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Offline nakymaton

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Re: Favorite Thanksgiving Food
« Reply #10 on: November 14, 2006, 12:52:34 am »
The green jello mold that my mother makes...

No. Just kidding.

Stuffing. And gravy. And turkey. And making little lakes in mashed potatoes.

And then pretending the green jello mold is algae growing in the mashed potato lake.

No. Just kidding.
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Re: Favorite Thanksgiving Food
« Reply #11 on: November 14, 2006, 02:10:52 am »
My favorite Thanksgiving food is a bowl of Froot Loops, which I eat while watching football and waiting for the turkey to be carved that my mother spent three hours cooking.

Just kidding.  :laugh:

PS How do you cook a turkey dinner in three hours? Do you think she microwaved the turkey?

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Re: Favorite Thanksgiving Food
« Reply #12 on: November 14, 2006, 10:03:47 am »
Maybe he wasn't including the actual roasting time?

You've also gotta love the turkey sammitches you get to have for days (weeks?) afterwards.  Mmmmm, mmmmm, good.
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Re: Favorite Thanksgiving Food
« Reply #13 on: November 14, 2006, 10:15:22 am »
You've also gotta love the turkey sammitches you get to have for days (weeks?) afterwards.  Mmmmm, mmmmm, good.

Tell you what, maybe the favorite Thanksgiving food is really the leftovers.  ;D
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Re: Favorite Thanksgiving Food
« Reply #14 on: November 14, 2006, 10:31:50 am »
I like the creamed onions (traditional in our family). I posted a really good recipe (which I will be making next week) over on the holiday recipes thread on Anything Goes.

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Re: Favorite Thanksgiving Food
« Reply #15 on: November 14, 2006, 06:06:26 pm »
Damn, I'm getting hungry reading all this.

Stuffing!  I grew up with Pepperidge Farm stuffing from a bag, but now I prefer wild rice and chestnuts with lots of herbs.  YUM

Also, homemade gravy:  I put all the giblet and goobly bits in a saucepan with red wine on the back of the stove while the turkey is cooking, and use that as the base for gravy.  Just can't go back to store-bought.

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Re: Favorite Thanksgiving Food
« Reply #16 on: November 14, 2006, 07:54:40 pm »
You've also gotta love the turkey sammitches you get to have for days (weeks?) afterwards.  Mmmmm, mmmmm, good.

How did Bobby Twist put it?? 'Gonna be eatin this for two whole weeks?!'
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Re: Favorite Thanksgiving Food
« Reply #17 on: November 15, 2006, 12:00:11 am »
My favorite Thanksgiving food is a bowl of Froot Loops, which I eat while watching football and waiting for the turkey to be carved that my mother spent three hours cooking.

Just kidding.  :laugh:

PS How do you cook a turkey dinner in three hours? Do you think she microwaved the turkey?

I guess it depends on how big the turkey is.  I was just watching a cooking show last night and they quoted a cooking time of just under 3 hours for a 12 lb.

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Re: Favorite Thanksgiving Food
« Reply #18 on: November 15, 2006, 03:10:00 am »
I guess it depends on how big the turkey is.  I was just watching a cooking show last night and they quoted a cooking time of just under 3 hours for a 12 lb.

True. But that's just time in the oven. Then there's all the prep before and after.

I've only cooked one Thanksgiving dinner and it took me all f'in day (in fact, I was in tears by 10 a.m.). But even cooks who seem much more adept than I am seem to take longer than three hours.


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Re: Favorite Thanksgiving Food
« Reply #19 on: November 15, 2006, 06:09:25 am »
You all know we don't have Thanksgiving over here, so no traditional turkey. Confession time: I never have eaten any turkey my whole life.
But I do love mashed poatoes and I love to make little lakes in it. No kidding, Mel  ;D

Can someone explain the cranberry cauce to me, please? It sounds yummy, but I have no idea whether my association is correct. Is it sweet? Or sweet and sour? Do you eat it together with the meat? Or is it for dessert? Or is it more like a regular brown gravy(not sweet), only with a hint of friut?