It's Thanksgiving again, Or Lesson's Learned from last year!

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MasterJohnSteed -> It's Thanksgiving again, Or Lesson's Learned from last year! (11/22/2013 7:51:19 PM)
Last year I was obsessed with not going to Golden Corral or some other all you could eat buffet for Thanksgiving. I went and bought a pre cooked turkey and all the trimmings. Oh what a idiot I was for doing that. This Year, I have a Turkey Breast Roast, (Went to the local Sav A Lot Grocery and got it for $5.49) It will feed me and I will have left overs! Everything else for my Turkey day bash, is either precooked, or will involve warming up. Last year's total was about $65.00. This year my total layout will be $25.00 Plus the fact that I know I will not have to stand in line for an hour and a half with some screaming or other wise smart mouthed kids. I will Not have to listen to Yankee's bad mouth the south, because they came down to spend the holiday with their family that is stationed at Ft. Jackson. I will not have to listen to someone screaming at their child, or significant other, in some foreign language that I do not understand. I will not have to go home, with a sore back from sitting in a hard wooden chair after I have stood in line for an hour and a half. All and All a Very wonderful Thanksgiving!

MistressDarkArt -> RE: It's Thanksgiving again, Or Lesson's Learned from last year! (11/22/2013 8:03:43 PM)
This year, I gave Huck 2 options: go to the free community dinner where the boy scouts and police officers will serve us, or I would bring home the complete heat-n-eat and we'd have the same dang food day after day for two weeks with not an inch of room left in the refrigerator until it all dries out and has to be tossed. He chose the community dinner. Gawd, I love that man (and the dungeness he brings, which is now back in season). Happy thanksgiving, folks, and John, you enjoy the heck outta your dinner. Maybe ask an elderly neighbor to join you.

DomKen -> RE: It's Thanksgiving again, Or Lesson's Learned from last year! (11/22/2013 9:25:08 PM)
Lessons learned last year. The fancy pastured heritage turkey is totally worth it, as long as every one chips in and since it is a friends Thanksgiving they will. I got to go pick it up tomorrow.

MalcolmNathaniel -> RE: It's Thanksgiving again, Or Lesson's Learned from last year! (11/22/2013 10:07:00 PM)
Thanksgiving is about being around your friends and family. Otherwise you are just attempting an exercise in gluttony. Thanksgiving is also much easier than dealing with them at Christmas; get it over with now instead of a month from now. That may or may not include snot-nosed brats.

kallisto -> RE: It's Thanksgiving again, Or Lesson's Learned from last year! (11/23/2013 5:01:47 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: MalcolmNathaniel Thanksgiving is about being around your friends and family. That may or may not include snot-nosed brats. This is us! [:)] * In my case it does include [:)] We learn the same lesson over and over again each year ... we never eat at the time we set. We know why, but it happens every year. But it's always a great day anyway.

Lynnxz -> RE: It's Thanksgiving again, Or Lesson's Learned from last year! (11/23/2013 5:35:29 AM)
My mothers thanksgiving bash has turned into a seething mass of screaming children, and obese relatives who bring nothing, and criticize her cooking and complain about lack (?!?) of desserts. Thankfully, I'm working, and don't have to deal with that. I've set up a housekeeping service to come to her house afterwards, that will be my contribution.

Toysinbabeland -> RE: It's Thanksgiving again, Or Lesson's Learned from last year! (11/23/2013 5:40:50 AM)
I plan to drink heavily on Wednesday. No one should face relatives without a rip roaring hangover to intercept reality. No, not really... I'm working again on Thanksgiving for overtime. Save some sweet potato for me everyone...I like the marshmallow part.

Lucylastic -> RE: It's Thanksgiving again, Or Lesson's Learned from last year! (11/23/2013 6:12:19 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lynnxz My mothers thanksgiving bash has turned into a seething mass of screaming children, and obese relatives who bring nothing, and criticize her cooking and complain about lack (?!?) of desserts. Thankfully, I'm working, and don't have to deal with that. I've set up a housekeeping service to come to her house afterwards, that will be my contribution. I love that idea:) Happy Thanksgiving for everyone:)

MasterCaneman -> RE: It's Thanksgiving again, Or Lesson's Learned from last year! (11/23/2013 6:31:15 AM)
With my mom's passing, and my GF starting her new job, I'll be flying solo once again. I came from a small family, we never had the Norman Rockwell type of dinner in my life. Tomorrow, my aunt is having my two cousins and me over for dinner. If you go to Recipes, my turkey roll-ups were the single guy's answer to Thanksgiving dinner too. Honestly, the best time I ever had was at a Denny's in Wyoming one year. I was driving back from Guernsey, and the weather was crap so I pulled off I-80 to let it mellow out a bit.There were about seven people there, and for some reason, we all decided to share a table and order at the same time. There was only one server, cook, and dishwasher and the manager, and we all had dinner together. Little things like that make life interesting.

LookieNoNookie -> RE: It's Thanksgiving again, Or Lesson's Learned from last year! (11/23/2013 6:59:34 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: MasterJohnSteed Last year I was obsessed with not going to Golden Corral or some other all you could eat buffet for Thanksgiving. I went and bought a pre cooked turkey and all the trimmings. Oh what a idiot I was for doing that. This Year, I have a Turkey Breast Roast, (Went to the local Sav A Lot Grocery and got it for $5.49) It will feed me and I will have left overs! Everything else for my Turkey day bash, is either precooked, or will involve warming up. Last year's total was about $65.00. This year my total layout will be $25.00 Plus the fact that I know I will not have to stand in line for an hour and a half with some screaming or other wise smart mouthed kids. I will Not have to listen to Yankee's bad mouth the south, because they came down to spend the holiday with their family that is stationed at Ft. Jackson. I will not have to listen to someone screaming at their child, or significant other, in some foreign language that I do not understand. I will not have to go home, with a sore back from sitting in a hard wooden chair after I have stood in line for an hour and a half. All and All a Very wonderful Thanksgiving! Golden Corral.....Thanksgiving. Sure sign you haven't been laid since 1983.

SweetAngel43211 -> RE: It's Thanksgiving again, Or Lesson's Learned from last year! (11/23/2013 7:16:47 PM)
We are supposed to go to my cousin's house again, but since it is snowing right now and is supposed to keep snowing straight through Thanksgiving we may not be able to go this year... We always have a great time, but it is over an hour drive in good weather let alone covered in inches of snow... We are supposedly getting somewhere between 8-10 inches if not more... We will see though that was supposed to happen last month too and most of it skipped us...

DesFIP -> RE: It's Thanksgiving again, Or Lesson's Learned from last year! (11/23/2013 9:17:36 PM)
8 - 10? That's disgusting. You know, there's a reason snow is a four letter word. I hope you have groceries in house if you can't get out. And please don't send the snow east. We don't want it.

littlewonder -> RE: It's Thanksgiving again, Or Lesson's Learned from last year! (11/24/2013 10:50:38 AM)
No lessons learned from last year. It was perfect just having Master, my daughter and her boyfriend here. It will be the same this year except a little sadder since I won't see her for Christmas and she's moving away in January. [:(] I plan to make it even better than last year.

SweetAngel43211 -> RE: It's Thanksgiving again, Or Lesson's Learned from last year! (11/24/2013 11:02:33 AM)
Yeah I agree lol... I used to live in Colorado right outside of Vail and it snowed a lot more there and was routinely 20-30 below 0 so I will take this weather... They were wrong so far though we've only gotten about a half an inch and it all melted... But further east of us in the snow belt they got quite a bit more... We are just a little too far from the Lake to get a lot of it...We do have plenty of groceries in the house just in case so we should be just fine if we can't get out of the house...

kallisto -> RE: It's Thanksgiving again, Or Lesson's Learned from last year! (11/24/2013 5:12:07 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: littlewonder No lessons learned from last year. It was perfect just having Master, my daughter and her boyfriend here. It will be the same this year except a little sadder since I won't see her for Christmas and she's moving away in January. [:(] I plan to make it even better than last year. Not to hijack ... but I definitely know what you're going through. My daughter won't be home for Christmas this year.

LittleGirlHeart -> RE: It's Thanksgiving again, Or Lesson's Learned from last year! (11/24/2013 7:59:51 PM)
Nope, i have it made on thanksgivings, i get to talk to his mom. Sit on my butt get called to eat, then pass out. They dont want me in the way trying to help.

OsideGirl -> RE: It's Thanksgiving again, Or Lesson's Learned from last year! (11/25/2013 12:34:12 PM)
I love Thanksgiving. I love being able to make a dinner for friends and family, then hang out, go see lights, just be together. Unfortunately, my mother has decided to come between Thanksgiving and Christmas because she said traveling with mean people sucks..and my Dad is GM at a hotel and he the AGM trade off Christmas and TDay. So, he won't be here either. I will be doing a hotel breast and a faux turkey roast, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, green beans almondine with homemade bread and apple betty. (Brownies for my brother)

Domnotlooking -> RE: It's Thanksgiving again, Or Lesson's Learned from last year! (11/25/2013 2:11:55 PM)
Can I hear more about so-called Yankee's "badmouthing" the south? What specifically has fallen within your oh, so sensitive earshot? I think you're making up this mini grudge whole cloth and it never happened. Suck it up and admit it: a Manhattanite is much more likely to think about say, Belgium, than he ever is about fly-over, nowheresville army base-land. And generally speaking, anyone who finds themselves on a southern buffet line staring at jello salad knew what they were getting into before hand and was good with it. Hey, as per that incisive Brad Paisley/LL Cool J song, if I don't criticize your red flag, will you not criticize my do-rag? Can we all just get along? My inlaws have fallen in love with the meat by mail genius that is HoneyBaked Ham. It's all way heavy on the salt -as is everything down here in red flag/do-rag land- but their big combo dinner satisfies a wide range of eaters. We augment it with a home made cheese cake and and about 100 from scratch dinner roles. A Walmart pumpkin pie is also put out entirely just for show. Other relatives bring some real crap food contributions that I don't think have ever knowingly been eaten by a living soul: mini-hot dogs wrapped in bacon, nacho's with melted cheese whip, and a banana pudding that is so lazily composed that it hints of brain damage. We have long ago stopped trying to put out stuff like Martha Stewart's root vegetable medley or fennel with anything, since it just gets moved around on the plate and then dumped in the trash whenever they think we're not looking. It aint a day about pleasurably eating as we know it; it's a day about everyone flogging some culinary dead horse due to just because-tradition. And with the cooking outsourced or microwaved, Mama can just chill out and watch the Macy's parade. And she'll be watching it alone. The assembled kids have long ago retreated to their iPhones and will not glance up for anything as small potato's as an inflated, house-sized Bullwinkle. Later on, a din-like football game will be put on and everyone will ignore that too. Someone will try to drag me into some Fox News outrage discussion, but as usual, I'll thank them for keeping their finger on the pulse of whatever Bengazi-like bullshit their stuck like a record on and skip away from the "spirited debate" yet again.

KMsAngel -> RE: It's Thanksgiving again, Or Lesson's Learned from last year! (11/26/2013 1:40:19 AM)
not a public holiday here, so i'll take some pumpkin pies to work so they can all say ew, really? and then snarfle them all up when they have a taste. Probably Saturday we'll do T'giving dinner.

sunshinemiss -> RE: It's Thanksgiving again, Or Lesson's Learned from last year! (11/26/2013 5:52:41 AM)
Turkey costs about $50 for a breast here. A little pricey for me. The western bars here have dinners for us ex-pats to the tune of about $100 per person. Again, a little pricey (not to mention bars aren't really cozy to my way of thinking), so, I'm off to the subway sandwich shop for a turkey sub. My friends and I are getting together Friday night for dinner (we always go out on Friday night for dinner anyway). This time, though, we will be making / addressing Xmas cards in hopes they will get to people by Dec. 25 if we mail them out this coming Monday. Friday morning (which is Thurs night in the USA), I"ll be up at 4 ish? 5? to have dinner / breakfast with the family via skype. I still have a can of pumpkin in my cupboard that I got this year (precious and rare)... maybe I'll make muffins for dessert for my friends who are coming over Friday night. That would be a nice surprise... make the apartment smell good! happy holidays, sunshine

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