Confessions of a Procrastinator

Dude, I have GOT to stop waiting until 11:30 to start writing these posts. Starting much earlier, however, would break with my tradition as master procrastinator. I routinely waited until the last minute to write papers both in undergrad and grad school (not to say I didn’t do my research beforehand, it was just the writing that I put off) and only once did this truly backfire and bite me in the ass with a mediocre grade. I routinely wait until the last possible moment to pack (this backfired once when I forgot to pack underwear for a visit to the in-laws’). I routinely wait until the last possible moment to leave for the airport (this nearly backfired recently when I forgot Sweet Girl’s passport and we had to go back to the house to get it). I routinely wait until the last possible moment to leave for meetings and appointment (this backfires all the friggin’ time). For all that my anal type-a personality wants things done a certain way don’t you DARE think about deviating from My Plans, I work most efficiently and most effectively under ridiculous deadlines. (And yes, I know that this means my personality conflicts with itself; even on my best days it’s like Ringling Brothers’ around here.)

So anyways, it has come to pass that I will be hosting Thanksgiving this year for the in-laws, which actually is fine, I quite enjoy making Thanksgiving dinner. And typically, I will dash around like a crazy person the last two days before Thanksgiving trying to gather recipes from all across creation and the internet, collect all the ingredients from sundry stores around town, defrost the damn turkey in time to bake it for Thanksgiving not Christmas, and so on and so forth. I do, however, occasionally see the wisdom in trying to work slightly in advance of T minus 2 seconds from a deadline. In an effort to get my shit together before next Thursday, I’m soliciting your help for recipes. Yeah, we do the turkey and the mashed potatoes and gravy and all the normal stuff, but each year I like to add something new and interesting and hopefully edible to the spread. Last year it was maple-glazed acorn squash (they were pretty meh); the year before that it was pumpkin cream cookies (there were none of these left over because I was busy hording them in my cheeks like a chipmunk sharing them with my guests); a couple of years before that we had artichoke dip for an appetizer (if artichokes weren’t so expensive I’d bathe in this stuff). It doesn’t have to be anything terribly complicated, just delicious. So tell me, what would you suggest I add to the mix? Oh, and if there’s interest, I’m happy to post some recipes of dishes that have gone over well with the crowd here in years past, just say the word.

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