Happy Thanksgiving

I hope you all are enjoying a food-filled day with friends and family.

Happy Thanksgiving!

It's that time of year

Alrighty,

It's that time of year again. A time of year for lots and lots of good food. And my first question to you today is what is your favorite appetizer (I'm looking for ideas for Thanksgiving, but an appetizer is an appetizer)? My second question is what is your favorite appetizer, that can be made ahead of time, or doesn't use the stove/oven?

And here is a picture of the Charles River. It was a delightfully drizzly day.

On being grateful

Writing about waiting made me think about the wonderful things that I have in my life. Here are a few of the many things that I am grateful for (in no particular order):

• my wonderful and supportive family
• my awesome job
• the fact that I have a roof over my head and food in my cupboard
• the Gospel in my life
• my three fantastic roommates
• my friends spread throughout the world
• the opportunities I've had to travel in my life
• the opportunity to watch General Conference last weekend and listen to the words of living apostles and prophets.
• the opportunity to be educated
• my bike
• and about a gazillion other things.

 What are you grateful for?


As an aside. I bought more Muller Yogurt today--that's another thing I'm thankful for. Delicious yogurt.

Spiced Chipotle Sweet Potatoes

Well, as 2011 rapidly draws to a close I figure I better post once more this year. And just to show how on top of things I am I'll admit that I made these sweet potatoes about three weeks ago. You may remember me telling you about my awesome thanksgiving this year and how much I loved the sweet potatoes that my roommate served. So a couple of weeks ago when I got invited to a "Post-Thanksgiving, Pre-Christmas Turkey Dinner" I couldn't resist trying out these potatoes myself.

The very first time I had these it was with the chicken in the recipe--it's very good. But it's also good if you leave out the chicken (and who can afford to buy meat anyways?).  The spicy sweet potatoes seemed to go over well at the dinner (though they had a bit more kick than I had intended). And I really like them so I made them again for my family while I was home over Christmas--actually the real reason I made them while I was home was because my mom had chipotle chilis in the freezer. They didn't like them as much but in all fairness, my family doesn't really like sweet potatoes at all (don't ask me).