YA READY FOR YOUR TURKEY DINNER?

We're going over to a friend's tomorrow and making sides tonight, garlic mashed potatoes and Maddie's famed cranberry pudding.

That sounds good. I'm debating on making greek potatoes - boiled or baked roughly chopped red potato with feta and olives, dressed with lemon and olive oil.

That sounds awesome, I don't know why I've never thought of it before considering that I keep all of those things around the house.

original plan was to do a three-pasta medley: thai noodles, marinated pasta salad with balsamic vinegar, and regular garlic tomato sauce. but i was overruled by fate.

I'm going to my boyfriend's family since without my grandmother my family is doing nothing. Perhaps we can get it together in time for Xmas and I'll give her nana pudding a try.

this year i'm working and my loverly roomie has bought a turkey to cook for when i get home at midnight thirty (technically not even thanksgiving anymore). i'm kind of excited.

I go to Tommy's for a chiliburger

OTM

i wish someone would cook me this sometime.

Why don't people respect yams more? Like, treat them respectfully and don't cover them in Kraft marshmallows. Can't they exist on a savory plane instead of sweet?

Friday - Fancy Turkey day turkey dinner at her dad's :-/

Saturday - My family comes over for roast beast dinner.

Three Thanksgiving dinners and only one of them is turkey! Yay! (Last year we fled to Paris and had goose.) By the time Monday rolls around, however, I will be quite fat, I'm sure.

The pilgrims ate venison though, so it's kind of unfeasible.

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Andy, I only like savory yams and sweet potatoes, and even then, not much.

Yes, I am still vegan, but I cheat when spinach lasagna is involved. (See also: cookies, birthday cake, raw eggs in a blender when I'm training to whoop Apollo Creed's ass, the hearts of my enemies, etc.)

SO I just went to Trader Joe's and bought (for t-giving): smoked salmon, smoked trout, muenster and gouda, crackers, olives, and six bottles of wine, including a nice French rose. I don't think the miserable pilgrims had access to Trader Joe's.

Yeah, I guess it could be. The only time I've had venison is when my dad used to go bow hunting and would sometimes bag a deer, so I just don't anticipate getting venison anytime soon.

I'm a Bad American - this pretty much sums it up for me. I like big trucks, big boats, big houses, and naturally, pretty women.

I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some midlevel governmental functionary with a bad comb-over who wants to give it away to crack addicts squirting out babies.

I don't care about appearing compassionate.

I think playing with toy guns doesn't make you a killer. I believe ignoring your kids and giving them Prozac might.

I think I'm doing better than the homeless.

I don't think being a minority makes you noble or victimized. I have the right not to be tolerant of others because they are different, weird or make me mad.

This is my life to live, and not necessarily up to others expectations.

I know what SEX is and there are not varying degrees of it.

I don't celebrate Kwanzaa. But if you want to that's fine; I just don't feel like everyone else should have to.

I believe that if you are selling me a Dairy Queen shake, a pack of cigarettes, or hotel room you do it in English. As of matter of fact, if you are an American citizen you should speak English. My uncles and forefathers shouldn't have had to die in vain so you can leave the countries you were born in to come disrespect ours, and make us bend to your will.

Get over it.

I think the cops have every right to shoot your sorry butt if you're running from them after they tell you to stop. If you can't understand the word 'freeze' or 'stop' in English, see the previous line.

I don't use the excuse "it's for the children" as a shield for unpopular opinions or actions.

I know how to count votes and I feel much safer letting a machine with no political affiliation do a recount when needed. I know what the definition of lying is, and it isn't based on the word "is" -ever.

I don't think just because you were not born in this country, you qualify for any special loan programs, government sponsored bank loans, etc., so you can open a hotel, 7-Eleven, trinket shop, or any thing else, while the indigenous peoples can't get past a high school education because they can't afford it. I didn't take the initiative in inventing the Internet.

I thought the Taco Bell dog was funny.

I want them to bring back safe and sane fireworks.

I believe no one ever died because of something Ozzy Osbourne, Ice-T or Marilyn Manson sang, but that doesn't mean I want to listen to that crap from someone else's car when I'm stopped at a red light. But I respect your right to.

I think that being a student doesn't give you any more enlightenment than working at Blockbuster or Jack In The Box.

I don't want to eat or drink anything with the words light, lite or fat-free on the package.

Our soldiers did not go to some foreign country and risk their lives in vain and defend our Constitution so that decades later you can tell me it's a living document ever changing and is open to interpretation. The guys who wrote it were light years ahead of anyone today, and they meant what they said - now leave the document alone, or there's going to be trouble.

I don't hate the rich. I help the poor. I know wrestling is fake.

I've never owned, or was a slave, and a large percentage of our forefathers weren't wealthy enough to own one either. Please stop blaming me because some prior white people were idiots - and remember, tons of white, Indian, Chinese, and other races have been enslaved too - it was wrong for every one of them.

I believe a self-righteous liberal Democrat with a cause is more dangerous than a Hell's Angel with an attitude.

I want to know exactly which church is it where the "Reverend" Jessie Jackson preaches; and, what exactly is his job function.

I own a gun, you can own a gun, and any red blooded American should be allowed to own a gun, but if you use it in a crime, then you will serve the time.

I think Bill Gates has every right to keep every penny he made and continue to make more. If it makes you mad, then invent the next operating system that's better and put your name on the building. Ask your buddy that invented the Internet to help you.

I don't believe in hate crime legislation. Even suggesting it makes me mad. You're telling me that someone who is a minority, gay, disabled, another nationality, or otherwise different from the mainstream of this country has more value as a human being that I do as a white male.

If someone kills anyone, I'd say that it's a hate crime. We don't need more laws! Let's enforce the ones we already have.

I think turkey bacon, turkey beef, turkey fake anything sucks.

I believe that it doesn't take a village to raise a child. It takes a parent with the guts to stand up to the kid and spank his butt and say "NO!" when it's necessary to do so.

I'll admit that the only movie that ever made me cry was Ole Yeller.

I didn't realize Dr. Seuss was a genius until I had a kid.

I will not be frowned upon or be looked down upon or be made to keep silent because I have these beliefs and opinions. I thought this country allowed me that right.

I will not conform or compromise just to keep from hurting somebody's feelings.

I'm neither angry nor disenfranchised, no matter how desperately the mainstream media would like the world to believe otherwise.

Yes, I guess by some people's definition, I may be a bad American.

But that's tough.

Ted Nugent

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car + deer = you're fucked.

Miss Misery - have you seen the movie Straight Story?

PILGRIM & INDIAN GAY LUV!!

Okay, I typed in fucking 'cornucopia' and this is what I got... WTF?

Apple sausage stuffing
Sherry-soaked cranberry sauce

Did anyone else see that the creator of Stove Top stuffing just died? Perfect timing (as far as deaths go).

Also, for a chance of pace, one might try deep frying the turkey. I know several folks who swear by it (though I have no idea what they do with the grease at the end).

Question: will NPR do their annual Thanksgiving chefs-bring-food thing, now that Bob Edwards is gone?

Hmmm, I dunno, I enjoyed hearing Martha Stewart read Grandma Stamberg's cranberry sauce recipe, though.

*coughs* I referred to the dove and hedgehog digressions in particular, immediately preceding my post.

He will owe me a baby for this.

this beer has pumpkin in it.

happy thxgiving!

Re the gregariousness, it doesn't matter if I am mute, dumb and etc., the tag-team couple visitors have a well-rehearsed shtick which proceeds be ears deaf or not. The kind of talkers who don't even pause long enough to hear you say "oh...?" nor look to a nod of the head for approval to coninue.

The 26-year-old woman and 11-year-old girl were apparently hurt by the debris. They were in stable condition at the Bellevue Hospital emergency room, said hospital administrator Peter Schectman. The nature of their injuries was not immediately known.

"It happened so fast," said parade spectator Karim Simmons, of Queens. "I said, 'Oh, my God!' It dropped like a rock."

The circumstances were an echo of a 1997 accident, when two people were seriously injured when 45 mph winds forced a "Cat in the Hat" balloon into a metal pole on Central Park West.

Officials then set guidelines that would limit the use of balloons if wind threatened to be too strong.

Parade organizers were given the go-ahead to use the balloons this year, but ordered them tethered on shorter lines because of some moderate breezes at the parade's start.

It was not immediately clear if wind played a factor in this year's accident, which involved the "M&Ms" balloon.

Among those watching was 85-year-old Ron Kahn, who took pictures while perching on a ladder.

"This is wonderful. It's part of New York," Kahn said.

Sayra Hernandez watched from a side street with her son, Lucas, 4, sitting on her shoulders.

"It seems better on TV, maybe more glamorous, not this hectic," said Hernandez, 30, of Manhattan. "But the smile on my kid's face is priceless."

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bottom layer: thin slices of blue potato and sweet potato
next layer: saute of onion, garlic, chickpeas, eggplant cubes, parsnip cubes, turnip cubes
next layer: thin slices of portobella mushrooms
next layer: another saute layer
next layer: another potato layer
top layer: toasted bread crumbs

I'll bake it and let you know how it turns out. It might suckkk.

Updates from the burn ward to come.

The topic inadvertently turned to Mexicans from Geese. How to classify them as indigenous. But then who would run the Walmart.

?????

LOL WTF

I'm going to see a movie this evening- most of my day was nice & quiet. I picked up some cranberry sauce at the grocery store and baked two pumpkin pies this morning. So my Thanksgiving lunch with my doggie was cranberry sauce, a nice salad with avocado, and a slice of pumpkin pie. Yum.

and my aunt talked about people dying in freak accidents in nebraska

BUT THAT IS OKAY I ATE GOOD ANYWAY THIS EVENING.

I PLAYED THE SGT. PEPPER LAST NIGHT AND IT WAS THE KOOOWEEEEELL~!

But never mind, feed the poor etc.

*sweating brow* what can this MEAN???????????????

nope, it was awesome. the potatoes and chickpeas absorbed all the liquid but didn't get mushy at all. i hate to brag but damn i'm good, and if thanksgiving was a gun i'd be clint eastwood

and then up at 6 a.m. to get late registration at circuit city for $7.00

Please say it was preserved asparagus because in no part of the northern hemisphere is asparagus in season right now. Ai freighted vegtables are worse than patio heaters.

or just go get a burger at the old town bar.

I had a turkey sandwich for dinner tonight.

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CELERY!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/vegetarian_and_vegan/veggiechristmasmenus.shtml

OK, damn, since I've lost my Green Card I can't even pretend to be Merkin any more. But still.

I want my Turkey Day in solidarity.

http://www.tofurkey.com/images/p_tofurkymeals_gravy.jpg

And put it on some mashed potatoes. SO GOOD I SHIT YOU NOT

Woah. This sounds intense. AND DELICIOUS.

Now, Venison or boar or something, I might consider. But turkey? feh! If I wanted to eat something that tasted like sawdust, I'd eat TVP.

MARRY ME

xp

never tasted no boar

xxxp

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you have inspired me - i will make this.

(x-mas, that is. we never really celebrated Thanksgiving - I usually had it with friends' families.)

I've never eaten a goose in my life.

xmas main courses include turkey, ham and tamales.

Thxgiving is the universal get-out-of-diet-free card.

xp

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This thread is making my stomach growl. Gotta stop reading.

I love doing thanksgiving dinner because of the sausage and wild rice stuffing recipe that I made up; also it is only rubbische cooks who serve dry turkey. There are methods to keep that from happening.

Christmas at one grandparent's was prime rib of beef and at the other it was a lovely HAM. I have done boxing day at my friend N3lli3's parents ever since she moved across the street from us (her dad is English), which means the occasional goose/ham combo or we literally are on the leftovers.

http://www.bodeansbbq.com/events/thanksgiving2006/EmbassyThanksgiving.pdf

(sorry for the .pdf)

although i'd be guessing they might be full already...

There may be nephew-pandering mac and cheese.

Smoked Turkey>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Turkey

Okay so actually I am NOT making that soup because I just talked to my sister and she apparently doesn't have any BOWLS. WTF. She still wants me to make something sweet potato-y though, and I abhore the yam/marshmallow monstrosity.

Baked 12 lbs yams last night for smashing. 25 lb (!) heritage free-range turkey thawing - goes in the brine tonight. Pumpkin pudding gets steamed tonight. Also, grilled salmon and a quorn turkey-like roast tomorrow. Home-made yeast rolls, corn dodgers, rice and peas with toasted pine nuts, seared chili sesame green beans, canned jellied cranberry sauce (which I LOVE BEYOND REASON!), etc etc etc.

Mmm! Pumpkin pudding! I've never had it! That sounds great, Jaq! My mom LOVES the canned cranberry sauce which she happily places on the table next to her homemade cranberry sauce, which is great.

DIVORCE

I made this last year and it was a hit. Got it off Epicurious.

THYME-ROASTED SWEET POTATOES
This slightly spicy, moist side dish is both deeply satisfying and nutritious. Sweet potatoes are rich in complex carbohydrates and fiber, giving them a low glycemic index (this means that they slow the body's absorption of sugar and help regulate blood-sugar levels). A bonus for weight watchers: All those complex carbs will make you feel fuller longer than white potatoes do.

4 medium sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1 1/2-inch-thick rounds
3 tablespoons olive oil
4 large garlic cloves, minced
1/3 cup fresh thyme leaves, plus 6 thyme sprigs for garnish
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes

Preheat oven to 450°F. In large mixing bowl, combine all ingredients and toss. Arrange potato slices in single layer on heavyweight rimmed baking sheet or in 13x9-inch baking dish. Place on top rack of oven and roast until tender and slightly browned, about 40 minutes. Serve warm or at room temperature, garnished with thyme sprigs.

Makes 6 to 8 servings.

last year we went to a weird orphans t'giving with stoned hipsters, mostly people we didn't know and could barely talk to... this will be a lot better! if we want the turkey we can just go to some other friends' house the next day right?

leftovers = awesome.

Brilliant, I had some sweet potatoes I wasn't sure what to do with. Might cook these up on Sunday!

it's the cliche for jews to eat chinese and see movies on x-mas right? that's what we're doing, ok. not trying to have a michael richards moment or be ANT-t'giving, we're just keeping it low key.

My sister is helping my mother with pies and mashed potatoes. Creamed onions might have gotten lost in the shuffle, I know that I didn't get the onions, and if I didn't get 'em, they didn't get got. I'm kind of the one-eyed man who is king in the land of the blind, here.

Donald also HAS to have Le Sueur canned peas and pickled purple cabbage out of a jar. A holdover from childhood. One year I made the cabbage from scratch, with apples. There was no discernable difference between that and the store-bought, so never again. Likewise the home-made cranberry sauce. Whole-berry Oceanspray is just fine, thank you!

at least my aunt's pumpkin bisque was amazing.

READY TO GET YOUR EAT ON????

oh is it thanksgiving?

what's thanksgiving?

huh?

Reboot.

I intend on a light lunch.

I woke up this morning and puked up the dinner I had last night! YEAH!!!!!!

(wait, no)

Happy regurgitated Thanksgiving.

Yay, Mandee.

I think we're having squash risotto and pumpkin pie tonight! We will raise a glass to transatlantic chums.

Back from my nephew's house in Birmingham, a nice visit and a good meal. The mantle of hosting and cooking has passed from my parents after decades, though, and it's weird to eat Thanksgiving dinner that doesn't taste like my mom's cooking.

Trying to keep it down.

And stay awake.

I ate too much of my FIL's cooking. He is insanely heavy-handed with the butter, cream, and salt. Which normally I'd be all for. I should have just stuck with one kind of pie for dessert, but noooooo.... It was good, though, so I shall just enjoy feeling FAT.

YA READY FOR MY TURKEY YAM FARTS?

My now retired chef Dad made veggie lasagne (and, of course, turkey for the non veg) stuffing, creamed corn, creamed peas, mashed sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, cauliflower with cheese, pommes anna, pumpkin pie, and blueberry pie. I don't think I have to eat for a week.

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I just ate leftovers already!!!!!!

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guys lemon rosemary turkey is what i think i've been waiting for in all previous thanksgivings of my life! amazing.

I woke up this morning and puked up the dinner I had last night! YEAH!!!!!!

Well, it's all about giving (back) innit?

HI DERE
READY FOR TURKEY LURKEY?

R U READY FOR TURKEY LURKEY?

nope i am proud to be EUROTRASH

I've done/am doing so much cooking but I don't have much of an appetite...hopefully it returns in the next couple hours.

eatin grapes and toast, i am holiday grinch

...so full...so full of goodness...

warm pecan pie with ice cream was the highlight, as per usual.

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my supper included

turkey (both white and dark meat) with turkey gravy
crab cakes
shrimp cocktail
stuffed mushrooms
roasted root vegetables
green bean casserole
green beans (non-casserole format)
salad with cranberries, walnuts and bleu cheese
a roll
some wine
apple pie baked in a paper bag

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one turkey leg, mashed potatoes, salad, cranberry sauce, squash, corn, three rolls, two slices of apple pie, and three scoops of ice cream. And four glasses of wine.

I finished eating by 3:00 in the afternoon. Now here it is six hours later and I don't feel stuffed to the gills anymore, which is nice. And I'll go to bed hungry and therefore lose some lb's overnight. Good times.

my supper was

Dominos
pumpkin pie/cheesecake thing
beer

turkey (white & dark)
stuffing
gravy
brussels sprouts
green beans w shallots & bacon
mashed potatoes w chorizo
sweet potatoes with baked apples casserole

there were pies but i did not eat them.

bourbon.

cranberry chutney, a roll.

I made this for my extended family.

http://classandcircumstance.blogspot.com/2006/12/neatloaf-recipe.html

It went over very well.

We did a potluck thing, including most of the usual suspects, although no yams. : (

turkey
gravy
stuffing
cranberry sauce
mashed potatoes
caramelized pumpkin trifle
green beans
almond cookies

All y'all who say "stuffing," is this something that is baked in the bird, or do you really mean "dressing"?

(ps, I am not as dogmatic about this as I am about barbecue, just wondering)

some crab dip to kick things off then:

motherfuckin' turkey
gravy
mashed potatoes
sausage stuffing (or "dressing", whatever dude)
saurkraut
sweet potato pie
green beens
steamed carrots
cranberry sauce

pretty amazingly delicious. my moms is skilled in the art of cooking.

Roasted nuts with rosemary and honey
Turkey
Gravy
Dressing (yes, WmC)
Cranberry sauce
Broccoli casserole w/Velveeta made by me, twice, because the first time I got 1. the broccoli overcooked and 2. the sauce all runny
Green bean and mushroom casserole
Mashed potatoes
Sweet potatoes
Pumpkin pie and whipped cream

All y'all who say "stuffing," is this something that is baked in the bird, or do you really mean "dressing"?

― Bob Saget's "Night Moves": C or D (WmC), Thursday, November 26, 2009 9:13 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Stuffing is the bread based goodness traditionally baked in the bird but it doesn't have to be. Would you really call that dressing?

DO NOT THROW TOMATOES AT ME, but I do not like holiday meals. I prefer indian food any day of the week. We went to the stanley hotel and had dinner earlier, I had pecan pie and salad and brie. oh and some steamed asparagus.

imo the best cranberry sauce is the stuff that comes straight out tha can.

I forgot to buy
a pecan pie and now I
wish I'd remembered.

I always thought stuffing was, by definition, stuffed into the bird to bake, but I guess not since the abomination that is Stove Top Stuffing is not necessarily meant for the inside of the bird. What I call dressing is cornbread dressing, but I'm sure there is also non-cornbread dressing. PS, prepackaged stuffing mixes can eat a bag of pope's noses.

btw,

Baked chicken (nobody in our family likes turkey that much)
Dressing with giblet gravy
sweet potato casserole
mashed potatoes
blackeyed peas
creamed corn (the good stuff from my dad's garden)
cabbage casserole (some new thing my mother decided to make this year instead of the awesome broccoli casserole ;_;)
deviled eggs (my contribution)
cranberry sauce, brown & serve rolls, tea

huge 23 pound farm turkey, never frozen
spicy cranberry chutney
straight cran sauce
yams
mashed pots
collard greens
gravy
stuffing
pearl onions reduced in balsamic vinegar
pumpkin pie with our garden pumpkins
spiced pears with vanilla ice cream
wine
homebrew

damn

Went to a restaurant - had pasta and pumpkin pie. Lol that sounds depressing.

Buffet @ the Squaxin Island tribal casino was a-okay, but the brussel sprouts were sad-looking. If I was my grandma, I'd have left with a purse full of "leftovers" and a slice of white bread. But I'm not (forgot to pack the ziplocs).

I missed cooking, a lot. But I'd rather cook for people 1) I actually like 2) that want to eat 3) what I cook.

it's only 10 and i'm exhausted. we ate at around 3 and i'm still really full.

i am ready for a serious sandwich but that is all at my grandparents' house and i'm sure they're asleep by now!

teensy lil 11 pound free range turkey
stuffing
kale, mushrooms, green beans w parmesan n vinegar
roast butternut squash w honey
giblet gravy
cranberry sauce
orange, almond, avocado salad
pumpkin pie
ice creams: lychee sorbet, honey lavender, red hot chocolate
"gilded lilies" (caramel/nut/graham cracker thang my mother used to make)

twice boiled, please post recipe for the orange/almond/av salad, though I'm going to look stupid if it's just 'mix them all up and put them in a bowl'

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My mom made this throughout my childhood in the 80s. The taste of it is instant time-machine for me, but results may vary.
Here is her recipe:

Mandarin Orange Salad

Dressing:
1/4 cup salad oil (not olive oil use canola or similar oil)
1/4 tsp tabasco sauce
1/2 tsp salt
2 Tablespoons white sugar
2 Tablespoons Tarragon Vinegar
Mix thoroughly and keep at room temp

Salad:
1 can drained mandarin oranges
1/2 head chopped iceberg lettuce mix with hearts of romaine
1 cup chopped celery
1Tbl chopped fresh parsley
2 green onions chopped
1/2 cup slivered almonds (roast in a pan or toaster oven)

MIx salad with dressing, Add roasted almonds on top just before serving

I use red leaf and romaine instead of iceberg, add cucumbers and avocados and scrap the celery. Because it's not Kentucky in the 1980s anymore . . .

oh, and warning: the dressing is really sweet- maybe up the salt/tabasco slightly?

thanks!

teensy lil 11 pound free range turkey

mine was 11 lbs too -- it finished cooking quicker than i expected it to! it didn't turn out "dry" per se but it wasn't as thoroughly moist as the last turkey i made. still, delicious.

roll on christmas

I AM HAVING TOFURKEY THIS YEAR

BRING IT ON!!!!! PUTTING MY BIB ON AS I TYPE THIS

so ready

just putting our bird in the oven
it sat overnight with "beauty paste" on it (butter, salt, paprika, "george washington powder" -what the hell is in that?)

we eat in four hours

Ready as I will ever be.
It's hot in the kitchen.

bird is in the oven. pre-basted it with sage compound butter.

Do Americans not do roast potatoes? Food of the gods.

often i do, but this year i didn't.

so ready.

reposting here cuz i like this one.

how to have a successful thanksgiving, get bent style...

-your relatives live 3,000 miles away and your extended family as a whole (mostly because of age/distance/death) doesn't really "do" thanksgiving anymore
-your significant other doesn't have a family thanksgiving either (similar reasons) and has no plans
-you make a turkey and a couple of well-considered side dishes and a store-bought pie, so you still have *plenty* of food but it's all killer, no filler
-you do most of the prep/cooking beforehand and relax on the day, while the bird cooks
-winner!

― and then peaced (get bent), Thursday, November 25, 2010 12:50 PM (0 seconds ago) Bookmark

now I am full :)

STILL HAVEN'T EATEN THE TOFURKY

i am so hungry omg bring it on
our menu this year is

turkey for the meat eaters
quorn t'urky roast for me and my vegetarian sister
sage and mushroom gravy
cornbread, pecan and pear stuffing
mashed potatoes
scalloped corn
creamed spinach
roasted brussel sprouts
and pumpkin bread pudding

ROARRRR I WANNA FOOD

u need oyster stuffing, but otherwise grebt

we ate at 2 p.m.
dessert at 4 p.m.
coma time

Turkey done, resting.
Sweet potatoes still roasting
Zucchini sausage casserole ready
Mashed potatoes waiting in the wings
Stovetop stuffing ready

Gawd I am sooooooo hungry

something i learned today: my microwave's "sensor reheat" function is iffy. i was afraid of that.

so full...

cousin bought two local turkeys. one 28 pounder and a 30 pounder! 37 people did not go hungry.

i am in the richardson room at the moment. you can see an aerial view of our room!

http://www.waitsfieldinn.com/rooms.php

omg scott 37 people that is insane

we are 7 tonight.

we ate:

15 lb turkey
sage cornbread sausage apricot cognac stuffing
spicy fruit chutney (apple cranberry grapefruit cloves allspice hot pepper)
rutabaga, sweet potato, parsnips
brussels sprouts
gravy
apple pie (baked at home by brother's boyfriend)
bread pudding w caramel sauce (baked at home by brother)
berries
"gilded lilies" (crazy caramel nut graham cracker Deep South dessert thing my mom makes every year)
white wine: 1996 Puligny-Montrachet "les Enseigneurs"
red wine: 2003 Brunello di Montalcino

I'm just doing the dishes, my brother and mother and my brother's boyfriend did all the cooking.

turkey
mushroom gravy
mashed potatoes
roasted sweet potatoes
STUFFING
green beans
roasted root vegetables
apple/squash thing

everything was really good this year. forwent dessert for seconds of turkey and stuffing plus beer and wine obv

eat a fucken turducken

y'all need rhubarb pie, dammit

i had some mincemeat pie. and pumpkin pie. and pumpkin cheesecake. and stuffing. and green beans. and corn pudding. and turkey. and mashed spuds with garlic. and wine. and coffee. and probably other stuff. i got so stufffffffed. yummy. i gotta share pictures of my cousin's place. so amazing. three grand pianos! and a state-of-the-art basement recording studio. i'm moving in. i took lots of snapshots.

Salmon (my sister doesn't eat meat or poultry) with a sesame stuffing
Brown rice/wild rice/barley pilaf
Spinach
Caesar salad (brought by my mom)
Pumpkin cheesecake (brought by my sister)

sex and the city 2 on ppv. it's a fascinating car wreck.

turkey AND roast beef
stuffing, turkey gravy
green beans
macaroni & cheese
corn pudding
rolls
sweet potato casserole

it was so good. I miss it already.

Oh god so goooooood. Mother in law gave us a whole homemade cheesecake to take home in exchange for my leftover pumpkin pie! And leftover turkey & stuffing & casserole nomnomnom!!!!
I may yet explode.
Watched the new Jim Carey Christmas Carol with my niece, f'in love that story no matter who does it.
Sigh. Lovely lovely day

if only the raiders didn't suck ;_;

Shush. Don't ruin it :)

We're going to the fins game on Sunday. I anticipate a suck fest

note to ILXors: the quorn TURK'Y IS REAL GROSS

STAY AWAY

I dont even know if I understand what it is....it's a vegan Turkey?

I thought he'd died already.

mandee I am really sad that you did not enjoy your thanksgiving turkey!!!!

Having another meal, four hours after Thanksgiving dinner, of a turkey/stuffing/cranberry sandwich, with corn pudding, mashed potatoes and more stuffing was a mistake. I see that now.

its okay crut the rest was really great! plus that pumpkin bread pudding with caramel sauce was the jam.

now i'm ready to do a juice fast.

i cooked one of those tofurkey roasts for jordan and he seemed to like it - but jesus fucking christ the gravy is the foulest thing i've ever had the misfortune to smell.

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fuckin <3 new england

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Damn dude, you weren't kidding! Kickass spread! But: no pics of the 3 grand pianos? :)

oops forgot the pianos. actually i think there were two grand and one normal one.

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that house is amazing

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yeah it was cool there. kinda hard to take it all in at first.

i'm gonna do the turkey/chutney/stuffing from here:

http://www.avalonwine.com/East-Indian-Thanksgiving-Recipes.php

The time approaches.

goin to an Italian restaurant, can skip the bird hurrah

Going to have Billy Joel sing in your ear...

holy toledo i forgot all about going to my cousin's house. lil' rufus. awwww. miss that little guy. that was place insane.

we are staying home this year and having friends over. sooooo, including us it will be 18 people i think.

I think something like 22 at mine.

(family, in my case)

five of us, including an in-law priest.

And none of you like stuffing?

Depends on the basting.

(kinda digging the no family aspect don't tell anyone. and everyone coming makes music so maybe we can have a jam session. ilxor herb alpert will be there and i should maybe have him bring his electric sitar. nothing says thanksgiving like the electric sitar.)

going to inlaws - doing a potluck thanksgiving. 7 of us total which is a fine and manageable number.

My usual thing for me -- friend's family house on the coast in San Pedro with a killer view out to Santa Catalina.

going to the desert, bout a dozen of us or so, gonna make a sweet potato casserole and it's gonna rule

our challenge is our friend rob. gluten/dairy/egg free. well, not that much of a challenge. he's a meat eater. we are making potatoes sans butter. and stuffing the turkey with apples. stuffing will be separate. a couple of vegetarians are coming too. we are giving them raw swiss chard to eat. just kidding! there will be plenty of veggie action.

had tofurkey two years ago- it was pretty good!

this year my BIL is smoking a duck for me and my dad. can't wait.

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Family scattered all over the place this year between Muscle Shoals and my sister's place in central MS. We'll be going down there and eating at a nice lakeside resort instead of doing a home-cooked thing.

- family decided we are having steak for thanksgiving
- I don't really care either way but it's still kinda lol to me, idk why

when i opened this thread and saw ned had revived it instead of homo ii i got kinda sad.

:-/

homo ii is however partying in Vegas with her sis this week and might be distracted.

FUCKIN UP THE ROTATION NED

this year i am thankful for nothing, but i will nonetheless eat like the privileged white american male i am

i am always thankful for everything. oh man you have no idea. every day. even the horrible ones. i'm even thankful for jess's half-hearted misanthropy. it always reminds me to never repeat the mistakes of the 90's.

the bf and i are getting a takeout thanksgiving dinner for 2 from gelson's (the local posh supermarket). turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, vegetables, cranberry sauce, yam souffle, dinner rolls. we did this a few years ago and it was really nice.

I've always wanted to this, our posh supermarket always has yum sounding menus

my parents at 2:30, ks parents at 5:00. i will eat turkey at round one and eat scotch at round 2.

leftover turkey in remaining scotch at round 3

don't wanna know what happens 'round midnight

gravy shots a go-go

partner & her sister arriving on train tonight. Another friend is joining us tomorrow and we're roasting a duck. Saturday they leave and I play board games and eat hot dogs w/ high school friends all day.

I made three pumpkin pies today, two of which will see duty at my sister's house tomorrow. My wife and I will begin eating the other one tonight.

pumpkin pie is the thing I'm most looking forward to

The fear of god and the love of pumpkin pie are the beginnings of wisdom, so they say.

Thanksgiving prep DONE

can I makethe buttermilk biscuit dough the night before or will they turn out weird?

also: how should I roast these brussels sprouts

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I'm hosting a gathering of 5 tomorrow. There will be pumpkin pie, but I'm looking forward to my sister's pumpkin cheesecake.

in re: brussels sprouts.

look up braising in your reference cookbook. basically, you halve them, saute them for a bit in a pan that you can also put a lid on and pop into the oven. enameled cast iron dutch ovens seem to be the popular thing these days. i have a cast iron fry pan with a good lid that works fine.

anyway, after you've sauted them, add a minimal amount of liquid (a quarter cup maybe), such as white wine. you can also add some crushed herbs, like rosemary. put the lid on and pop them into a medium hot oven for ten or twelve minutes. take 'em out and drizzle a tad bit of balsamic vinegar on them if you like.

i'm not sure about making the buttermilk biscuit dough ahead, but if I tried it, i'd for sure refrigerate the dough right away.

oh, and deglaze the pan, too.

I usually just roast brussels in EVOO in the oven with no saute prep, but now I want to try Aimless's version.

A friend just posted this "Brussels sprouts with bacon, chicken broth, fresh thyme, white pepper and sea salt." but I don't know the process. Will eat them tomorrow. I'm bringing wine, no cooking involved.

NYT quiddities and all that, but this is a nice Tksgiving essay: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/22/opinion/on-being-not-dead.html?_r=0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QMuLU7oi14

duck in progress

Waiting a bit. When all you have to make is a salad, hey.

Having seen pics of Ned's salads, I suspect today's will be an exemplary demonstration of the art.

Too kind. (Basics: red leaf lettuce, celery, broccoli.)

Happy thanksgiving ILX!

I wish I were having a turkey dinner, but I'm in Paris TX and Tera and August are in Austin, until next weekend. Watching movies all day and having enchilada with beans and rice instead. A lonely thanksgiving this year.

Aww. Happy Lonely Thanksgiving, Jacob. Just remember that with Senor Wences by your side you are never alone.

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HA! thanks I needed a good laugh!

Who around here eats later? For Cubans the notion of early afternoon meals is bizarre, even if football's involved.

The dinner at my sister's is usually served at about 4:30pm. No football to be seen anywhere.

we had really light breakfasts and plan to tear into the food around 2. no pretending that this is "dinner."

we usually have our meal around 4. i find it weird but it works.

We'll be eating around 5 or 5:30, lord willin'.

what's your menu like, alfred?

my dad and stepmom and I got stoned off some shit from Cali called "sputnik" and we are apparently getting a tday dinner from some place followed by homemade pie and oh christ if I don't eat soon I'm going to die

My cousin's cooking. This year besides the turkey: wild boar with chutney, duck (I know not the recipe), corn risotto, and perhaps other passengers on Noah's ark.

boar! wow

The turkey is in the oven, and when I can smell anything (I have periodic sneezing attacks and Johnstown Flood quantities of mucus) it smells GLORIOUS.

- breakfast sandwiches (Italian sausage, eggs, pepper jack, onions, garlic, hot sauce on English muffins)

- margaritas

- nachos

- cajun shrimp

- pot brownies

fuck dude I wanna nom those breakfast sandwiches so hard

I want a margarita and nachos

I wanna be the best like no one ever was

I have a turdecken in the oven right now. Eta is halftime of game #2

Stevie, come over -- I got gimlets.

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Not bad, and pretty good textururally, but a bit flavorless sans faux gravy.

I am Team Tofurky for life, as long as it's cooked right (on a bed of potato/carrot/onion/celery/garlic, marinated w/ olive oil and soy sauce). Beats the hell out of Field Roast and all the other things I've had.

better than IRL turkey

fuck dude I wanna nom those breakfast sandwiches so hard

Yeah, neither me nor my gf like turkey, or the preparation thereof, so we just said, "What would we eat if we could just stay home all day and do nothing but eat?"

pepper jack

good man.

i wanted to do something dr. strongoish this year but i was shouted down by the other members of my party.

Chopped red leaf/celery/broccoli salad made and chilling. Just waiting on the carpool.

stuff a turkey with liverwurst and doubloons or something.

stuff a turkey with pepperjack, sauerkraut, and tortilla chips and fucking SERVE.

"Cuz I like to PARTY."

this year's meal is cookbook-circa-1970 traditional and i couldnt be happier.

translation for the kids: lotsa celery chips, mayonnaise, Campbell's cream of mushroom soup, and generous time spent in the commode.

HOLY FUCK apparently we are having OYSTER STUFFING?!? Perks of a Rehobothian father.

is that like a Visigoth

idk he lives in Rehoboth w/e

OYSTER STUFFINGI I can only imagine.....

it is awesome

until the cat gets into it

this just in: the oyster stuffing is whoaaaa good

though perhaps not as good as sausage-apple-cranberry/raisin stuffing

supermarket thanksgiving update: v. good, not as good as my homemade, but v. good.

Home from a very short get-together. Thank God that's over.

Made a pumpkin pie completely from scratch (fresh pumpkins, ginger, etc!) and am making my own Twilight Zone marathon from YouTube videos. This is apparently when I become a middle-aged cliché.

Happy turkey day, Amurcans! :D

the smell of tofurkey grosses me out, but i like the field roast celebration roast

THE SMELL OF YR DISDAIN GROSSES ME OUT

J have you ever done a DIY holiday roast like w/ tofu + vwg + stuff?

Apparently the trick is mixing smashed tofu w/ the vwg powder

nah, i've got a bunch of recipes for that kind of thing, but it always seems like too much hassle. jordan loves tofurkey so we got that this year.

We sell this cranberry hazelnut en croute thing from Field Roast and it looks SINFUL (also it's $20 so like fuck that)

oh yeah i saw that at the supermarket, it did look pretty delish!

things that made it to the table

- duck. flesh somewhat overdone, skin completely delicious
- sausage stuffing
- mac n cheese
- insane pile of mashed potatoes
- carrots and broccoli
- homemade pumpkin donuts

too much food for four people, tbh

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i wanna be a seward

nice pics!

i should have taken some pictures of the spread before it got attacked but i was busy hobnobbing. 20 pound turkey was something. and big table of whore derves was yummy.

Digesting excellent dinner, salad was a hit. Apple and key lime pie later.

I ordered leg o' lamb. Obama ordering drone hit on turkeys joke went over well.

The nice couple who are a few doors down from me, saw me outside having a smoke and asked if I were here at the hotel all day alone. When I said yes, they came back with a plate of ham and potato salad!!

Thanksgiving was last month you silly people!

Happy thanksgiving. I love you all.

yeah, happy thanksgiving, gang

love you too, alfred. despite obama's drone strikes. or is it because of them...?

we both love the drone strike known as Belinda Carlisle's 1987 singles.

i had wine for the first time in a long time. months anyway. been off the sauce just to see what that's like after decades of glugging my way to victory. anyway, my friend rob is an italian wine distributor (small fancy italian vineyards) and mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....so good. he really is the best neighbor to have. for real. and he put out the first stars of the lid album! what a world we live in.

Thankful to see the cowboys lose, jets getting killed and my turducken kicked ass

watched a few episodes of the wire on dvd and had leftovers (we ate early), now falling asleep in front of the tv with some top chef.

<sits down suddenly, grasping heart>

"obi-wan, what's wrong?"

"I felt a great disturbance in the force - as if 248 million oversized birds suddenly cried out in terror, then were suddenly silenced."

ps turkey was awesome, great to eat real ass home cooked american food for my holiday

i'm glad it wasnt ass cooked

Had a brined turkey.

i like how u roll, tarfumes

dinner was great! brother in law made rib eye steaks in the oven & turned out like rare prime rib, I was in meateating HEAVEN.

new pumpkin pie recipe was a hit, turned out perfectly. feeling kinda proud of m'self tbh

didnt get drunk. but my face (incl eyes & nostrils) got a full tongue bath from a huge excitable chow/german-shepherd mix puppy named Zeus so it's all good

chow/german-shepherd mix puppy

PICS?!?!

sorry :(

next time

Hw won't be a puppy then!

Are ya ! ?!

i sure am!!!!!

having vegan thanksgiving! no turkey!

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

depressing phrases

enjoy yr maize, hippies

enjoy yr complicity in ritualized cruelty

also yr tryptophanic stupor!

what is thanksgiving if not a celebration of our complicity in ritualized cruelty

food christmas

what is thanksgiving if not a celebration of our complicity in ritualized cruelty

― Tip from Tae Kwon Do: (crüt), Wednesday, November 27, 2013 2:30 PM (1 minute ago)

you don't have to celebrate with your family if they are that awful

my menu tomorrow:
Harvest Enchiladas
Raw Walnut Pecans Loaf
Cream Cheese and Spinach Tamales
Quinoa and Cranberry Stuffing Tamales
Marshmallow and Sweet Potato Tamales
Pumpkin Spice Tamales
Baked Vegetable and Fusilli
Classic Green Beam Casserole
Herb Mashed Potatoes
Mashed Garlic and Rosemary Sweet Potatoes
Apple Veggie Sausage Stuffing
Pumpkin Curry
Orange Pecan Cranberry Sauce
Kale Cranberry Salad
House Salad
Blue Corn and Cheddar Muffins
Pumpkin Chocolate Cheesecake
Raw Pecan Pie
Pumpkin Cheesecake
Pumpkin Bavarian Cream Cupcakes

doing our own homemade stuff tonight, tho

i'm making a tres leche cake to bring to my friend's party :)

tonight I am making a peanut butter pie
tomorrow morning I'm making a pumpkin pie

fin

not sure what everyone else is making -- it's a potluck at the noise show co-op I belong to, but I'm bringing/making:

garlic bread - (olive oil/garlic/smoked paprika)
mixed green salad with roasted beets and clementine oranges
silk nog + bourbon

Mashed Garlic and Rosemary Sweet Potatoes
Apple Veggie Sausage Stuffing
Pumpkin Curry
Orange Pecan Cranberry Sauce

delicious!!!

m bise yr menu sounds so harvesty and colorful

yum

i am so ready for my turkey dinner. it's a potluck that an old college friend is hosting.

i'm making these:

http://www.chow.com/recipes/30794-slow-cooker-collard-greens (braised with roasted turkey drumsticks)
http://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/cornbread-muffins-with-maple-butter (minus the maple butter)

I want to smoke a turkey just for those greens. It's all over up here to the north of y'all, though. Did visit DC last week and got a surprise early thanksgiving dinner with friends, which was lovely.

yeah, i don't have a smoker. i dry-brined the turkey for three days and then roasted it at 400 degrees.

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I'm going to some restaurant with my grandparents

I'm going to throw some trash off of a cliff and get arrested

^^^^

made brisket and latkes last night for chanukah, my partner's mom is in charge of today, apparently turkey is involved

another three hours to go!

m bise yr menu sounds so harvesty and colorful

yum

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it was amazing, i ate all the tamales, this restaurant owns

they used blue masa, so fancy

!

We went to...
wait for it...

Cracker Barrel

boom

Had fish

DON'T PANIC I'M ENGLISH

I am full of all the t'giving things.

I ate tacos

so much leftovers :D :D

IT APPROACHES

I'm making a maple-pumpkin pie with pecan streusel (except instead of pumpkin I roasted and pureed a butternut squash and puree)
and also homemade cranberry sauce with orange zest, vanilla, and cinnamon

going to be with my family at our traditional thanksgiving getaway at Sanibel Island, Florida for the first time in several years, we will be picking up thanksgiving dinner from the supermarket, I'm pretty pleased.

Oh man, a few years ago I went to my dad's in Rehoboth and we ordered it too (there was OYSTER STUFFING!!!!) and we got sooooo baked and ate everything like the weird mud demon from Spirited Away

ordering food is the best

Will be hosting the family gathering (me, my sister, our mother, my sister's boyfriend, and his mother).

Turkey
Scallop and mushroom casserole (my sister doesn't eat meat or poultry)
Mashed potatoes
Turkey gravy
Mushroom gravy (to be made by my sister)
Stuffing or dressing or whatever you call it, I never ate it while I was growing up (to be made by my mother)
Brussel sprouts with chestnuts
Salad (not certain about this)
Pumpkin cheesecake (to be made by my sister)
Assorted pies (to be made by Ben's mother)

I've hosted similar Thanksgivings two out of the last three years. It's not difficult, but I'm not looking forward to the last-minute scramble.

All done with Thanksgiving in October over here, but going over to our American postdoc's place for dinner. Bringing a side dish, but don't know what yet as they haven't decided what they're cooking...

Nor'easter maximizing travel/planning panic in the BosWash Corridor!

Sunday NY Times featured hostage negotiators explaining how to talk to your family.

"amen."
…
"can you pass that over to - thank you."
…
…
"hmm. this is good.'
"can I have another one of those?"
…
…
"so."
"about those rioters in -"
"WELL ALL RIGHT! WE'LL SEE YOU ALL NEXT YEAR! BYE!"

Looking forward to never eating this trash bird again

It's our national trash bird.

i really want to spatchcock one of these fuckers.

garbage fowl

turkey is amazing and i look forward to eating it every year.

we will be picking up thanksgiving dinner from the supermarket, I'm pretty pleased.

we're doing this too -- it's a sort-of tradition whenever i don't feel like committing the time/expense/amount of dishes and pans to a homemade thanksgiving dinner with all the fixings. plus i'm supposed to be watching my weight so this keeps the leftovers to a minimum.

inlaws are buying the spread from wholefoods again this year

which would be fine, the food p dece except inlaws willfully ignore the fact that their oven is total garbage and has been for three years running now. i swear it take 9 times longer to reheat everything, and they get shitty with us for reminding them that it happens every year

but yay food & yay macy's parade :)

It's just the three of us, but I've decided to go traditional anyway - turkey breast, stuffing, brussel sprouts, macaroni and cheese, cranberry sauce. Then on Friday we're having leftover turkey, stuffing, and cranberry sauce sandwiches.

i made cranberry sauce for 20 for the office potluck and~ 5% of it got eaten. wtf do it with it? put it on turkey sandwiches?

i meant "wtf do i do with it"?

That would work, but you'll get sick of it before long. Do you bake? Maybe make some kind of tart with it.

the cranberry sauce never gets eaten. :-(

sick of being at thanksgivings that are too hoity toity for good old canned cranberry sauce (the best)

I am ready for stuffing, and laughter, and not being online for most of a day.

I'm a Thanksgiving orphan this year. Someone talk me out of making a completely OTT turkey mole.

no way man, you need to do that

double-down on the weird orphan-ness and go for it!

this is the only place I'm going to say this and i don't even know if I feel good about saying it anywhere but I'm pretty sure my thanksgiving is going to be bummertown usa and that being back home in our own place with mr veg afterwards will be the best part of the day

family gatherings are weird since my mother in law passed away; father in law has full dementia now and while he does know who we all are, conversation is almost impossible unless brief question/answers about mundane things like is the food good etc count as conversation... everyone just kind of pretends to be nominally okay with everything and we're all just waiting for the awkwardness to be over with

it's hella weird

and sad, just really sad

Ugh ugh ugh. Is he living at home w/caregiver or in a nursing home?

he's living at home with a caregiver who's with him 7am til 7pm, basically 7 days a week

my brother in law promised his mom before she died that he wouldn't put his dad in a nursing home -- he's a fire captain & former emt & has seen too much of the inside of those places to ever put his father there

but having him at home has been really tough on them.

when my grandma was still alive my parents hired a live-in caregiver for her, basically for the same reasons (and they didn't want some greedy nursing home to raid her bank account).

There are actually some really nice assisted living/memory care residences out there. Like, places I could actually picture myself choosing to live were I widowed/needed assistance/whatever. Most of them cost a fortune, however :(

My apartment smells of roasting turkey and browning butter. Maillard reaction FTW.

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mmmmm. Delicious.

inlaws bought the wholefoods thanksgiving meal & it was pretty goddamn delicious
those mashed potatoes are craaaazy rich and good
and we didn't have to wait 9 hours for it to reheat in their crappy oven -- mr veg bought digital thermometer setup, got the oven to temp & then set up the bird and it only had to cook for an extra 20 min

rest of my time there was kinda meh -- niece played minecraft on a laptop the whole time except for hellos, goodbyes and the meal; brother in law played Halo on the living room tv at full volume the whole time except for hellos, goodbyes and meal; sister in law sat and did whatever on her laptop
kicked myself for not bringing my book... I am sorry for insensitivity unpc-ness of this statement but RAGH they are such aspie weirdos sometimes!

today was great! we ate the t-day spread from gelson's (turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, yams, vegetables, cranberry sauce, dinner rolls) and some almond danish kringle. the turkey dinner is marketed being "for two" but we've managed to get afternoon and evening meals out of it and still have leftovers.

we streamed some of the mst3k turkey day marathon -- laserblast and the pod people -- and played scrabble, which i won. we just finished watching the huell howser documentary on kcet, which was good in kind of a softball, puff-piece way.

We're celebrating thanksgiving down here in Oz with a picnic. Turkey is cooked, we have sweet potatoes, a yotam ottolenghi green bean salad, 2 pecan pies, 1 pumpkin, cornbread, cornbread stuffing, thermos flasks full of gravy. Its forecast for a high of 29C with a light breeze. I'm sitting in the barbers drinking a beer, life is good.

Celebrating Northern hemisphere holidays in Australia is deeply weird.

are there… any americans there??

I'm sitting in the barbers drinking a beer, life is good.

...getting cornbread and thermos gravy cut out of your beard?

what did y'all put in your stuffing? i added apples, onions, carrots, and prunes.

i kind of miss when people put livers in stuffing, does anyone do that anymore?

My partner is American and Turkey day is therefore mandatory. Picnic went very well, Australians like pumpkin pie it seems.

I did a cornbread stuffing with just onions, celery, thyme and sage. I still use the livers when I'm making British style stuffing which is largely sausage based.

My family always put turkey giblets in the dressing.

Family is scattered this year due to my niece's new bebeh (4 days old today), so I am cooking some of the traditional things and my mom made a pan of dressing for us ahead of time. So it's a baked ham, dressing, broccoli & rice casserole, grated sweet potato casserole, rolls, cranberry sauce. My first time making the broccoli-rice and the sweet potatoes, but the recipes are pretty straightforward.

I am cooking my famous 'roast chicken with a lemon up its butt' for Christmas -- x 2 chooks because this family eats a lot and 1 seems to be not enough.
Am kind of looking forward to it, since I haven't cooked a Christmas dinner for quite a few years now.

it's so weird to me that people drink booze at family dinners

Depending on the family. (In our case, for great happiness.)

So who's gearing up to do what? My girlfriend and I are bringing the pies to ours.

Thanksgiving is weird as an expat. though we're going to share some thanksgiving-ish food with my daughter's school tomorrow, with the kids asking us questions about the USA.

I'm having my first vegan Thanksgiving. I'd be lying if I said I won't miss my grandmother's cooking, but it will be delicious.

We are doing family Thanksgiving on Sunday bcz of work commitments - for that I'm brimging green bean casserole, and my mother in law's beloved sour cream cheesecake, and Mr Veg is doing an awesome baked ham with ginger snaps

Mr Veg and I are doing our own Thanksgiving tomorrow for ourselves - for that he's brining & barbecueing a chicken, and I'm making collard greens & mashed taters, and a pumpkin pie

We're having a Friendsgiving tomorrow, the turkey is going to be Catalan-style turkey legs from the Adria "Family Meal" cookbook. I'm not in charge of that fortunately. I am contributing (and ought to get started on soon) stuffing (sausage and vegetarian) and gravy and snickerdoodles and also bread.

xps to crut: sliced real thin, Tofurkey and its wild rice stuffing was better than any actual turkey I ever had

I am going to be drinking a lot and trying to shoot down any dumb attempt my bigoted grandfather makes at trying to provoke everyone w/ his stupid conservative views

having my first ever thanksgiving tomorrow, surrounded by ilx0rs

My former carnivore father-in-law just went vegan last month, so I can't even bring my vegetarian meatloaf recipe that usually wins people over.

I'm ready for furtive nips of liquor though. All the nips...

booze has been a great addition to family thanksgiving, esp as my sisters have aged into legal drinking yrs (though i believe one of my sisters still burns one down before dinner somewhere in/near the house). it helps that everybody has a pretty pleasant buzz/drunk. my s.o. will be joining us which is nice, her family usually has a variable thanksgiving menu whereas we have literally the same things every year, all of which she loves (and which coincidentally her mother refers to, without realizing it's our tradition, as a 'white-trash' spread). looking very much forward to a four day weekend after a grueling series of high-pressure workweeks. gobble gobble

a couple years ago, I went to a vegan thanksgiving ... someone made vegan chicken and DUMPLINGS! that was amazing and did not taste at all like faux-meat

tofu & DUMPLINGS! is incredible

Here is that meatloaf recipe, unnecessarily googleproofed by yours truly:

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For the first time in donkey's years, my sister will not be hosting a mega-family Thanksgiving at her house, because my brother-in-law just had knee replacement surgery and is convalescing. Our alternative plan fell through at the last minute, so this year's Thanksgiving will be a quiet, informal affair between my wife and I.

I am making pumpkin pies today, but there shall not be a turkey, nor any of the other customary dishes. We'll survive.

SPAGEDY

xxposts omg sic, that sounds like a fun time

enjoy the food parade!

sic, I guess you're at the big Seattle krewe get-together that I was lucky enough to join last year?

I'm doing the sweet potato casserole (for the extended family this time, not just for the three of us) and, as always, the deviled eggs.

Last Friday at a Friendsgiving do I made a wild rice and mushroom casserole and more deviled eggs.

Nothing really happens with Thanksgiving until the weekend in London, but I will be wandering down to a nearby bakery that does slices of pumpkin pie and coming home to have it with some kind of poultry, mashed potatoes and my wild rice/mushroom/sausage stuffing covered in all the gravy.

William - yep, looking forward to discovering what green bean casserole is, and if it's like all other American Thanksgiving foods, where they only get eaten once a year as desserts rather than whenever you feel like them, because they're nice.

Being in the US at pumpkin beer season for the last three years has been pleasant though.

I'm making sweet potato pie, I'm psyched

no, green bean casserole is for regular eatin

i love green bean casserole so much

i tried making a not-from-canned version & it was ok but not as good as the classic from-canned version

after a lot of cleaning, shopping, and cooking, we're just about ready to host 14 of the fam tomorrow ... we've done it so many times it's not as stressful as it once was, except for the unwritten rule that requires all guests to arrive early and stand in the middle of the kitchen chatting while we try to get the food on the table

SD, I advice leaning into Gramps' ear and yelling "WOULDYA LIKE A CHERRY PHOSPHATE?"

Heading over to the gf's parents for a long day tomorrow so I made liver pate for an appetizer. She is making mac 'n cheese and an apple tart.

I'm like 12th generation American, and I've never had green bean casserole.

Yeah, we've always done the green beans, but without the soup.

thanksgiving is disgusting and incredibly stupid and offensive. i'll probably just stay in my old bedroom and drink alone tomorrow and listen to prince or something. i don't celebrate the holocaust. i also don't celebrate thanksgiving.

So ... you gonna finish that stuffing?

lol so I just found out that we are *hosting* Thanksgiving on Sunday, not going to inlaws

D:

horses of different colors, galloping through my mind

Vegemitegrrl contemplates her options for whoever failed to tell her earlier about Sunday's arrangement:
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Apparently I was in the room when it was being discussed so I am unsure whether to kill self and/or loved ones

Kool Aid for Thanksgiving whaddya say

LITTLE BROTHER: So when you call a bacon and pineapple pizza a "Hawaiian," are you trying to be racist?
ME: Against who? Canadians?

MOM: What kind of crust will the kids eat?
ME: Whatever. Just nothing exotic.
LITTLE BROTHER: Oh? And what exactly is "exotic" on this menu?

Dude trolls me hard, gotta give him credit.

yall i got two sweet potato pies in the oven RIGHT NOW daaaaaaaaaamn

Kool Aid for Thanksgiving whaddya say

It was Flavor-Aid!

I was going to make my pumpkin pie tonight but i put my pastry in the freezer instead of the fridge & it needs to thaw overnight

shrug

Omg such inane babbling at the table, this is so boring! Next year I'm going to have friendsgiving and make all of the great things that *I* want to eat

Cribbage and chill now that the bird's in the oven.

^^^ suggested gay thread title

we took pumpkin pie and cranberry sauce to my kid's class today (in france) and it was the first time any of them had had either of those. pumpkin pie was a hit (like pain d'épices, one girl noted) but the cranberry sauce received more mixed reviews. too acidic, some complained. we also answered questions about the usa for about two hours, like "what's a NY taxi like", "how tall are the buildings in the usa" (they meant New York), "are the police nice there" (um, tricky one). they asked if jazz was a big thing in the usa (I think the teacher has been talking a lot about jazz) and they asked if there are a lot of celebrities in the usa, mostly so they could name ones they know (like will smith & marilyn monroe). oh and they asked if barack obama could stay president longer.

is green bean casserole something favored more by German-Americans than those of other ethnic ancestry? Is it a class thing?

omg that is too cute

my aunt and uncle moved, and now, as shorthand, refer to their old house by its street number: 420

For about 3 minutes, my throat closed up early in dinner. We think it was the oysters.

oh no, yikes

glad yr ok tho

I have never had any exp of food allergies. Very strange.

Could the chemo have upped your susceptibility?

no idea, hasn't before

weird

Wild board ragu, fois gras dressing, corn casserole -- this is dinner.

Wild boar

ALWAYYYYS

...

SHIIIIIIINE

hello from the toilet

I MUST HAVE POOPED A THOUSAND PIIIIIIIIIIIES

lmao @ myself but seriously I have pretty bad diarrhea what's up

:(

Dinner was lunch this time around due to other obligations on the part of my girlfriend's family, but it was nice, didn't expect that. Full meal, eleven people, two young kids, all good. That and everything was essentially cleaned up and set aside in leftover containers by 3 pm. And happily I have claimed the excellent smoked turkey remains for stock tomorrow at home.

@ConanOBrien
Finally, a Thanksgiving without a drunken uncle. Just me, my nieces and nephews and my bottle of Jack Daniels.

Is there a BLACK FRIDAY follow-on for this thread? Because I need to post somewhere about how adorable it was people-watching grandparents in the Lego Store at the mall today

"We need the deep sea ocean explorer set. Oh! Yes that one. So what comes in this?" And if any retail drones were actually having anything resembling a good day today, it was the Lego Store people.

And maybe the ones at the Apple and Microsoft stores because them folks was MOVIN' UNITS.

Lastly, there was a big Nintendo kiosk where I got to watch granddads playing Mario Maker, next to pretty much the whole spectrum of humanity playing Splatoon against each other, next to three teenage girls getting very vocal about their co-op Triforce Heroes experience. All told a very nice tonic against shit in the news. I figured Black Friday at Tyson's Corner would have been a total disaster area, but no, it felt more like "you know how we beat ISIS? Consumerism, bitches!"

we went to vermont!

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my cousin has the sweetest house in the woods. jealous...

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my mom was there. hi mom!

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hi skot's mom!

she's beautiful!

so is 14 Hands wine!

that chair looks profoundly comfortable

The time approaches.

Thankfully, the only thing I have to bring to tomorrow's feed is cider and wine. Though I am considering getting some mirepoix just so I can get started on stock immediately after said feed (my girlfriend's family eats around 1 pm).

We have no local family, and all of our extended family, including International travelers, will be here next week. So no hosting or attending Thanksgiving for us this year. For the third time ever we will be going to a restaurant. For the sake of convenience and random adventure, we have chosen Milwaukee.

Never heard of that restaurant.

Ned has a gf?

xpost It's about an hour and a half north of Chicago. Big space. Lots of seating.