Happy Thanksgiving to all...here's hoping everyone has a great day! :)

I hope everyone here, except you Canadians who celebrate it on the wrong day, has a very Happy Thanksgiving. Eat your fill, enjoy your company and remember to be thankful for all the blessings you have.

Originally posted by Frogger
I hope everyone here, except you Canadians who celebrate it on the wrong day, has a very Happy Thanksgiving. Eat your fill, enjoy your company and remember to be thankful for all the blessings you have.

Beat ya by two minutes...:)

Happy turkey day...blah blah blah...

Pass the gravied yams!

thank you, gentlemen, and the same to you, and everyone else!
I am taking a break before the onslaught arrives...we are expecting almost 30 people here within an hour. Everything's done and all is well.

We will be contacting our insurance company first thing tomorrow tho....j/k!

It's a nice day to remember all we have to be thankful for. I am grateful, for good food, family, a roof over our heads. And Thanksgiving Day football, which gives the menfolk an opportunity to snooze in their chairs and drink beer while the women slave in the kitchen. Lucky dogs!

Get this--we are eating twice today--at one, and again at around 6! Yes, we are insane and have been for years.

Tomorrow's the fun day tho. Early morning shopping! just can't resist those sales on! We plan to be there when they open their doors--at 5 AM yet.
What we do for the kinfolk........it's fun tho.
Wishing everyone a great day and did you see the Macy Day parade?

Enjoy the day, my fellow Americans!

The rest of you fine readers living in other lands, enjoy the day as well!

Originally posted by es347fan
Enjoy the day, my fellow Americans!

The rest of you fine readers living in other lands, enjoy the day as well!

Bah...screw them! It's the american way! :p
Oh well, they are just missing out on a cheap excuse for a big meal, days off of work, and plenty of shopping sales.

Everyone have a nice day!
Have a can of yams!

/givecano'yams

Originally posted by Evakian
Pass the gravied yams!
And don't bogart that stuffinged ham, neither!
plenty of shopping sales.
Tomorrow is gonna suck for me...:(

I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving.

I'm in Phoenix (78 degrees and sunny :D) and will be going with relatives to their freinds house for dinner. Looks like a pretty good size crowd, some of them came in from the east coast.

Then, providing I don't overdose on turkey, Saturday morning I'm heading out for San Francisco where I'm staying for the entire month of Dec -- returning to either LA or Phoenix for Xmas.

It looks like the surfing is getting pretty good at Salmon Creek so that's a plus, shark attacks and water temperatures aside. LOL.

Have a great Thanksgiving.

Hope everyone has a great and safe day!
Eaat tooo Muuch. :D

I worked until 3pm.
Now im chilling with a glass of sangria. Ate stuffing and mashed potatoes.
I wish everyone a warm and safe evening.

So after 5 plates consisting of (but not all on one) turkey, corn, cranberry sauce, applesauce, spring salad, mashed potatoes, beets, green bean casserole, cookies, and removal of one belt and pant button later...I'm good to go for a couple days or so.

How did everyone else do?

Starved. My family is a couple thousand miles away, and my roommates all ditched me to go with their families, most of which live in other states. Had me a hamburger and orange juice for dinner. I just now almost finished doing their damn dishes. (these kids don't know the meaning of clean)

It was a really plain one for me this year. Only me, my aunt/uncle, and my aunt's god-parents. In the past usually there would be about 10 guests, at least some of them my age.

Originally posted by Evakian
Pass the gravied yams!

You unAmerican cad. Yams are supposed to be mashed, covered with marshmallows and baked in the oven. Gravied yams, pah!


Once again I have survived the annual day of conspicuous excess.

We had a total of fifteen people, should have been twenty but my one son was on call so he and his family had to bail.

We ate from two thirty until after six.

First Course: Dates stuffed with creamcheese and walnuts and rolled in sugar, assorted olives, stuffed celery, stuffed mushrooms, shrimp with cocktail sauce, cranberry bread, pumpkin bread, pepperoni bread, sausage bread, sliced pepperoni and Italian dry sausage.

Second Course: Stuffed shells, sausage, meatballs, salad

Third Course: Lemon sherbert in scooped out lemon shells to clean the pallet and prepare for the actual meal.

Fourth Course: Turkey (24.3 pounds) stuffing, both in the bird and outside the bird, home made cranberry sauce, green beans with onions, mashed potatoes, marshmallow yams, spiced mushrooms, stuffed artichokes, mashed turnips, dinner rolls, another salad, gravy.

Fifth Course: Pecan pie, Caramel apple pie, Pumpkin pie, Chocolate cream pie, assorted chocolates, coffee and espresso.

Sixth Course: Assorted nuts and cheeses and fresh fruits, and a little Fennel to settle the stomach. More coffee and espresso and assorted after dinner cordials.

All washed down with copious amounts of cold cider, hot mulled cider, soda, white and red wine and champagne.

All I did was stuff the dates and celery and prepare the shrimp platter and the fruit platter. The rest was done by my wife who once again did a masterful job in the kitchen.

Can't wait till next Thanksgiving. Hopefully she'll make her pumpkin soup next year. Everyone missed it this year.

Nice menu Frogger. :)

We had turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing with raisins, craisins, dried apricots, and walnuts (inside and out), baked O'Brian potatoes in cream cheese, peas with bacon and almond slivers, dinner rolls, devilled eggs, and squash with bacon and brown sugar.

Dessert was pumpkin pie, S'mores cheesecake, and peanut butter ice cream cake. Still stuffed.

Originally posted by Frogger
You unAmerican cad. Yams are supposed to be mashed, covered with marshmallows and baked in the oven. Gravied yams, pah!

Utter blasphemy!

Originally posted by Evakian
Pass the gravied yams!

Originally posted by BorgHunter
And don't bogart that stuffinged ham, neither!

Those two pieces are a quote from Homestar Runner, you blasphemer!

Yeah, Vilepagan, we tend to pull out all the stops on holidays.

I am of German descent and my wife is of Sicilian descent and neither one of us is willing to give up the foods we remember from childhood, although this year I forewent the red cabbage which I usually insist on.

The stuffed dates, stuffed celery, marshmallow yams and shrimp are something we had when I was a kid so it sort of brings back memories of my parents and siblings gathered around the table.

Since my wife is of Sicilian heritage we have to have some sort of pasta. I think she would curly up and die without it. One year stuffed shells, one years stuffed canneloni, cheese ravioli or gnocci another year, but always some sort of pasta. The same with the sausage bread and pepperoni bread.

My daughter loves olives so there are always at least a half dozen different kinds.

The rest is just stuff we all like.

You should have seen Christmas Eve at my mother-in-law's when she was younger. A million different forms of seafood ranging from sardines in marinara sauce to squid in its own ink. That was a bit too much for me.

Utter blasphemy!

That's the way it's done, Evak!

We prepared a nice roast turkey, mashed potatoes, baked sweet potato, cranberry sauce, rice/cheese/brocolli casserole, corn bread stuffing, finished off with a nice homemade pumpkin pie. All that for 2 adults. Anyone up for some leftovers?

Frogger your wife must be quite the cook, such a vast array of foods would take countless hours to prepare....may I join you for Christmas Eve? :D
Besides, we need to discuss the lawsuit over the Hitler's testicle conversation over dinner (how appetizing eh?)
F röhliche Weihnachten! Buon Natale!
See you and your family in a month ;)