I hope all your meal prep plans are on schedule. These are America's traditional cookings' finest hours. That all your travel plans will be successful. It might be difficult this year to declare things thankful for without veering into Politics. I will go first. Two months ago I learned that my appendix had externally abscessed and was causing asymptomatic damages. After two weeks in hospital with a drainage tube and a barrel of IV antibiotics, I am much better now and will be de-appendicised a bit later. This whole thing could have gone very wrong during international travel last summer. I was very lucky. No complaints to lodge in other personal areas, so my gratitude is at a high point. I am also grateful that PriusChat remains a congenial place to discuss what was a revolutionary vehicle two decades ago , but is so much more than that also. Youse guys are the best.
Thanks to a continuous glucose monitor, I have a different diet: Any fermented cheese or yogurt All nuts not honey roasted Sandwich ham, turkey, beef rolled with cheese Pineapple in juice Eggs and sausage Fish, canned and fresh Carrots, squash, and beans Salads 2% milk Sugar free chocolate Black coffee Forbidden: Sugar, sweets, pie Corn, any form and each kernel is the same as sugar Carbohydrates: noodles, bread, potatoes, and stuffing Plums, honey crisp apples, watermelon Whole milk Bob Wilson
German Dressing (NOT stuffing!) - 3/4 done. Baking remains. Cornbread dressing under consideration - because (a) Deep South and (b) cornbread and biscuits are required and tasty. Turkey bought and defrosting. Brief dry brine after spatchcocking today and tomorrow. Backup (or additional) turkey will be either deep fried or just a roasted breast since this is my first splayed bird. Baked ham. Irish Taters - mashed. Yeast Rolls. Probably Schubert's. Judge as you might - but they're well over 90% as good as made from scratch with only 10% of the effort. Great Northern beans, 'The usual' casseroles. (green bean/sweet tater etc...) Both pies - Pumpkin and Pecan. Various pre-meal munchies and, since I'm a girl-dad, a photo-worthy charcuterie board.
young people mostly get their turkey prep instructions from the internet. clickbait has steered many wrong. i'm grateful that we learned from our parents, as that sort of thing seems to be more and more rejected by younger generations. i'm grateful that docs and drugs are working hard to keep people healthy, whether it applies to me or not. glad you're okay doc, i hope the appendix go well!
Our family informed us that we were hosting because we have the big room, but they're all bringing most of the food. I'm still on the hook for both pies, pumpkin and pumpkin. Wife and backyard hens obligated to do deviled eggs. So the rest of this week is mapo tofu, shaved steak sandwiches, broiled sockeye salmon... pretty much anything but fowl.
Some egg, one among many, produced a not-another chicken ancestor. DNA got tangled in a new way. Stuff happens. This resolved a trivial but popular conundrum. == This T-giving thread is for gratitude; deity-directed or not. Let's bulk this up.
My fault. Being typically 'merican I didn't read the OP and associated Thanksgiving mainly with food prep. ALL fall short. Fortunately, among my many MANY blessings are access to a forum where mods have it pretty dern easy. Safe travels to all who do so along with sincere hopes that 'where two or more are gathered' that congeniality is at the top of the menu as well!
No, I was wrong. Let's give thanks for inclusion, and INCLUDE. Howzabout: How the Great Cranberry Scare of 1959 Set Off a Thanksgiving Panic | HISTORY
Puerto Rico 1990s was peak turkey prep for me. The gang had collective idea it was difficult to cook and were amazed by big bird with gravy. Cooks here know this is requires only few essential steps to impress audience. More recently I've been here where 'the raw' is scarce or very overpriced. So, no deal. Restaurants in largest Chinese cities with most expats offer traditional meals highly priced. Readers where the dang birds are abundant and <3USD/lb might be thankful in a global sense. Cook them well. For me
If I seem to obsess about this American tradition, it is because I moved out of convenient turkey supply area. I can simulate other holidays from here. Smithsonian chronicled repackaging of this, Ben Franklin's choice for America's fowl: A Brief History of the TV Dinner | Smithsonian == Macy's Parade in NYC by my estimate buys >USD$400 thousand helium to float their characters. I have NO IDEA if they reclaim it. It could be done at a ?? price. The time may come for that. == My effort to attach image from 2017 event at Intl Space Station seemed to fail. But maybe not? Anyway, the food under straps is 'what they do' on ISS. I would give a lot for one of those festive shirts...
i like the anti gravity hair. mrs b did an excellent job as always. turkey, stuffing, squash, cranberry, pilaf and apple cider. carrot cake, ice cream and cookies, no pies here. our numbers are dwindling due to covid, down to 10 from 20+ 5 years ago.
BTDT, pal. Actually.....I like turkey more than most - maybe because, like you, I've been in situations that do not lend themselves to a traditional American Thanksgiving dinner. I regularly ask my CFO "Is this REAL <meat entre> or turkey?" ESPECIALLY where pigs are involved! My Thanksgiving was an unqualified success despite the usual bumps along the way - most concerning of which was the fact that my baby girl 'borrowed' our instant-read meat thermometer and I was forced to use ancient methods to determine if my two birds were cooked thoroughly enough. Since this was my first faltering attempt at spatchcocking one of the birds, my concerns were warranted - but in the end I decided to channel my 'inner-boomer' and not force my family members to sign liability waivers before consuming the turkey. I didn't even mention it. In the end it was family and friends that made our day special. I sincerely hope that all had as Happy a Thanksgiving as we did!
My Thanksgiving casserole, baked the night before: B Below the top, a layer of salmon, black beans, and egg plant. Feeds me for three days. Bob Wilson
