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Present Notes:

Hearken to the Bonus Episode about Emma’s e-book HERE

What your plans are for Thanksgiving this 12 months:

Having it at Elsie’s and cooking with their mother

Favourite Thanksgiving Reminiscence:

Elsie – When Nova was 3 and so they wrote on leaves all the things she was grateful for

Emma – Going to her Nice-Aunt Ina’s home and consuming honey butter

Favourite Thanksgiving Custom:

Elsie – Making Thanksgiving meals with Emma

Emma – Making Gingerbread homes

Favourite Thanksgiving dish to make:

Elsie – Gingerbread Cookies, Chex Combine, Charcuterie, and Oatmeal Cookie Shot or Cinnamon Toast Crunch Shot

Emma – Turkey

Favourite Thanksgiving dish to eat:

Elsie – Stuffing, Pumpkin Pie

Emma – Baked Macaroni and Cheese, Inexperienced Bean Casserole, Stuffing, Funeral Potatoes, Crockpot Mashed Potatoes, Espresso Martini, and Affogato

Favourite Thanksgiving Dessert:

Elsie – Apple Tart

Emma – Pumpkin Marble Cheesecake, No Bake Caramel Apple Cheesecake, Caramel Apple Cheesecake, and Cookies

Favourite factor to do after dinner:

Elsie – Watch a film and beautify gingerbread cookies

Emma – Watch a film or do a puzzle

Sparks Pleasure:

Elsie – Moose Glasses

Emma – Behind the Seams by Dolly Parton

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Episode 210 Transcript:

Elsie: You’re listening to The Lovely Mess Podcast, your cozy consolation hear. Thanksgiving is subsequent week, so we’re letting you in on all of our Thanksgiving favorites. That is going to be like a present notes episode with a ton of hyperlinks as a result of I’m not going to lie our Thanksgiving recipe archive is like balling. It’s unimaginable.

Emma: It’s fairly epic. And yeah, I can all the time inform from family and friends members once they learn my weblog or not as a result of in the event that they’re making an attempt to explain to me how one can make nearly any casserole, I’m like, oh, you don’t learn my weblog. And I don’t care. It doesn’t hassle me. I’m like, oh, you don’t know, however I even have all of those, that is what I’ve devoted my life to. 

Elsie: Casserole queen. 

Emma: That is what I do. And I really like to listen to different individuals’s recipes. It’s not that. It’s similar to, you recognize, in the event that they’re like, Oh, if you happen to’ve by no means made this earlier than, and I’m like, Oh, I’ve many instances I’ve examined that one many instances and I’ve put my favourite model on the web. Like that’s who I’m. 

Elsie: So earlier than we leap in, I believed this may be a great time so that you can give an replace in your e-book launch since you launched handmade homicide a few weeks in the past. 

Emma: Yeah, proper earlier than Halloween. So by the point you’re listening to this, it’s been over a month. And I’ve acquired to say, ’trigger I don’t really feel like I’ve acquired to speak about it on the podcast since I did the particular bonus episode. However yeah, and if you happen to didn’t hear that particular bonus episode, return trigger it got here out type of in between. It wasn’t an everyday Monday episode. However I feel if you happen to’re subscribed, it could have simply popped up for you, however if you happen to’re not subscribed and also you missed it, return as a result of I speak about my e-book, however I additionally learn chapter one. So that you get type of somewhat freebie, somewhat teaser into the e-book if you happen to’re . Anyway, it was so enjoyable to launch that e-book. And other people have been so, so good. And it was similar to a type of days the place I spent means an excessive amount of time on my telephone, simply taking a look at individuals’s feedback and like writing again to them or hearting them or no matter, you recognize, and I acquired so many feedback on our weblog and folks wrote me emails and it was simply actually, actually candy. And since then I’ve had a lot of individuals write me feedback or ship me emails as they’ve acquired the e-book, as they completed the e-book and telling me what they thought and I’ve acquired a bunch of very nice Amazon opinions too, and from lots of people that I don’t know, like, not like mates, which I respect when mates do it too, however when it’s like somebody you don’t know, and there was this one assessment, I ought to put it up on Instagram. I hope it doesn’t come off like I’m making enjoyable of it as a result of I really actually deeply appreciated this assessment, however basically, I’m paraphrasing. They mentioned, I wasn’t anticipating a lot, this can be a new author, however it was really actually good. And it was similar to a very nice assessment the place they’re like, I actually loved this e-book and I didn’t suppose it was essentially going to be excellent. It’s like, wow, that is fairly the assessment, and thanks. And I’m glad you favored it. , it makes me so comfortable to consider individuals having fun with the e-book as a result of that’s what I wish to write for. I’ve loved so many books. Books have been such a consolation and leisure and an escape for me all by way of my life since I used to be in center college. So the concept of attending to be part of that in individuals’s lives means actually the world to me. And I’ve additionally had various individuals write me and be like, I’m a librarian and we’re undoubtedly going to have it at our library. Like simply, you recognize. 

Elsie: Oh, that’s nice. 

Emma: Yeah, it being in libraries, you don’t know what which means to me as a result of libraries are like a sanctuary to me. That’s like the place I’d eat my lunch in highschool. Like, I really like libraries. So yeah, understanding that my books are in some libraries throughout the nation simply means the world to me. And yeah, it retains promoting. I can see like in Amazon, the numbers that promote on there and it retains rising and rising. I’ve offered nicely over 500 at this level. I don’t actually have quite a lot of expectations, to be trustworthy with you. Like, I didn’t actually have quite a lot of targets aside from do it. So for me, I’m like, all of that is gravy and icing, however I used to be shocked what number of I offered and the way many individuals learn it and the way rapidly they learn it. And I don’t know, perhaps I shouldn’t have been shocked. I don’t know, however it seems like individuals actually acquired it and that was actually enjoyable and actually encouraging.

Elsie: Good. So yeah, if you happen to’ve learn the e-book Shamelessly Aldous requests please go away for an Amazon assessment. 

Emma: Yeah, I’ll too. I’ve no disgrace.

Elsie: Yeah, I feel now we have good karma as a result of now we have been review-bombed up to now. Yeah, the place individuals go away imply opinions to harm you not essentially having learn your e-book. And so, yeah, when individuals do the other of that when individuals go away good opinions to assist, it’s so significant and fantastic, and yeah, so in case you have a minute, do go away a assessment on there. I feel that it makes a distinction, and it’s necessary. 

Emma: Yeah. And it’s already like, I feel after the primary day it was on Goodreads and there are some opinions on there.

Elsie: Oh, yeah. I left one on Goodreads on the primary day. I used to be the primary particular person. I used to be very pleased with that reality. 

Emma: Yeah. So it’s been a blast. And it’s been loads. Yeah. I’m excited to write down extra. I don’t actually have any information to share. And I’m nonetheless making an attempt to determine the audio model. I’ve gotten somewhat derailed. It’s a busy time of 12 months, however I’m nonetheless on it and it’s nonetheless coming and I nonetheless don’t know when, however it’ll. 

Elsie: Good. Effectively, I’m glad you bought to have fun and I’m so pleased with you. And I do know we’re all cheering you on. It’s a really particular time for the podcast since you’ve been speaking about writing a novel since 2020. So that is very cool. Yeah. Yay. Okay. So we’re going to speak all about Thanksgiving since Thanksgiving is that this week. Hopefully, we will persuade you to make considered one of our recipes. I truthfully, have finished Thanksgiving in Tennessee. We principally stayed in Tennessee for Thanksgiving for the previous eight years. And so I did like quite a lot of Thanksgivings the place I did all the things and I used all of Emma’s recipes each time and Dealer Joe’s stuff. 

Emma: Yeah, you’ll be able to’t make all of it. I imply, you’ll be able to, however it’s quite a lot of work. 

Elsie: However I all the time did, we’ll speak about them, however there’s stuffing meatballs after which there’s like this marbled pie that’s like type of half Pumpkin pie half cheesecake. That’s tremendous good. It’s means higher than cheesecake, and it’s means higher than pumpkin pie.

Emma: I agree It’s like the right combine as a result of I like each these issues, however I actually prefer it collectively, one thing about combining it that makes it higher. 

Elsie: Additionally Emma’s stuffing recipe is superb. So we’ll do a fairly large perhaps we’ll like a hyperlink to 1 huge Thanksgiving recipe. Yeah, now we have a Thanksgiving facet dish.

Emma: So yeah, let’s begin with speaking about our Thanksgiving plans for this 12 months. So this can be a very, very particular 12 months for me as a result of it’s our first 12 months that we’ve moved again and we’re internet hosting and It’s type of the primary 12 months that Emma and I are gonna get to, like, do all of it collectively.

Elsie: I imply, with our mother too, sorry, mother. 

Emma: No, mother’s within the combine. Mother’s within the combine after all. 

Elsie: We’re gonna have a lot enjoyable. We have been simply speaking about doing it on Friday as an alternative of Thursday, simply in order that now we have extra time to take pleasure in and savor it and never make it really feel rushed or cramped or something. So yeah, I simply wish to have like a baking marathon and watch the films in my kitchen like two to 4 Christmas films in a row, and similar to make, you recognize, a pair pies and a few sides. And I simply suppose that sounds so magical and enjoyable. 

Emma: Yeah. I’m very excited to cook dinner. And I really, love internet hosting, however I principally love cooking, so it’s the right combine for me. I’m simply going to deliver my stuff over to Elsie’s and heat it up somewhat or no matter, and we’re going to have it over right here. And I’m positive I’ll inevitably go away a bunch of stuff at your own home on accident like pans and stuff, however I’ll do my greatest. What can I say? Yeah. And you then’re having Jeremy’s household, your in-laws on Thanksgiving. I feel mine’s going to finish up being on Saturday. So I’ll have our household’s Thanksgiving Friday after which there’s on Saturday. So it all the time type of finally ends up being barely totally different annually. I really feel prefer it’s similar to no matter suits all people’s schedule. Which I like. 

Elsie: I like that. I undoubtedly suppose it’s higher to love, give every its day. To be able to take pleasure in it extra. And never be like, all full and bizarre. 

Emma: Yeah. I’m additionally very like, I don’t care a lot about dates. I care much more about holidays are for household, so any means which you can get to spend time with household, you recognize, extra and generally you’ll be able to’t, generally it’s such as you’re going to be, you recognize, by yourself as a result of, for American Thanksgiving, it’s like crammed between Halloween and Christmas so it’s like, you don’t have to choose like what you’re doing. So lots of people are in that boat and that’s nice too. I feel you’ll be able to have enjoyable with simply your instant household, however yeah, holidays are for household. Don’t care a lot about what day it’s or no matter, you recognize, if you happen to make all the things from scratch, no matter I like cooking if you happen to don’t. Do it your individual means. It’s for household. 

Elsie: Good. Yeah, no, I fully agree. Okay, so let’s speak about our favourite Thanksgiving reminiscence. I feel I’ve one. So, when Nova was age three, we acquired this pack of like, little paper leaves and let her write all of the issues. I imply we have been writing them however she was saying the issues that she was grateful for and it was just about like each particular person we knew after which you recognize all of her little like TV reveals and like considered one of them mentioned China, they simply mentioned like type of simply something she knew.

Emma: It’s like when little children pray and also you’re similar to something that comes into their thoughts. Yeah, they simply checklist it. 

Elsie: Yeah, I stored them, and I really feel like I wish to all the time try this, so we’ll should do it this 12 months with Oscar, who’s now two years previous. 

Emma: Who is aware of what he’ll say? Oh my gosh. 

Elsie: And it’s simply so cute to, like, see what sorts of issues they’re grateful for as a result of it could possibly be something. It’s most likely not household. 

Emma: No, I don’t suppose I’ll make the checklist, however that’s okay. Oh, I additionally was eager about childhood, trigger I really feel like you will have so many issues from Halloween and Christmas, particularly Christmas. That’s like a giant, you recognize, you bear in mind Christmas a lot, however I’ll say we used to, once we have been actually little, we’d go over to our nice aunt Ina’s home who lived subsequent door, subsequent door neighbors with our grandma. They have been sisters and subsequent door and so they had married brothers, very random, small city. It’s superb, yeah. However anyway, our grandaunt Ina was a tremendous cook dinner. She cherished cooking. And her home was additionally similar to very grandma-fancy to me. As somewhat child, I perceived it as very fancy, you recognize, only a cool home, as I idolized it somewhat. And, however the principle factor is trigger I used to be a child so, you recognize, whenever you’re a child, you actually don’t respect meals. You’re like, a choosy eater till you’re in highschool, or I used to be anyway. So the factor that I gravitated in direction of was bread. Consuming simply rolls on a regular basis. At Nice Aunt Ina’s home, she had honey butter. And I feel it was the primary time as a child. Yeah, I had honey butter, and it actually caught with me, as a result of I nonetheless do not forget that honey butter. 

Elsie: Honey butter is such an important Thanksgiving recipe. 

Emma: It’s to me, yeah. And it additionally to me is like, that is what fancy individuals have at their Thanksgiving as a result of Aunt Ina had it at her home.

Elsie: I really like that. That’s hilarious. How humorous. In order that’s my little child, child mind Thanksgiving reminiscence. 

Emma: That’s so cute. I like it. Okay. Favourite Thanksgiving custom. I feel I’m like simply excited to make Thanksgiving with you. I feel that’s so particular to me.

Elsie: Yeah, I really feel like quite a lot of the meals are very conventional like we make quite a lot of the identical issues yearly.

Emma: And I’ll say we haven’t finished this like yearly, however the years we do it, it stands proud to me like quite a lot of instances we’ll purchase like a type of kits of like a gingerbread home that the children can put collectively and it’s not essentially tasty and it doesn’t essentially all the time end up, however it’s like enjoyable. It’s enjoyable too, it’s like type of pre-made. 

Elsie: Tastes like ass appears to be like like shit, however it’s a enjoyable exercise. 

Emma: Enjoyable exercise. It prices like 12 {dollars} or no matter from the grocery retailer, so that you don’t should make all of it forward, you recognize, trigger you’re already cooking a lot. And I really feel like that’s like a extremely enjoyable, I don’t know, we’ve finished that fairly just a few instances and it’s enjoyable. It’s cute. 

Elsie: I agree with that. It’s very, very joyful. I used to be considering this 12 months perhaps we may beautify cookies. 

Emma: Yeah, that’d be enjoyable. I similar to adorning with children as a result of it’s such a distinct exercise than whenever you do it with adults. You do it by yourself. It’s a complete totally different vibe, however it’s actually candy and cute.

Elsie: Yeah. My children actually love cooking, and clearly, like, you need to choose issues that work for them that they may help with. However there are many issues that youngsters may help with, so, yeah, I feel it’s very, very enjoyable. Yeah. 

Emma: Oscar will most likely simply eat all of the sprinkles, however it’s nonetheless cute. 

Elsie: It’s nonetheless cute. Okay, your favourite Thanksgiving dish to make. 

Emma: Okay, yeah, so, I like making a turkey. It’s not my favourite one to eat, however I simply love pulling it out of the oven and the way in which it appears to be like. It seems like a triumph. Yeah! It seems like a cooking triumph. Like yearly that I’ve finished one and there are some years I don’t like some years we do similar to honey baked ham or I’ll do meatballs, I’ll do my stuffing meatballs as a result of I really really feel just like the turkey like will get eaten the least out of all of the dishes. It’s good for leftovers although. It’s good for sandwiches and all kinds of issues. However I do really feel like whenever you pull it out of the oven and you then put the garnishes round it. If I do one this 12 months, which I don’t actually know if I’m going to for positive. By the point you hear this, I’ll know.

Elsie: Possibly like a small little mini one. 

Emma: I type of needed to do that, that is so random, however you should buy these little papers they type of appear to be a bizarre chef’s hat and you place them on the top of the turkey legs. I’ve by no means purchased these earlier than. I’m positive you might make them too. I simply really feel like they’re humorous and I’ve by no means finished it. So if I do a turkey, I’m going to place these little paper booties on it as a result of one thing about it’s humorous to me. However yeah, I like making the turkey. I like consuming turkey positive. It’s good, however it’s not like my primary eats, however it seems like a triumph, it seems like, look what I did. 

Elsie: After I was youthful, I used to all the time say like, Thanksgiving meals isn’t good. And I used to be like such somewhat brat, however now that I’m older and I’ve made it, I feel a part of it was like serving to to take part with making it. I do respect it extra. 

Emma: Yeah. Do you will have one which’s your favourite to make? To not eat, however your favourite to make? 

Elsie: Sure, so, the issues I like baking are, you recognize, no matter. Choose me if you’d like. So I’ve a gingerbread cookie recipe that’s on the weblog, and I swear to God, it’s the most effective. It’s actually, actually mushy. It’s mushy and chewy. It’s not just like the laborious, crispy ones, that are additionally good, however, I don’t like, not as a lot. These ones are extra like a hybrid the place it’s like the feel of a sugar cookie, however the flavors of a gingerbread cookie.

Emma: And I’ll say it’s heavy on the gingerbread taste. Some gingerbread cookies I’ve had earlier than are type of lighter. 

Elsie: It smells very fragrant. 

Emma: Yeah, the scent is superb and the style could be very robust, which I like, however, you recognize, only a heads up. 

Elsie: Yeah, they’re enjoyable. After which I like making a Chex combine. I try this yearly. I simply suppose it’s enjoyable. I like making a charcuterie, issues like that. After which the opposite factor I needed to say that I really like, I’m making this for Thanksgiving this 12 months and we did it not too long ago once we had a party for our dad, however I’m going to make oatmeal cookie photographs. So I’ve been engaged on the weblog by way of like, principally each well-liked shot recipe and so like about half of them are up there now and oatmeal cookie photographs are considered one of they’re like so good for Thanksgiving as a result of they actually do style like an oatmeal cookie. There’s additionally one which’s referred to as cinnamon toast crunch shot, which I personally suppose that one’s higher, however it’s extra cinnamony and my dad thought it was too robust. So it’s like, you recognize I feel it’s a private choice.

Emma: It has a fireball in it, proper? 

Elsie: Yeah. Oatmeal cookie is certainly, like, a really delicate, gentle like, everybody would really like it. 

Emma: Yeah. And I do suppose a shot is a enjoyable strategy to begin a meal. It’s hilarious, proper? Yeah. Effectively, it’s humorous and enjoyable, however I additionally really feel like Yeah. Yeah. , I personally, I’m not like a heavy drinker on Thanksgiving.

Elsie: Like I’ve acquired loads to do and it’s the center of the day and I’m most likely going to get drained anyway from consuming all of the meals. So I really feel like a shot is like type of a great, you recognize, you get began and you then’re feeling unfastened and now it’s time to eat some casseroles. Yeah, that’s it. No huge deal. Yeah.

Emma: It’s the correct quantity. It’s actually all you want. 

Elsie: It’s true. I agree. However yeah, I like making Emma’s recipes too. Like I discussed those I discussed earlier than, I make these nearly yearly. So it’s enjoyable. I ought to attempt a brand new one this 12 months. 

Emma: I’ll say, so we’re going to speak subsequent about my favourite Thanksgiving dish to eat, and quite a lot of mine are casseroles. And I do like making casseroles. However they’re very monotonous whenever you’re making like 4 or 5 as a result of it’s type of such as you’re doing the identical factor again and again. 

Elsie: You informed me you have been over the casserole grinder. 

Emma: You’re making a roux, you recognize, you’re making a cheese sauce basically, and also you’re placing stuff in it, and you recognize, it’s type of after which there’s a crunchy prime. It’s type of somewhat little bit of a method, which is one thing I like about it as a result of to me it’s very comforting. It’s easy. It’s easy. However it’s a little boring whenever you’re making like 4 or 5 of them without delay, you recognize. Anyway, a few of my favourite Thanksgiving dishes to eat do occur to be casseroles. A few of my all-time favourite is, it’s on the weblog, however it’s my favourite baked macaroni and cheese. I really feel like some individuals don’t consider baked macaroni and cheese as a casserole, it’s. 

Elsie: It’s a ten out of 10.

Emma: And yeah, it’s excellent. Very yummy. Tacky, noodles, crunchy prime. It’s all the things you want. It’s all the things you need. That’s truthfully all I’d eat, too, it’s my favourite leftover as nicely. Like, I really like warming it up the subsequent day. Like it. So I really like that. My husband’s favourite is inexperienced bean casserole, and I additionally love that. I’ve grown to like it much more through the years. I do make mine with recent inexperienced beans. Some individuals don’t like that. Some individuals desire the canned, and that’s cool. However mine is sort of a hybrid. The one on the positioning is type of a, it’s do-it-yourself, however it’s not laborious. Trigger I really feel like some individuals are like, Oh, from scratch, inexperienced bean casserole, like, Oh, it’s going to be actually laborious. And it’s like, it’s not laborious. It’s actually fairly tremendous simple, however I do just like the recent inexperienced beans. I feel it provides it a distinct texture. And I feel it provides it a barely more energizing, higher, in my view, taste. 

Elsie: I fully agree. I’ve had it quite a lot of instances and it’s higher for me. No, similar to not as soggy. So yeah, attempt that in case you have texture points with the inexperienced beans or no matter, I feel inexperienced bean casserole is so scrumptious. It’s considered one of my favourite ones, however yours is like an additional good recipe. 

Emma: Yeah. And that one makes nice leftovers as nicely. Casseroles usually me are nice leftovers, which is why they’re so nice to love, I really like them for Thanksgiving. And that’s what we’re speaking about at this time, however I additionally suppose they’re very nice if like somebody’s sick or somebody has a child, it’s a pleasant factor to deliver over as a result of you’ll be able to rewarm it for days on finish and it’s scrumptious, and it’s comforting. A few new ones that I placed on the positioning this 12 months, so I’ve various stuffing recipes and a few individuals name this dressing. I feel it’s type of a regional factor. My mother-in-law all the time calls it dressing and I’m all the time like, what? It all the time takes me a second. After which I’m like, Oh, stuffing. Trigger I simply name it stuffing. That’s simply, that I feel from the field of stovetop stuffing is a part of it. It’s like rising up, we had quite a lot of field range prime stuffing. So to me, it’s stuffing and also you stuff the chicken with it, however you might additionally simply make it in a pan, which is normally what I do. The one which I’ve placed on the positioning this 12 months is my fundamental basic catch-all. I wouldn’t actually name it fundamental as a result of it’s fairly fancy. Nevertheless it’s very right down to earth. There’s nothing bizarre about it. There’s no elements that your uncle’s gonna be like, What? Why would you place this in it? It’s very, like, easy. Nevertheless it principally has a ton of recent herbs in it. And it makes your own home scent unimaginable whenever you’re baking it, you may be like, my home smells unimaginable proper now. It smells like the most effective candle I’ve ever lit. That’s what the stuffing smells like. And it’s scrumptious. And you need to use all kinds of various breads in it. I like to recommend utilizing no less than two differing kinds simply to have some totally different textures and totally different flavors. And my primary tip with it’s to purchase that day-old bread that they’ve on the retailer. You understand how they’ll have it marked down and it’s like in somewhat type of generally a bin or one thing. So it’s like previous bread. Purchase that since you really type of want stale bread for actually good stuffing. So in case your bread is model new, recent, you then’re going to want to chop it up the evening earlier than and type of set it out since you want it to be stale so it could actually take up. It’s a bread pudding. That’s what stuffing is, it’s a savory bread pudding. So that you need it to soak up the eggs and butter and milk that’s in it. After which one other dish that’s actually, actually good and I really feel like It has a bizarre title, however most individuals name it, I name it funeral potatoes. Some individuals name it tacky potatoes. I feel some individuals simply, it makes them unhappy to name a vacation dish funeral potatoes, however it’s a widespread factor that folks will make for funeral lunches.

Elsie: It’s type of a church casserole. 

Emma: It’s a church casserole. Yeah. In order that’s, I feel the place the title comes from, however it’s basically tacky potatoes and you employ cornflakes on prime, which to me is so midwest, so like grandma’s cooking, prefer it simply, it jogs my memory a lot of church, of my nice grandma Lula, and it’s scrumptious. And likewise, bonus, you now have a field of cornflakes in your own home. And I personally love consuming cornflakes, so you will have further cornflakes round that you simply get to eat. I by no means purchase breakfast cereal trigger I simply eat it on a regular basis. So if I’ve an excuse for a recipe and there’s like leftovers, it’s type of good. 

Elsie: Good. That’s enjoyable. Yeah, I like these potatoes. I’m glad that you simply did the casseroles on the weblog, however yeah, I may see how they’d be quite a lot of the identical. 

Emma: It’s type of the same method as you’re making them.

Elsie: My favourite Thanksgiving dish to eat is for positive stuffing. Like stuffing is all the things with gravy. I even have gravy on each single factor as a result of it’s type of similar to the way it’s finished. Yeah, I feel stuffing’s my favourite. I can’t consider the rest that’s like as important as that. 

Emma: I do love mashed potatoes. On our web site, now we have a crockpot mashed potatoes as a result of I wish to type of discover methods to present myself a break additionally I do have a double oven and I’ve a stovetop that has like six burners or no 5 it has 5 burners and I nonetheless really feel like at Thanksgiving issues can get type of full so it’s type of good to have some recipes which you can make in like a gradual cooker or a crockpot. I name it a crock pot. Some individuals name it a gradual cooker simply because generally you don’t have area anymore. So yeah, that one’s on the facet, however I do love mashed potatoes with a lot of butter and garlic in them. And it’s one other, one other vessel for gravy. It’s scrumptious. 

Elsie: Yeah. I like it. Okay. Do you will have a favourite Thanksgiving dessert? 

Emma: Yeah. So we talked concerning the pumpkin marble cheesecake pie. I don’t even bear in mind what it’s referred to as on there. I feel it’s referred to as a slab pie. In order that one’s actually good. I do love this. It’s like a no-bake caramel apple cheesecake. It’s actually good. And there’s only a caramel apple cheesecake type of bake. I’ve each of these on the positioning and so they’re each actually good. Generally I type of like a no-bake although as a result of it’s like chilly and if you happen to simply ate a sizzling meal, it’s similar to a distinct temperature. It’s simply one thing totally different. I don’t know. It’s enjoyable. So yeah. I additionally go loopy, as you’ll be able to inform by my enthusiasm for All these carby casseroles. So I’m normally fairly full. So I do love cookies as similar to, have them round, and you then don’t really feel like you need to eat all of them that day and so they’re simply leftovers. We now have 1 million cookies and I do really feel like Christmas cookies are as welcomed at my Thanksgiving desk as they’re at Christmas time as a result of simply festive. 

Elsie: Yeah, I fully agree. Okay, so Lara simply made an apple tart on our weblog and I wish to hyperlink that recipe as a result of it appears to be like actually enjoyable to make. It’s one of many, like, the place you’ll be able to see, like, all of the layers of apples on the highest. So yeah, I undoubtedly wish to make that this 12 months. However yeah, I feel I’m with you. I feel I’d, like, nearly moderately have cookies. And clearly, like, I’ve to have the pumpkin pie as a result of that’s crucial recipe.

Emma: Yeah, and generally I wish to have like a cup of espresso if we’ve had lunch, not if it’s dinnertime, but when it’s such as you had lunch as a result of I do get actually drained after you eat quite a lot of meals. So a cup of espresso or an espresso martini and even higher an affogato, it’s like ice cream and espresso. These are good issues to supply after a giant lunch like that, particularly if individuals are going to be driving a distance house, they could contemplate seeing in the event that they want any espresso or espresso drinks.

Elsie: Yeah. Good. What’s your favourite factor to do after dinner? After, I feel watch a film, cozy film time. 

Emma: Identical. I really feel like one 12 months we watched Elf as a household, after which after the children went to mattress, we watched Love Truly, which is basically enjoyable and type of humorous with our mother and father as a result of there’s like, type of some scenes the place you’re like, Oh, yeah. Just like the couple who’s like making a porno. They’re like porno stand-ins. 

Elsie: They’ll deal with it. They’ll deal with it. 

Emma: They’ll deal with it. Yeah, it’s true. It’s simply humorous. 

Elsie: Love Truly is so cute. 

Emma: It’s very cute. 

Elsie: Yeah, I undoubtedly have to observe that yearly. Yeah, I feel this 12 months I actually wish to beautify gingerbread cookies and I actually wish to watch a Christmas film or perhaps two. That sounds good.

Emma: Yeah, and I feel one 12 months we did a puzzle. However I really feel like a film’s the way in which to go as a result of generally you’re type of spent. 

Elsie: Oh, yeah. Do you bear in mind once we watched Mary Poppins? 

Emma: Oh, yeah. 

Elsie: That was cute. 

Emma: That’s type of our mother’s film. She’s like, Mary Poppins. 

Elsie: Sure. Like it. 

Emma: And I’ll let you know what I don’t like doing after dinner, dishes. The worst a part of Thanksgiving. All of the dishes. Yeah. It’s just like the at some point a 12 months I’m like, I perceive individuals with the 2 dishwashers. I actually want I had two dishwashers proper now, however I don’t at my home, however like, oh, this may be the day. 

Elsie: Yeah, it undoubtedly would. That’s humorous. Oh my gosh. Enjoyable, enjoyable, enjoyable. Okay, nicely, I’m very excited for Thanksgiving. I feel that is going to be our greatest Thanksgiving ever, and we hope that each one of you will have a beautiful Thanksgiving make considered one of our recipes and ship us an image on Instagram as a result of we wish to see it. 

Emma: Please do. I’d like to see it. Okay, now we’re gonna do a Sparks Pleasure, the place we simply speak about one thing that’s been sparking pleasure for us recently. So mine is, I had pre-ordered this e-book, and it’s all the time a delight whenever you pre-order one thing after which it comes within the mail, and for me, perhaps I’m a scatterbrained particular person, I don’t know, however I normally overlook that I pre-ordered one thing and I don’t even bear in mind what day it’s going to come back. In my thoughts, I’m like, I did it as a result of I pre-ordered it. So I’m like, it’s coming, I don’t have to consider that anymore. So then it’s like a shock. 

Elsie: I really like pre-ordering. 

Emma: It’s like a shock reward to myself sooner or later. Anyway, I pre-ordered Dolly Parton’s new, it’s like a espresso desk e-book. It’s referred to as Behind the Seams. I haven’t learn the entire thing but. It does have quite a lot of writing, tales from her childhood, and tales from performing through the years from her big profession. Nevertheless it additionally has 1 million pictures of her costumes wigs and make-up through the years. There’s a complete web page that has the wigs on like model heads and it’s simply actually lovely. It’s such an important espresso desk e-book as a result of I don’t know anybody who doesn’t no less than considerably find out about Dolly Parton, even if you happen to’re not an enormous fan. It’s like, she’s an icon. However her outfits are simply so cool, and so inspiring, and so a lot of them have handmade parts, I’m not a lot of a seamstress, however I undoubtedly through the years have sewn many bejeweled issues and glued on all kinds of rhinestones and no matter else, particularly in highschool, so it’s actually enjoyable to see all of them, and she or he’s additionally simply a type of performers, too, the place her outfits are fairly wild, and she or he has, like, totally different variations of, like, the coat of many colours, like, you see the unique one, and you then see them through the years, and so it’s a extremely enjoyable e-book. And it got here within the mail and I’ve simply been type of obsessive about it. 

Elsie: Cute. Oh my gosh. That’s cute. Okay. Mine is so foolish. So do you bear in mind the moose glasses from the, is it Nationwide Lampoon Christmas Trip? It’s such as you maintain it by the ears. So I acquired these glasses. I’ll hyperlink them within the present notes. I simply suppose they’re so iconic. I went backwards and forwards as a result of truthfully, like I don’t want them. Nobody wants them. You don’t want them. Nobody wants them. Nevertheless it’s simply cute and enjoyable and joyful. And this time of 12 months, I make quite a lot of area in my price range, my mind, my home, and all the things for like stuff that’s similar to vacation joyful, you recognize? So anyway, I acquired the glasses and I feel that they’re a great eggnog glass. Do you want spiked eggnog? 

Emma: Oh yeah. 

Elsie: I prefer it too. I do know it’s like a like it or hate it. 

Emma: Love an eggnog latte. In the course of the day, you recognize? 

Elsie: Yeah, that’s true. I assume not spiked eggnog can be actually good. I don’t suppose I’ve given it to the children, so I’m going to attempt that. Yeah, I feel that they’re cute, they’re humorous, they’re iconic, you recognize, from a film, and it simply, like, brings me a lot pleasure.

Emma: That’s cute. Like it. Okay, now it’s time for the most effective a part of the present, a joke, a reality, or a meditation with Nova. 

Elsie: Hey Nova, what do you will have for us this week? 

Nova: Two jokes. Why did the turkey cross the highway? 

Elsie: Why? 

Nova: He didn’t need individuals to suppose he was a rooster. 

Elsie: Ah! I really like that joke. 

Nova: Right here’s my subsequent one. If you happen to name a turkey a gobbler, what do you name somewhat turkey? 

Elsie: What would you name the little turkey? 

Nova: A goblet. 

Elsie: Oh, that’s so cute! Alright, have a great week, everybody! 

Nova: Have a great week!

Emma: Everybody is aware of that’s the most effective half. Thanks a lot for listening. When you’ve got any questions or podcast concepts, please e mail us. You are able to do that at podcast@abeautifulmess.com or you’ll be able to name our voicemail at 417-893-0011. We’ll be again subsequent week and we’re doing a consolation rewatch of considered one of our favourite Christmas films of all time, the unique Residence Alone.