So what are you doing?
I'm cooking mine. With home-made stuffing with apple, home-made gravy-the works.
It will be me and Tiana, my sons Jed and Eddie, my grand son Aiden, Jed's girlfreind Tonya and her daughter Tinisha, and Gramma. Mebbe my sister Brenda, if she can .
I start cooking about 6 in the morning.
I'm also making corn, yams, collards, green bean cassorle, biscuits and pies (apple, pecan, and pumpkin!).
We'll be with a lot of friends and family, not cooking or hosting... which means I don't have to lift a finger. I'll lift my thumb: :thumbup: :smile:
I'll be doing ALL the cooking- except the bean casorrole-Tiana's doing that. Otherwise- stay out of my kitchen when I'm cooking! :wink:
I been cooking family meals since I was a kid. I'm a good home cook.
I've never liked the traditional Thanksgiving dinner-- turkey (blah and too dry), cranberries (yuck), stuffing (okay), mashed taters (always preferred imitation), yams (ick), ham (usually way too sweet), etc. I don't care what everyone else brings, I probably won't eat it. I will bring very non-traditional chicken enchiladas to my folks' house. There's gonna be way too many people there and my brother, nephew and I will probably generally avoid people by going out into the street and throwing the football around.
We're ordering BBQ brisket!
Quote from: retrorussell on November 20, 2018, 06:38:28 PM
I've never liked the traditional Thanksgiving dinner-- turkey (blah and too dry), cranberries (yuck), stuffing (okay), mashed taters (always preferred imitation), yams (ick), ham (usually way too sweet), etc. I don't care what everyone else brings, I probably won't eat it. I will bring very non-traditional chicken enchiladas to my folks' house. There's gonna be way too many people there and my brother, nephew and I will probably generally avoid people by going out into the street and throwing the football around.
It's a lizard man posing as a human being! GET HIM! :hot: :wink:
We got 2 turkeys - one's just under 10 pounds and the other is 12 pounds. Mom's going to make the larger one the old fashioned way in the oven and I'm going to fry up the smaller one.
I also got a Bishop's Ambrosia (http://therecipe.website/recipe/bishop-pie/) Pie
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The Bishop Buffet chain used to have those at their restaurants and since they folded a couple years ago local grocery stores began selling them, but don't put near enough chocolate flakes on top so I'm going to add some extra ones manually.
And of course there will be BEER at the sprite Thanksgiving celebration.
*Loud very hungry tummy rumbles*
I think I should fly out and join you all for Thanksgiving. :cheers:
Quote from: Trevor on November 21, 2018, 02:18:10 AM
*Loud very hungry tummy rumbles*
I think I should fly out and join you all for Thanksgiving. :cheers:
Spent Thanksgiving with my wifes family two years ago Trevor. If you ever get the chance to go to one, I recommend it.
Just go hungry.
I'm going to have a traditional atheist thanksgiving, with a roasted christian baby as the main course and virgin blood mixed with vodka or rum on tap.
Hahahahahaha!!! ! Just wanted to see if I could hear someone shout "I KNEW IT!!! " Actually it's the usual, turkey, ham, gravy, stuffing, mashed potatoes, you know.
I'm making a cake for dessert, a boxed French vanilla cake with juice from a jar of cherries substituting for the water, half a bottles worth of cherries slicedminnhalf inside the cake before baking, chocolate frosting and the other half of the cherries sliced and on top.
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on November 21, 2018, 05:50:59 AM
I'm going to have a traditional atheist thanksgiving, with a roasted christian baby as the main course and virgin blood mixed with vodka or rum on tap.
Hahahahahaha!!! ! Just wanted to see if I could hear someone shout "I KNEW IT!!! " Actually it's the usual, turkey, ham, gravy, stuffing, mashed potatoes, you know.
Actually I thought " Sitting alone with a microwave dinner screaming at the TV". :bouncegiggle:
I kid! I'm joking! :drink:
That cake sounds fantastic. :thumbup:
we have two turkeys one regular and my brother in law has a fryer that always seems to be leaking and about to blow up.
My job is to bring smoked salmon which I buy at the Russian supermarket, along with some cheese and crackers.
I'm forbidden from drinking prosecco aka champagne because it is too easy to chug and strong
Quote from: lester1/2jr on November 21, 2018, 11:43:19 AMwe have two turkeys one regular and my brother in law has a fryer that always seems to be leaking and about to blow up.
Indoor or outdoor fryer? I bought an indoor fryer five years ago and it's great. No more sitting outside in the cold for 50 minutes with farm cats trying to supervise. I can sit down in the basement and watch some MST3K or now that we do our TV through streaming maybe watch TV instead. (Note to self get a long ass Ethernet cord for tomorrow).
its an outdoor one. every time I see it I want to cook hot dogs in it
Deep fried turkeys? You mean firebombs?
I got the bird in the oven, stuffed and seasoned, about 9 o'clock. I peeled the tatars. and put them in water on top of the stove.
All the cans of veggies (yams, corn,greens) are on the counter. I may run out of butter.
But I think I got enough for biscuits! We'll make it!
Tiana is gonna make green bean cassorle (she don't do french cut beans-she uses just plain cut green beans-it's so good.) :smile:
Quote from: RCMerchant on November 22, 2018, 10:48:51 AM
I got the bird in the oven, stuffed and seasoned, about 9 o'clock. I peeled the tatars. and put them in water on top of the stove.
All the cans of veggies (yams, corn,greens) are on the counter. I may run out of butter.
But I think I got enough for biscuits! We'll make it!
Tiana is gonna make green bean cassorle (she don't do french cut beans-she uses just plain cut green beans-it's so good.) :smile:
That sounds really good.
I should actually start cooking but it's just me and my mom, and it's a smaller bird that only takes about 90 minutes to cook. Not sure if I wanna do it for lunch or an early dinner/late lunch.
two words:
Blood Freak
Spent all night on the damn chicken enchiladas-- baking the chicken (over an hour), shredding it, mixing up the soup base, soaking the chicken in broth, cooking the rice, chopping the onion, putting it all together in 2 separate dishes and baking them each an hour. Gonna be tired as hell.
I called in sick.