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Posted by Francophile (# 17838) on :
 
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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Posted by Kyzyl (# 374) on :
 
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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Posted by St. Gwladys (# 14504) on :
 
Happy Thanksgiving to all American shippies!
 

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Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :
 
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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Posted by BessHiggs (# 15176) on :
 
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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Posted by Zach82 (# 3208) on :
 
I just celebrated that Thanksgiving ritual: Eat the turkey liver with gusto in front of the disgusted family.
 

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Posted by Graven Image (# 8755) on :
 
Bess Higgs you are a saint.


Happy Thanksgiving one and all.
 

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Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
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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Posted by BessHiggs (# 15176) on :
 

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Originally posted by Graven Image:
Bess Higgs you are a saint.


Happy Thanksgiving one and all.

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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
 

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Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :
 

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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.

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Originally posted by Zach82:
... turkey liver with gusto ...

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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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Posted by Francophile (# 17838) on :
 

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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!

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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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Posted by Gladly The Cross-eyed Bear (# 9641) on :
 
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
 

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Posted by Francophile (# 17838) on :
 

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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

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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.

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... and how Alton Brown does it.
 

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."
 

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Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
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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Posted by MrsBeaky (# 17663) on :
 
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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Posted by georgiaboy (# 11294) on :
 
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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Posted by BessHiggs (# 15176) on :
 
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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Posted by Zach82 (# 3208) on :
 
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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Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :
 

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Originally posted by Zach82:
The white meat was a bit dry, but the gravy was top-notch.

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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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Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
BessHiggs: takes the service to the community award

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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

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