Heather: How To Survive Baking Day

First of all: hopefully you have shopped by last night at least. If you are shopping today for Thanksgiving, I will take a moment of silence for you...

Step One: You are gonna have to borrow my book:

Thanksgiving and Pie Baking for DUMMIES!

Step Two: Put on some music:

Play Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger" because many a kitchen day for Thanksgiving baking has had many women in melting puddles of tears.

We can do this! We shall survive!!

Crank up the music and sing in such a terrible voice with your wooden spoon. Light a candle to set an aromatherapy mood:

Step Three: Throw out your stuff on the counter. You WILL make a mess. And get over the fact that your bedhead curls are sticking straight up and you are still in your jammies with no bra. And yes, someone WILL come over to talk to you when you look like Godzilla with bad hair. Get over it.

Done! Not so bad. Nothing fancy. No stupid crimping and and idiot stuff like "details" or "swirls" or "sugar sprinkles":

Step Four: Only make ONE, 1, uno homemade pie. No need to make 20 different pies with 20 different fruits and creams complete with lattice strips. Make homemade banana bread instead, that's why it's called quick bread:

Keep an eye on your pie and stop stressing. Open the oven door and step into a break dance routine on your flour and cinnamon covered floor because you made homemade pie and it turned out fine:

Step Five: Make a couple of turnovers with leftover pie dough and fruit for a friend or two. Good way to sneak in a treat for the next VT visit:

Step Six: Throw away your turkey baster, Reynold plastic bag for turkeys, and your foil thingie to cook the turkey in.

Step Seven: Like I said before, hopefully you did your shopping last night. Tomorrow's Thanksgiving Menu is going to be (DRUMROLL):

A Hamburger Bar! Complete with fixings. Throw all the toppings on the counter and grill the meat and you are DONE before the "Eye of the Tiger" song is over. Throw in some tortilla chips, salsa, Oreos. Cover the couches upstairs with sheets and you will have a very happy family with food and football!

And that is how you survive Thanksgiving Baking Day!

On a side note, host a Pie Night at your house. I am anticipating at least 20 different homemade pies at my house tomorrow night and 35 people showing up. See? That's why you only need to make ONE pie!!


And now I have some time for sewing!

(music continued....)

Face to face, out in the kitchen heat 
Hangin' tough, stayin' hungry 
They stack the odds 'til we take to the kitchen 
For we bake with the skill to survive 


Risin' up, straight to the top 
Have the guts, got the glory 
Went the distance, now I'm not gonna stop 
Just a woman and her will to survive