Thanksgiving Dinner

So...for those who celebrate...inquring minds want to know....what's on your menu?

I started on ours..pretty traditional dinner ...bread is just about dry enough to make the stuffing so in a little while I'll start chopping the onions, celery and what not to put in it. I like to get it all mixed up and seasoned the day before so it flavors through more. Stuffing, I might add is my favorite part of the meal drowned in my home made gravy. We of course have our turkey and we'll have mashed potatoes (with even more gravy), doing up some squash and another veggie...some nice dinner rolls and some cranberries and something else..but I can't remember off the top of my head...to busy trying to calm my growling stomach..it smells wonderful in here already..lol

For desert we decided on something different than pie this year...I'm making a cheesecake that has brownie mix for the crust....just waiting on the cream cheese to soften up a bit more then I'll whip it up and toss it in the oven...oooohhh..I can't wait to eat...

Only thing really left to get is the wine we'll have with our dinner but Chris will snag that on his way home.

 

Ack...I`m the cook this year. The traditional stuff...from the turkey and stuffing to the homemade rolls and pies...no ex wife here this year so no w(h)ine lmao. Turkey is so big I may have to start cooking it tonight heh heh heh.

 

Oh I forgot about my Dip! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/star17abby/yikes.gif Chris and I are usually so stuffed we only do the one meal but we decided for a snack later I'd make my jalapeño dip (a meal in-itself right out of the oven..all that melted cheese...the chili....onions...black olives, etc...mmm...more yummies)....guess he's gonna have to get more than just wine at the store!

 

Thanks David.

LOL..our door is always open for you. Would be extremely awesome if you really could come to dinner. I would insist however that you bring me some of the English tea I hear such raves about....would love to try it one of these days.

Even tho you don't celebrate Thanksgiving across the pond I'll just wish you a happy day..that work?

 

Deep fried turkey.

Yum!

 

Ohhh...that is good stuff. My dad used to make them...I miss it but we went to a picnic some friends were having a few weeks back and they did up a couple of them...I was munching on it before he made it from the cooker (outside) into the house with it.

 

PIG ROAST! In a pit with the apple in the mouth and everything(of course turkey) It is my first thanksgiving with my wife and her family (God I wish I was back in Florida) I guess this was what they were talking about when they said "Trudge the road to happy destiny"

HAPPY THANKSGIVING ​

 

One day abby, you and star should come here for xmas, that would be a party

 

THAT! would be awesome! We'd have to get all the UK'ers there..would be one heck of a bash don't ya think?!

 

Hell yeh, I've just moved to a bigger place too

 

We are going over to our daughter and husband's home. She has the savoury side of things in hand, I have the dessert So all I know is we are having a turkey and a ham, and dessert will be plenty of pumpkin pie, apple pie and my husband is putting together his infamous fruit salad

@ Halo...when Abby and Star have fed you...hop over to Oregon for Round 2...we are a few hours behind so you could just about make it lol

 

They don't have Thanksgiving here either, but I still like to be grateful for what I have.

I might go out for dinner, and have Thanksgiving and birthday meal at the same time, and convince myself I'm happy for a while.

 

Have no idea. For the first time in ages we got invited to another family members house. Usually we do the cooking, drinking, etc lol. I just gotta show up and drink beer this time .

 

Hmmmm let's see. We do traditional:
20 lb. Roast Turkey (separate the skin from the meat and stuff butter, onions and garlic in the pocket there. Then I stuff the cavity with onions and celery to keep it all nice and moist). Rub it all down with pepper and salt and something else a little bit secret
Mashed taters and giblet gravy
Green bean casserole (you know the one, with mushroom soup and french fried onions)
Rolls
Oyster stuffing and regular stuffing (my mom-in-laws ticket for the meal)
Pickle rolls (ham rolled around cream cheese and pickles)
Some Broccolli and Cauliflower casserole that a friend is bringing over
Pies (pecan, pumpkin, cherry)

and I think that is about it. I may even have more than 2 beers as well, you never know!

BTW, Abbey, would love to have that cheesecake recipie. Sounds like something we would enjoy as well.

Jack

 

I'm honestly not really sure. My sister is doing the bulk of the cooking, and I'm bringing red cabbage and pies.

I think turkey, stuffing, squash, tossed salad, mashed potatoes with gravy, something with spinach, buttermilk biscuits, maybe some corn casserole.

The dinner I was invited to with friends who are chefs (which I can't attend, because I have to work at night and they're eating at 7:30 ) is ham, turkey, rabbit, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, and bread warm from the oven.

 

I can email you the recipe...just PM me your email addy. Mine just came out of the oven and it smells wonderful....was easy to make....and it's HUGE! LOL Makes a very full 9 x 13 cake pan size.

 

That's not the first time I've heard her say that

 

OHMYHOLYGAWD! If you only knew...I just got done replying to Halo about...OMG...I gotta pee now....ROFLMAO! Remind me when you get home to tell you about it.

Oh goodness...I hope when Halo sees your post he's not drinking anything or he'll spew for sure.

OMG...can't stop laughing.........

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/star17abby/squirtle.jpg

 

LMAO...you're killing me sweetie...oh I can't wait til you get home so you can see what I'm talking about.........BWAHAHAHAHAHAA....OMG! ROFLMAO

 

Big A$$ ham
Mashed Taters
Turkey
Stuffing
Cranberries
Gravy for days
Cider
5 different pies

Lotsa eating
Lotsa Horseshoe playing
Lotsa phone calls (friends and Family)
Some football watching...

 

We had our 229 grams of fat and 3200 calorie meal Sunday for we are flying to be with family tomorrow

This coupled with Black Friday will be more fun than anything I can imagine!

I will be off the boards and away from computers for the most part for 10 days.

 

It's the day after Thanksgiving...when all the crazy sales take place here.

 

here's more...you didn't give me time to edit

Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving in the United States, is historically one of the busiest retail shopping days of the year. Many consider it the "official" beginning to the holiday season. The "black" in the name comes from the standard accounting practice of using red ink to denote negative values (i.e., losses) and black ink to denote positive values (profits). Black Friday is the day when retailers traditionally get back "in the black" after operating "in the red" for the previous months, often by cutting prices considerably. In addition, most retailers will open very early.

Although Black Friday is typically the busiest shopping day of the year in terms of customer traffic, it is not typically the day with the highest sales volume. That is usually either the last Saturday before Christmas or December 25.

Because of the large amount of shopping that typically occurs on Black Friday, it has also become Buy Nothing Day.

 

If you`re loitering in an entrance to Wal-Mart when the doors open on Black Friday, you`ll end up looking like Beetle bailey after Sargent Snorkel pounds him. Scary sight.

 

We're going to my Mom and Dad's.
All the usuals, plus more as my Mom's birthday is Friday.
A very nice time to get together with family. We always play cards, etc..........
and, of course, the guys take a nap while supposedly watching football.

Gal

 

Don't know what all's for dinner Abby. Spending Thandsgiving with some friends, and they're doing the cooking. I'm bringing a French silk pie, but other than that, all is speculation.

Whatever it is should be good. They're good cooks.

 

LOL

Boycott WM and the HP junkboxes. Only Staples, CompostUSA, Circuit city or Best Buy are geek hangouts for Black Friday. Many have prices online the same as the Brick and Mortars.

I am not sure if I should post the ad site, but search for "Black Friday " in Google and you can view them all online.

Also Geeks.com and Radio Shack.com have Specials online.

I bought a desk, chair and fax/scanner/color printer tonight and intend to price match them on Friday morning. They are in my livingroom in CA and I will be in VA!

 

Deep Fried Turkey
Bake Ham (Sugar Cured)
Stuffing
Mashed Potatoes (Homemade)
Candied Yams
Turkey Gravy
Corn
Muffins
Cranberry Sauce (Homemade)
Pumpkin Pie (Bought, Daughters School Fund raiser)
Apple Crumb Pie (Bought, Daughters School Fund raiser)
Apple Pie (Homemade)
Bottle of White Zinfandel
Sparkling Cranberry Juice
Sparkling Apple-Cranberry Juice

 

Sounds yummy SPD


I love the Sutter Home White Zinfandel...although the last time I had it....we won't talk about that...k?

Never tried making my own cranberry sauce...care to share a recipe?

 

were going to ouchos for thanksgiving i really wanna go to golden corral though

since ouchos is a tex mex resturant lol

 

Here you go, and anyone else who wants it.

 

Thanks SPD! Seems a lot easier than I thought it would be, go figure! LOL...will definitely try both

 

oh, forgot to tell you Abby, got the recipe just fine last night. Thanks!

 

Yes, Abby, I got the recipe, too. Thank you. Am going to try to make it this weekend. I'll let you know how the family likes it.


Gal

 

Abby, can you toss that cheese cake recipe my way also.

 

Taking a lesson from you and attaching it. My original intention when Jack asked for it was just to scan it...the picture of the finished cake looks edible all by itself but, I had clipped the recipe from a newspaper flyer (really thin paper) so what is on the back showed through making the recipe unreadable...bummer...I actually had to type it out...LOL

The finished product is mighty tasty I might add...I was so full I couldn't finish mine but Chris managed to eat 2 pieces! lol

 

Just reading the recipe makes my mouth water. Looks delicious.