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Thread: Happy Thanksgiving Day
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Francophile
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Happy Thanksgiving Day to all our US correspondents.
It would be good to know what you are doing, and eating, today.
Normal working day in old blighty. I may stretch to a pork chop for dinner.
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Kyzyl
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I am solo this year due to the academic calendar being short après T-day (no travel time and lots left to grade) so the feast is relatively simple. I am roasting a single turkey breast and have corn bread dressing, cranberry chutney, peas, and mashed potatoes for sides. All of which will give me several days worth of leftovers. Other than that I am settling in for the Harry Potter Weekend on ABC Family with the finale being Deathly Hallows Part 2 on Sunday. And that blasted grading!
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St. Gwladys
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Happy Thanksgiving to all American shippies!
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Sir Kevin
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Triple celebrations this week: just back to the house after late breakfast with the in-laws and a dinner with them tomorrow with a dinner late this afternoon with friend's from my wife's church!
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BessLane
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We smoked two turkeys last night, and I made chicken & dressing, green bean casserole, mac & cheese, mashed taters, yeast rolls and deviled eggs. We put on a Thanksgiving feed at the bar, free of charge, for those folks who have no place to go. Last year, we had about 20-25 folks show up to eat, this year, we're expecting about the same.
I'm wore out, stuffed, and currently watching football with three old widowed men, having a large time.
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Zach82
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I just celebrated that Thanksgiving ritual: Eat the turkey liver with gusto in front of the disgusted family.
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Graven Image
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Bess Higgs you are a saint. ![[Angel]](graemlins/angel.gif)
Happy Thanksgiving one and all.
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Pigwidgeon
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I ended a tradition of going back and forth with the same family for many, many years (long story, which I won't go into here) -- having one friend over for a simple, quiet, stress-free dinner.
Went to church this morning -- no music or choir this year, and only about 15 people in the congregation.
(And I'm ignoring any ads that have "Black Friday" sales and won't set foot in a store tonight or tomorrow!)
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BessLane
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Originally posted by Graven Image:
Bess Higgs you are a saint.
Happy Thanksgiving one and all.
Not even close, but I do love to cook and I love to feed people and I know from personal experience that this particular holiday is really awful if you are forced to spend it alone. Plus, this way, I don't have to clean my house but I can still host a big feed ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Firenze
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Originally posted by Zach82:
I just celebrated that Thanksgiving ritual: Eat the turkey liver with gusto in front of the disgusted family.
Unless plucked raw and bleeding from a still-twitching turkey, I'm not sure why this disgusts. Gizzards, hearts and livers were all prized tidbits (with the neck, they were roasted alongside the bird, to enrich the gravy).
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Zach82:
... turkey liver with gusto ...
How do you cook the gusto?
I suppose some people just don't like the idea of liver, which I can understand. I make my own chicken-liver pâté, but I try to make it when D's out as it turns him off.
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Francophile
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Originally posted by Kyzyl:
I am solo this year due to the academic calendar being short après T-day (no travel time and lots left to grade) so the feast is relatively simple. I am roasting a single turkey breast and have corn bread dressing, cranberry chutney, peas, and mashed potatoes for sides. All of which will give me several days worth of leftovers. Other than that I am settling in for the Harry Potter Weekend on ABC Family with the finale being Deathly Hallows Part 2 on Sunday. And that blasted grading!
Hope you're having a good day Kyzyl, that turkey dinner sounds scrumptious. We have to wait until Dec 25th for our bird. Hope the TV is good.
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Gladly The Cross-eyed Bear
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Queen Mousie and I are settled in for a Thanksgiving on our own. I give thanks for not having to travel through Southern California, and for not having to deal with the Traditional Fruit Salad ![[Projectile]](graemlins/puke2.gif) .
We have a leg of lamb in the oven, studded with garlic; we will be roasting sweet potatoes (red garnet yams) and serving broccoli and applesauce. There is a home-made cheesecake for dessert.
Gladly
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Francophile
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Originally posted by Gladly The Cross-eyed Bear:
Queen Mousie and I are settled in for a Thanksgiving on our own. I give thanks for not having to travel through Southern California, and for not having to deal with the Traditional Fruit Salad .
We have a leg of lamb in the oven, studded with garlic; we will be roasting sweet potatoes (red garnet yams) and serving broccoli and applesauce. There is a home-made cheesecake for dessert.
Gladly
Enjoy.
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ArachnidinElmet
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I do hope no one was having problems deep-drying their turkeys.
Happy Thanksgiving, and stay safe.
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jedijudy
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Thanksgiving here was pretty quiet. Since there were only three of us, we went out. By the luck of the draw, we got the server who really didn't want to be there, and had no problem letting us all know!
It was very relaxing, not cooking or cleaning up afterwards, but I really missed the aroma of roasting turkey, (and the superior flavor of the home-cooked bird) and most especially missed my family and friends who normally come to my home for Thanksgiving.
But, we three had a very good time together! It was a good day.
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!
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Lyda*Rose
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Originally posted by ArachnidinElmet:
I do hope no one was having problems deep-drying their turkeys.
Happy Thanksgiving, and stay safe.
... and how Alton Brown does it.
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comet
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menu was pretty traditional, here - roast turkeys, mash, candied yams (hate them), two kids of bread stuffing (hate that stuff even more), a GB casserole that never got near anything in a can so it was surprisingly yummy, mama's homemade bread, my homemade cran (from my Grandpa's recipe), gravy etc, and 4 damn pies. sparkling cider, ice tea, and coffee for afters as we were eating with a pregger and a recovering alcoholic.
When I worked at the bar we used to put on a dinner for the singletons, too. it's actually a lovely way to spend Thanksgiving! Go, Bess!
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MrsBeaky
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First Thanksgiving away from my family....I was homesick and missed them so much.
We hooked up with Skype and they were all bar one (who is in NZ) together in our house and had done a great job with cooking the turkey, stuffing, yams,potatoes, squash, creamed onions, peas and pecan and pumpkin pies.
We celebrated here in Kenya with some cheese stuffed pretzels I'd brought with us as we couldn't cope with joining the 100+ US ex-pats here for the Thanksgiving feast!
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georgiaboy
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The Thanksgiving Feast was lovely again this year. I am extraordinarily THANKFUL that I have been adopted by friends who take me along to their daughter's home for the meal. Late in the day (5 pm this year), 7 people this year; turkey done on the outdoor grill rotisserie (sp?), chestnut stuffing, sprouts, green beans, mashed potatoes, a cranberry chutney that was to die for! and Christine's 'double pecan pie' (she doubles the quantity of nuts called for), with vanilla ice cream.
I needed this as a way to fend off memories. My late partner always spent the day cooking while I did the big choral eucharist at the cathedral.
Somehow Thanksgiving Day without a big service doesn't seem quite right, but it's not the tradition here.
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BessLane
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Yesterday was my first attempt to make chicken & dressing. It's basically cornbread stuffing with chicken bits added and baken in a pan rather than stuffed in the bird. After the 'fried Yankee dough balls' episode of a couple of years ago, I get very nervous cooking anything that is considered traditionally Southern but I gave it a whirl anyway. Both my father-in-law and my mother-in-law said I did a great job.
So, I'm feeling pretty proud of my self today.
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Zach82
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As is my tradition, I had pie for breakfast on the day after Thanksgiving. Yesterday I heard mass in the morning at All Saints, Ashmont. I went solo doing the full Thanksgiving dinner for the first time in my tiny apartment kitchen with its sad, electric, half-sized oven. The white meat was a bit dry, but the gravy was top-notch.
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Firenze
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Originally posted by Zach82:
The white meat was a bit dry, but the gravy was top-notch.
Wheeze for next time - as observed in expat US nurse-type - get a large syringe and regularly inject the bird with pan juices.
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Sioni Sais
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BessHiggs: takes the service to the community award ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
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Originally posted by Gladly The Cross-eyed Bear:
Queen Mousie and I are settled in for a Thanksgiving on our own. I give thanks for not having to travel through Southern California, and for not having to deal with the Traditional Fruit Salad .
We have a leg of lamb in the oven, studded with garlic; we will be roasting sweet potatoes (red garnet yams) and serving broccoli and applesauce. There is a home-made cheesecake for dessert.
Gladly
And I shall Fight! Fight! Fight! for dinner like that.
Happy (belated) Thanksgiving to all in America and congrats especially to those who have eschewed Black Friday.
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Palimpsest
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I ended up with a quiet dinner home alone this year. I ended up trying Mark Bitman's spatchcock turkey recipe which takes about 50 minutes and was tasty and bought pies. I did my favorite cranberry relish (fresh cranberries, oranges with peels, sugar and a large dollop of Grand Marnier, all food processed to a coarse rubble and refrigerated overnight), and bought apple and pumpkin pies. I was so full I didn't even get to the pumpkin pie till the next breakfast.
I then read "The Chemistry of Tears".
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