Holiday Grand Plan, Week Three

We are already at week three of the Holiday Grand Plan! This week sees further progress on getting ready for the holidays. It sees me still out on the porches and working on windows. On a high note we ordered our new kitchen door - the entrance from last weeks post. The door looks almost exactly the same, and we have a new storm door too! The door should be here in about 3-4 weeks, I am hoping 3 so it is installed, painted and ready for Thanksgiving!

Today there was more progress on sanding, and we installed two of the supports for the railing!

My entrance areas are also under renovation... did I mention that we live in a home that is over 100 years old, and has not had much of anything - thankfully - done to it since the mid 50's? However, someone did insall some crazy flooring upstairs, and added a goldish peel and stick material to all upper 'eyebrow' windows.

Our kitchen entrance, from the side porch, brings you into our much improved kitchen (still in progress):

Kitchen Entrance

Our second entrance, from the front enclosed porch, brings you into the foyer - that is still at the early stages of renovation, and so full of materials that I could not open the door all the way!:

Front Entrance

This weeks freezer meal is Spicy Thai chicken legs (because that is what was on sale this week!) Just double cook everything! I dry cook the legs, just with a bit of sea salt and pepper till the internal temp reads safe, then half goes into a casserole dish, the other half of the chicken legs (10 legs for my boys) into a freezer safe dish; spoon half the sauce on top. The ones for tonight sit in the sauce, in the hot oven, till the side dishes are cooked, marinates well!
Allow 'freezer meal' to cool, and place into freezer with label: thaw overnight in fridge - roast at 350 for about 25 minutes - or until meat thermometer reads safe for poultry.

On sale and into the pantry for holiday meals are 12 cans of organic pumpkin! Yum! Think of all the pumpkin goodness! With the cooler evenings I have  been craving some pumpkin pudding, or maybe something new like pumpkin cupcakes with maple cream cheese frosting!

We pick up our 'new to us' freezer this week - so after a good clean I am hoping to start holiday baking and freezing. I think gingerbread men sound like a good first start!