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Happy (US) Thanksgiving
DyasAlure
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So, I wanted to share my prep for this. I wanted to have as much done as can before the day. So I have the buffet table set, and the place settings semi ready. What has other people done? What is the spread?
We have 8-12 people expected. On very pregnant lady might be in hospital. I hope not.
Food:
Turkey - of course
Sweat Bread - homemade
Rolls - home made
Green Bean casserole - has to have!
Tofurkey - Well we didn't have time, so we just bought a field roast (vegetarian). They need wood to. :P
Pumpkin Pie - went bought this year, no one had time with other food.
Sweat Potato - Of course
vegetable try - Need those snacks before the main event, right?
*Olives (black/green)
*Celery
*carrots
*broccoli
Cranberry Sauce "Ham" - ok, this is family joke. As when you take a can of cranberry sauce out of can, it is round. So we stick vegetables as legs, snout, ears, tail, etc to make a "pig" out of our cranberry sauce.
Mashed Potato and Gravy - Has to happen right?
Stuffing vegetarian - again, we need two kinds for those vegetarians.
Stuffing
Deviled Eggs - Those are made and in the fridge. So tempted to eat them. Made 18 eggs. 2 didn't survive cooking and pealing. 1 we ate because we ran out of room. Ever popular item for the holiday.
Peas - My son of 6 got to pick something. He wanted peas?
humus dip for veggies!
So, prep work:
Main Table
Buffet Table (Yes I labeled stuff so as it arrives it can find its place!
If you are not US, I hope you enjoy tomorrow. If you are, what are you doing? What food is planed? And, Happy Holiday (US)
We have 8-12 people expected. On very pregnant lady might be in hospital. I hope not.
Food:
Turkey - of course
Sweat Bread - homemade
Rolls - home made
Green Bean casserole - has to have!
Tofurkey - Well we didn't have time, so we just bought a field roast (vegetarian). They need wood to. :P
Pumpkin Pie - went bought this year, no one had time with other food.
Sweat Potato - Of course
vegetable try - Need those snacks before the main event, right?
*Olives (black/green)
*Celery
*carrots
*broccoli
Cranberry Sauce "Ham" - ok, this is family joke. As when you take a can of cranberry sauce out of can, it is round. So we stick vegetables as legs, snout, ears, tail, etc to make a "pig" out of our cranberry sauce.
Mashed Potato and Gravy - Has to happen right?
Stuffing vegetarian - again, we need two kinds for those vegetarians.
Stuffing
Deviled Eggs - Those are made and in the fridge. So tempted to eat them. Made 18 eggs. 2 didn't survive cooking and pealing. 1 we ate because we ran out of room. Ever popular item for the holiday.
Peas - My son of 6 got to pick something. He wanted peas?
humus dip for veggies!
So, prep work:
Main Table
Buffet Table (Yes I labeled stuff so as it arrives it can find its place!
If you are not US, I hope you enjoy tomorrow. If you are, what are you doing? What food is planed? And, Happy Holiday (US)
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I will be writing a biology paper and doing a lab. Afterward there will be store bought stuffing and pie along with some roasted veggies and however it is my wife makes sweet potatoes.
This year is especially special for me, since my Dad's family was able to find time to close their business and make the 12 hour drive to visit us for the holiday. We're going to pack everyone into two cars and drive to my Mom's cousin's house for Turkey dinner, so I will have most of both wings of my family present.
It's also going to be my Grandmother's last Thanksgiving, so we're going to try to transport her, oxygen and all, to my uncle's house. We'll see how that goes.
There is not better or worse when it comes to holidays. If you are with family, there is that. If you don't have that, well than you don't. I have been alone before, I have been on the receiving end before. For me, Thanksgiving is just that. Thanks. For Family if you have one. Friends if you have them. Work if you have that. School if that is what you are doing.
I am not really a christian, but I always remember the love chapter from the bible. Take from it what you will from the christian faith. I think the bible got that at least right. It isn't anything other than Charity that maters in this world. That is the old English way of saying love.
If all you have or give is charity to someone who doesn't have something. If all you have or give is charity to those who you love or loves you. If all you have or give is charity to family. If all you have or give is charity to your friends. Than you will be a rich man, regardless of what the world says your bottom line is.
I have time. I have dedication to making a happy holiday, away from all the distractions that can happen. That is my charity to those who attend. Some of which, I probably would rather not, but they deserve a good time and meal just as much as anyone else. I have this because I take time away during the day. I work nights, so I give back what I can for what I take during they day when I sleep. The end of the world is an + sum equation for those math geeks out there.
Again, Faith, Hop, and charity... but the greatest of these is charity. Pass it on.
I hope this goes well. My grandpa is 94. I don't think he will be around much longer, and this makes me cry. I'm a grown man, and I cry. Who cares what the world thinks. I wear a white scarf that doesn't follow fashion. I gave fashion, Hollywood, etc up a long time ago. See above, you can be rich even when you have nothing. I read a story as a child. The man under the bridge. He would use his nose at night to "eat" his meal. Wealth is in the eye of the beholder, and to many think you need more than a good relation with more than friends, family, or somehing else. Wealth is were you find it. Find yours.
Again, happy holidays everyone. Even if you are not having one (non US).
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I hope your turkey is good. I don't know for the wild organic types, but I understand that some prices are outrages for no other reason than the label we put on them. Hopefuly the label you put on the holiday for you and yours is good fun time.
You're doing family wrong.
I am also unclear on what Thanksgiving celebrates, exactly, but Wednesday Addams seemed to regard it with a wary eye.
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My dad is cooking the turkey in the smoker this year. I am so excite.
American thanksgiving is based on the protestant reformation of giving thanks on certain occasions started by the Mad King Henry VIII. There 's some poorly documented pilgrim feast in the 17th century but that whole story is on shaky ground. When it got going back in the day we were basically giving thanks for a good harvest. What started usually as a religious thing by local religious leaders picking a day to do a "give thanks" service became local government leaders like mayors and governors naming a holiday or a feast day. My guess is it just spiraled from there because who doesn't need a holiday weekend at the end of november?
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For the first time, I cooked a shitload of this year's meal, so if my family isn't dead of food poisoning by 6 PM Friday I'll call it an enormous success
- Green bean casserole (not me)
- Cornbread + sausage stuffing (me)
- Drope (Albanian breadcrumb + raisin stuffing) (me)
- Carrots + turnip (me)
- Mashed potatoes (not me)
- Apple pie (not me)
- Squash pie (not me)
For all the people who have to deal with crappy family this year or have to work today/tomorrow
turkey is a lot like pork, in that the health craze of the late 80s early 90s lead to all the fat being bred out of the animal.
Fat that keeps the food moist as it cooks and renders out.
Now we have to brine foods to maintain that same moist deliciousness we used to get with the fat rendering out.
Why should you be on the defensive? This time, get your judgemental passive aggressiveness in first!
"Hi Bob. Still the same big old dumb loveable fox news veiwer, eh? How's life in the reality bubble ya big galoot? Come in and have some of this beer I brewed from Obama's recipe. Had to make two batches because this "Old Republican White" yeast I got refused to do it's job for the first one so i threw it out and got something useful in the mix... just like you should! Hahah! I kid, I kid. Hey, how are the kids...?"
Don't even get me started on that. I could care less about turkey because it suck, but they took my pork fat away man.
They. Took. My. Pork. Fat.
That's the thing
Turkey didn't used to suck!
At least they haven't ruined bacon yet.
Without my family, I'm not a big fan of Thanksgiving this year.
I love Thanksgiving.
Nope.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_(Canada)
http://www.thanksgiving.org.uk/around-the-world.html
I don't know if you were being tounge in cheek or misunderstood that US is the only country in the world.
I will be heading off to work tonight. I get to see family before though.
I can feel you on the pot stickers. I like to make large batches so I can freeze ones we don't eat. But that takes forever.
Anyway, I just woke up, as I work tonight. No family here yet, but so far prep is going good. fiancé got silver polished, house is cleaned. Sorry people are negative about the holiday. It is one of the 10 that my work is mandated. Also if you are part of a divorced family, it is one of the holiday's that you get to see your children (every other year).
Fuck humans.
I'm sorry, what? There's other countries in the world?
Guys, this was the first time ever that I had to unbutton my pants after eating thanksgiving dinner. Best. Holiday.
My dad went up to West Virginia Tuesday to celebrate Thanksgiving with my new step-mom's family; I didn't go because I had to work. My mom wanted to come down from Charleston to spend several days with me but didn't because I didn't know if I'd have to go back to work the day after Thanksgiving until I left Wednesday morning (turns out I don't go back until Sunday night). So today my only options were to either stay home alone or go eat with my grandparents, uncle, and my uncle's girlfriend's family.
I ended up going to eat with them. It was alright until my grandmother and the mother of my uncle's girlfriend started talking about how terrible they think Obamacare is, that Obama should be impeached, and that they're surprised nothing worse has happened to him if you know what I mean. Kinda soured my mood a bit.
Also, I'm a vegetarian, so all there was to eat for me was peas and cornbread.
I'm a vegetarian and a sweet tooth.
You know why Thanksgiving is great? Discounts on Turtles chocolates.
Of course, real Thanksgiving happened quite a while back. As always, the Americans are a little late to the party.
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