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Thanksgiving 2010

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Let's talk turkey. It's Thanksgiving in a few days time and I've never been anywhere that's celebrated it or even with friends.

Your favourite recipes and drinks, what you're looking forward to, what you're thankful for this past year, the distances you've travelled, family festivities and feuds, even the Black Friday sales... let's hear it all, no matter how small or grand.

Tell us about your day. :)
 
Turkey, green bean casserole, sweet potatoes, and corn pudding. That's all we prepare here. Then, there is of course whiskey and football.

If I'm not asleep by midnight after the huge dinner I head over to the outlet malls and try and catch their sales (they open at midnight). More of a get out of the house/tradition thing.

90% of my Black Friday shopping is done online, mostly Amazon.
 
What I am looking the most forward to is the Apple Pie I make. It is the best I have ever eaten. Actually it is the only one I ever liked. For those with a dirty mind this is not a reference to "American Pie".

I would also like to make sweet potatoes unfortunately all I can ever find in Georgia are yams labeled as sweet potatoes, though they suffice.

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Yams Right, Sweet Potatoes left
 
Flying 2,500 miles in a few days from California to Ohio, not looking forward to that at all. But it will be good to be with family and old friends again, eating amazing food, and not having to work :)
 
kainjow said:
Flying 2,500 miles in a few days from California to Ohio, not looking forward to that at all. But it will be good to be with family and old friends again, eating amazing food, and not having to work :)
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California to Ohio, I feel for you brother...
 
obeygiant said:
All the more reason to start a thread about it. :)
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Doing this almost every year, it's my way of vicariously living through you all. When I was little, brought up on Disney annuals, I asked my mother if we could have Thanksgiving, but no.

Maybe one day.

Anyway, onwards. After checking out the recipe, I like the sound of wvuwhat's corn pudding. :)
 
I'm cooking the turkey, for what ever reason cooking duties has fallen on me instead of the wife. She generally gets home from work so late that I start dinner for the family. So on thanksgiving, I was elected to get up 5:00am/6:00am to start the bird. If I have to get up that early, I might as well do it all.

Anyways, I prefer a simple approach to cooking the turkey and letting the turkey flavor come through. I'll put s few aromatics in the body cavity, smear butter between the meat and the skin and bath the outside of the bird with olive oil.
 
Thanksgiving for me the last two years has sucked, since I live in Greece now. It will be just another day for me here. I will gladly accept some leftovers anyone has, just ship it to me in dry ice, or vacuum seal it, I dont care :D
 
garybUK said:
Isn't Turkey for Christmas? do you have it on both days?
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The leftovers are finally gone by Christmas, hence the need for a new turkey to be sacrificed to the gods

I will be taking red to meet some family for the first time

We also have tickets to the Dawgs game on that Saturday
They are playing the Bees, and she seems to be partial to them for some reason :rolleyes:
 
The.316 said:
Thanksgiving for me the last two years has sucked, since I live in Greece now. It will be just another day for me here. I will gladly accept some leftovers anyone has, just ship it to me in dry ice, or vacuum seal it, I dont care :D
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Turkey isn't very popular in Greece. :)
 
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wvuwhat said:
Turkey, green bean casserole, sweet potatoes, and corn pudding. That's all we prepare here. Then, there is of course whiskey and football.

If I'm not asleep by midnight after the huge dinner I head over to the outlet malls and try and catch their sales (they open at midnight). More of a get out of the house/tradition thing.

90% of my Black Friday shopping is done online, mostly Amazon.
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Oh yes! Green bean casserole! I can't wait!
I'll be driving to Louisiana to see my folks (recently moved there) and let the eating begin. I should have gone on a diet a month ago to prepare. Chocolate pie here I come!

Oh and black Friday, for me, is online only as well. No way I'm getting out in that mess!

But I'm still excited!
 
I moved to the UK and I haven't had a Thanksgiving in 4 years and I didn't except to miss these family events as much as I do. :eek: :( Such is life.
 
^ I was in Hinckley in 2006 for Thanksgiving and the people I was visiting cooked what they hoped to be a traditional turkey day meal. They did these stuffing balls that would have been classed as assault weapons in the states. The other stuff was meh, but it was really the whole thought that counted. Being a traveler I would have been fine with fish and chips from Kingfishers. :D
 
jessica. said:
^ I was in Hinckley in 2006 for Thanksgiving and the people I was visiting cooked what they hoped to be a traditional turkey day meal. They did these stuffing balls that would have been classed as assault weapons in the states. The other stuff was meh, but it was really the whole thought that counted. Being a traveler I would have been fine with fish and chips from Kingfishers. :D
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:D Yeah, Stuffing here is not the same as US stuffing. That's sweet they gave it a go though. It's really just another day for me here. Though I'll have other things on my mind on that Thursday. ;)
 
garybUK said:
Isn't Turkey for Christmas? do you have it on both days?
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Turkey is traditional to have for Thanksgiving (though some Philistines eat tofurky :eek:).

Christmas seems to be more open as far as the meat portion of the meal goes. Plus it varies by country. I would consider a goose to be the traditional meal. As that is what Charles Dickens mentions in "A Christmas Carol". As I recall a Christmas Goose is also mentioned in at least one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "Sherlock Holmes" stories.

Normally I have ham for Christmas. The best are Montana Hams. They are actually sweet, tender and don't overdue it on the salt. Rather than the tough salt licks they call hams at the store.
 
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