Thanksgiving Blessings

Thanksgiving was a sweetly blessed time this year.  Dear friends of ours invited us to their home for to celebrate Thanksgiving with them for the first time in their new home.

The table was lovingly set with china passed down from her grandmother's collection.

All the abundance of food for our family included the traditional Thanksgiving favorites.  She made homemade sourdough rolls, and fresh homemade butter too!

A true feast of thanksgiving, with happily stuffed bellies!

But I think the one who enjoyed the meal most was our friends' daughter who upon finishing all the food on her plate, thought she could do better by licking the plate clean.

Is there any better thanks for a Thanksgiving meal than this? {smiles}

After dinner we went outside to stretch our legs and do a little practice shooting at their outdoor shooting range.  All of us got to try our hand at the target practice!  Afterwards we came back inside for hot cocoa or tea around their cozily blazing wood fire, and we enjoyed a lovely evening of good fellowship, and a blessed time together.

Since I cooked the turkey for the meal, after carving it I placed the bones back in my grandmother's roaster, and added a couple of teaspoons of apple cider vinegar, and slowly simmered the bones covered in water for about 24 hours on the stove top.

16 cups of rich turkey bone broth ready to go into bottles.

This amazing bone broth is full of flavor, and packed with nutrients.  My family has made bone broth long before it became popular to do so.  I remember my mother using this same roasting pan and cooking the bones in water overnight and then making soup out of the bones.  Amazing isn't it, how family traditions that our family always enjoyed and never even realized the health benefits to it!  Now that it has become quite popular to make bone broth (visit this website here to read more about the benefits of bone broth), I take joy in continuing in the tradition that that our family has been doing for many, many years.

One of our family's favorite meals after Thanksgiving is turkey soup, made with this bone broth.

It is just a simple soup, chock full of potatoes, carrots, corn, and broccoli with just a bit of salt and pepper needed to round out the flavor.  Served up with a platter of my iron skillet biscuits,  the joy of Thanksgiving continues to bless our tummies for another meal or two!