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ChatteParfaitt -> RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? (11/18/2012 4:15:59 AM)

FR:

This thread took a negative turn and I believe it was (in part) due to my response to freedomdwarf, which I intended to be entirely tongue in cheek and evidently came across as contentious as opposed to being humorous.

I apologize freedomdwarf. I appreciate your posts and consider you an insightful (fairly recent) addition to the forum.

Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on the many things we have to be thankful for, friends, family, (relatively) good health, a roof over my head, and plentiful food being at the top of my list.






JstAnotherSub -> RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? (11/18/2012 4:35:32 AM)

I just finished reading this thread, and I would say that it was not you who started the negativity in this thread. You responded to it. But, it is very kind of you to accept responsibility in the name of Thanksgiving.

As for what we are having, I will get a spiral ham, a small turkey breast or roast, and do the green beans, yams, squash casserole, deviled eggs, dressing and the great cranberry sauce that comes jellied in a can and makes a most wonderful PLOP when ya thwap it on to the plate.

Rolls, a pecan pie made by Mrs Edwards, with a dollop of Cool Whip. Creamed corn. And anything else I see that is on sale when I hit Aldi tomorrow morning.

There will be enough leftovers for me and the kid to eat for the rest of the week.

Also gotta do Chex mix for the nibbling this week. Mom always did that, and I still have the pan she used to cook it in.



ChatteParfaitt -> RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? (11/18/2012 8:47:05 AM)

FR:

Back when I was married to the abusive ex, I used to do Thanksgiving dinner for his entire family, which amounted to about 30 people (including babies.) I did a turkey, a ham, and a lasagna.

Being the observant sort, I noticed the adults had to go check out something out back at one end of the yard, while the teens had a different spot.

I always found it funny the adults never twigged to what the teens were up to, but then what were they going to say? 'That's the wrong end of the yard to go take a look at.'






Aylee -> RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? (11/18/2012 11:31:34 AM)

~Fast Reply~

Turkey
Stuffing and dressing (yes, both, I am making the bread crumbs today and they smell wonderful)
Mashed Potatoes
Baked sweet potatoes
Gravy
Rolls
Sugar-free apple pie
That banana and nilla wafer pudding stuff
Cranberry sauce
Cheese and crackers
Pickles and olives
Carrot sticks
Summer sausage
Salad

Butterhead will be having cheese pizza, carrot sticks, and popcorn.  Possibly a fruit popsicle.  Although she did pick out the turkey this year.  It is huge. 

Roscoe will likely have turkey, dressing, cheese, and crackers. 



OsideGirl -> RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? (11/18/2012 11:46:55 AM)

Oh...and Master decided to buy a mall jar of Apple Pie Moonshine...



JstAnotherSub -> RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? (11/18/2012 12:59:24 PM)

Apple Pie moonshine is easy as heck to make at home. One of my fav things to sip by a fire on a cold night.

I have never heard of being able to buy it already made. Liquor store or friend who makes it?



TheHeretic -> RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? (11/18/2012 1:00:08 PM)

For me, it's about what we won't be having for Thanksgiving. We won't be having family drama, or psychotic breaks and screaming fights over whether the turkey is brown enough. There won't be a hideous brawl in the aftermath, to deal with the tension of conflicting un-met expectations of the day.

We'll have a longish drive to the seat of my wife's family, a good meal (with a jello dish that has a big traditional significance to them), good company, and if I do step out to check the new backyard water feature with a cousin in law, it will be in preparation for the LA freeway journey home, not because I need to be as baked as the turkey to put up with the bullshit around the table.




Level -> RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? (11/18/2012 1:48:39 PM)

What's apple pie moonshine?

Rich, I hope we have a drama free day as well... my brother got married recently, and it looks like the new in-laws are ok. There's a chance we won't be together though, my brother might be in the hospital... he got gigged by a catfish, and seems to have blood poisoning, he's been running fever between 100 & 103 for a couple of weeks.



TheHeretic -> RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? (11/18/2012 2:09:48 PM)

Good thoughts to your brother, Level (and welcome back!).




Level -> RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? (11/18/2012 2:12:48 PM)

Thanks on both counts!



JstAnotherSub -> RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? (11/18/2012 2:16:47 PM)

quote:

What's apple pie moonshine?


This is pretty much the recipe I use.

It is awesomeness that will kick you in the ass if ya don't watch it.



Level -> RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? (11/18/2012 2:20:31 PM)

Oy vey! [:)]



JstAnotherSub -> RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? (11/18/2012 2:35:19 PM)

We are more likely to yell yeeeee hawwwwwww!!


When mom died, I found 2 jars of shine that my uncle in NC had made, way up under her kitchen sink in the back corner of the cabinet.

It was labeled "cold medicine".

It made awesome apple pie.



DesFIP -> RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? (11/18/2012 2:53:47 PM)

My son is over a year sober so the kids won't be all wandering out for a 'walk'. In addition to potatoes, I have made two batches of chocolate almond biscotti and one batch of toffee biscotti. I swore there was a bottle of Karo syrup in the cabinet and I had plans to make a chocolate pecan pie. Since that isn't happening I may make a cocoa apple bundt cake with chocolate glaze.

I'm not at tall organized this year. I've sent my daughter to the store three times so far for stuff I've forgotten.



Aylee -> RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? (11/18/2012 4:30:42 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: OsideGirl

Oh...and Master decided to buy a mall jar of Apple Pie Moonshine...


What is a "mall jar"?  Is it those 50ml airplane bottles?  A 200ml "nippy bottle?  I have never heard this term.



chatterbox24 -> RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? (11/18/2012 4:32:14 PM)

FOr as long as I can remember.

We will have Baked turkey, sometimes ham too, oyster dressing, mashed potatoes, corn, green bean casserole, homemade chicken and noodles, cranberry apple salad, cauliflower salad, deviled eggs and Deluxe high rising yeast rolls.

Dessert is homemade coconut cream pie, pumpkin pie, blackberry pie, and a pumpkin roll.

Oh lets not forget my arrogant brother, my sister who talks more then me, All the brats young and old,..........reckless golf cart driving, 4 wheelers, horses, and sarcastic insults all day long and compalints of who was late showing up. Oh oh oh and I gaurantee I will be the do the dishes clan, as others make their excuses as why they have to leave before things are cleaned up. lol

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Gobble gobble.



MalcolmNathaniel -> RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? (11/18/2012 10:40:19 PM)

I don't know yet.

I have to get myself invited to TG dinner because I'm not going home this time.

If worse comes to worst I will cook myself the worlds smallest turkey, and eat it with raw cranberries. Then cry myself to sleep.

Not because of loneliness, but because raw cranberries are AWFUL! I forgot to make the family recipe for cranberries, which takes six weeks to make - and that canned stuff is hideous.



littlewonder -> RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? (11/19/2012 12:57:53 AM)

I will be baking pecan and pumpkin pies for in the evening with Master and my daughter and her boyfriend since my daughter has decided she doesn't want to come to dinner here. She is baking her own for her boyfriend and their friends. She bought a large pheasant since she doesn't like turkey.

But at least I talked her into stopping over for dessert in the evening.



Aynne88 -> RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? (11/19/2012 6:22:39 AM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: OsideGirl

Martha Stewart roasted turkey with gravy, garlic mashed potatoes, green beans, traditional stuffing, cranberry sauce, fresh rolls.

Pickle and Olive tray, Meat and cheese tray.

My brother will be having faux chicken and a special batch of stuffing (he's a vegetarian)

For dessert: Apple Crisp



Tell your brother he rocks ;-)

The two of us are sneaking off to spend the night in the city, I'm vegan so we are going to a fabulous restaurant that serves both traditional food as well as vegan food done in a celebratory style for thanksgiving. One of the things on the menu for the day is a seitan roast which I have been craving to try and a zillion vegan side dishes, and he's having the regular roasted turkey dinner, and it comes with a wine course and a dessert course as well, no clean up, no house full of wound up kids that aren't mine, and then we are meeting up with some friends I haven't seen in forever for after dinner drinks. I'm looking forward to it.



freedomdwarf1 -> RE: What are you having for Thanksgiving? (11/19/2012 7:02:05 AM)

Having tasted pumpkin and pecan done in a variety of different ways, I can honestly say I really hate them [:'(]

I've tried a lot of vegetarian and vegan stuff based on tofu or soya [:'(]
I've also tried the multitude of bean mixes and salads [:'(]

So glad that I'm not living in the US where it seems you're an outcast for not loving their fave foods.
The UK and Europe isn't any better at doing this sort of stuff either - it seems to be universally [:'(] to my taste buds.

Gimme a decent steak or a nice lump of well-cooked meat any day. [8D]
I still like basic veg to go with it though.

I cooked a chinese meal yesterday. The beef was so tender you could cut it with the edge of a spoon.
My son was given the job of doing the prawn crackers - we ended up with 2 carrier bags full of them!
Even though we had 6x 3-litre dishes full of food, prawn crackers, prawn sesame toast and a huge dish of egg fried rice - there isn't much left over and there was only 5 of us at the table.

My chinese dishes always go down a storm - much better than anything you buy from a takeaway shop.
I was taught by a genuine chinese lady who lived half her life in a little hut in the hills outside Beijing.
What was her trick to such tasty food?? Absolutely NO salt or sugar (or MSG) in the preparation or the cooking and obviously nothing out of a packet or jar!




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