YA READY FOR YOUR TURKEY DINNER?

xps to crut: sliced real thin, Tofurkey and its wild rice stuffing was better than any actual turkey I ever had

I am going to be drinking a lot and trying to shoot down any dumb attempt my bigoted grandfather makes at trying to provoke everyone w/ his stupid conservative views

having my first ever thanksgiving tomorrow, surrounded by ilx0rs

My former carnivore father-in-law just went vegan last month, so I can't even bring my vegetarian meatloaf recipe that usually wins people over.

I'm ready for furtive nips of liquor though. All the nips...

booze has been a great addition to family thanksgiving, esp as my sisters have aged into legal drinking yrs (though i believe one of my sisters still burns one down before dinner somewhere in/near the house). it helps that everybody has a pretty pleasant buzz/drunk. my s.o. will be joining us which is nice, her family usually has a variable thanksgiving menu whereas we have literally the same things every year, all of which she loves (and which coincidentally her mother refers to, without realizing it's our tradition, as a 'white-trash' spread). looking very much forward to a four day weekend after a grueling series of high-pressure workweeks. gobble gobble

a couple years ago, I went to a vegan thanksgiving ... someone made vegan chicken and DUMPLINGS! that was amazing and did not taste at all like faux-meat

tofu & DUMPLINGS! is incredible

Here is that meatloaf recipe, unnecessarily googleproofed by yours truly:

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For the first time in donkey's years, my sister will not be hosting a mega-family Thanksgiving at her house, because my brother-in-law just had knee replacement surgery and is convalescing. Our alternative plan fell through at the last minute, so this year's Thanksgiving will be a quiet, informal affair between my wife and I.

I am making pumpkin pies today, but there shall not be a turkey, nor any of the other customary dishes. We'll survive.

SPAGEDY

xxposts omg sic, that sounds like a fun time

enjoy the food parade!

sic, I guess you're at the big Seattle krewe get-together that I was lucky enough to join last year?

I'm doing the sweet potato casserole (for the extended family this time, not just for the three of us) and, as always, the deviled eggs.

Last Friday at a Friendsgiving do I made a wild rice and mushroom casserole and more deviled eggs.

Nothing really happens with Thanksgiving until the weekend in London, but I will be wandering down to a nearby bakery that does slices of pumpkin pie and coming home to have it with some kind of poultry, mashed potatoes and my wild rice/mushroom/sausage stuffing covered in all the gravy.

William - yep, looking forward to discovering what green bean casserole is, and if it's like all other American Thanksgiving foods, where they only get eaten once a year as desserts rather than whenever you feel like them, because they're nice.

Being in the US at pumpkin beer season for the last three years has been pleasant though.

I'm making sweet potato pie, I'm psyched

no, green bean casserole is for regular eatin

i love green bean casserole so much

i tried making a not-from-canned version & it was ok but not as good as the classic from-canned version

after a lot of cleaning, shopping, and cooking, we're just about ready to host 14 of the fam tomorrow ... we've done it so many times it's not as stressful as it once was, except for the unwritten rule that requires all guests to arrive early and stand in the middle of the kitchen chatting while we try to get the food on the table

SD, I advice leaning into Gramps' ear and yelling "WOULDYA LIKE A CHERRY PHOSPHATE?"

Heading over to the gf's parents for a long day tomorrow so I made liver pate for an appetizer. She is making mac 'n cheese and an apple tart.

I'm like 12th generation American, and I've never had green bean casserole.

Yeah, we've always done the green beans, but without the soup.

thanksgiving is disgusting and incredibly stupid and offensive. i'll probably just stay in my old bedroom and drink alone tomorrow and listen to prince or something. i don't celebrate the holocaust. i also don't celebrate thanksgiving.

So ... you gonna finish that stuffing?

lol so I just found out that we are *hosting* Thanksgiving on Sunday, not going to inlaws

D:

horses of different colors, galloping through my mind

Vegemitegrrl contemplates her options for whoever failed to tell her earlier about Sunday's arrangement:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dGfc0EVhOM0/U0YXPbRwKLI/AAAAAAAABV0/_qxWIshf60w/s1600/lucrezia-art-1.png

Apparently I was in the room when it was being discussed so I am unsure whether to kill self and/or loved ones

Kool Aid for Thanksgiving whaddya say

LITTLE BROTHER: So when you call a bacon and pineapple pizza a "Hawaiian," are you trying to be racist?
ME: Against who? Canadians?

MOM: What kind of crust will the kids eat?
ME: Whatever. Just nothing exotic.
LITTLE BROTHER: Oh? And what exactly is "exotic" on this menu?

Dude trolls me hard, gotta give him credit.

yall i got two sweet potato pies in the oven RIGHT NOW daaaaaaaaaamn

Kool Aid for Thanksgiving whaddya say

It was Flavor-Aid!

I was going to make my pumpkin pie tonight but i put my pastry in the freezer instead of the fridge & it needs to thaw overnight

shrug

Omg such inane babbling at the table, this is so boring! Next year I'm going to have friendsgiving and make all of the great things that *I* want to eat

Cribbage and chill now that the bird's in the oven.

^^^ suggested gay thread title

we took pumpkin pie and cranberry sauce to my kid's class today (in france) and it was the first time any of them had had either of those. pumpkin pie was a hit (like pain d'épices, one girl noted) but the cranberry sauce received more mixed reviews. too acidic, some complained. we also answered questions about the usa for about two hours, like "what's a NY taxi like", "how tall are the buildings in the usa" (they meant New York), "are the police nice there" (um, tricky one). they asked if jazz was a big thing in the usa (I think the teacher has been talking a lot about jazz) and they asked if there are a lot of celebrities in the usa, mostly so they could name ones they know (like will smith & marilyn monroe). oh and they asked if barack obama could stay president longer.

is green bean casserole something favored more by German-Americans than those of other ethnic ancestry? Is it a class thing?

omg that is too cute

my aunt and uncle moved, and now, as shorthand, refer to their old house by its street number: 420

For about 3 minutes, my throat closed up early in dinner. We think it was the oysters.

oh no, yikes

glad yr ok tho

I have never had any exp of food allergies. Very strange.

Could the chemo have upped your susceptibility?

no idea, hasn't before

weird

Wild board ragu, fois gras dressing, corn casserole -- this is dinner.

Wild boar

ALWAYYYYS

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SHIIIIIIINE

hello from the toilet