Rio pork is not my favorite but it seems to be the only knock off recipe you can find. Today I found a knock off recipe for Costa Vida (Cafe Rio's knock off) shredded chicken! Hallelujah! I can now have my favorite version of the Cafe Rio salad!

monthly dinners

I try to plan out about 10 meals to cook for the month. For me this helps me to do less impulse grocery shopping. So here are four of the meals I plan to cook this month.

Gourmet Mac and Cheese

Wild Rice Salad ( I think I might add some avocado to this)

Creamy Cilantro dressing (if this picture does not make you crave a Cafe Rio salad then you must live in close proximity to a Cafe Rio. I on the other hand will be dreaming of Cafe Rio tonight.)

Spicy Asian Lettuce Wraps

Any other suggestions?

around the blogging world

This post at Your Heart Out made me homesick today

This post at Pioneer Woman made me hungry

I am in awe of this post at Life Frosting

I now want to attend a 1930's party like this one I saw at a Cup of Jo

Style Me Pretty had a real wedding spotlight (an English wedding where they wear awesome things in their hair) here - I want to be there.

I love these necklaces I saw on A Room Somewhere.

And above all if I wish I was in Tuscany, sweet dreams for me! For now I can look at a map of it.

question

Today I saw a list of 1001 books to read before you die. I had read a few of them but not many. This led me to wonder what are five books I think people should read before they die and do these five books coincide with my five favorite books? I am still working on my list, what does everyone else think?

leggings

Go look here to see a better picture of the new trend on campus and apparently with some of "young hollywood." Girls out here wear leggings as pants all the time. I am not a fan.

civic duty

I'll admit it, I am a political nerd. Today is election day so go VOTE. I liked the picture on the right, I found both via google images but the one on the right is from the New York Times.

thanksgiving

Now that it is November we can change the mindset to Thanksgiving. That's right Thanksgiving, I am one of those people who tries to think as little as possible about Christmas until AFTER Thanksgiving. Here are some fun ideas from Martha.

Mayflower centerpiece and a mini boat for place cards (weren't there two or three boats that carried the Pilgrims?)