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Apricots and Coffee

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Today, I am thankful to have family recipes that are so delicious. I am sitting here, early in the morning, listening to the sounds of my gas oven turn on and off as my Baked Apricots cook. This is another Boozer family recipe (shhhh, secret). Yet, none of them are overly complicated.

My favorite part of Thanksgiving growing up was when my mom let me crush the crackers for the Baked Apricots. I would crush, crush, crush some more, and come back and say, how do they look? She would say nope, needs some more crushing. I just remember it taking me forever to crush those crackers!

But, it was always worth it in the end: Baked Apricots.



Another family must-have for our Thanksgiving is Sauerkraut. Yum. I was talking to Mama Liz (mom's mom for those who don't know) the other day and we were planning out Thanksgiving. The first thing she said was, "well you know we have to have sauerkraut for Papa Joe. He loves sauerkraut." And I said, you know, so do I! She laughed and said, "you're growing up." Everyone (on the Boozer side of the family) used to complain about the awful smell that stuff emitted. But, I had one of the best sandwiches recently. It was a vegetarian reuben. Everything but the corned beef/roast beef plus avocado. Amazing. I will have to remember where I had that...right now it's slipping my mind.

I am also grateful that my sister got some good news this week. We woke up early today and went to have coffee at Ike and Jane's. Yum! Just got back at 7 a.m. from coffee with my sister and couldn't be happier. 

I apologize, this blog really has become about cooking, mostly.

Tomorrow: Washington, DC with Jessica!

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