historically my family would have had shrimp cocktail at a holiday, but no more.

I will be serving shrimp cocktail tomorrow! Come to my house.

Also coconut shrimp with Thai chili sauce for dipping.

Also grilled shrimp in the Mac & Cheese. Shrimpsgiving!

We are smashing 6 people into our kitchen for Thanksgiving this year since Emmett's girlfriend, Kalena, is joining us. We're going to move the corner cabinet out to make room, but that will allow for a thorough (and overdue) floor mopping today.

I've got so much to do today. I'm trying to cook as much as I can ahead of time so it's just turkey tomorrow.

I am at work as usual. Our ERP was down most of the day on Monday because, from what I am told, somebody tried to improve something and that broke it, but it was fixed in the evening and we had a pretty normal day of functional software yesterday but today it is down again and OF COURSE all the people who I put off on Monday but were too polite to pester me yesterday are now asking if we are able to answer their questions and no we can't but I just do not have it in me to explain why.

As a nut-allergic person, please do enjoy my share! Nuts are delicious and I miss them. Other people getting to enjoy them fully gives me a warm glow of vicarious yum

Shrimpsgiving!

Man, I want Shrimpsgiving!

All I have to do is bake a pumpkin pie tonight. Thanksgiving is at Tim's nephew's house (we think he and his GF wanted to host b/c they're going to announce that they're engaged and/or pregnant), so we're bringing pie, wine, rolls, and a big ol' cheese and charcuterie plate for before dinner. I love shopping for wine, cheese, and charcuterie, so it's a win-win.

I'm eating with my parents and mom ordered premade meals from Whole Foods, so no prep for me. The only things she asked me to bring were wine and vegan "whipped cream" and Raley's was out of the whipped cream so we will have to eat our pumpkin pie with no topping

We have/had various allergies/intolerances in my family. Mother was and sister is allergic to shrimp, so no shrimp in the family meals (although my mother would occasionally, when I was young, purchase some of the shrimp cocktail in a glass for me). I can eat anything except lobster - more for the rest of you! - and I've developed an aversion to meat (which is probably good for my food budget).

For those who can't eat nuts - I had a recipe for oatmeal cookies that contained pecans (also raisins for those who are averse, as my sister was) so I'd make the cookies and substitute butterscotch chips. That usually went over well, so try it if you want.

Shrimpsgiving is not the way of my people but I do like the sound of it

I tend to like nuts themselves, but I don't like them in anything. Unless peanut butter counts.

We're planning on doing a nuclear-family-only restaurant Thanksgiving tomorrow at Cracker Barrel. The larger family get-together is Friday in Memphis. For that I'm making a quinoa salad with chopped kale, avocado, tomato, and feta, and Mom's making an apricot bundt cake.

I thought about seeing whether my brother or my father and his wife (none of them big on doing holidays) wanted to go to lunch or dinner somewhere tomorrow, but my lingering symptom from being sick for so long is EXHAUSTION. So I'm actually just as glad not to have anywhere I need to be tomorrow. I'll stop at the store on my way home tonight (which will probably suck, I imagine) and pick up a rotisserie chicken, mashed potatoes, pie, rolls. I've got stuffing mix and frozen veggies at home already. I'll eat when I feel like eating, without having to worry about accommodating anyone else or cleaning my absolute PIT of a house. I feel like I'm supposed to feel bad for not having a Traditional Thanksgiving to attend, but honestly, this year it's kind of a relief not to have to mess with it.

That sounds nice, Epic.

That does sound nice.

I will be serving shrimp cocktail tomorrow! Come to my house.

Also coconut shrimp with Thai chili sauce for dipping.

Also grilled shrimp in the Mac & Cheese. Shrimpsgiving!

Whoa, that is Shrimpsgiving!