The Story of Thanksgiving

Happy Ritual Sacrifice with Pie Day, everybody!

I sadly could not justify bringing leftovers of my grandmother's dressing recipe (as cooked by one of my aunts) home, since I have about 6 meals worth of storebought dressing here. But it's not going to taste nearly as good as it did last night.

right there with you, Tom.

am i insane by contemplating going to walmart in the morning for their deal on a 32" lcd hd tv? anybody know if emerson is a good brand? they also have a magnavox bluray for $128.

Home from dinner at my sister's place. My contributions were candied yams (they got all mushed up; I have better plans for next year) and these pork/olive/other stuff filled plantain-covered things made by the mother of one of my co-workers - totally not traditional, but they are the yum, and all I had to do was heat 'em up.

My leftovers include mashed potatoes, stuffing, platelas, and lemon ice-box pie. Had a lovely time with la familia.

Happy Thanksgiving (or regular old Thursday, depending) to all!

* Although now I seriously want to overlay the dialect map with a map of the predominant cooking method to see where and whether they overlap. OMG I AM DORK.

♥s amych.

I have no turkey. This saddens me.

OMG-- near coma.

Two kinds of turkey- traditional roasted and smoked (which was OMG YUM), Two kinds of sweet potato casserole, regular dressing/stuffing, green bean casserole, caraway seed bread, gravy and two kinds of cranberry relish/sauce-- the kind with ridges and a relish that was to die for.

My MIL made a Lindy's strawberry cheesecake, I made the two apple pies and the chocolate coma pie with fresh whipped cream. Given the size of the crowd, approximately half of the desserts were consumed. I came back with one of the apple pies, which is okay. I considered my part of the feast a success when I had the non-dessert eaters not only trying the apple pie, but loving it enough to go back for seconds.

Am about to fall over ded.

::tries to stuff turkey through intertubes to billytea::

Warning boasting: Thanksgiving was success. The turkey came out moist, tender and flavorful. (Really a butter, rum and honey basting is pretty fullproof. All the sweetners and alchol insure th outside sears seals in the juices, and the melted butter sort of semi-fries the turkey. So almost impossible for the thing to dry out or turn tough. And the flavor combination is really good. The juice from a turkey cooked this way turns dressing or stuffing into a marvelous flavor. And it turns out that people love graham cracker crust with pumpkin pie. The flavors are very compatible.

At one point I had a guest staring at table with a sad look in his eyes. "Whats wrong?" I asked.

"I'm trying to decide whether to have a second helping of stuffing or pie" he said. "I really want both, but I've only got room for one".

Edit: back to the guests. Billytea, you can do a cook and post next major Australian holiday.

Oh when a guest says that, you know it was a success. I second encouraging an Australian holiday cook and post.

PS. I need Joey's turkey eating pants. Ugh.

Since Emmett's got the complete Friends box set, we'll probably watch some of their Thanksgiving episodes.

Heh, I caught the first season one on TV yesterday and it always make me laugh. "Potatoes are ruined, potatoes are ruined, potatoes are ruined!!!"