Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

Happy Thanksgiving, all you A2Kers!!

My brother and sister said they would be in charge of cooking the turkey. They won't be here until noon..... so, my Dad and I brined the thing last night and it's air-drying in the fridge now. I just know we will have done something wrong in the eyes of the turkey cooking experts. Too bad.

I will attempt to improve my pumpkin-pot dish. You know the one. Carve out the guts of a pumpkin and fill it with stuff, put the top back on and bake. The flesh steams and the herbs and spices infuse. This year I think I'll use sage, fennel, and chipotle.

Oh, and by the way, there's someone hunting in the marsh behind my parents' house. He bagged one duck so far. Hope he has back up just in case.

BBB
When I was growing up, we had pheasant for Thanksgiving dinner. My older brother was an archer hunter. He always managed to bring home a pheasant from the corn fields to roast.

I had a friend from North Dakota. She said the way North Dakotans hunted pheasant was to leave the garage door open at night. In the morning, shutting the garage door would result in a garage full of pheasants.

BBB

Hey, they're having a Macy Gray parade on TV!!! I had no idea that she was so popular!!!!




....Oh........

nevermind.

I thought it was a William H. Macy parade. Hmm.

PS Happy t day.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Ditto that...Happy Thankgiving everyone. I should be upstairs cleaning the turkey and here I am stalling. It's only a 10 pounder though so it should be ready at a reasonable time.

Out sediments for a happy Thanksgiving

Fluvially speaking?

It was a wet one!








Photo of Luke, 3 years old by Librado Romero/The New York Times
Others by Julie Jacobson/Associated Press

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Enjoy each other.

Joe(pass the sweet potato/pineapple/marshmallow stuff)Nation

I would love to see one of those balloons get loose and get into the airtraffic control . Are they just barely bouyant? or do they need all those Red Guards to hold em down?

Those are good photos. I bet the parade is fun to watch, but I'd be miserable standing in the cold.

It's not 10:50 a.m. .......I can't wait to eat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hopefully time goes by faster or I'll have to pick up McDonald's on the way to my friend's house. I've been munching on cheese and crackers all morning, but it isn't cutting it!

Great pictures, Joe. I just showed them to my daughter, and she
loved Snoopy.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

I thought I was bad for leaving my suitcase at home. But, the day got worse. My brother took the turkey out of the firdge to flip it and when he returned it to the fridge, he return the oven mitts with it. He then went downstairs to play games with our neice and nephew. The rest of us smelled smoke, looked in the oven, couldn't figure out what was smoking and left it there thinking it was dirty-oven smoke. When my bro returned he checked things out and discovered the mitts. Assuming that they are no longer filled with asbestos, we ate the turkey anyway. But, the gravy made with the drippings tasted like oven mitt (we didn't eat the gravy).

~ Full and sleepy on cape cod.

Littlek, the oven mitts cooking is a first and I'm sure you'll cherish that memory for many years(snicker).
My two kids and I had dinner by ourselves this year. My brother who lives about 2.5 hours away invited us but I wanted low key this year. The rest of my family is in the mid-west.
While we were eating I started bragging about how my stuffing was the best this year. My son piped in and said" Oh yeah, Mom's got self-esteem!" He cracks me up.

Oh that poor little cold wet kid! Great pics.

I was cooking from 10 AM until 3:00 PM continuously -- did the whole entire thing myself (OK my mom grated the ginger for the beans), no major mishaps but the turkey was a little weird. Organic free-range yadda yadda, tasted a little gamey or something. And a bit dry, if not criminally (I've made criminally dry turkey before).

So anyway I'm late but happy turkey day to all!

I started early with the stuffing (lots of onion and some sausage) and our family's version of yams/pineapple/brown sugar/marshmallow candied extravaganza (yum), then I had to chop up a pile of walnuts for this incredible green beans and red onion salad (there's some garlic, some olive oil and cilantro in there), I wanted it to mesh together in the fridge.

After baking up the stuffing and the sugar bomb, I threw in the three pies, cherry, pecan and mince. oh my.

The turkey, all trussed up and one place to go, had to share it's browning period with the scalloped potatos.

I made a big pot of gravy as the bird rested.

No one went away hungry.

Joe(I am so sleepy)Nation

You cooked the entire Thanksgiving meal yourself, Joe?

(A man after my own heart.)

We were invited to our good friends' house for a big gathering today. I brought sweet potato casserole, fresh green beans cooked with bacon, pumpkin pie, deviled eggs and peach iced tea. They had tons of food. I also made a few things I didn't take, so we'd have them here for later...cornbread dressing, rolls, and a turkey breast. I couldn't stand the thought of no leftovers. That's the best part of Thanksgiving to me.

That, and the long nap after the meal was finished and the kitchen cleaned. I slept for three hours.

Now for my absolute favorite thing: I'm going to sneak a piece of cold pumpkin pie out of the fridge on my way back to bed.

Eva wrote:


It falls to me when my honey has a jewelry show coming up, (She's doing this year's only public show in NYC in about ten days.) There's a link on my blog.

I do most of the cooking around here anyway, but I love Thanksgiving - so many different flavors - and I love your idea of making a few leftovers to leave behind at home. So many years we went to my sister's or my brother's house, returning full and happy until we opened the fridge the next day to find no cranberries, no chunky pieces of dark meat, no gooey slices of pie. I mean, how can a person be thankful if there is no stuffing and white meat sandwich to eat for breakfast??! (Use congealed cold gravy instead of mayo... . :wink: )

One more thing, as we are going off to sleep last night, we have this exchange:

If I was single and looking for a man, I think I would add the question to the Top Ten List.
Uh, what question?
Oh, I was just thinking it and thought I said it out loud.
No, you didn't. What question?
How many times you have you cooked a Thanksgiving dinner?
Oh. Yeah.
That would tell you a lot about a man. It would.

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Um...
You'd pass, sweetie, you'd pass.

Joe(I had an excellent sleep)Nation