happy thanksgiving!!

[mlady]

well to the ones in canada, anyways ..

and to those south side! happy turkey day a few weeks in advance

[Mary Kay]

Happy Thanksgiving To all you from Canada! What is tradition fare there?

[mlady]

Happy Thanksgiving To all you from Canada! What is tradition fare there?

same things you do.
turkey
gravy
whipped potatoes.
steamed veggies.
brussell sprouts. etc etc etc

sometimes, nice, fresh bakery bread.
of course, butter. lots of butter on those tatoes..


pumpkin pie tarts for some
large pumpkin pie cheesecakes for others...


then, after any holiday meal, we sit down and watch,
the NFL.

we just spread out the turkey dinners a bit ... `bUrps.`


so ... i can share my secret with you for awesome turkey.

[Mary Kay]

Share away!

[AngeLsLuv]

Someone eats brussel sprouts and admits it?? AWHHH Baby Cabages... Poor things aren't old enough and they die.. Awwwee.... *LOL*

OK Here we go.. My mother is the only one who cooks around here and she cooks all from scratch.. No Store Bought Anything....


We get for Thanksgiving Dinner:

Cranberry Bread

Pumpkin Bread

Cranberry-Orange Relish

Cranberry Sauce

Turkey

Stuffing

Creamed Onions

Ruttabegga

Sweet Potatos With The Tiny Marshmellows On Them

Mashed Potatos

Gravy

Deserts with Alot Of Whipped Cream and/or Vanilla Ice Cream To Top Them Off:

Pumpkin Pie

Mince Meat Pie

Mince Meat-Pumpkin Pie

Late Night Snack:

Turkey Sandwiches with the Rutabegga, Stuffing, Mayo (ok That is usually bought- Helman's or I make "my" own, yeah I can cook/make afew things but cooking I hate to do), and anything from dinner to throw in the sandwich... Like a "Dagwood Sandwich"...

And more of the Pumpkin Pie, Mince Meat Pie, Mince Meat-Pumpkin Pie, and the Whipped Cream and Vanilla Ice Cream If we Want...


It's All Great But I Wait To Freak Out For Yule.. We get the typical Thanksgiving deserts, The most unbelievable Lasagna, Spinich Salad, and our families traditional Suet Pudding.. The pudding is kinda like Indian Pudding with real suet in it along with whiskey soaked raisins, molasses, and a cold hard sauce made with butter, whiskey, confectioners sugar, vanilla mixed up together to top it..

The suet pudding actually came over here on the Mayflower with my Great Granfather's family... That's why it is tradition for us.. BTW, my great grandfather died in 1982 at 87 so I was 19 when he died, and my great granny died in 1990 at the age of 99, when I was 27 so I had them all my life growing up.. With my family all messed up, they were actually my grandparents because I grew up living with my mother, my grandmother, and 3 aunts in the house, until my mother married Bob.. So my mother is more like my sister and mother.. My grandmother is more like my mother... 2 of my aunts were young so they were more like my sisters, and the other aunt was my aunt since she :"thought" she wanted a higher status, but then when I got to be about 17 she became like a sister.. So my family was all messed up and not like "normal" families *LOL*

I guess that was really personal but I don't care.. I've had a blast in my life with all my family and experiences... No wonder I'm who I am, and am typically happy all the time...

[Mary Kay]

No sweat Angel..it's good to know how families that are not the norm..sometimes are even better! I never knew any of my 'Greats" but boy would I have liked to! My Grandmother had 4 sisters that all had big families. When we went to one of the Great Aunts farms (orange grove) it was fun. Lots of my reletives lived around me as a child..you couldn't throw a stick without hitting a cousin!