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Since Halloween is over, is it safe to discuss Thanksgiving?
Beginning last year, DH & I started our own tradition by staying home. We ordered the turkey (I haven't had the courage to take on the task of learning how to cook a turkey yet) but we made all of the sides and had dinner at home. My sister & nephew came over and it was the best Thanksgiving ever with not having to travel or anything.
What are your plans?
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Re: Since Halloween is over, is it safe to discuss Thanksgiving?
I get to do 2 Thanksgivings every year. The Canadian one was last month but we didn't end up doing much since we had a wedding to go to.
For American Thanksgiving, my IL's are coming to visit DH. It's going to be a very non-traditional dinner. I think we're going to have salmon, and some very healthy sides like roasted yams, beets, quinoa risotto, and maybe a carrot ginger soup. The IL's are seafood lovers from MN so they always want salmon when they visit the PNW.
MIL is allergic to dairy and dairy seems to bother DH and me, too so I'm going to try to make a coconut milk creme brulee. Might be a total failure though!
yeah, Thanksgiving is just around the corner!! TG dinner this year is going to be at the IL's house. i'll bring my infamous apple pie :-). DH & I had our official first date during Thanksgiving 7 yrs ago so every year, we make it a tradition to do the same thing...watch a movie and hang out at Georgetown. after we get back from dinner at IL's this year, we'll watch a movie.
Does the Canadian one have the same "traditional" dishes that the American one has?
We do 2 thanksgivings. My sister and I make the turkey and all the sides for a lunch with my side of the family. My grandmother used to do all the cooking but now that she is getting older my sister and I decided to take over. It's really nice.
Then that evening we go over to the DH's grandmother's house for dinner. His grandmother and Aunty do all the cooking. Since getting married his family has put me in charge of desserts. I usually make pumpkin crunch and some kind of chocolate dessert...
This Thanksgiving is going to be a difficult one for the DH's family. We lost his dad a few weeks ago and also lost his Uncle 2 months before that. So this year is even more important for the family to get together. His cousins are coming in from Utah and everyone has made the decision to be togther.
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$65?!?!?!?!?! And that's not even a free-range, hormone-free, organic-feed, pampered-until-slaughtered one, is it?
Yeah, pretty much. I'm sure most families have a variation or 2 but stuffing, cranberry sauce, yams, mashed potatoes, corn, pumpkin pie-that kind of thing.
Heehee, sorry to be hogging this thread...
Uh-oh Kaesha, now I'm scared to make it! I found this recipe on about.com. Is that where you got yours? I'd better have a back-up dessert in case it fails...
Oh hell to the no. This is a battery-raised, hormone-injected, god-only-knows-what-fed, probably-lived-an-awful-life turkey. And when I say "medium" it's probably more like a small-medium when compared to the average turkey sold in the USA. And all for $65. Incredible.
I've been seeing so much yummy holiday food in magazines lately that I'm actually wanting to have a traditional Thanksgiving meal this year. We usually go over to my parents' house and have a non-traditional lunch get together. My FIL also tags along and I'm not sure if he's disappointed every year because instead of turkey, we'll have stuff like shoyu pork and ahi poke.
Maybe I can convince my mom that a small turkey might be nice for a change?
Heh, my family substitutes for the turkey too. They've had various kinds of beef roasts for the last several years because "no one likes turkey" (I'm not sure who "no one" is since I can clearly recall joking fights over who got the choicest cuts of turkey when I was a kid).
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I'll be cooking again this year for the second time in my life (I cooked last year). My ILs will be coming in from CA, my sister will be here, and possible my mom and aunt. I keep it pretty traditional....turkey, stuffing, two kinds of potatoes (my sister and I insist upon one, and MH insists upon another). One thing different this year....it will be my sister's birthday on Thanksgiving Day this year, and she had requested my famous pumpkin cheesecake instead of regular pie.
I'm excited to be able to serve Thanksgiving dinner on nice china and linens this year from the wedding!
You could totally cook a turkey...if you get one with a pop-up timer, its very easy. I LOVE turkey so I cook one once a month or so.
We're going to my MIL's for Thanksgiving...her bf is deep frying the turkey...not sure how that will turn out, so I'll probably cook my own over the weekend so I have plenty of leftovers. Anyway, it should be to have our first Thanksgiving where Marino can partake in the eating!
I can't believe its November already!!
And people still buy them? Are they just there for expats? I don't think DH and his family had ever had turkey before moving to the US.
I"m feeling kind of mopey about Thanksgiving.
MH is going to NY with his son to watch hockey games and doesn't get home until Thanksgiving day. I have a really small family so no telling what we'll do.
We often opt for doing our Thanksgiving the day or the weekend after. My mom and I started that when I was a kid because she always had to work the day after Thanksgiving so cooking and cleaning up after it weren't high on her to-do list when she had to be up and at work the next day. It just became a tradition that stuck even now that she's retired. We THINK the plan will be to have Thanksgiving at our house on Friday instead....maybe we can get a bunch of friends to come over too to keep it festive!
We'll probably do a repeat of last year. Go to my parent's house in the morning (an hour away from where we live) and then MH parent's house (right around the corner from us) in the evening. My parents do a traditional Thanksgiving meal and I really enjoy helping my mom out in the kitchen. I'm also going to pay extra close attention to the preparation this year so maybe we can do Thanksgiving at our house next year. MH's parents do a more Hawaiian style version with kalua turkey and poi along with some traditional fixings.
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Ever since DH and I have been together (9 years) I've spent Thanksgiving with his family. They always go out and spend it with their closest friends who live on Long Island in a gorgeous house on the water - their daughter is our age and also recently married. It's been a wonderful tradition that I've really enjoyed taking part in, as I have bad memories of my own family's thanksgivings. This year is going to be very difficult as the father of the family, one of my ILs closest friends, passed away on Labor Day. He's usually the one that cooks the turkey and organizes a lot of everything so it's definitely going to be hard, but I'm glad we're all getting together to celebrate.
We usually go to this restaurant in the Hamptons the day after Tgiving and have a great lunch. The tradition there is we always seem to see a celebrity! One year Paris Hilton, one year Gwyneth Paltrow. But I think we are going to skip that tradition this year, sadly.
We're always on our own for Thanksgiving, since our relatives are in WA and OR. It's one of my favorite holidays, so even though I'm missing the big noisy family, I still like to cook and feel like I'm getting at least part of the Thanksgiving Experience!
I get up in the morning and brew some apple cider with cinnamon like my mom used to do. It makes the house smell amazing. For dinner, I make traditional dishes on a smaller scale: turkey breast, dressing, potatoes, cranberries, veggies, and pie for dessert.
Last year a friend came over to eat with us, and I was so excited to have a guest! Most of our friends' families are local, so even though I would love to host a big group, they're not usually available to join us.
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I'm really not sure, actually. Turkey is slowly becoming more popular here - you can get it sliced at some delis for sandwiches and "turkey breast roasts" and "leg roasts" are sometimes sold in the meat depts (basically just parts of the turkey), but there's nothing like ground turkey, etc. available.
I know that when I lived in Alice Springs there were a lot of Americans in the area (there's a "secret" military base there) so those turkeys tended to sell fairly well, but I'm honestly not sure who is buying them in non-Yankee heavy areas? Maybe people who want to appear on the cutting edge of Australian cuisine?