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  • Thanksgiving Menu 2025. An image of a Thanksgiving menu. The top and bottom of the image are bordered with fall leaves. The categories shown are Starters, Main Course, Sides, Desserts, and Beverages.

    Thanksgiving 2025

    ByKara November 30May 16 Personal

    A little after the fact, but here’s our menu from this year’s Thanksgiving and a few food photos. I wound up sending a text to everyone attending around noon, telling them that I was running about an hour behind. Giving myself that extra hour made the day so much less stressful and we had a…

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  • Two side-by-side karacooks holiday menus: Thanksgiving 2024 on the left, with hand-lettered script title in burnt orange, watercolor autumn leaves cascading down the left edge in olive, burgundy, and amber, a single watercolor pumpkin in the bottom right corner, and a five-section menu listing appetizers, main course, side dishes, dessert, and drinks. Christmas Menu on the right, with hand-lettered red script title, watercolor holly branches and pine sprigs across the top with two hanging ornaments in red and sage, more holly at the bottom corners, and a five-section menu listing starters, main courses, side dishes, dessert, and drink.

    Holiday Menus: A Tradition of the Table

    ByKara January 1May 16 Holiday Menus

    For nearly a decade, I’ve designed and printed a menu for every Christmas and Thanksgiving dinner I’ve hosted. I didn’t plan to start a tradition. The first one was practical: I had a complicated meal coming together with multiple courses, multiple sides, and a couple of dishes I’d never made before. I wanted to write…

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