Cooking at home or going out?

What's on the menu?

Family squabbles or lots of love?

What are your Thanksgiving plans?

Not sure what the wife does. I haven`t been home for Thanksgiving in 22 years.

After a day in the woods if need be. We do a turkey dinner at hunting camp.

My plans are to stay home and fix dinner, as always for my family.
A few family members are coming over. I'll be having

Roast Turkey
Roast Ham
Mash Potatoes & Gravy
Stuffing
Potatoe Rolls
Candid Sweet Potatoes
Saurakrat
Corn
Lima or Brussel Sprouts
Cranberry Sauce
Pumkin Pie
Cheesecake
Banana Nut Bread
Sweet Tea

Dinner is at 1pm.

Holiday Meet and Greet at Lib's house!

We are cooking a turkey on our Weber, my husband has become one with the new Weber. He also enjoys making homemade pumpkin pie out of an actual pumpkin, forgoing the canned stuff I usually use. Just immediate family. Had some relatives who we would of loved to see, but they ended up traveling.

There was also one individual on the invite list but he acted like a jerk last month to one of our kids. He is a friend of someone related to my husband. So we tried to be nice. He is off the list and sanctioned to the naughty mat. Doubt he would want to venture over here. Would of made for an interesting table discussion.

Happily, it will be family, good food, simple but tasty recipes. I like various vegetable dishes, so I will see what inspires me this year. Probably the favorites that my kids enjoy. The dogs will be content too. No surprises for them this year. Although they usually have Kibble, they do have a hankering for Turkey. They will be happy.

Saturday we will visit grandparents near DC, who have health issues, it will be a nice cap on the week. They are living in a community of retired military. It is always good to hear old stories, share memories, and hugs during the holidays.

Dang, can not out do Lib, sounds great. Hey everyone, enjoy the day, relax & be happy. I am thankful I am not working this year, a shout out to all who will be on the job. I am also very thankful I have family.

Sure come on over, I'll have more then enough to feed a small army.

It's a habit of mine, fixing more then I really need too.

I'm Thankful for my children, my health & the roof over my head.
Thankful for letting my children see all the Weird People on the street.
So they shall know how lucky they really are, to have a mom like me.

Sweet--this sounds more like the you I know & appreciate..

My menu

Tom Turkey

Chestnut Stuffing

Homemade Cranberry Sauce w/oranges

Rolls

Smashed(son's words) potatoes w/gravy-lots of it!!

Sweet potatoes or yams-the canned junk..w/o marshmellows

Pecan pie

Apple Pie

Pumpin Pie

Green bean casserole-w/the crunchy onions

La Lousiane Tea..

And we always start with--shrimp & chips & dip & gouda cheese...umm...

Shrimp sound good. If I fixed that nobody would eat supper.

Your dinner sounds real gooodddddddd

Dinner is a 2pm--so that I can clean up & they can watch the Cowboys play..

preemptive BOO!

those... animal crackers... play thanksgiving every year. yeah i said animal crackers. all my other thoughts o' description were obscene.

we don't do much for thanksgiving. sometimes we go to my husband's aunt's house. they play poker. >.<

every thing is deep fried, and therefore i do not eat.

the closest thing to a veggie on that table is a deep fried sweet potato ball.

blarg.

No one's going to be watching the game here. I don't have cable.
I'm for the Cowboys, I always did like that team. Who they playing?

Somebody better help me clean up, then again usually nobody does.

That was uncalled for... you're talking about America's team for God's sake... it's a tradition!

Everything is deep fried, never heard of such thing.
I wouldn't eat either if everything was deed fried, to much grease.

You could always come over here, I'll have plenty of real food.

I usually do dinner here and just have my boys and DH. Since dad moved in this year my sis has invited us over to her house , so I'm not sure what's on the menu!

I'll cook our own turkey dinner on Sunday so we can have turkey sandwiches all week!

You've been gone for the Thanksgiving holiday for 22 years and you've never bothered to find out what your wife does while you're gone?

Wowza. You might want to investigate if she's plotting an accidental hunting accident for you?



I cooked Thanksgiving dinner this year.





You heard me! Save the jokes for some time when I've fixed my infamous 20 minute grilled cheeses!

My menu:
Roast Chicken
Mashed taters home made
Stove Top stuffing
Gravy by chicken juices
Rolls by whatever frozen
Succotash (corn and lima beans)
Pumpkin Pie (purchased from a local high school culinary class)


Guests:
I've asked to "perform" this dinner in the past and only this year was I granted permission and only because most of the family wasn't coming. I only had to cook for the greatest people in my life, the best cooks I know: my mom and grandma with a short check-in from dad.

I knew I'd ace it and I did!

What Grandma was supposed to bring: homemade pumpkin pie and mac n cheese. What she did bring: homemade pumpkin pie and mac n cheese, candied sweet taters, cranberry sauce in a can, salt and pepper. (Obviously there were discussions amongst my parents and my grandmother that I don't teh loathsome condiments.)

I had every damn base covered except I couldn't find cornstarch for gravy after I scanned the entire baking aisle.

Screw that. I bought McCormick gravy which is just a pouch of powder! How is that different from scratch? It's still homemade!

God, anyhow. I'm blabbering.

My mistakes:
The chicken had instructions. The timer will pop out when done. It didn't say how it would take! I put it in at 11am for guests at noon. Chicken was done at 1:30pm. Mom: "it takes a long time to cook a bigger piece of meat, Heather." Me: "An hour IS a long time, Mom."

Sliced finger open peeling taters.

In effort to keep gravy hot, I reduced it down to a couple spoonfuls.

Didn't realize Grandma put cranberry sauce in fridge which wasn't present at dinner because I didn't know it was in the fridge and doesn't matter anyway because I didn't buy it because no one ever eats it except for me and my wonderful grandma and then if only a little piece.

OMG. I'm not even going to bitch about the dead chicken carcass I had to handle. It was gross. I'll sum it up in this conversation: Me: "It was like handling a baby. The dead parts moved and felt sick and pale." Grandma: "Heather!! I'm not eating anymore of it!"

Seriously though. Have you ever picked up a raw roaster chicken? The skin. Cold and dead. And it's heavy and pliable. :still no emotion suitable after all these years:

There was too much blood! Blecht! I'm never handling a piece of carcass ever again.

I'm going to turn veg again at any second. I can feel it coming on.


Everything was excellent though. And we watched The Sopranos whilst merry making. Ha!

Mcgee!

I missed Thanksgiving Day get-together, this year. Too sick. Stayed in bed coughing and sneezing all day. I've been sick all week! Got together with family today and had the left overs. Feeling little better. Hubby did the turkey and dressing and gravy. I had all the shopping done before hand. I was glad everyone had a good time, though.