Happy Thanksgiving!

[Satty]

Too many casinos, we're trying to decide. I intended to go to Buffalo Run (Miami), but a bad experience by our traveling partners rules that out. So it will be to one of the ones right on the border, either Bordertown or Downstream.

[Croc]

Wow, I just awoke from A Very Epic Food Coma. So here's how terribly we outdid ourselves this year:

Gathering (4:30):

Shrimp cocktail (father made this)

Table water crackers and cranberry chutney/cream cheese (sister made this)

Mulled apple cider with Jack Daniels Single Barrel (I made this)

variety of Yellowtail and Fetzer...we don't f@#k around

Dinner (6:30):

Spicy cream of pumpkin soup (I made this)

Mixed greens salad (mother made this)

Fruit salad (cousins provided this)

Rolls (Aunt made this)

Sweet potato casserole (aunt-in-law made this)

Mashed potatoes (aunt made this)

Sauteed spinach, onions, and mushrooms (I made this...no collard greens at the store :-( )

Oyster stuffing (cousin made this)

Chorizo cornbread stuffing (mother made this)

Traditional bread stuffing (mother made this)

Cranberry sauce (I made this, not Sandra Lee--so no canned slop)

Green beans seasoned with onions and bacon (mother made this)

THE TURKEY!! (mother and I made this)

Gravy (mother and I made this)

The After-Dinner:

Persimmon pudding (mother made this)

Pumpkin pie in a crushed gingersnap crust (I made this)

EDIT: Home-made peanut butter fudge (aunt-in-law made this)

Edited November 28, 2008 by Croc

[Intrepidation]

I was very pleased with how dinner turned out, it wasn't overly huge (just 4 of this this year anyway), but the food was excellent.

Dinner consisted of:

• Italian style Turkey (mother made this)
• Traditional bread stuffing (mother made this)
• Green bean casserole (girlfriend made this)
• Extra creamy mashed potatoes (I made this)
• Roasted butternut squash seasoned with butter, salt/pepper, and a little brown sugar, then pureed with butter, cinnamon, and salt (I made this)
• Cranberry sauce (canned)
• Corn seasoned with olive oil, salt, pepper, and butter
• Gravy (I made this)

• We were planning to do rolls but didn't get around to it.

Dessert

• Traditional pumpkin pie with a little twist (I made 2, one for Sixty8)
• Apple Pie (Sixty8's wife made this for us)
• Lemon meringue pie (mother made this)
• Chocolate Satin Pie (bought this, have yet to open it)

Gobble Gobble.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

[Sixty8panther]

Wife cooked like there was no tomorrow.

We did dinner here at my house, my parents,

Julie's dad (father-in-law) and the two girls

made it just 7 people, but we had more food

than you can shake a stick at.

A Turkey, a huge Honey Glazed ham, several

pies & tons of side dishes & deserts. We

started eating around 2:00pm,and then

at 4:30 I drove Sofia to my ex's house for

their dinner w/ her mom's side of the family.

After that we went to visit Julie's uncle, who

soooooo Italian you'd think he's a character

from the cast of "Goodfellas".

Good times.

Yesterday, I bought a Butterball turkey breast, and I'm going to make my own Thanksgiving dinner....

Did you hear about the recall on Butterball Turkeys!?

I guess several thousand defective ones got shipped

to retailers; they forgot to butter-the-balls!

Yuck-yuck!

Edited November 28, 2008 by Sixty8panther

[Sixty8panther]

Dessert

• Traditional pumpkin pie with a little twist (I made 2, one for Sixty8)
• Apple Pie (Sixty8's wife made this for us)

Yeah, that was a cool idea.

"Tight Whips Pie Swap"

[knightfan26917]

Thanksgiving is always a tough one for my mom - her mother died on Thanksgiving after working on the meal all morning. She became ill and went to the hospital in the early afternoon, but she insisted that we all go home for dinner which we did. After dinner, we went back to see her, and I had one of the most amazing experiences of my life. She had simply willed herself not to die until all of the family had gathered around her, when we had all said our goodbyes - she just slipped away. To this day, it remains the most "mystical" thing I have ever witnessed.

Sad, but amazing all at once.

We'll be thinking of her today.

I expect you will be...wow...what a Thanksgiving Day to remember....

My goodness...what a FAST week this has been! Can anyone else hardly believe Thanksgiving has come and gone ... ALREADY??!!!

Anyway ... since I haven't been online since Sunday, November 23 ... HAPPY (belated) THANKSGIVING! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday.

I spent Thanksgiving with my parents, sister, brother-in-law and 2-week-old nephew. We watched the Chicago Thanksgiving Day Parade, had breakfast around 10:30/11a (once my sister, bro-in-law and nephew arrived), lounged around, watched some football (GO TITANS!), had the Thanksgiving feast around 4p, relaxed, and played games, including carrom, until about 10:30p.

It was such a beautiful day (sunny, "fairly" warm) that I ALMOST went to get the older 4 MCs out. Instead, I decided to wait until Friday when I could get 'em out for a longer time period and not have to be home by a certain time for dinner. Besides, a certain 2-week-old nephew made it hard to leave the house Thanksgiving day...he he.

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"It's coming on Christmas" ... Robert Downey Jr ... 'River'

[ocnblu]

S'ok, Sly, I made sure his balls were buttered before he went into the oven to be roasted.

[trinacriabob]

I made sure his balls were buttered before he went into the oven to be roasted.

Wait, there's even a sexual reference with respect to dead fowl? What haven't you been getting lately? :wink:

[ocnblu]

Bobbi, that was in response to Sixty8's 11.28.08/11:30 a.m. post. When prodded, you know I always jump to attention. But it's all in fun.

[ocnblu]

Man, I just had a Turkey-Day redux for lunch, and it must be true what they say, I am suddenly in need of a nap!

[Robert Hall]

Mmm..nap. We just had some baked lasagna w/ broccoli & cheese for lunch, w/ pumpkin pie. Went light on the Turkey Day fare this year, finished the leftovers yesterday. Just chillin' right now..

[trinacriabob]

baked lasagna w/ broccoli & cheese for lunch

Ah, $h!, PHX is too far...