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Celebrating Thanksgiving with Storey & Friends

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Traditional pumpkin pie.      I started cooking today. Thanksgiving is tomorrow. I thumb my way through one of my Moms recipe card folders in search of family favorites and with every page I scan, memories answer and my heart fills with gratitude.      Truth be told Mom didn't look or need the recipe cards or cookbooks anymore on those pre- holiday cooking days as they had become part of her as naturally as the words that flowed from her lips. I was usually the one who would go in search of some new recipe to introduce in hopes it would become a regular holiday offering. But as in most families you have your Moms tried and true, traditional offerings and it just wouldn't be Thanksgiving without them. I can still here the cries of my brothers (and yes, even Me) if Mom dared contemplate trying a new turkey dressing. Usually she would then make hers and a small batch of the new recipe, which never went over well. For years she tried time and again to make her mothers sausa