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Thanksgiving Meal Grocery List Thankful for this view from my living room sofa! Thanksgiving is a little over a week away!! Have you planned your Thanksgiving Day meal yet!? If not, there is no time like the present. Planning your meal is step one in prepping for your day. Step 2 is making a shopping list.   I like to make my shopping list like this… Go through every recipe and write down what is needed. Then, check your pantry and refrigerator to make sure of what you have on hand so you don’t over buy or “think” you have something you don’t and have to trek to the grocery store on Thanksgiving morning. (Or in my case - send Smokin Hot Hubby) Below is my shopping list for my Thanksgiving Day meal. I always cook A LOT because it’s what I love to do. Cooking great food for family and friends is what makes Thanksgiving my very favorite holiday. The list shown below is the ingredients and amounts needed for my menu but I have found that a Thanksgiving grocer...

Italian Chicken Grandson Approved I've been with Smokin Hot hubby over 30 years. I was so excited to make him dinner one night when we were first dating. My mom gave me her recipe for pot roast because she figured I couldn't mess it up. Well, she was wrong. It came out so salty and I was devastated. But my amazing man asked for seconds, ate it all, and still asked me to marry him so I knew it was true love. 😉 I had no clue how to cook and truly thought if something had too many steps then it was too complicated. Fortunately, one of the ladies in our church gave me Southern Cooking 1986 Cookbook . On page 222, I  found the Italian Chicken recipe and thought I'd give it a try. I took it one step at a time and it turned out great. Over the past 27/28 years I have tweaked it a bit to make it my own but the inspiration came from the cookbook.  Every time Smokin eats Italian Chicken the horrible memory of that first dinner fades just a little more. ...