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Turkey, Trimmings, & Tradition at Our Home plus a special 50th birthday celebration for Annie This is an invitation to one of the biggest all-day Thanksgiving celebrations ever. Let us cook you a mouth-watering dinner with all the trimmings in our lovely, warm, old-fashioned home. Plus a special celebration for the love of my life, my sole [sic - hee!] mate, friend. Games, movies, and good times. Young Pennsylvania Tom turkey ~ Hors devours [sic] ~ Fresh pecan raisin pear goat cheese salad ~ Fresh squash soup ~ Sausage apple dressing ~ Fresh cranberry sauce ~ Gingersnap gravy ~ Caramelized sweet potato pudding ~ Harvest vegetables & long grain wild rice with cranberries ~ Cheddar cheese & buttermilk biscuits ~ Good ol' fashioned corn pudding ~ plus a special assortment of desserts: pumpkin pie, apple pie, pumpkin cheesecake, and a special birthday cake that is truly decadent (chocolate). *************** Thanksgiving is going to ROCK this year. My uncle -- my gourmet cook uncle -- is throwing it at his and my aunt Annie's place. *DROOL* |
I crocheted my aunt a scarf for her birthday. It's so pretty, I wish I could scan a picture for you. I can't believe she'll be 50. I can't wait until tomorrow! |
we're getting together at angry sams, but sans angry sam as he is in rome with this hot rich girl who felw him there for the holiday. im in charge of veggies and im going with family favs such as broccoli casserole, green beans, blackeyed peas, baby green salad with toasted almonds and a cranberry/apple sauce that im making from scratch. me and eva have 8 lbs of apples to core and peel tonight. YAYYYY |
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Two (2) Commuting empty-nesters Two (2) Hawaiians Two (2) Cat One (1) LS (little sister, aka doppelganger) One (1) Grandmother (learning music at 88!) One (1) Policeman One (1) Fabric-dealing aunt and me. Which would make for an interesting story with the general cast of characters and still might be. With effort and the willingness to state unpopular opinions. |
It's just the four of us this year, which is odd. We usually had my Grandmother with us. As glad as I am that it is just our little family this year, it is also kinda lonely. Glad I don't have to deal with my mother, but sad that Grandma isn't here. Like something is missing. We invited a friend over but she made plans to go have Thanksgiving dinner with her brother. Well, off to start the turkey. |
i remember the thanksgivings we used to have, with two sets of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins. Diningroom table with the leaf in, with the kitchen table next to it, with the leaf in, with the card table at the end. the kitchen packed like a rush hour subway train all day long, people in and out and never completely in each other's way. my mom wrote a book of poetry and one of the poems is about this, called 'the kitchen dance.' ugh. i have the urge to make a family. |
therefore- Thansgiving x2 ! sweet. thanksgiving trades. |
Made a plan with the friends that we always spend thanksgiving with to "wear" something that we wouldn't normally wear to Thanksgiving this year. I put heavy makeup with blue eyeshadow and black eyeliner on, and wore a pale yellow sweater set made out of pointelle cotton that my mom sent me for some reason. I also put gel in my hair. Not everybody played this game, but our friend James was wearing a beer can baseball hat with a plastic bag over it, and another guy whose name I forgot had a homemade military jacket with red white and blue sequins all over it that said USA on the back. We were an hour late, which my friends did on purpose so that we would be on time. However, I told my sister not be late, so she was actually on time, which was actually early. It all worked out okay, though. What we ate: 1. appetizer: beer cheese with crackers (Dave and I) 2. appetizer: hot mustard and cream cheese with crackers (me) 3. appetizer: bloody mary's (Jen and James, host and hostess) 4. appetizer: satsuma tangerines (Jen and I) 5. turkey (Jen and James) 6. stuffing, regular and veggie (J and J) 7. vegan vegetable pot pie (me) 8. green bean casserole (Dave) 9. yam dish of love (Jen) 10. mashed potatoes (Jen and James) 11. spinach salad (my sister, Courtney) 12. corn pudding (Courtney) 13. wine (assorted people) 14. dessert: apple pie (Jen) 15. dessert: mixed nuts pie (Jeff, my sister's boyfriend) 16. dessert: chocolate cream pie (Liz, Jen's sister) 17. dessert: butter cookies (Courtney) 18. dessert: fudge (Courtney) 19. coffee (me) 20. alcoholic beverage: something blended with frozen mango and vodka (Jeff) 21. alcoholic beverage: mudslides (Jeff) After dinner, we played this game three times, and my sister's boyfriend won all three times. We play for money, so he left feeling expansive with a little wad of cash in his pocket http://www.dicegames.com/l-c-r.html Cleo spent a lot of time entertaining Jen and James's three year old son Jackson. Jackson is in love with Cleo. After we left Jen and James, we brought some food to our friends Amy and Tony, who have an 8 day old baby named Henry. We met Henry, who is a strapping baby boy. He is already tracking faces. Then we went home, and slept really really late. the end |
we had so much food. so much good food. my eye balls pop thinking about how much i ate. |
We had a really nice Thanksgiving. My brother invited his boss to the house, as his boss has no family in the area with which to feast. He was a nice guy, a master glassblower. Now that I think about it, most of our conversations were centered on him...heh, that's my nosy aunt for you. Anyway, a good time was had by all. |
Reason enough to be cheerful. :) |
i've had strep since sunday. i cooked and blablah and it was good and hung out with my parents and my sister decided to be mean and the day decided to be over. my friends called and came and rescued me and we all had dinner again [well, i had pie] and they are lovely and comforting and like 18 of us had a great time. they reminded me that i couldn't choose my family but i could choose them and it was trite but it worked. today my mom told me that whatever the problem is with my sister it must be her problem [not something i'm doing] and they don't really understand it. i don't either. i have cooked: a dry turkey, nifty stuffing, 2 pies, roasted vegetables and bread. i am done with the cooking for a while. |
The families got along just fine and. My mother flipped out about dinner and had to call my aunt over to fix the free-range turkey to get it to make drippings. There was the turkey with gravy and some kind of sausage stuffing, squash, asparagus, and cranberry sauce. I had a piece of grilled salmon rubbed with lemon and rosemary. For dessert we had apple pie, pecan pie, and pumpkin pie, which we could have with icecream or homemade whipped cream. There was also a cranberry and golden raisin coffee cake which we didn't even start eating until the next day. |
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I've never eaten goose but it's very fatty. And yeah, goose is often served stuffed with chestnuts and served with apples or sauerkraut. That's like, a classic way of serving it in Europe, or so my lil' book here says. By the way, I was thinking about you the other day Dougie. I felt like we hadn't heard from you in a while. I haven't picked up those CD's you recommended, but I think I will put them on my Christmas list and I'll let you know what I think. |
i would like to see a roasted ostrich. not eat it, just see it. mm. pie. berry pie. this morning was a bad morning for anxiety. gots ta get on the exercisin'. |
I stayed home from school today. I have a cold coming on. Normally, this would not keep me home, but I thought it would be better for me to stay in and treat it rather than risk being sick all week. That, and it made me oversleep and I didn't have time to prepare for my presentation. I thought I would make up for it by being productive here. So far that hasn't happened although I got some food shopping done and I bought vitamins and some new teas. Yum. hope your anxieties calm, hetaher |
Anxiety fucking sucks. I hope you feel better, heather. |
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i had one of the best thanksgivings in the last ten years. as usual, i got up and did the 5-mile Turkey Trot run, benefitting the homeless. afterward, believe it or not, i was invited to kevin's parent's house in wimberly. his mother, jean, and i liked each other the instant we met so many years ago back when she and kevin's father were living in ft. wayne, indiana. and we've stayed friends through everything. so it was me, kevin, kevin's brother ryan, kevin's sister katie, jean, kevin's dad richard, their cousin jody and her six year old son leo, kevin's roommate jeff, and me. everybody brought something to contribute to supper. richard - roasted 1 turkey, grilled a second turkey, grilled some mahi mahi for katie jean - sweet potatoes, turkey gravy, white wine kevin - waldorf salad** ryan - steamed asaragus with hollindaise sauce katie - pumpkin pie, pecan pie, and apple pie jodi - seed bread from whole foods jeff - corn bread stuffing me - tossed salad, homemade cranberry sauce***, pear and dried cherry cobbler, organic red wine indie (kevin's dog) - incessant barking emilie (jean's poodle) - silent begging clover (katie's cat) - sleeping, napping, yawning everything was delicious, especially the cornbread stuffing and pecan pie. i actually didn't eat a whole lot of food at dinner, didn't take seconds of anything, ate only a small breakfast, but felt unreasonably full the whole day. very strange. jean and richard took us for a drive around wimberly in his 8-seater ford bronco. it's such a quaint, lovely town - looks as if it was plucked right out of the late 1800's. when we returned to the house, we all ended up hanging out in jean and richard's enormous bedroom for some reason, just talking and hanging out. then dave called and i left around 9 p.m. he was supposed to go to pittsburgh for the holiday but was so sick with the flu he had to cancel his trip. i spent most of the week at his apartment taking care of him. the rest of the time i did a bunch of nothing in between getting ready for xmas. as it turns out, kevin's got a new girlfriend named megan. when i confided in jeff (who drove with me to wimberly) about dave, he told me in confidence about kevin's new girl. so now kevin and i are both seeing other people, but neither of us has the guts to tell each other. what a trip, eh? dave was fine w/ me spending thanksgiving with kevin's family. |