YA READY FOR YOUR TURKEY DINNER?

^^^^

made brisket and latkes last night for chanukah, my partner's mom is in charge of today, apparently turkey is involved

another three hours to go!

m bise yr menu sounds so harvesty and colorful

yum

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, November 27, 2013 4:42 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it was amazing, i ate all the tamales, this restaurant owns

they used blue masa, so fancy

!

We went to...
wait for it...

Cracker Barrel

boom

Had fish

DON'T PANIC I'M ENGLISH

I am full of all the t'giving things.

I ate tacos

so much leftovers :D :D

IT APPROACHES

I'm making a maple-pumpkin pie with pecan streusel (except instead of pumpkin I roasted and pureed a butternut squash and puree)
and also homemade cranberry sauce with orange zest, vanilla, and cinnamon

going to be with my family at our traditional thanksgiving getaway at Sanibel Island, Florida for the first time in several years, we will be picking up thanksgiving dinner from the supermarket, I'm pretty pleased.

Oh man, a few years ago I went to my dad's in Rehoboth and we ordered it too (there was OYSTER STUFFING!!!!) and we got sooooo baked and ate everything like the weird mud demon from Spirited Away

ordering food is the best

Will be hosting the family gathering (me, my sister, our mother, my sister's boyfriend, and his mother).

Turkey
Scallop and mushroom casserole (my sister doesn't eat meat or poultry)
Mashed potatoes
Turkey gravy
Mushroom gravy (to be made by my sister)
Stuffing or dressing or whatever you call it, I never ate it while I was growing up (to be made by my mother)
Brussel sprouts with chestnuts
Salad (not certain about this)
Pumpkin cheesecake (to be made by my sister)
Assorted pies (to be made by Ben's mother)

I've hosted similar Thanksgivings two out of the last three years. It's not difficult, but I'm not looking forward to the last-minute scramble.

All done with Thanksgiving in October over here, but going over to our American postdoc's place for dinner. Bringing a side dish, but don't know what yet as they haven't decided what they're cooking...

Nor'easter maximizing travel/planning panic in the BosWash Corridor!

Sunday NY Times featured hostage negotiators explaining how to talk to your family.

"amen."
…
"can you pass that over to - thank you."
…
…
"hmm. this is good.'
"can I have another one of those?"
…
…
"so."
"about those rioters in -"
"WELL ALL RIGHT! WE'LL SEE YOU ALL NEXT YEAR! BYE!"

Looking forward to never eating this trash bird again

It's our national trash bird.

i really want to spatchcock one of these fuckers.

garbage fowl

turkey is amazing and i look forward to eating it every year.

we will be picking up thanksgiving dinner from the supermarket, I'm pretty pleased.

we're doing this too -- it's a sort-of tradition whenever i don't feel like committing the time/expense/amount of dishes and pans to a homemade thanksgiving dinner with all the fixings. plus i'm supposed to be watching my weight so this keeps the leftovers to a minimum.

inlaws are buying the spread from wholefoods again this year

which would be fine, the food p dece except inlaws willfully ignore the fact that their oven is total garbage and has been for three years running now. i swear it take 9 times longer to reheat everything, and they get shitty with us for reminding them that it happens every year

but yay food & yay macy's parade :)

It's just the three of us, but I've decided to go traditional anyway - turkey breast, stuffing, brussel sprouts, macaroni and cheese, cranberry sauce. Then on Friday we're having leftover turkey, stuffing, and cranberry sauce sandwiches.

i made cranberry sauce for 20 for the office potluck and~ 5% of it got eaten. wtf do it with it? put it on turkey sandwiches?

i meant "wtf do i do with it"?

That would work, but you'll get sick of it before long. Do you bake? Maybe make some kind of tart with it.

the cranberry sauce never gets eaten. :-(

sick of being at thanksgivings that are too hoity toity for good old canned cranberry sauce (the best)

I am ready for stuffing, and laughter, and not being online for most of a day.

I'm a Thanksgiving orphan this year. Someone talk me out of making a completely OTT turkey mole.

no way man, you need to do that

double-down on the weird orphan-ness and go for it!

this is the only place I'm going to say this and i don't even know if I feel good about saying it anywhere but I'm pretty sure my thanksgiving is going to be bummertown usa and that being back home in our own place with mr veg afterwards will be the best part of the day

family gatherings are weird since my mother in law passed away; father in law has full dementia now and while he does know who we all are, conversation is almost impossible unless brief question/answers about mundane things like is the food good etc count as conversation... everyone just kind of pretends to be nominally okay with everything and we're all just waiting for the awkwardness to be over with

it's hella weird

and sad, just really sad

Ugh ugh ugh. Is he living at home w/caregiver or in a nursing home?

he's living at home with a caregiver who's with him 7am til 7pm, basically 7 days a week

my brother in law promised his mom before she died that he wouldn't put his dad in a nursing home -- he's a fire captain & former emt & has seen too much of the inside of those places to ever put his father there

but having him at home has been really tough on them.

when my grandma was still alive my parents hired a live-in caregiver for her, basically for the same reasons (and they didn't want some greedy nursing home to raid her bank account).

There are actually some really nice assisted living/memory care residences out there. Like, places I could actually picture myself choosing to live were I widowed/needed assistance/whatever. Most of them cost a fortune, however :(

My apartment smells of roasting turkey and browning butter. Maillard reaction FTW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf3mgmEdfwg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/1897843_10152460491886596_5263414207114717774_n.jpg?oh=50a11af7a0723ac39474f7d0ead89e43&oe=551F409F&__gda__=1427901391_acd738645865da118190c13da48f0565

mmmmm. Delicious.

inlaws bought the wholefoods thanksgiving meal & it was pretty goddamn delicious
those mashed potatoes are craaaazy rich and good
and we didn't have to wait 9 hours for it to reheat in their crappy oven -- mr veg bought digital thermometer setup, got the oven to temp & then set up the bird and it only had to cook for an extra 20 min

rest of my time there was kinda meh -- niece played minecraft on a laptop the whole time except for hellos, goodbyes and the meal; brother in law played Halo on the living room tv at full volume the whole time except for hellos, goodbyes and meal; sister in law sat and did whatever on her laptop
kicked myself for not bringing my book... I am sorry for insensitivity unpc-ness of this statement but RAGH they are such aspie weirdos sometimes!

today was great! we ate the t-day spread from gelson's (turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, yams, vegetables, cranberry sauce, dinner rolls) and some almond danish kringle. the turkey dinner is marketed being "for two" but we've managed to get afternoon and evening meals out of it and still have leftovers.

we streamed some of the mst3k turkey day marathon -- laserblast and the pod people -- and played scrabble, which i won. we just finished watching the huell howser documentary on kcet, which was good in kind of a softball, puff-piece way.