Happy Thanksgiving!

I am so grateful for the many blessings in my life.

Happy Thanksgiving to all my wonderful family, friends & blog readers!

And if it wasn't Thanksgiving in your neck of the woods, I hope you had an amazing fall weekend nonetheless~

I spent time with my family and enjoyed the glorious weather we are having in this northern city!

And I also completed some projects in the kitchen besides cooking a turkey.

I tackled this wonderful brown butter spice layer cake for our Thanksgiving dessert.

The recipe came from the October issue of Fine Cooking.

{It also makes a fabulous breakfast I might add!}

The cake smelled divine fresh from the oven.

I also turned a bag of these:

into fresh cranberry sauce.

If you have never made fresh cranberry sauce, I highly recommend it.

It takes 10 minutes of your time, but the taste is infinitely better than anything you could buy.

And I chopped and chopped fresh veggies so I could make this:

into pickles.

This is my favorite homemade pickle.

Mustard pickles.

Despite the name, they do not taste like mustard.

They are a sweet and tangy pickle with lots of crunch.

These are but some of the things that graced our Thanksgiving table for dinner yesterday.