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Thanksgiving To-Do List
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on November 08, 2007, 05:40:14 pm ---You should write an alternative Thanksgiving preperations list for the same magazine. It'd be a short one:
Three weeks prior:
- Make a reservation at a restaurant of your choice
Fixed! ;D
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We went out to dinner once on Thanksgiving and I didn't really enjoy it. That is a meal that needs to be cooked at home, at least for me.
Fortunately, for me, Thanksgiving is pretty easy. Our family is small, so cooking is fairly easy--this year there will be 6 of us. And my mother is super-traditionalist, so every year we have the exact same menu with recipes that are all tried and true, fail proof favorites. Well, brussels sprouts are not my favorite so I refuse to cook them. I told my mother if she wants them, she has to bring them herself.
My mother was never much of a baker, so we all are completely accepting of pies from the bakery. We don't expect all sorts of fancy homemade desserts.
So, our menu, this year as every year:
Roast turkey with totally ordinary white bread stuffing, from my grandmother's recipe
Cranberry sauce (Ocean spray from a can is fine, but I usually make my own since it is brainless to do)
Mashed sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top
Creamed onions (which I make Thursday morning, while watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade)
Some sort of green vegetable (usually frozen peas)
Brussels sprouts (see above)
Aunt Cuyler's lime-cheese jello salad (because my father loves it)
Dessert: pies from the bakery, usually pumpkin
Before dinner: Shrimp with cocktail sauce, Brie with Carr's table water crackers
And...gasp!...I usually do the grocery shopping on Wednesday, despite what the list maker said.
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ifyoucantfixit:
" Them Sheep don't look right." ;D
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on November 08, 2007, 08:34:12 pm ---We went out to dinner once on Thanksgiving and I didn't really enjoy it. That is a meal that needs to be cooked at home, at least for me.
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Me too, actually. I was kidding about the restaurant. We have Thanksgiving at my in-laws', and I make a sweet potato pie. I don't need a huge to-do list for that. I just have to remember to pick up the sweet potatoes and a pint of Jack Daniels or Wild Turkey.
Though I have had Thanksgiving dinner in restaurants a few times. One year, when living in New York, my husband and I ate at that diner whose exterior they showed on Seinfeld. The food was pretty bad, but the site was memorable.
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on November 08, 2007, 07:36:04 pm ---Hmm. Just think of the screenplay with "chickens" substituted for "sheep."
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"We're supposed to guard the chickens, not eat 'em."
"What's the matter with you? There's a thousand of 'em."
"I'll stick with beans."
"Eat your supper, breakfast in camp. But you sleep with the chickens, hunderd percent."
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: ineedcrayons on November 08, 2007, 10:44:14 pm ---Me too, actually. I was kidding about the restaurant. We have Thanksgiving at my in-laws', and I make a sweet potato pie. I don't need a huge to-do list for that. I just have to remember to pick up the sweet potatoes and a pint of Jack Daniels or Wild Turkey.
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You put a whole pint of Jack in a sweet potato pie? :o You take orders? ;D
--- Quote ---"We're supposed to guard the chickens, not eat 'em."
"What's the matter with you? There's a thousand of 'em."
"I'll stick with beans."
"Eat your supper, breakfast in camp. But you sleep with the chickens, hunderd percent."
--- End quote ---
I think we're writing a new chapter to "Brokeback Through the Looking Glass." ;D
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on November 08, 2007, 11:15:58 pm ---You put a whole pint of Jack in a sweet potato pie? :o You take orders? ;D
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No, just a quarter cup goes in the pie. I use the rest to prepare myself for dinner at my in-laws'. :laugh:
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