I spent the day yesterday baking. I made a yellow cake with penuche frosting. Have any of you had that? My grandma always had a yellow cake with penuche frosting at family dinners. It was baked in a sheet cake pan and I dearly loved that frosting. It’s made with butter and brown sugar and confectioners sugar. Ok….it’s just sugar…spreadable, caramelized, burry sugar! Then I baked a double batch of corn bread. This was for the Hunter’s Chili/Soup Bean Supper at the community building last night. Yes, my friends…I’m sure if you have never spent time in our neck of the woods, you are not aware that yesterday started a national holiday. It was the opening day of rifle deer season! Schools actually SHUT DOWN for the first week. Grown men quit their jobs if they think their boss won’t let them off for hunting season. People dressed in camo, rifles in their gun racks, muddy four wheelers in the backs of their muddy trucks, shots ringing out from every hilltop and holler. Man oh man…it’s Carhartt Heaven here! So, we had our supper last night and the fellers sat around to chew the fat fer a while. The old guys telling these young whipper snappers how it was done in their day…each tale bigger than the last. What a hoot!

Y’all are gonna think that’s all I do…bake and cook. Well, I sure have been enjoying it and this farm brings it out in me since this is where I learned to cook in the first place. Tomorrow we head to the cousin’s for Thanksgiving. I’m bringing all my ingredients with me to bake there. We were going to leave Wednesday but there’s six inches of snow predicted so we’ll go early. It was 70 degrees here yesterday…what an absolute treat!

What is your favorite food memory of Thanksgiving?

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