Happy Thanksgiving, Turkeys!! - Page 2

footfootfoot · 11-24-2011, 12:54 PM

I am imagining all of you having a delicious and wonderful, albeit imaginary, Thanksgiving with your pretend friends and families!

bon appétit!

Sundae · 11-24-2011, 12:57 PM

Brianna, that deserved to be served up every year.
Happy Turkey Day to you all xxx

TheMercenary · 11-24-2011, 03:03 PM

Happy Turkey Day everyone! I hope it is a great one for all.

infinite monkey · 11-24-2011, 06:36 PM

I had a nice time. It was a small turnout this year: younger bro and family go to Michigan, oldest of the grown nieces lives in LA (state not city) with her AF husband and new baby, dad had the flu

but my other grown niece and three nephews were there, and my nephew's fiance who is in school to be a PA and we LOVE her, and two neighbor kids who idolize my older brother and their family (such nice kids!) and sis-in-law's mom and sis, who I really like.

Oh, and miracle dog...sweetest choco lab ever.

We ate, played some games, and laughed. The little girl played left/right/center with sissy law, neph fiance, mom, and me...and she took all our quarters! She's so shy, it was really fun watching her win.

I'm thankful for friends, family, and the Cellar, which is a bit of both.

infinite monkey · 11-24-2011, 07:21 PM

I turned on the TV and A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving was on. So I have to post this part, with the lovely music of Vince Guaraldi.

infinite monkey · 11-24-2011, 07:22 PM

Oh, poo. It's a 'watch on youtube' one. Still, if you like jazz you'll appreciate it. Open another window!

TheMercenary · 11-24-2011, 07:25 PM

Loves me some CB! Great Pumpkin is one of the best.

infinite monkey · 11-24-2011, 07:35 PM

Yeah, Thanksgiving was a later one...Christmas and Halloween were the best!

Big Sarge · 11-24-2011, 07:39 PM

I had my dinner from Subway sitting at the old sewage lagoon. Now's the time to remember from Big Sarge, "Never take family for granted or you end up all alone watching the sunset and floating turds."

TheMercenary · 11-24-2011, 07:52 PM

Well done Big Sarge!

richlevy · 11-24-2011, 08:19 PM

Have a Happy Thanksgiving everybody.

zippyt · 11-24-2011, 10:08 PM

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DucksNuts · 11-24-2011, 11:33 PM

Happy day to eat your weird sweet and savory stuff together!!!

Like....marshmallows in sweet tata or some such stuff.

Urbane Guerrilla · 11-25-2011, 01:18 AM

'Twas a happy T-day indeed.

Turkey breast for just the two of us, two kinds of stuffing because I insisted (second batch came out pretty wet; rather too much broth I reckon) of cornbread and sage-&-bread, salad, fresh green beans cooked waterless with slivered almonds, gravy that I eventually reduced to some success but think I need more whole-bird drippings to really get right, rather than starting from chicken stock and roux (successful roux, though); whole cranberry sauce and the jellied too, can-shape and all (and more cans waiting); the pièce de résistance was lemon meringue pie as given in the Most Recent Recipe Thread in Food & Drink, this time with a gingersnap crust in place of a graham-cracker one. The turkey breast might have been the p-d-r if it hadn't come out a bit dry and slightly shrunken. Cook those things covered, it seems, and perhaps from thawed not frozen. Wasn't sure what I had going on. Oh yes, and the garlic mashed potatoes, from scratch -- considerable more garlic next time, lightly sautéed 'em in EVOO, quite good.

Even the black kitties got some turkey breast each.

Urbane Guerrilla · 11-25-2011, 01:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DucksNuts

Happy day to eat your weird sweet and savory stuff together!!!

Like....marshmallows in sweet tata or some such stuff.

Ayup. Candied sweet potato, puréed, more or less a substitute for butternut squash. But the mini marshmallows baked until a bit browned on top signify it is a festal dish!

The equally iconic pumpkin pie (fairly often a traditional autumnal dish because the punkins have ripened by about then and keep unrefrigerated for a time) is baked of smallish sweet pumpkins, such as the Sugarbaby variety, and is nearly as savory as sweet, with its spice mix. The large carving pumpkins are far blander and would only suit for, oh, soup or something. Hardly anyone does, though.

I like to spice pumpkin pie filling (pumpkin, sugar, eggs, evaporated milk, or substitute sweetened condensed milk for the sugar and evap-milk, for a custardy sort of filling) with cloves or somewhat less allspice, nutmeg, and mace. The addition of mace does a lot for its depth. Topping it with whipped cream is okay, but rather gilding the lily. Serving it à la mode, however, is not.

11-24-2011, 12:54 PM	#16
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11-24-2011, 12:57 PM	#17
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Brianna, that deserved to be served up every year. Happy Turkey Day to you all xxx __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

11-24-2011, 03:03 PM	#18
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	Happy Turkey Day everyone! I hope it is a great one for all. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

11-24-2011, 07:25 PM	#22
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	Loves me some CB! Great Pumpkin is one of the best. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

11-24-2011, 07:39 PM	#24
Big Sarge Werepandas - lurking in your shadows Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: In the Deep South Posts: 3,408	I had my dinner from Subway sitting at the old sewage lagoon. Now's the time to remember from Big Sarge, "Never take family for granted or you end up all alone watching the sunset and floating turds." __________________ Give a man a match, & he'll be warm for 20 seconds. But toss that man a white phosphorus grenade and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

11-24-2011, 06:36 PM	#19
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	I had a nice time. It was a small turnout this year: younger bro and family go to Michigan, oldest of the grown nieces lives in LA (state not city) with her AF husband and new baby, dad had the flu but my other grown niece and three nephews were there, and my nephew's fiance who is in school to be a PA and we LOVE her, and two neighbor kids who idolize my older brother and their family (such nice kids!) and sis-in-law's mom and sis, who I really like. Oh, and miracle dog...sweetest choco lab ever. We ate, played some games, and laughed. The little girl played left/right/center with sissy law, neph fiance, mom, and me...and she took all our quarters! She's so shy, it was really fun watching her win. I'm thankful for friends, family, and the Cellar, which is a bit of both.

11-24-2011, 07:21 PM	#20
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	I turned on the TV and A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving was on. So I have to post this part, with the lovely music of Vince Guaraldi.

11-24-2011, 07:22 PM	#21
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	Oh, poo. It's a 'watch on youtube' one. Still, if you like jazz you'll appreciate it. Open another window!

11-24-2011, 07:35 PM	#23
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	Yeah, Thanksgiving was a later one...Christmas and Halloween were the best!

11-24-2011, 07:52 PM	#25
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	Well done Big Sarge! __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

11-24-2011, 08:19 PM	#26
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	Have a Happy Thanksgiving everybody. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

11-24-2011, 10:08 PM	#27
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11-24-2011, 11:33 PM	#28
DucksNuts Bitchy Little Brat Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Queensland, Australia Posts: 5,067	Happy day to eat your weird sweet and savory stuff together!!! Like....marshmallows in sweet tata or some such stuff.

11-25-2011, 01:18 AM	#29
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	'Twas a happy T-day indeed. Turkey breast for just the two of us, two kinds of stuffing because I insisted (second batch came out pretty wet; rather too much broth I reckon) of cornbread and sage-&-bread, salad, fresh green beans cooked waterless with slivered almonds, gravy that I eventually reduced to some success but think I need more whole-bird drippings to really get right, rather than starting from chicken stock and roux (successful roux, though); whole cranberry sauce and the jellied too, can-shape and all (and more cans waiting); the pièce de résistance was lemon meringue pie as given in the Most Recent Recipe Thread in Food & Drink, this time with a gingersnap crust in place of a graham-cracker one. The turkey breast might have been the p-d-r if it hadn't come out a bit dry and slightly shrunken. Cook those things covered, it seems, and perhaps from thawed not frozen. Wasn't sure what I had going on. Oh yes, and the garlic mashed potatoes, from scratch -- considerable more garlic next time, lightly sautéed 'em in EVOO, quite good. Even the black kitties got some turkey breast each. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

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