Family Thanksgiving Recipes

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!
We thought we would share our favorite family Thanksgiving Recipes! 

Enjoy!

Alice: Breakfast Sausage Casserole aka "Cholesterol Pie"

Ingredients:

2 2/3 cups of milk

5 pieces of bread, buttered, cubed

1 lb sausage

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp dry mustard

1 1/2 cup shredded cheddar

Instructions:

brown the sausage, drain

beat the eggs and other ingredients together

add cheese and sausage

pour into dish and refrigerate overnight 

bake uncovered for 45 minutes at 350 degrees

Olivia: Stuffing

Ingredients:
1 1/4 cup minced onions
2 1/2 cups chopped celery
1 cup butter or margarine
15 cups bread cubes
(pull bread apart and spread it out on a tray to get it stale or
toast it on cookie sheet and then pull it apart)
2 tsp of salt
poultry seasoning (start with 1 tbs)
1/2 tsp pepper

Instructions:
cook and stir onion and celery in butter (in skillet) until onion is tender
stir in 1/3 of bread cubes
turn into a deep bowl
add remaining ingredients, toss
add boiling water if stuffing is too dry
stuff turkey before roasting
remove all stuffing when turkey is done

xoxo
Alice & Olivia

Thanksgiving QOTD

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. 

Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. 

Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse. 

Happy Thanksgiving!

~ Remember to give back ~

xoxo

Alice

Week Of Giving Thanks

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During the holiday season, it’s easy to get caught up in wanting EVERYTHING and obsessing over how much you get. But it’s so important to remember that it’s not about what you get, it’s about what you give. Even if you’re surrounded by people who seem to have it all, so what? 

I know we might blog about and all sorts of material stuff, but in the end that’s not going to matter. So don’t worry about getting the new Kate Spade bag or a Michael Kors watch. Focus on what you do have, because to someone else, that is all they have ever wanted. And if you ever find yourself complaining about not getting a new iPhone or that new pair of boots, just think about the people who don’t have enough money to pay for clean water, or food, or a place to live. 

These are things we take for granted, and yet we are so blessed to have them. And think about the fact $100 could provide a starving family with food for months, or the fact that, in Uganda, a child can go to school for one term for anywhere between $10 and $50. Is a bag really more important than that? If everyone shared what they had with the less fortunate, without holding back, then there would be no more poverty. 

Anyways, no matter how much we get, we’ll always want more. So if everyone realized that fulfillment doesn’t and will never come from material possessions, then maybe we wouldn’t get so caught up on everything we want instead of everything we have. I’m guilty of everything I’ve said in this paragraph, and it can be difficult, I know. But just try and remember that the holiday season is about giving and not getting.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. 

Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling.
Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse. 

Have a great week.

-Maddie.