My husband is amazing

Several years ago around Thanksgiving time I was heavily pregnant with Isabella (due mid-December). Obviously, considering my condition, we weren't going to travel, so we decided to have Thanksgiving at our house and John offered to do all the cooking so that I could relax. Unsurprisingly, the meal he cooked was fantastic. He decided then and there that he would start a tradition of always cooking the whole Thanksgiving meal himself. Who am I to complain!

This year, we were joined by many members of John's family - Mary, Pat, Marjie, Granny, Gramps, and Uncle Tom. Everyone happily gorged him/herself on the fantastic meal that John produced.

The dinner consisted of -

• A 20lb turkey
• Gravy
• Stuffing
• Green salad with feta and candied pecans
• Mashed potatoes with black truffle oil
• Sweet potato pie with candied pecan topping
• Cranberry sauce made with fresh (not frozen) cranberries
• Fresh green beans sauteed with almond slivers and lemon zest
• Boiled onions in cheese sauce with truffle salt (a tradition in his family)
• Pumpkin pie made from freshly baked pumpkin (no canned pumpkin in this house) with homemade crust and freshly whipped cream
• 3 different kinds of appropriately paired white wines (a pre-dinner wine, during dinner wine, and then desert wine)

John - um, I'm keeping you until the end of this life, maybe for a few more lives after that too.