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[adoreqvc]

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Hello to all our QVC Pals! 
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We hope all our QVC pals enjoyed their past Summer fun time activities, and have remained safe, and well. 
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  We safely returned from our extended excursion of traveling throughout the Domestic USA, & it was wonderful.
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  I won't elaborate further on the subject, but encourage anyone interested to take a trip of this nature to do so in order to fully enjoy and appreciate what our wonderful domestic USA has to offer.
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  It was quite thrilling to actually hear see and read what it really meant to the citizens of our various States we encountered in our travels, who are most definitely proud Americans, of our great nation.
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(May our flag always wave proud, with respect, dignity, and freedom.....which was earned the hard way with so many lives sacrificed, to ensure we all remain democratic, and a free nation).
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We thoroughly enjoyed all the sights, foods, various cultures, numerous customs, and all the lovely friendly helpful people we encountered in all our Domestic USA travels. 
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We wanted to do this type of extended USA trip for a long time, and we are thrilled that we did.
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  Now we can eventually also look forward to new travel explorations. 
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I must say we are aware and still are so appalled to hear about the Terrorism attacks in Paris and other places.
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  "It truly does make one stop to really reflect & think, and constantly continue to pray for a change for the better ......for all mankind.....and as they say "Peace on Earth and good will towards men".
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  If only people everywhere would understand God intended us all to live in respect, brotherly love, harmony, and thoroughly enjoy a peaceful fruit full happy Earthly existence.
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(God willing may this all unveil, some day soon and an end to the above once and for all).
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It would be wonderful to finally witness an end to mankind's continued greed, tyranny, dominance of others, torture, abuse, terrorism, loss of innocent lives, continual hatred, and non stop world wide warfare. 
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(Since the beginning of time on Earth, mankind has unfortunately proven to be their own worst enemy time and again.......very sad, but also very true).
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I will be posting in various categories after Thanksgiving, and also wanted to say Phillip and I enclose big hugs for all our QVC pals, and yes you were all greatly missed...... and you know who you are.
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We are also enclosing our warmest Happy Thanksgiving Holiday wishes, & blessings. 
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We look forward to reading about everyone's Thanksgiving celebrations, and hope for those alone if possible they venture out and enjoy a Thanksgiving meal in a restaurant of their choice with someone, or alone, or if possible also invite a friend and have food delivered to share.
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Holidays should never be spent alone, depressed, upset, grieving for those we loved and lost, and dwelling over what was in the past, feeling quite depressed, lost, and lonely.
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  ( Being all alone is especially dangerous for many people of all ages including the  disabled, ill, and elderly because many suicides unfortunately occur during the Holidays).
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  It is wonderful to travel and explore but also equally wonderful to come home to our beloved pets, relatives, friends, treasured neighbors, and cyber pals.
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For our own Thanksgiving celebration we also invited some elderly neighbors who are all alone, to also share our humble Thanksgiving table. 
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We will use the outdoor smoker and smoke a turkey,  prime rib, country ham, and some baby back BBQ spare ribs.
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  (We will have plenty to serve, have food to offer to our lovely guests to also take home, and also may have some leftovers to also freeze.
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  In case our pals are also wondering yes.... we certainly did miss cooking and enjoying our favorites).
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For Thanksgiving sides we decided to prepare a big Greek villager’s salad with feta cheese, asparagus in hollandaise sauce, garlic red smashed potatoes, a baked sweet potatoes with bourbon & Vermont maple syrup sauce casserole, and smoked corn on the cob.
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For dessert we called in our bakeries orders so Phillip will  pick up a large sour dough bread, some Greek pastries and cookies, at the Greek bakery, and at another bakery cookies by the pound, and freshly baked pecan, blueberry, and apple pies.
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We will also offer fresh lemonade, iced tea, bottled water, and prepare a fresh fruit Sangria. Coffee and various teas will also be served.
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We still need to unpack and straighten out before we get back into the full swing of upcoming Christmas/New Year 2016 Holiday enjoyment, and entertaining.
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I will also post this communication under other QVC Community categories, so all our QVC pals know we have safely returned, and yes we certainly missed so many of them!
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Again...... Happy Thanksgiving, and Happy cooking!

[Zhills]

Welcome back.  You have been missed.  Glad your trip wasa  memorable one and you stayed healthy.  Happy Thanksgiving.

[momtochloe]

Welcome back Adore! . . . so glad to hear your trip was such a lovely success . . . what did you make yesterday from Thanksgiving?

[RetRN]

It is wonderful to have you back. Look forward to you sharing more with us.

[RespectLife]

Oh yes, welcome back!

I was just talking about you yesterday at our Thanksgiving table as a guest from VA was asking about the delicious Greek lemon soup she had for the first time here in Bflo. 

I assured her I could provide a fab recipe for it from a dear QVC recipe pal!!

[AuntG]

Being a homebody, I would think it would feel great to be back home. Glad you enjoyed your travels and that you can now enjoy the holidays at home.

[RealQuiet]

Here we go.............

[adoreqvc]

Hi Zhills,

Many thanks, and I have missed so many of my QVC pals.

It is great to travel often, but also wonderful to come back home again.

I hope you also had a very memorable Thanksgiving, as we also did, and Happy upcoming holidays dear friend!

[adoreqvc]

Hi mtc,

Missed you pal o' mine!!!

Thanks for the kind words and we made plenty Thanksgiving favorites we like, and many trimmings too.

It was a wonderful holiday, and very filling.

I posted a Greek Shrimp Saganaki under Recipes yesterday and hope you will try it.

Happy safe upcoming holidays....Enjoy!