I got a rock.

"oops! wrong holiday."

t runs away

My dad has gotten into wine collecting and so he brought several bottles over. There were 5 of us and I think a total of 6 bottles of wine. This included the strawberry kiwi flavored "wine product" that some how made it's way to the house. It's not bad for a wine spritzer type drink, but it didn't go with the Thanksgiving food.

Now we are cleaning up and eating some cheesecake. My brother and FSIL are going to go and pack more for their trip. (a quick plug for their trip -- www.kayakjourneys.com).

Where's my damn House Elf.

Mmm, House as an elf. He could sing snide, snarky non-sense songs and generally not give straight answers to questions all day.

This included the strawberry kiwi flavored "wine product" that some how made it's way to the house. It's not bad for a wine spritzer type drink, but it didn't go with the Thanksgiving food.

Some foodie show on NPR we were listening to on the way over to Dan's aunt's appartment, the wine expert recommended any savory with a hint of sweet but not aged in oak wine to go with Thanksgiving food - to echo the savory-sweet theme of sweet potatoes and cranberry sauce. He recced sparkling Shiraz in particular, as the bubbles would cleanse the palate from all the salt and fat in the food.

Happy Turkey day!

...was it yesterday? Did I miss it already? (I'm in the 24th, but you folks are probably still in the 23rd, right?)

Oops.

Speaking of vegetarians and Moosewood cookbook, this is my first vegetarian thanksgiving and the only meat is the turkey.

Um.

t puzzled

By this standard of vegetarianism, all my family's meals are vegetarian. Which isn't to take away from the yumminess of your feast, which sounds very yummy indeed, and now I want mushroom pie. But I have to ask - how much meat is there usually?

Maybe askye meant it's the first time she's celebrating Thanksgiving, as a vegetarian (in other words, there'll be turkey there, but not for her)? I didn't quite follow that, either. I'm thinking some of that wine her dad brought is no longer in the bottle!

I hope everyone has had/is having a nice day. Fay it's still Thursday and 8:15pm on the East Coast, as I'm typing this.

We had a good day at mum's, very quiet, but then the children put on an impromptu, improvisational (endless) play Christopher made up.

Before dinner, mum put out stuffed celery (stuffed with plain cream cheese, and with cream cheese with chives), sweet pickles, other pickled do-dads (I saw cauliflower and onions, but I was too busy with the celery and pickles), and an assortment of olives (some with minced garlic and other fancy stuff).

For dinner, we had turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, green beans, pearl onions, scalloped oysters, squash baked with apples, butter, and brown sugar (acorn squash though, not butternut -- bah, too stringy), and both smooth and whole fruit cranberry sauce. Oh and cornbread, and rolls.

My pumpkin pie was no worse for all the abuse it suffered, if you could ignore the crust edge. Decidedly edible. The chocolate cream pie was quite good. Chris is the only person who opted for the (last minute rescue store bought) apple pie, but then he forgot about it, when Nana put a scoop of ice cream on his plate. The wine was Blackstone's Napa Valley Merlot (much better than their California Merlot). There was also coffee, and tea.

Am tired. Want to tuck the children in very soon. I miss having Thanksgiving with a big crowd, though.

(Edited, because I forgot to mention the cranberry sauce. Can't have that. Edited again, because I forgot more.)

But I have to ask - how much meat is there usually?

Traditional Thanksgiving repast features Turkey and/or ham; stuffing which is stale bread bits, and some other stuff with seasoning, butter and often, turkey or chicken broth, cooked inside the bird (often my mother would bake some separately in a casserole dish so there would be more to go around) and usually served with gravy; mashed potatoes and gravy; green beans often come with bacon. Anything with gelatin, like harvest salad, would not work for a vegetarian. So that leaves pie and sweet potatoes.

Andi has a point, even if doubled by Safari.

Lots of little nooks and crannies of meats and meat byproducts.

Cranberries! They could have cranberries. Also mashed potatoes.

Time for a tofukey.

or Morningstar farms and the like meat substitutes.

Home from the Turkey Day celebrations and have actually managed to work out, too. That's definitely a new thing for me. Exercising on Thanksgiving. Huh.

We had veggies and dip (and the last two eps of Eureka) while waiting for the turkey to finish its thing. Actual "dinner" consisted of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, homemade noodles (family tradition), crescent rolls, some mushroom/green bean casserole thing (that I never eat), deviled eggs, yams, cranberries from a can, sweet potato pie and pecan pie. With whipped cream.

I left early-ish so I missed out on taking bags of leftovers home. This might be a good thing.