It's the day before Thanksgiving and we've got a feast planned tomorrow.
So I spent the day gathering ingredients, reading recipes, planning cook times and temps, and prepping the dishes.
It was a full day in the kitchen with an audio book on my headphones (Augustine's City of God for the third time).
It was a few sinks full of dirty dishes, and three whole cycles of the dish washer.
I prepped the stuffing and four casseroles, not all shown here.
I chopped the potatoes for mashed potatoes and shredded the cheese for mac and cheese.
I planned and prepped our Thanksgiving brunch- omelets to order.
And to boot, I even made banana nut bread with some overripe bananas.
I've got the cooking schedule planned so that everything should be done on or about the same time.
We're ready for a relaxing day tomorrow, since all the thinking and planning has been done.
We need only follow the plan.
It was a full, fulfilling day in the kitchen.
After twenty years of keeping a home, domestic duties are transforming themselves into domestic arts, so I find myself enjoying my skills (and my work) more and more.
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