{"id":5054,"date":"2013-11-26T22:08:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T03:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/?p=5054"},"modified":"2013-12-22T13:32:57","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T18:32:57","slug":"thanksgiving-tinsel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/2013\/11\/thanksgiving-tinsel\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving Tinsel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Roy walked in the house this afternoon with an armful of dried Japanese maple leaves. \u201cWanna see something cool?\u201d he said, as I scraped pumpkin cheesecake batter into a gingersnap-crusted springform pan. I turned around and fell in love at once with this wispy pink cloud of rosy what-nots. Our first holiday decoration, we decided\u2014Thanksgiving tinsel.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s funny about Thanksgiving week, how different and special it feels. The normal routine is knocked about just enough to open up space and time for those pause-button moments, when you notice something beautiful that the wind blew in to your back yard.<\/p>\n

Sure, it\u2019s cold. The chickens\u2019 water is frozen. Ratzilla is back in the attic. (And his cousin, Ratatouille, is in the kitchen. I found his stash of chocolate chips, toasted almonds, and doggie kibble behind Mastering The Art of French Cooking<\/em> the other day.) The wind blows through the windows of this old farmhouse like nobody\u2019s business.<\/p>\n

But the hoop house is warm and snug in the early afternoon sun\u2014a good place to go and just rest for a minute. And Roy\u2019s newly built insulated \u201cwalk-in\u201d shed is keeping the eggs from freezing.<\/p>\n

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This week the sun is closing down before 4 pm, and the early darkness is startling. But morning brings customers down the driveway to buy three or four dozen eggs at a time. Everyone is smiling, talking about who\u2019s coming to visit, whether the boats will run in the storm, what they\u2019re planning to cook, how the menu\u2019s coming together. For cooks, there\u2019s sheer joy in all the choices, the dogearing of cookbooks and downloading of recipes. The permission to bake everything from dinner rolls to lattice-top pies. Or to completely deconstruct the spice rack, as I did this afternoon. That I admit, was probably not necessary. If the spices are getting a little old, well, at least there are fresh herbs still alive outside. Sage and rosemary\u2014my heroes.<\/p>\n

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I love this holiday that celebrates food and gratitude. What more do you need, really? Well, a warm house would be nice\u2026not that there\u2019s anything wrong with this one\u2026<\/p>\n

Happy Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n

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