LOL.....yeppers we just go to the back forty and hunts us a moose!! ;)
Happy Thanksgiving to our American Friends!
Our is:
Shrimp cocktails
Sweet Potatoes
Mashed Potatoes
Brussel Sprouts
Turkey
Stuffing
24 hour salad
cabbage rolls
baby peas and onions
Pumpkin/apple/Saskatoon pies
can't forget gravy and cranberry jam.......I don't pass on either the jelly/jam or the brussel sprouts!
This message was edited Nov 26, 2004 2:33 PM
24 hour salad, never heard of it. what is it.
I think our Thanksgiving dinner menus are very much the same as yours, Weezi. some like Pam, above, are a little fancier than others I can only imagine what Lynn's table looks like. But this little ole prairie gal has grown up with the Traditional turkey with stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, some form of vegetable dish, salad, rolls and Pumpkin pie for desert. And in my family, it was always "duplicate" for Chrsitmas except substituting, Mince Pie, Christmas Pudding with Hard sauce, and or Trifle for the Pumpkin pie.
Now my husband comes from a French Canadian (Saskatchewan) background, (and I never let him forget it!!) and his family always had this Tortierre (sp?) style of dressing instead of stuffing. It was made hamburger, pork sausage, bread crumbs, etc and was a thin consistency compared to stuffing. I made it for him a few times, and it's pretty good, but it just wasn't the same for me without that good ole cornbread or any variation there of, stuffing. He got used to it. LOL
24 Hour Salad
2 Eggs
2 tbsp granulated sugar
2 tbsp vinegar
2 tbsp pineapple juice
1 tbsp butter
pinch of salt
can of madarin oranges drained
14 oz pineapple pieces drained (reserve 2 tbsp juice for above)
1 cup seedless grapes
2 bananas sliced
2 cups small marshmallows
1 cup whipping cream
Beat eggs with spoon on top of double boiler. Stir in sugar, vinegar, pineapple juice, butter and salt. Cook and stir over boiling water until thickened. Chill thoroughly.
Add well drained mandarins and pineapple to chilled egg mixture. Add grapes, banana and marshmallows.
Whip cream until stiff. Fold into fruit. Chill overnight for 24 hours.
Jean Pare's recipe is very similar to my Grandmother's but Jean uses Fruit cocktail.
This message was edited Nov 26, 2004 3:20 PM
Our Christmas meal is also the same....except for the addition of the Mince Meat pie.
We got into shrimp cocktails when we had relatives from Newfoundland send us freshly canned Lobster every year for Christmas. Now it is more likely to contain the fake lobster and crab.....except the year our son went to P.E.I.
Sounds yummy, Pam! I love Shrimp Cocktail, and lobster, and crab, and scallops, etc, etc.
Sounds like a great salad, and I think we should have a seafood dinner when we're out here. I think there's a few of us that like seafood... One of these days I'm going to learn how to make the print in these messages bold and in italics.
Weez - check your calendar - I mean the hanging up kind from banks, hardware stores, grain elevators, charity organizations, etc. most have both Thanksgivings listed.
How about the Wharfside Eatery? In my mind I can still taste their Smoked Salmon Trilogy appetizer....mmmm.....
Edited to say oops, thought I was in the Canadian RU thread....never mind....(going to get something to eat)
This message was edited Nov 26, 2004 5:45 PM
Yummmm, that sounds delightful!
Weezi, our Thanksgiving is always the second weekend in October. Somewhere around the 12th of Oct every year. I don't know why "they" don't just pick one specific day like you do in the states.
Lilypon, your 24 hr. salad reminds me of the early years of my first marriage.. mid to late 60's. My DH (departed husband) & I would spend Thanksgiving day at my mother's house (they served an early mid-day meal), then off to his parent's where we would have a late meal (groan). I was so full after the mid-day meal that I welcomed my mother-in-laws 'salads'... we called them 'jello salads'. They are the sort of thing that we midwesterners (I'm a former hoosier from Indiana) brought to picnics, potlucks and family get-togethers. I've always loved that sort of thing, but I never make them at home.
OFG, my husband usually prepares the turkey. Usually, he puts the thawed turkey in the smoker and runs a couple batches of chips through it to give it a nice smoky flavor. It makes wonderful gravy, too. He makes what he calls 'Portugese Dressing'. Instead of sage, it is seasoned with cumin... quite good!
Everyone's Thanksgiving Day fare sounds wonderful! I'm a seafood fan myself. We live on the ocean, so we can always count on good seafood. Halibut is one of my favorites, though King Salmon is pretty great on the grill. I was pretty sure you didn't go out and shoot a moose for the holidays... good Lord, these websites should be ashamed. They can surely misrepresent people. Most people in the lower 48 still think we Alaskans travel by dog team and live in igloos!
OFG - they aren't any more civilized this side of the border. LOL The date here changes every year too. Always is the fourth Thurs. of Nov. They were smart in making a nice lo-o-ong weekend for lots of workind people and school kids and the biggest shopping day of the year! Gotta give em a hand for that! :)
Carol honestly I really didn't think you believed it......but I am sure some of our hunters may partake of some wild meat on Thanksgiving. :)
When we had more family around (Grandmother's large table had 15 adults and children sitting at card tables) we would have the tomato aspic and cucumber and pineapple jelly salad as well as ham too. :) I really miss those meals but our family isn't large enough for that big a feast anymore.
This message was edited Nov 27, 2004 1:01 AM
We really, really must have a seafood feast at the coast......I remember last time we were there The Cannery served Icelandic Lobster (very sweet and oh sooo very gooooood)!!
Weez I remember having Arctic Char when I was in Inuvik and it too was sooooo delicious!! :D (Had a good dinner but I'm drooling like the rest of you now)! :S
This message was edited Nov 26, 2004 11:14 PM
'Fresh' freshwater fish is so good. I once had grayling roasted on a stick over an open fire, and it was so sweet. We flew into a small valley outside of town, landed on a gravel bar, and hiked over to a small fishing hole. We had fresh coffee brewed over the fire, and the grayling. Sometimes simple is best.
I wish I had tried that as well....I arrived well after freeze up and I don't think any fresh water fish was on the menu then. I worked at the Mackenzie Hotel and the only other fish type dish I remember was homemade Clam Chowder. It too was really good! Had Reindeer for Christmas supper there...... felt like crying when I ate it!
It's funny how food can bring back such memories... even the smell of a certain dish can be a trip down memory lane!
I read somewhere that smell is the most powerful sense for evoking memory. Whether or not it is true; I agree.
Laura, I really didn't know that!.I thought your Thanksgiving was November 25 every year! Goes to show, what do I know, huh?
Lilypon...I love Lobster!!!! But don't think I could ever eat Rudolph. Tsk Tsk.
Speaking of memories of food, yesterday when we were talking about Thanksgiving and Chrsitmas dinners, I didn't even need the smell; I just couldn't get the "taste" of Roast Turkey out of my mind. Yummm
I wasn't happy about it either Donna. The person that purchased it had a weird sense of humor.
Speaking of weird sense of humor, the syndicated news was running a story over the holidays about Jone's sodas. They came up with a Thanksgiving gift packet of five bottles of Thanksgiving Day soda pops. They included turkey, mashed potatoes, dressing, and some sort of veggy. The colors were weird, and from the look on people's faces, the flavors were pretty strange, as well. The set goes for around $15 US dollars of anyone wants one... probably on sale now!
I heard about that. Hard to believe. Sounds like a waste of marketing to me. Who'd buy them? Crazy!
Do you suppose they have any nutritive value? Do you think the unopened bottles will end up in a food bank somewhere? LOL!
lolol
OK, Pam! I made the CANDIED SWEET POTATOES OR YAMS last night for supper. It was a great...dessert! Don't ya think? I really enjoyed it, and will be eating it for a while 'cause the recipe made so much, but it reminds me of another marshmallow salad dish, Ambrosia Salad.
As I mentioned before, I'll be eating it for a few days, 'cause DH took one look at the recipe, stuck his nose up and I got one of these..."Well, I'll try a little bit, but I don't think I will like it! Ho Boy, now you know the outcome of that one, don't you? Like, why even bother, guy? Men, ya can't live with them and ya can't shoot 'em!
What - you're not allowed to shoot them! Oh my - have I broken some rule??
LOL.....yeppers it is a sweet one! Best to serve for a large gathering and only make one small casserole dish worth. Became a tradition years ago because in every generation some of kids really loved it....I happen to love turnip but many others don't.
First you have to spend a fortune to get the bullets tho..... ;)
LOL
Ambrosia salad... is that the one with fruit cocktail and whipped cream?
Yep, marshmallows and coconut too. I like it, but many others don't.
I just love all those old time salads... not all the time, but special for holidays! It takes me back to the time when meat was marbled and TV dinners came in an aluminum tray!
echoes
Dec 02, 2004
Don't remember what it was called, my Mom made a holiday salad with whipped cream, rice, marachino cherries and I think pinapple. Wish I could make a reasonable facimile.
Oh, yes! I've had that, Echoes! It was truly good! I wonder if there is a recipe on the web for it.
echoes
Dec 02, 2004
I'll look for one later, if I can find that recipe place where you just list some ingredients and they give you recipes with them. Right now I better get off here and park the vac in the middlw of the parlor and move some things around to look like I've done something today.
I recall having that too. Yummmm
LOL, now you're learning some of my tricks, Brenda. You know, it works too!