Hello ladies,
Thank you so much for coming to the latest Diva events this weekend. I hope everyone Had as much fun as I did. MSN had a featured article today and what not to do for thanksgiving. here is is:

Don't be "creative" with the menu.
Everyone loves trying out a new recipe to impress their guests, but Thanksgiving is no place for kiwi stuffing, arugula salad, raspberry soup, or nouvelle anything. Remember the mission: You are recreating a traditional holiday atmosphere, and the only way to do that is with a traditional menu made from ingredients people understand. You don't have to literally "eat what the Pilgrims ate" — even money says they weren't drinking great wine or eating chocolate mousse at the first Thanksgiving — but whatever you serve, your guests should want to eat in enormous quantities until they're unconscious on your couch. This is the goal.
Don't even think of serving anything other than turkey.
As it would happen, the Pilgrims served four wild turkeys at the first Thanksgiving in 1621, along with venison, roast duck, clams, eels, wheat and corn breads, leeks, watercress, wild plums, homemade wine, and something that sounds alarmingly like succotash. The key word in this sentence, of course, is turkey. Thanksgiving tradition demands it. Not goose (Christmas), lamb (Easter), or hamburgers (Fourth of July). Not roast beef, unless you're also celebrating someone's retirement. And certainly not fish, which the Pilgrims used to fertilize corn. Turkey. It's the only way.
Don't get a frozen turkey.
Your turkey must be fresh. There's something utterly unfoodlike about a giant, cold, rock-hard white spheroid that would break your foot if you dropped it. Fresh tastes better and looks real (albeit a bit naked). It costs more, but how many days a year do you eat turkey? Go for it. For a dozen people, buy a twenty- to twenty-two-pound bird. The bigger the better, since everyone should leave at the end of the day with enough sliced turkey for a couple of sandwiches the next day.

OK-now for the fun part. the article is from 1984!!!
Adapted from "The Modern American Thanksgiving" by Glen Waggoner, from Esquire's November 1984 issue.

Thank Goodness times have changed and we actually have something other than Iceberg lettuce in the grocery stores!! and we have palettes to accommodate new and interesting flavors.

Bon Appetite with MANY new flavors and taste this holiday!

If you make any of the dishes we made this weekend please report back how they went over (Im sure you will all make them perfectly).