What food side dish will not be on your plate this Thanksgiving? Mine is that jello mold with fruit cocktail in it. How

[jmowreader]

92. Green bean casserole will not darken my table

Oh lord, let me tell you the disaster that Thanksgiving is already turning out to be.

A couple weeks ago my niece sent me a text, "would you be willing to host Thanksgiving dinner at your house this year? Mom and dad will be out of town." (She normally eats Thanksgiving dinner at her parents' but they're unavailable this year. Please don't ask why to protect their privacy.) So I said that wouldn't be a problem. My house is pretty much designed to do this - I have two refrigerators, a 36-inch induction range and a Traeger grill. She lives in an old mobile home that's way too small for company.

On Thursday I got a text from her: "We're having Thanksgiving dinner at my house. My house is really small but we'll make it work. Please come." This came in AFTER I had already bought the turkey.

I worked days Friday building Thanksgiving packages (a newspaper section with inserts in it - this makes life much easier for us because one person can feed the equivalent of six heads) and after work went out to her house. "Uhh...I thought I was hosting Thanksgiving. We agreed to that a couple weeks ago." "We did?" "Uhh...yeah." I pulled out my phone and showed her the text thread. "Oh." So, now it's at my house again.

Anyway, I'm gonna do smoked turkey, smoked stuffing, mashed potatoes, vegetables, rolls, jello salad, three kinds of olives (black, green and some damn thing I bought at the store last week) and a couple kinds of pie for dessert.