I’ve written bits and pieces about Thanksgiving at my Cucina Bella, but here’s an inside look at the good and bad . . .

This was my table. See the centerpiece? It was born of necessity . . . I wanted something fancy and didn’t have time to actually get all the things necessary for it. The strange thing is that I liked this even better than what I had planned. I wish I had just a bit more fruit for the bowl, but c’est la vie – it worked out as is.

This was my lovely antipasti tray: olives, fresh mozzarella, stuffed grape leaves, fillo clams casino and seared beef in fillo. Yum. This stuff went fast.

This was near disaster. While toasting my cornbread for the stuffing, I burnt it. Fortunately it was savable and after 20 minutes of chopping the burnt off, it was all okay. And everyone raved about the stuffing, so that’s a good thing too.

On a side note, I am sure the title of this post will garner me some interesting search hits. Don’t ya think?