Oh hello there, good looking.  It’s been quite a while since we last spoke.  To be honest, I have been busy trying to catch up with my writing (is it December yet?) and watching Lost.  Stupid show–it’s like cocaine!  In any case, let’s catch up a little.

I hope you all had a brilliant Thanksgiving!  Mine was very quiet and mostly perfect.  My family enjoyed turkey, many thanks to my mother for the cooking and my brother for the lifting.  I made a green bean and mushroom thing.  I haven’t decided what to call it yet.  Any ideas?  Here’s the recipe in a nutshell: I mixed 3/4 cup of panko bread crumbs with 2 tablespoons of onion flakes (sorry Margo) and 1 tablespoon of butter in a pan.  I kept that going until the crumbs were toasty.

Then I put the toasty crumbs in a dish, and cooked up green beans and mushrooms in a pan until they were happily toasted as well.  I like my green beans crunchy, so I didn’t cook them too long.  I mixed in another tablespoon of butter at the end, stirred it about, then put the vegetables in a bowl.  I sprinkled the bread crumbs on top mixed some in and served it.  Here is a picture of it before it hit the table:

My only suggestion is: Cut the green beans in half, at least.  I decided to be lazy and keep them whole.  It was a pain in the rear end to get them onto everyone’s plate.  Next time I make this I am going to toss in some fresh garlic.  I imagine it would only improve the recipe.

Beyond dinner, I sat around the house, wrote, played with Simon (who will be featured in a post tomorrow) and read.  It was a great day off.  How was your Thanksgiving?