maria i am the only one here who likes giblet gravy - pearl onions in a cheese chream sauce is a must as well. no turnips. pumpkin pie and apple pie.
Coffee Break #23 - Counting down to Turkey!
Giblet gravy, of course, is there any other on Thanksgiving???
That thread on the boiled eggs was interesting. Never had it like that but my dad was from New Orleans and made oyster dressing for the holidays. My mom used the giblets from the turkey in hers.
We always had potatoe salad too, with mayo, mustard and boiled eggs and diced celery. Had Thanksgiving at a neighbors and they put vinegar in their potatoe salad. Anyone ever had it like that? Does potatoe have an 'e' at the end?
jadajoy I have had potato salad with vinegar before but I like it with mustard better. Potato used to be spelled potatoe but no longer used. In Canada we used to spell it potatoue, well not really but we should have. In the the dahlianut dictionary one potato is a potat (with a soft "a") and 2 potats are potatii. Go ahead say it out loud...potatii. It's better than potatos.
'potatoe' spelling which caused such hilarity when Dan Quayle spelled it that way, is the second varient spelling after potato. It is not incorrect. Plural--try 'spuds'.
LOL! Does that also work for tomatii?
'taters works too
I put vinegar in my potato(e) salad
Like 57 states!
jada how did your dad make the oyster dressing? that i would like to try.
although maybe not with turkey and no hard boiled eggs either - i'd be banished to the shed for a couple days.
dnut when your dictionary goes to print i want a autographed copy please!
I like 'taters' too! I lie 'ii' for all the botanical plurals except garlic which is just always garlic which is funky weird. English is not very sensical: I goose, 2 geese so should be 1 moose, 2 meese; 1 caboose, 2 cabeese.
LMAO dnut! LOLOL!
wha..I really don't know. Because my mom was from Georgia and did most of the cooking, whenever he was in the kitchen making that NOLA food, we pretty much stayed out of his way. ( I wish I had paid attention thou cause he made a mean gumbo).I would think instead of adding the giblets just add the raw oysters and bake. I wouldn't use oyster dressing to stuff the bird thou.
I second the autograph copy :-)
mmmmmmm gumbo mmmmmmmm
Choose, cheese?
Good catch Victor! I have made a note that this must be corrected too! And what about 1 Snooze, 2 Sneeze :O
Booze, beeze?
1 booze, 2 beeze. 1 beeze, 2 booze. 'I will have a beeze pleeze" I LIKE IT ^_^
Beeze kneeze??
Beeze don't have kneeze but they do have armpits.
I know - I took a real nice pic of one and entered it in the contest and NOBODY voted for it! I went blind getting that shot.
I voted for that one ^_^ but I also voted for pics with hoses in them.
Hoses??
I cook turkey breasts instead of the whole bird - usually 2 for lots of leftovers. And I've been brining for many years now - makes the best, juiciest turkey that way. Giblet gravy too.
My son will be coming home on Wednesday next week, but told me he might be going to his girlfriends for dinner instead of here even though he doesn't like their cooking. So maybe just the 2 of us this year, so probably a lot smaller dinner. It will be only the 2nd time he hasn't been home for Thanksgiving dinner. Unless he talks Lindsey into coming here anyway.
Always a problem which house to go to. My son in laws mother is divorced, so she is willing to go wherever and it works very well for everyone.
Walmart is advertising you can do Thanksgiving for four for $20.00, including turkey, stuffing, potatoes , cranberries and pumpkin pie.
ordered sugar free pecan pie for thanksgiving. With butternut squash we won't need pumkin.
Love pecan pie! Surprisingly the Wlamart here has excellent pecan, pumpkin and sweet potatoe pies. 2 for 6.00. Crust is not the best, filling is wonderful.
I had a pecan pie once and loved it! Sadly, I have never had it since. Does anyone have a recipe? Last year I brought 3 pumpkin pies to Thanksgiving dinner, all different recipes. The one that won the taste test was the simplest to make. It was the recipe on the side of a can of condensed milk!
Just finished looking at all the winners of the photo contest. Wow!! Great job and congratulations to all the Northeast winners!!! Some of you that didn't win, know that I didn't know who you were, but voted for you because I loved your photos, then discovered you were my friends! I love it when that happens.
4 daughters
Three take turns hosting. Its always Pot-luck with Host doing the turkey and potatoes.
None of the Holidays are goung to be lavish this year.
Kids dont care to decorate a tree and 2 daughters dont have jobs.
Weeze, try the pecan pie from Delicious Orchards on Rt 34 in Colts Neck. Deeeeelicious!!! with a capital D.
sorry about your daughters being out of work Joann - i know the feeling - although we (me) will be decorating a tree and celebrating although gift sharing will be limited.
My two grandkids come the week after Thanksgiving to spend the night and help me decorate. We make a big party out of it. Tons of fun. Of course I get them some presents, but not a whole lot, but we just have such fun decorating.
It is horrible to be out of work, especially around the holidays. So sorry to hear that Jo Ann. Pot luck dinners are such fun. We just don't have enough people in our family. Although it is seeming to be a little pot luck, with Michelle saying, Mom, can you pick this up, Mom, would you bring some fresh veggies, Dad, can you make the rye bread dip.
Victor when sorting through my pics for the contest I noticed I am very ept at focusing on hoses rather than plants and alot of my pics have a hose in them. I supported the 'hose' photographers this year cuz I'm rooting for a Hose Catagory next year.
D-nut you crack me up.
Jo Ann, what field are your daughters in?
Weeze, I made a chocolate pecan pie last year that came out pretty good.
I always add orange rind to my pumpkin pies---I like white meat turkey---for one meal---I get sick of turkey pretty quick, so everyone goes home with lots of leftovers. Am baking a kugli---grated potatoes, onions, butter, evaporated milk, eggs----it's my favorite, but I only make it twice a year because the potatoes have to be hand grated...lots of ouches.
Kugli sounds delicious! Recipe?
This is cool. I love the show Timewarp.
http://www.flixxy.com/water-drop.htm
Kewl! Most interesting!
Makes you appreciate the leaky faucet a bit more.