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Saturday, October 25, 2008
What are YOU doing for Thanksgiving?
I am feeling Holiday-y. Lol Let me know what your plans are for Thanksgiving! What you cook, who will come, who will do what that makes you crazy.
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We usually host a day long event for our family, which usually ends up being around 30 or so folks for a huge potluck Thanksgiving feast around noon (glad to come from a family where everyone is glad to pitch in and clean up :o)....which is always fun b/c the living room in our house converts into a "great hall" and we have to push the couch against the wall and bring in four extra tables just to seat everyone! Then, after clean up, all the grandparents enjoy visiting over coffee and dessert or watching football, while the 30 something generation goes outside and plays beach volleyball or croquet or supervising the youngest ones bobbing for apples, fishing, having sack races, swinging, etc. After we're tuckered out, we come in for supper (leftovers and turkey sandwiches from earlier) before our neighbors and friends start arriving for our annual hayride and bonfire. We have cider, cocoa, coffee and desserts too! You and you're family are invited to come if you're in town!
My husband's parents have laid claim to this particular holiday. While I'm thankful I don't have to host it, I do have to battle the temptation to get resentful that the Thanksgiving food of my youth seems destined to never be mine again...at least not for Thanksgiving. You know what I mean? Nothing is the same. Not the gravy. Not the stuffing. It's not bad, it's just different, and I miss MY mom's version. We have though, cut out early enough to go to Everlasting Arm's house ;-). That's fun!
WOW! That sounds fun, we may have to take you up on that! I always cook a big meal but fear it will just be us this year...not a bad thing really maybe this will be something we could get the kids looking forward to this year at your house?
OBM- I remember the mashed potatoes from last year and the recipe you were "required" to use. I SO wanted you to put M & M's on those potatoes!! :)
You know, you are ALLOWED to say "No thank you" one year! (or are you? lol)
Dare I write it lest it not come true?? For the first time...save for a few Thanksgivings that he was able to take off so we could go to see his family in Kansas city...Doug will be home all day for Thanksgiving! His group is singing at Sea World through the holidays, but we just found out that Wed/Thurs will be their days off. Woo-hoo. Since Doug was always working on Thanksgiving and Christmas, I've always spent those days at my parents' house. We usually have 30-40 people...family and friends. I've never cooked a turkey before...only fried them...so until we decide if it will be a redneck Thanksgiving or a traditional one (we switch off), I won't know if I'm on "turkey duty" or not. I always make the green bean casserole...my recipe is a bit unusual and involves saltine crackers. It's yum. And I must have sweet potato casserole with marshmellows on top. One year my aunt got all fancy with the sweet potatoes...stuck nuts all over the top...no marshmellows...and used a blowtorch to make it crusty. Sounds all Southern Living, but it was ick. It was a sad year indeed.
Woohoo! Go for the turkey! Doug's at Sea World now? You mean we can still see him? Great! We MUST go, we have never seen him sing. I am going to go post my Thanksgiving menu which invariably stays the same. Lol
Thanksgiving is the holiday that changes for us every year. Once and only once have I cooked Thanksgiving dinner all on my own and it was so fun. Since my aunt and uncle have been here we usually go there for Thanksgiving and often have one or more of Ollie's family members here with us. Last year, Grace and I were in Chicago for Thanksgiving and this year we are all going to Opp, Alabama for Thanksgiving. Every year something different. One of these years I'd love to host it at my house and invite anybody and everybody who needs a place to go. My aunt and uncle haven't been keen on the idea of me inviting extra people and I miss that. As a kid, we always had lots of people family and friends at our table for Thanksgiving. My favorite thing at Thanksgiving is the dressing--my mom's dressing. Haven't had it in years though.
hum i just wrote about thanksgiving, funny my mom's stuffing is my favorite, but i have gotten it down and mine is now pretty close to hers and sounds a lot like your recipe steph...not sure where we will be, but at some point i will make thanksgiving dinner, just probably not on thanksgiving... sometimes, if we are away i do it the night before and that works out good. tiffany, if you ever have a thanksgiving dinner, invite me and my family, i promise i'll make something, i like business for that holiday
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We usually host a day long event for our family, which usually ends up being around 30 or so folks for a huge potluck Thanksgiving feast around noon (glad to come from a family where everyone is glad to pitch in and clean up :o)....which is always fun b/c the living room in our house converts into a "great hall" and we have to push the couch against the wall and bring in four extra tables just to seat everyone! Then, after clean up, all the grandparents enjoy visiting over coffee and dessert or watching football, while the 30 something generation goes outside and plays beach volleyball or croquet or supervising the youngest ones bobbing for apples, fishing, having sack races, swinging, etc. After we're tuckered out, we come in for supper (leftovers and turkey sandwiches from earlier) before our neighbors and friends start arriving for our annual hayride and bonfire. We have cider, cocoa, coffee and desserts too! You and you're family are invited to come if you're in town!
Heather
My husband's parents have laid claim to this particular holiday. While I'm thankful I don't have to host it, I do have to battle the temptation to get resentful that the Thanksgiving food of my youth seems destined to never be mine again...at least not for Thanksgiving. You know what I mean? Nothing is the same. Not the gravy. Not the stuffing. It's not bad, it's just different, and I miss MY mom's version.
We have though, cut out early enough to go to Everlasting Arm's house ;-). That's fun!
WOW! That sounds fun, we may have to take you up on that! I always cook a big meal but fear it will just be us this year...not a bad thing really maybe this will be something we could get the kids looking forward to this year at your house?
OBM- I remember the mashed potatoes from last year and the recipe you were "required" to use. I SO wanted you to put M & M's on those potatoes!! :)
You know, you are ALLOWED to say "No thank you" one year! (or are you? lol)
Dare I write it lest it not come true?? For the first time...save for a few Thanksgivings that he was able to take off so we could go to see his family in Kansas city...Doug will be home all day for Thanksgiving! His group is singing at Sea World through the holidays, but we just found out that Wed/Thurs will be their days off. Woo-hoo. Since Doug was always working on Thanksgiving and Christmas, I've always spent those days at my parents' house. We usually have 30-40 people...family and friends. I've never cooked a turkey before...only fried them...so until we decide if it will be a redneck Thanksgiving or a traditional one (we switch off), I won't know if I'm on "turkey duty" or not. I always make the green bean casserole...my recipe is a bit unusual and involves saltine crackers. It's yum. And I must have sweet potato casserole with marshmellows on top. One year my aunt got all fancy with the sweet potatoes...stuck nuts all over the top...no marshmellows...and used a blowtorch to make it crusty. Sounds all Southern Living, but it was ick. It was a sad year indeed.
Woohoo! Go for the turkey!
Doug's at Sea World now? You mean we can still see him?
Great! We MUST go, we have never seen him sing. I am going to go post my Thanksgiving menu which invariably stays the same. Lol
Thanksgiving is the holiday that changes for us every year. Once and only once have I cooked Thanksgiving dinner all on my own and it was so fun. Since my aunt and uncle have been here we usually go there for Thanksgiving and often have one or more of Ollie's family members here with us. Last year, Grace and I were in Chicago for Thanksgiving and this year we are all going to Opp, Alabama for Thanksgiving. Every year something different. One of these years I'd love to host it at my house and invite anybody and everybody who needs a place to go. My aunt and uncle haven't been keen on the idea of me inviting extra people and I miss that. As a kid, we always had lots of people family and friends at our table for Thanksgiving. My favorite thing at Thanksgiving is the dressing--my mom's dressing. Haven't had it in years though.
hum i just wrote about thanksgiving, funny
my mom's stuffing is my favorite, but i have gotten it down and mine is now pretty close to hers and sounds a lot like your recipe steph...not sure where we will be, but at some point i will make thanksgiving dinner, just probably not on thanksgiving... sometimes, if we are away i do it the night before and that works out good.
tiffany, if you ever have a thanksgiving dinner, invite me and my family, i promise i'll make something, i like business for that holiday
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