Just got back from Kentucky where we were visiting with my husband's family.  It was a great visit!  Not only did we eat some great food, but we were with special family and friends.  I will add more meals tomorrow....but here is what we ate on Thanksgiving day.  Sit back and enjoy this delicious food!!!

When we got there we went to one of my favorite places to eat, Vietnamese Kitchen.  It is a little place with great food.

These are the spring rolls.  These I have figured out how to make.  Not really so hard.  You need to get round rice paper, usually found at oriental stores.  You need to soak it in hot water for about 30 seconds.  Then it is pliable and you can add fillings.  In the one here, they have lettuce, shrimp and rice noodles.  They have changed their dipping sauce since the last time I was there.  I don't like this thick peanut sauce as well as the thinner dipping sauce they used to use.  My mother in law said she thinks the owners have changed.....and this is one result of that change.  I like dipping sauce that is made with fish sauce, vinegar, sugar, chili peppers and ground peanuts.

This is  beef pho (BTW...it is called "fa" not "foe" per my husband) that my hubby had.  It was delicious...better than the place in my previous post from our trip to Toronto.

This is the elusive hot and sour soup.  I LOVE this soup and have tried several times to recreate it.  I can't get near it.  It drives me crazy.  It is SOOOOOO good!!!!  Spicy, sweet all at the same time.  As you can see, it has egg, tofu, green onions.  It is the broth I can't get......but I won't give up.

We went to my sister in law's house for Thanksgiving dinner....my mother in law made everything and it was all DELICIOUS!!!  She has been working for days on this dinner and you can taste all the love in everything. Here are all the dishes....as you can see...they are all the "typical" Thanksgiving dishes....but made with an extra dash of yummy=love.

Look at this turkey.  It was SO moist and delicious.  See all the vegis in there?  

Here is the traditional green bean casserole with the cream of mushroom soup and french's crispy onions. Yum....and see the tin foil pan?  Everything was made in tin foil pans. So smart and easy to clean up.  Everything was placed out buffet style - right from the pans. 

My mother in law's homemade gravy. Look at that goodness....need I say more?!?

Mac and cheese!  My son liked this a lot!  He liked the way the cheese stuck to the noodles and "was stretchy".  

I love how every family has their own style of stuffing.  Some use challlah, some use texas toast, some stale white bread. My mother in law uses croutons and lots of vegis.  It is so yummy.....my husband can never get enough of his mother's stuffing.  And that always make a mother very happy....speaking from personal experience.

Sweet potato casserole with, of course, mini marshmallows on top.  I think marshmallows are one of my favorite sweets.  I secretly  picked off some marshmallow every time I walked by.  Shhhh....don't tell anyone.

Homemade mashed potatoes....the only way to make them.  No boxed or pre-made stuff here.

My plate of Thanksgiving goodness!!!