Prepairing for a Thanksgiving Feast
 

My parents make thanksgiving dinner, and only a few people go. Much nicer than giant affairs I've been to in the past.

We usually have some turkey and some ham...and I actually like the ham better. Yum, yum.

Thanksgiving is already done here, but my favourite thing is usually the cream cheese/sour cream mashed potatoes with Parmesan cheese baked on top. They make an appearance at Christmas, too. Dressing is good too, though my dad tends to fiddle with it each year so it's somewhat unpredictable.

It is my favorite holiday because I get to cook my tail feathers off.

I like to bake a turkey, make pumpkin pie, mashed potatoes, super amazing gravy, apple whip cream salad, regular salad, and rolls. My grandma likes to add in yams.

As a vegetarian, I get a lot of people telling me that I probably hate Thanksgiving. Not so! I love mashed potatoes and cheese, I love rolls with homemade honey butter, I love the various vegetable casseroles because they are usually loaded with cheese. And I love cheese balls and fancy crackers. I love cheese. And I LOVE PIE SO MUCH. (Except pumpkin pie. But pumpkin cheesecake is good. Why is pie the only terrible pumpkin-flavored dessert?!)

There are certainly lots of wonderful non-meat things in thanksgiving.

And cranberries everywhere. Yum, cranberries. :D

There definitely are! Plus it helps that I still eat eggs/dairy, so I can have all the fattening sweets. :3

And yesss, why are cranberries so delicious? D: I hated them as a kid (probably because of Crasins) but now they're so awesome.

I always loved cranberry sauce during thanksgiving. So wonderous.

Crispers has these excellent sandwiches with cranberries, turkey, and apples, and oh my god. The best.

Me too! My extended family sucks at making turkey, so a couple of years ago they made the unanimous decision to only serve ham (since that's what everyone eats anyway).

-salivates heavily-

I can confirm that Glitch makes the best turkey in the whole damn world. -salivates more-

Cheese is the best food.

Other than the dinner...don't really know. Grandparents/family have sort of stopped wanting to get together for the most part.
In the past there has been a mix of Scallops, Turkey, Pumpkin Pie (what do you do with old Halloween Pumpkins?), etc.

My plan is to study this break for finals.

My family still has some pumpkins, it takes forever to make pumpkin pies. I made some last year, they turned out really good.:f-pumpkin:

I should take some time to study as well. I haven't got to studies but i had some art projects I needed to get done for an independent study class so I've taken time to work on those. :f-smile3:
Thanksgiving for one side of the family tends to be similar to Christmas, however, this year it maybe different since they are going to have Christmas at my parents house instead of grandparents.
I'm not sure what to expect since I'm used to my mom being lazy and not cooking or her having one of my sisters cook.:f-dizzy:
Though, if my father cooks it the food should be really good. :f-please:

If you guys want to pay for me to come to your house, i will bake your turkey. ;)

Aw man. My Thanksgiving meal is going to be Spaghetti O's and probably a shot of vodka before I have to walk in to work for a 12 hour shift on freaking Thanksgiving. Hate this time of year. Anyway, back when I could taste I would pretty much hijack the whole bowl of cream corn. I loved cream corn. Still kind of do. And rolls. oh, the rolls. Everything else was meh. Granted I didn't like being around my family, 95% of them were very redneck, so it was hard to sit and eat and socialize about things I didn't care about (Oh boy, you killed a deer, it had a lot of points, ah-mah-zing. You slathered animal piss all over you and sat in a box for hours in the cold, you know how to pick a good tiiiime). Being an adult, I no longer have to go, so I can have whatever! Pasta, reheated pizza, cake, bitter regret, someone else's cooking, dressing, tacos...

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! :D

Except for you, Salone. You get hopping on your duty to give the good people fabulous pre-black-friday deals. D:< Just kidding I hope that your day is less unbearable than you expect it to be. <3

I'll hate it until I get there. I get a thrill from working the crowd. I enjoy pushing their buttons and getting them excited. I'm a showman, and it's days like this where I get to prove that instead of being swept away by a torrent of people I can direct and control it. I hate people but love a crowd.

Times like this make me happy that im Canadian....when thanksgiving is over we have like another 2 months give or take some days before Christmas so enough time to tolerate family again lol Plus then I dont get sick of so much turkey lmao

Meh, I just ask if they were good sportsmen and used bows, if they thanked the deer for giving them their food, and if they plan on using the entire thing (friend of mine is rather talented at stuff like tanning hide and all...may talk to them about the vellum process I learned in Medieval Studies if I ever see them) or if they were lazy disrespectful folk using those easy weapons.

I wish that was what my family talked about. Grandparents are rather fixated on talking about (dad gum Muslims, Blacks, Gays, Indians, Amerindians, Democrats, etc.) around here. That, and Grandfather distorting family history to suit his views.

Er, Law...there is nothing 'disrespectful' about those easy weapons. In fact a bow is most likely more disrespectful. Firearms are generally a much quicker and clean kill. An arrow might seem more majestic and requiring more skill, but it is incredibly painful and takes a lot longer to kill, the animal has to bleed out. It's even worse for them if the shot misses and does not strike the heart or another vital organ. Sometimes they get away entirely, and die a very slow agonizing death over the course of several hours or days.

I don't agree with hunting in today's modern era unless it's a legitimate off the grid or survival thing (I have been to too many deer camps and piles of unused deer carcasses, let me tell you how nightmarish it is to be thrown in to one), but if you're going to kill a poor bastard, do it quickly and cleanly.

That sentiment certainly wouldn't go over well up here. There's more to hunting than what weapon you use. While I imagine this isn't all true, the general attitude up here is that bow users are the yuppies of hunters that sit in their tree-stand with a cup of coffee and wait for something to wander by or follow the lure they put down. Meanwhile, the big-game hunters are up at dawn, tracking animals over mountains and across rivers etc, and waiting for the right moment to shoot (and 99.9% of the time you only get one shot). Then you need to process the carcass and get as much meat and such as you can and high-tail it out of there before the bears show up to claim what's left. (I'm not a hunter myself, this is what I hear.) What makes someone a hunter is more how they go about it than what weapon they choose.

Back to Thanksgiving...

Alternate meals we've had have been Taco Pizza, and swapping out the turkey for turkey burgers. I had intended to make an easy dinner with my sister, but she figured may as well have all the rest of it, too, so we had dressing, candied yams, cranberry sauce, and some kind of Jewish loaf that I forget the name of.

(Apology)



Taco pizza sounds interesting. Is salsa paste involved?

Yeah, hunting in an area where the animal can't escape, or just shooting things for fun is not considered "real" hunting up here.


Salsa, yes. Basically just a pizza, but with salsa mixed in with the sauce, cheddar cheese, taco meat, and then serve with shredded lettuce, sour cream, etc. on the side.

Our turkey isn't cooking right.
The top is cooked moist/a little dry.
The bottom is still pink and uncooked. To have it cook longer will make the good part dry.
Blaah. Damm turkeys not cooking right.

You should have had me come cook it for you!

I make the best turkey, and turkey gravy.

I will take before and after pics!

Sounds like you needed to put the turkey lower in the oven.

My dad swears by the Alton Brown method. You can probably find it online somewhere. Pretty reliable.

there's my turkey!

i love the alton brown method but my motherinlaw 'treated' us this year since i cool all the meals, sadly it was all from a grocer, they charged 80usd for chemically tasting food and the pecan pie made me throw up x_____x

I want to inject flavoring into the turkey and come up with awesome concoctions.

I always wanted to make a dumpster turkey as well....

No idea what a "dumpster" turkey would be.

We did deep fry one, one year. It was good. Kind of scary to cook, though.

dont people lose fingers? XD i've always stuffed the skin and baked it regular when i do birds(though a tom is a lot bigger than a hen for sure)

I'm confused. Why does choco have a turkey?

there is a bit of a story to that..... http://trisphee.com/forums/showthrea...02#post1672502

I noticed, but it took a sec. I was out of the loop for sometime and I'm still seeing things that I had no idea were created. Thought it might have been one of those.

oh, gotcha XD no the turkey is pretty darn fresh hahaha


so how are you? did you do a thanksgiving thing?

Trash can turkey or whatever you call it.

Basically you cook a turkey in a upside down trash can. They cook fast and are very juicy and crispy. But require practice to make.

sounds dangerous XD and arent trashcans expensive?

Not that I know how to cook any sort of meat, but, I can't even figure out how to cook a turkey in an upside down trash can. o.O I'll stick to my crock pot mashed potatoes. Can't mess up a crock pot recipe! Unless you don't start cooking on time. .... >.>;;

if you can use a crockpot you can cook meat<3 would you like a recipe for pulled beef?