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Chat - Wednesday, November 26, 2014; HAPPY PRE-THANKSGIVING
Topic Started: Nov 26 2014, 08:57 AM (1,001 Views)
catM
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It will just be the two of us tomorrow – first time in more years than I can remember. We are having a very simple, but ample, dinner: turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green beans with almonds, rutabaga, whole cranberry sauce, cranberry nut bread with cream cheese, pumpkin pie. Everything is going to be homemade. The stuffing is my great grandmother’s recipe now altered to be made with sourdough bread. The rutabaga is a tradition from Vic’s family. The mashed potatoes are for me, even though I am not supposed to have them; the sweet potatoes are for Vic. I am making the pumpkin pie with Splenda so Vic can have some. I have never tried it that way – I’ll let you know how it is.
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Jill, Thanks for those videos of Yosemite and of the Aurora. Wow! What a beautiful and awesome world we live in.

I will be going to a friend's house for tomorrow. I am taking two things -- Southern Corn Pudding, which is milk, eggs, melted butter, salt & pepper, and of course corn, baked for about an hour. It comes out as a kind of souffle. I'm also taking the leftover cranberry sauce compote that I took to our church's Thanksgiving luncheon on Sunday. It's made from whole cranberry sauce, crushed and chunk pineapple, cut-up fresh tangerines, and pecans.

By the way, has anyone noticed the price of pecans? Apparently there is a shortage because of this past year's weather. A bag of chopped ones cost $9! And they didn't even have any whole ones at the store.

I wasn't planning to do any Christmas decorating, but things have changed. My DD is coming out for a week in the middle of December for some medical appointments and now I want the house to look Christmassy. (Is that a word? :wacko: )

Well, if I don't get going to my class and then the store, I won't be making anything because I'm out of corn, butter and milk.

Have a good day, folks! And Have a Happy Thanksgiving! (I don't mind this nice warm weather at all!)
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Artsy Mom
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Posted Image Eve Peeps

Since we Canadians have already had our Thanksgiving feasts, I am just going to enjoy hearing all about yours :D

It is very cold here today.... -19C/-6F with some :flk: :flk: expected :o
Siobhan
is not a happy camper !!!

Kathleen I would much prefer to be where you are and able to see the :<<>>: :<<o>>: :<<>>: hanging around :)^

Karen I am definitely going to make the Cranberry Orange Bread with chopped Apple.
Your pie looks scrumptdillyicous too :lol:

Cat is all that food just for the two of you? Lots of leftovers are never a bad thing either :Yum: :Yum:
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Maybe I will make one of these Thanksgiving veggie platters to go with the Shepherds Pie I am making for supper tonight :)^

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Both so festive and :Yum: :Yum: :Yum:
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Now I do not know what these little gourds are...they are extremely prickly, almost like a cactus...but had to bring some home to add to our collection. The vine was huge. Does anyone know what these are?
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I think these might be the seed pods for the highly toxic Angel Trumpet vine :unsure: The seed pods I have from it look exactly the same as in your :clk:

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I was given a plant one year by my neighbour and it is spectacular but also very deadly which I didn't know at the time. They grow into very tall huge plants even here :o
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Karen, your pie looks so good. :Yum:

Penny, those veggie platters are gorgeous! :Yum: I am going to save the photos and make it some time!
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All your Thanksgiving dinners sound :Yum: , I am drooling :v8v: Tonight we are going out with 10 friends to celebrate my friend Ellen's 75th birthday. It's our regular Italian restaurant but after reading all the menus, I'd rather have turkey and all the trimmings.

It's the first night I have been out since my kidney stone episode 10 days ago, it's still there and I feel I am sitting on a time bomb waiting for the little devil to make its exit. The restaurant is close to home so if I have to leave suddenly , it won't be a problem.

Enjoy your evening everyone :Hugs:
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Carole, enjoy your evening!

One item I used to make for Thanksgiving that I am skipping this year is creamed onions. DH doesn't like them and I think we have more than enough to eat. rofl
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PENNY....Thanks for I.D. on what I thought was some kind of strange gourd. I looked up the Trumpet Vine...yes...what I picked are indeed the seed pods. The plant itself was growing in a heap on the ground...in the wild. No water around to speak of either. I looked it up...and YES! IT IS VERY POISONOUS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datura

http://www.ehow.com/list_7688802_dangers-datura.html

CAROLE...Hope all goes well for you tonight to enjoy the celebration and hope too that little devil leaves you over the next few days. :X: :Hugs:

Thanks Cruzers for sharing your menus and/or the specialtes you are preparing to take to friends homes for Thanksgiving . :)^

Time to go set our Dining Room table for tomorrow...but it still may be the deck table instead. We shall see how correct the weather forecast will be.
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Karen, my first Thanksgiving here in New Mexico (I was a grad student) I invited two fellow grad students over. I cooked a traditional dinner - in an apartment size, two burner stove! We ate on my balcony because it was so warm that year. I also had an apartment size refrigerator so my friends had lots of leftovers to take home.

One of the guests insisted on bringing the pumpkin pie since my oven was so small. She had never made one before and did not properly clean out the pumpkin. She just cut it up and cooked it - seeds and all!! It was the worst pie we had ever had. Even now, 37 years later, we all laugh about that disastrous effort at making a pumpkin pie. rofl rofl
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I am going to get ready for dinner. DH is making flautas, refritos, and guacamole tonight. :Yum:
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:}^ Everyone!

Traditional for us too.

Will be just DH and me, once again this year....

cutting waaaay back on food here.

Just an antipasti salad followed by the Turkey, stuffing, sweet potato casserole (with peaches and cashews,) swiss (cheese and buttered crumbs) corn bake casserole, butternut squash, mashed potatoes (made with an added dollop of cream cheese) and gravy and cranberry.
For dessert three pies: pumpkin, squash and pecan.

I have learned one thing, it takes just as long to prepare a holiday meal whether it's for two or more! :hair: All the prep work is very time consuming, and of course the baking/cooking times don't really change either....

FYI: The price and rarity of pecans was mentioned earlier, but I was able to buy a pound of whole pecans for $6.99 on sale, no shortage here...


BTW: I just learned that one slice of pumpkin pie (1/8 of pie) equals 300 calories :8O: Guess I will have to call that lunch in the following days :<::
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Holiday party fun-
https://www.youtube.com/embed/TX9EAavxrus
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Linda that is quite the menu...where exactly did you cut back? :D :lol:

Jill the jello sounds really :Yum: I enjoyed the party song especially since I was referenced too rofl
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