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I CAN NOT wait for turkey day YUMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We have been discussing the idea of a rolled turkey breast. Only problem, we both like sandwiches on rye bread with stuffing and cranberry sauce. Cranbelly jelly as the GDs refer to it!! Still might get a rolled turkey breast. I love them deep fried but DD doesn't--nor smoked. I am going to just have to teach this girl what is good eating. Sometimes I wonder if she really was raised by me and her Dad in regards to her likes and dislikes about food. LOL

Well Maid M.... at least she's eating!!!! For that you should give THANKS!!! Lolol!!

Now I am starving!!! Thanks everyone--up til now food hasn't sounded very good. Off in search of something good to eat!!!!

Afternoon all…..Having our monthly lunch with some of the Church ladies today…going to our favorite Teriyaki place.

Donna, hope it works out well for you and the kids……….my daughter and son in law now have custody of his little girl…..the best thing that ever happened to the child.

BJ, glad the meds are helping

Deborah, continued prayers for Lisa…

Marion glad to hear you are feeling better, you take good care of yourself.

Kathy will keep your daughter in our prayers…..we have friends who have gone through this situation (she left him for another woman)….and we did laugh when we first heard about it…..and tell your daughter it is not her fault, studies are showing that is something they are born with and there really is nothing either of them can do to change that. Just let her try and deal with things on her own if that is what she wants and let her know you love her and are there if she needs you…….(((((hugs))))) to all of you.

Welcome Sheila!!!

Tia Tina, give that boy a big hug for us!!

Need to get some things done before I leave for lunch….catch up with you later..

I will when he gets home from school. Then he will want to pet the new chicks!!!!

Dang it I want Turkey now and I only eat dressing/stuffing that I or my mom makes. I will not get it from a store, do not want to get sick.

Perhaps we could swap our favorite turkey dressing recipes here?
Would love to read what you all put in yours.

Okay, time to get busy..
for you sistahs...
"The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you."

ummmmmmmmmmmmmm I want Thanksgiving this week!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let me think, it is cornbread, chicken stock(homemade) onions, celery, boiled eggs, bread crumbs (homemade) raw eggs, I have them now fresh, it has been since last year since I made it, no actually I didnt my grandma made the dressing last year.

But taht is the basics that I do, and it is like stew, just thow in everything but the kitchen sink.

Wow well had a friend call me from the driveway and missed a bunch of posts... Great news is I did her sons haircut so that was a bit of money for the day. Also she makes fresh christmas wreaths and she needs help 50/50 split and the trimmings are free.. She gets thenm every year and since I know shipping I can offer them for sales and ship them next day.. So theres another avenue.. Didnt get to windows today but will be making wreaths starting probably thursday...

Doe hopefully the doctors can get you back in shape..

About my DSD's well Ithink you all are right.. Unfortunately their mother is not the best umm I really cant think of a nice way to put it.. She has 4 other children, with other men, living with a guy who isnt supposed to be around the girls via the courts, has other people living their and all she does is party leaving the twins do clean up after her friends. It gets my blood boiling mad when I hear what they are going through. They botgh asked me again last night if they were the reason that their dad left... Uuggghhhh Im hoping all things work out ere and we can get prepared for what I see comming.. They will be 11 on april first and they know at 13 they can decided where they go so I am trying to gather and wrap my brain around what is happening...

Well need to run to the store before I get tristen from school. Will try to stop back in later and catch up on anything I missed..

Bear Huggs
Donna

May Your Stuffing Be Tasty,
May Your Turkey Be Plump,
May Your Potatoes and Gravy Never A lump,
May Your Yams be Delicious,
And Your Pies Take the Prize,
And may Your Thanksgiving Dinner,
Stay off Your Thighs!!!!

Grandma's Cornbread Dressing:

The night before... cook 2 iron skillets of cornbread... leave wrapped in kitchen towel overnight. Then, put 8 slices of white bread in the oven while it's warm, to dry out overnight.

Brown 1 minced clove of garlic, 2 chopped onions, 4 stalks of celery in 1/8 cup of oil.
Boil 4 eggs, peel, and chop.

Crumble cornbread and light bread in large bowl. Add browned vegies, eggs, and 2 cans of chicken broth (turkey broth if your turkey is done yet).
Sometimes I put about a cup of pecans in too, but it depends on whose coming to dinner. One son doesn't eat pecans.
Mix well, and either stuff your turkey (half cooked), or spread in a 9 X 13" pan and cook till firm... about an hour.

I usually bake mine in a pan, not inside the turkey.

ALSO... when I roast my turkey, I open a can of beer the night before, and let it go stale... then I baste my turkey with the beer...
When I do that, I do not use the turkey broth to make the dressing... ewww it would ruin the dressing... but the turkey is to die for.

Ours is pretty much the same as BJ but you brown a pound of good pork sausage and add with the veggies, we use the raw eggs instead of boiled and add salt, pepper and a good bit of sage (the herb, not the grandchild)...!!!

Time for lunch, have to run!!!

Shame on you Sistah Cindy... have you been staring at my thighs!!! :O
Keep them recipes coming sistahs. I love collecting them.
BJ, if we had the mullah, I'll buy that neighbouring house right away!!! For some of that dressing.
Thank you Lord for copy and paste! Amen!!

OH, WOULD YOU SISTAH???? PLEASE !!!!!

Oops... yes, I did forget the sage... yep... can't forget the sage... (the spice)
Also forgot salt and pepper to taste... but we don't put sausage in it.

I was lost again.... :O(

BUT I'm found now!!

I missed pictures of Laura's rings, but saw her hubby's. Where do I go to see her rings...

I'm sorry Sis....snicker......can't help it.....

Joyce, Laura's ring was a few posts up from her hubby's... look up, sistah... look up !!!

Oops, edited to say look at thread #57.


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Well this southern gal bakes a pan of buttermilk biscuits hoping to have left overs to mix with the cornbread, onions, celery and garlic (goes in everything I cook) sauted until tender, eggs, thyme, sage (Not Trisha's GD) salt, pepper, chicken broth. Put in a large bowl and mix... don't know amounts!! Would put fresh oysters in pan for me and hubby as others don't eat oyster dressing. Ymmy but alas DD doesn't like them!!

This is mine via trial and error..

Large chicken, that had been boiled in water to which has been added your seasonings. Debone and shred the chicken and save the stock.
1 pound Jimmy Dean's breakfast sausage. (Love the one with sage. Love Laura's Sage too!)
5 eggs
2 chopped onions
2 chopped skinned bell peppers
3 chopped celery ribs and leaves
1 can cream of chicken soup
2 tsp. sage not Trisha's DGD
6 slices white bread cubed
2 tbsp. cooking oil
1--- 9 X 13 inch pan cornbread that has been crumbled.

Brown sausage, add the oil and saute your veges.
Then combine them in large mixing bowl with your deboned shredded chicken, cream of chicken soup, eggs. white bread and cornbread and your seasonings. Add broth till you can stir the mixture easily.
Pour into greased Dutch oven and bake at 300 for about 1 and a half hour or until center of dressing is firm.

You can sub cream of mushroom instead of cream of chicken.. but Kel prefers chicken.

One year, I didn't prepare the cornbread first. Instead I just mix in Martha White cornbread mix, add the extra liquids and eggs and all the above.. turned out okay.

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I can see we will be have several pans of dressing come next Thursday!! Gotta try them all.

Lol Marion!! I'm gonna try one with oysters and baste the turkey with stale beer.
This time I'll have a very delicious excuse should the pastor see me with beer at the check-out counter!

Laura and I never could figure why they mess up Thanksgiving dinner with Turkey and veggies......we could do with just a big plate of stuffin, giblet gravy and cranberry sauce!!!

I make mine almost the same way, but I put extra eggs in my cornbread, then I add the sauteed onion and celery, (if I have it) chopped eggs and mix well. Add chicken broth and mix again and bake. My daughter rubs her turkey with a stick of butter and adds garlic salt all over the turkey, and inside! We usually try to habe a baked ham, too.
Do y'all make giblet gravy? I just make a roux, add chicken broth till it's thin enough, add turkey parts shreded, and sliced boiled eggs. Add salt and pepper to taste.
We do English pea salad, green bean casserole, potato salad. Oldest daughter makes a cake. I might make pumpkin pies, if they want them. Oh, don't forget the cranberry sauce!
Christmas, she makes 2 or 3 cakes!

What do you all do for cranberry sauce?

Know of this Filipina gf that rubbed cinnamon powder over the turkey, plus soy sauce.. then let it sit in the fridge for a day, before she bakes it. Quite original but delicious skin.

Most of the family like the canned cranberry sauce....I love my MIL's relish made with cranberries oranges and walnuts!!! So, we usually have both!!

That's a coincidence, Trisha. I normally heat up the cranberry jelly and add some orange juice to give that tangy flavor.
Never had cranberry relish.. must be good.. especially with walnuts.

Ooops I did it again!!
Sorry.. I meant to write Trisha, not Laura :D

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Its great ! She takes cranberries, oranges, nuts and sugar and runs it through the processor...I 'll have to see if I can get her recipe.

Definitely make cranbelly relish here!! Canned for the little girls but daughter makes the relish with the oranges and nuts in some and some with out. Nope she doesn't eat nuts either. Stange child I tell you.

Trisha, I am in total agreement--just a plate with dressing (stuffin if from the South) with giblet gravy and cranberry relish! Just step away and leave me be--pick me up when I start to moan and groan please! We have scalloped zucchini-using yellow crookneck and zucchini, green beans, baked sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes if son if present only, macaroni and cheese (if Grandpa was still living ) for youngest GD!! Got to have their mac and cheese!!!! Also copper pennies-carrots, rolls, pumpkin and pecan pie. Pass the roll aids please!

Geez, my pork roast isn't sounding so good now. Oh well, it is stuffed with tons of garlic so when I get ready to have dinner I am sure I will be hungry.

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"Copper pennies" Marion?? Are those edible??
I'm ready with my plate for that roast pork. Yummy... sometimes I'd just put whole cloves of garlic in soup.. delicious.

Marion sound great! My daddy's favorite story was Diamond Jim Brady....he'd sit down six inches from the table....when his belly hit the table he was finished eating!! That is what I FEEL like after Thanksgiving Dinner!

I had never used fresh cranberries. Wouldn't know what to do with them...

Gee.. answered my own curiosity.. found this, how simple it is!!! Must remember to wait till the cranberries pop.

FRESH CRANBERRY SAUCE

4 c. (1 lb.) fresh cranberries
1 c. sugar
1 1/2 c. water

Mix cranberries, sugar and water in large sauce pan. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly. Watch sugar dissolve. Bring to a boil and boil 5 minutes or until cranberries begin to pop. Serve warm or cold.

Cranberry sauce.............................open up a can and it looks pretty on the table. I have even made it fresh no takers.

LOL... me too Tia Tina... I felt really domestic one year and decided to make my own sauce... it was truly awful... everybody seems to like the canned, so that's what we get... hey, there's plenty other stuff to cook besides that.
We used to always have string bean casserole until one year that was my dish to bring ... and I made string bean bundles instead... well, that's all they want now... so, we just changed the tradition to suit us.

Turkey, Dressing, String Bean Bundles, Jiffy Corn Casserole, Yeast Rolls (homemade, or not), fruit salad, and pies... and we call that a Thanksgiving meal.

I agree... I always make more dressing than I know we'll eat... cause that's my favorite of all the left overs... dressing, cranberry sauce, rolls (or crackers), and fruit salad.... can't beat that for lunch any day after a holiday.

Well... I thought I was going to get out of cooking Thanksgiving this year... but we just found out that Don has that Wed and Thurs off now... so, guess I'll do the cooking for us, and maybe two of my sons... *GRIN*...

Yep, the Jiffy Corn Casserole is going to become a regular for us....Sage even likes it...and that child doesn't like much!! (that isn't all sugar that is).

Jaye, copper pennies are marinated carrots that are served cold and like a salad. Very good. I will see if I can get the recipe and post it here. We usually just keep some in the frig as they are a good snack.

Girls, I just got a call from my heart DR.S nurse. My tests were a little abnormal, and Dr. Korbin wants to discuss them with me and then we'll decide where to go from there. Scarey! I go next Wed. to see him. I'll probably go from there to the girls house. I'm a little worried, I really didn't there was anything wrong with my heart!

Audrey you take care, we will keep you in our prayers and hope that it is nothing serious...

TY