Thanksgiving Helpers

Mitch and I are helping mom prepare the Thanksgiving feast today. It's just going to me us and mom and dad. My sister and her hubby are visiting relatives on "his" side this particular holiday.

One of the things that mom makes every year for Thanksgiving is her Nanny's Stuffed Celery! Mom has been eating this yummy stuff every single year for as long as she's been married to dad (34 years - shhhhhhhhhhh) and she just loves it!

This year both Mitch and I wanted to give mom a hand in the kitchen to make it a little bit easier on her! *wink*

You start with a softened 8 ounce package of cream cheese.

Mitch didn't want any of that good stuff to get wasted so he's cleaning the foil paper before it gets trashed!

To the softened cream cheese you add 1/3 - 1/2 cup blue cheese, add 1 small can of those teeny tiny shrimp that you find in the section of the grocery story with the tuna fish (dad's favorite). Add a nice healthy squirt of lemon juice, a Tablespoon of worcestershire sauce and a 1/2 teaspoon of onion salt or powder. Cream all of these ingredients together and you're all set to stuff the celery!

Being the helpful dogs that we are, we had to taste test to be sure that all the seasonings were just perfect!

Mitch didn't play fair! Mom had 2 spoons - one for me and one for him. He ate his and then ate mine! See me checking the floor for any crumbs that he might have dropped!! Not fair, piggy boy!

This is the plate all ready for the Thanksgiving table~

After the stuffed celery was prepared, it was time to stuff Mr. Turkey. Mom always cooks the giblets for me and this year I have to share with Mitch and as luck would have it, our turkey had doubles of everything inside - 4 livers, 2 hearts and 4 gizzards! Is that lucky or what!!

Check this out! Does this not look awesome?

I think Mitch burned his tongue on the hot pan trying to get all the goodies so he didn't have to share with me! haha - serves you right, fatso!

You have to know that Mitch has already had a bit of the liver and mom is telling him that this fork-full is for Maggie - that's me! Look how well he listens to mom!

We have so much to be thankful for this year but the most important thing is that we are loved and that we have each other!

Happy Thanksgiving to all of our doggie friends celebrating today and even if you don't celebrate this holiday in your country, please know that we are so thankful to have all of you as our friends,

So until next time...............

Love ya lots,

Maggie and Mitch