at an extended family thing. honestly could have done without the ukulele rendition of "Ring of Fire"
― lukas, Friday, 26 November 2021 01:40 (two years ago) link
oof
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Friday, 26 November 2021 02:01 (two years ago) link
update: that shit was good.
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Friday, 26 November 2021 02:02 (two years ago) link
update: prime rib cooked in the inlaws spare convection oven was outstanding
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 26 November 2021 02:21 (two years ago) link
My thanksgiving soundtrack consisted of the nieces tormenting me with Kidz Bop and me tormenting them with Bach harpsichord concertos. Now chilling to 99%-era Meat Beat Manifesto.
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 26 November 2021 02:48 (two years ago) link
Low key barnsgiving in my riding clothes. Steaks, lamb, shrimp, brussels sprouts off the grill plus mashed potatoes, pie.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 26 November 2021 05:00 (two years ago) link
sound on
Happy Thanksgiving Eve! pic.twitter.com/6at4sSVCCR— US Consumer Product Safety Commission (@USCPSC) November 23, 2022
― ꙮ (map), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 23:51 (one year ago) link
"Stand by your pan"
― nickn, Thursday, 24 November 2022 00:22 (one year ago) link
I love that this thread persists.
(I am ready for my ham and stuffing dinner.)
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 24 November 2022 00:42 (one year ago) link
On my way to Jordan to have falafel for T’day dinner.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 24 November 2022 00:59 (one year ago) link
This is my first year hosting a dinner that includes children
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 24 November 2022 02:06 (one year ago) link
we’re hosting a group of friends this year. already made the cranberry sauce, tomorrow i’m on turkey duty and also making apple cider from scratch. husband’s making a veggie entree (a wellington with mushroom filling). stoked!
― donna rouge, Thursday, 24 November 2022 04:33 (one year ago) link
It will be a sadly shrunken T'Day dinner for my wife and I. We don't have other family to spend it with this year, so it's just us. We're both exhausted and slowly getting over rampaging head colds with extra added chesty coughs. I intend to make a souflé, some baked potatos w/ sour cream, and brussels sprouts. For dessert a pumpkin custard with vanilla ice cream. It's sorta special without getting too complicated.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 24 November 2022 04:55 (one year ago) link
the food sounds like it will be lovely. hesling vibes to you both <3
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 November 2022 05:46 (one year ago) link
just me & mr veg tomorrow, my first diabetic thanksgiving but i’m rolling with it - brined turkey breast, greek horta (steamed greens salad w lemon dressing), roasted root vegetables, and my first attempt at making a sugar-free cheesecake we will eat well with puhlenty of leftovers
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 November 2022 05:50 (one year ago) link
At my parents for Thanksgiving and already tested negative twice for COVID due to oncoming cold. Happy happy to everyone. Making kale and radicchio salad with apples, dates, and candied pecans.
― The Bankruptcy of the Planet of the Apes (PBKR), Thursday, 24 November 2022 15:02 (one year ago) link
Just three of us today. Our daughter is bringing "Green Bean Something," rolls and deviled eggs. Cornbread dressing and (grated, never mashed) sweet potato casserole are prepped and ready to go in the oven here.
Best to you and your wife, Aimless. Thanks for being a mostly good borad of borads, ILX.
― DPRK in Cincinnati (WmC), Thursday, 24 November 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
it's almost Quorn time
― fleeting art that floats! (geoffreyess), Thursday, 24 November 2022 15:10 (one year ago) link
Heading to my cousin's around 6 p.m. He doesn't observe the Thanksgiving traditions: wild boar ragu, cream of mushroom soup, a veggie quiche, mac and cheese. I'm relieved.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 November 2022 15:18 (one year ago) link
Big line outside the Boston Market I just passed.
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 24 November 2022 15:29 (one year ago) link
much respect to fast food thanksgiving
― ciderpress, Thursday, 24 November 2022 15:32 (one year ago) link
Quorn for me too, had to adjust from our usual Tofurkey orb.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 24 November 2022 15:40 (one year ago) link
Best indeed to everyone needing to keep it low key for any reason. A little last prep here before heading off to the usual get-together...
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 November 2022 16:54 (one year ago) link
I laughed ...
Me and the grandkids and our annual Thanksgiving screening of Judgement at Nuremberg. pic.twitter.com/AWipXapb4i— Al Franken (@alfranken) November 24, 2022
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 November 2022 17:11 (one year ago) link
lmao
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 November 2022 17:16 (one year ago) link
lol
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 November 2022 17:20 (one year ago) link
Turkey's in the oven. Waiting for my guests. Hungry but want to save room for everything.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Thursday, 24 November 2022 18:37 (one year ago) link
Got Bugles. Got aerosol cheese. We’re all set.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 24 November 2022 19:04 (one year ago) link
My guests are on their way. Good thing--the turkey was done even earlier than I expected. Why do I keep taking Joy of Cooking at face value?
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Thursday, 24 November 2022 20:26 (one year ago) link
it's called the joy of cooking, not the truth of cooking
― ciderpress, Thursday, 24 November 2022 20:41 (one year ago) link
the “now how do i keep this thing warm” of cooking
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 November 2022 21:06 (one year ago) link
We never travel for Thanksgiving, since it's always been a pain, and instead usually impose on local friends to feed us. This year my mom flew out, though, so we're hosting, just us five, which is weirdly hard to cook for (especially with one vegetarian kid, and one picky kid, back from school, and a wife that doesn't like the festival of beige food that much to begin with). My solution was to order from our local gourmet sausage stand turned catering business, which does an incredible Thanksgiving feast. My wife was worried we'd have too much food, but I promised to eat all the leftovers. And then ... karma! Our good friends were set to go to San Diego for Thanksgiving when their teenage son tested positive for covid, so two of them had to stay behind, and the mom called a couple of days ago asking if we can spare some of our feast, since they literally had nothing prepared, let alone provisions purchased, and it's just the two of them. If ever there were a holiday designed to share food with others, it's this one, and it put all my over-ordering to good use! That and a third pie, an apple cranberry, that was gifted to us at the last minute from another friend. It's a true day of paying it forward.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 November 2022 21:22 (one year ago) link
man, three kids for thanksgiving is a different way to experience the holiday. two meltdowns, two of the kids won't eat anything but pie, one won't put down his ipad.
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 24 November 2022 21:58 (one year ago) link
The Brazilian cheese bread did not work out as hoped for.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 24 November 2022 22:18 (one year ago) link
man i am so bad at carving turkey lol. night was otherwise fabulous and full of insane amounts of food (each of our guests brought 2 or 3 dishes). one friend brought a karaoke microphone with her so that was our post-dinner entertainment
― donna rouge, Friday, 25 November 2022 19:05 (one year ago) link
I made way too much food for just the two of us but it was really good -- afterwards we busted out the bottle of Laphraoig quarter-cask and put on some Sinatra/Basie at the Sands and a lovely time was had by us
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 25 November 2022 20:40 (one year ago) link
Cornbread dressing is ready to bake. Now to figure out what to do with this (bone-in) turkey breast. I wonder if Instant Potting it would give it a rubbery texture.
― that's when I reach for my copy of Revolver (WmC), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 17:17 (five months ago) link
I've volunteered to bring cider and bread and this was accepted. (To my gathering, not to WmC's.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 17:19 (five months ago) link
You used to be able to kick a can in the street down to the store where you could find a small whole smoked turkey breast, unsliced. Now it's all presliced and you have to go to the deli counter in back and convince someone you really do want a hunk of one of those big'uns, unsliced.
― that's when I reach for my copy of Revolver (WmC), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 17:23 (five months ago) link
Probably going to do Thanksgiving vegetarian calzones
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 17:30 (five months ago) link
This is the first year where I've been aware that making dressing is actually like a multi-day affair, up to even a week
― active spectator of ecocide and dispossession (Eric H.), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 18:00 (five months ago) link
I was at the store yesterday gathering my own supplies and overheard two old ladies comparing notes on when they were going to make cornbread for their dressings and whether they used biscuits or "light bread."
― that's when I reach for my copy of Revolver (WmC), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 18:07 (five months ago) link
When I make stuffing it takes hours and all the ingredients are mixed in a three gallon bucket.
― steely flan (suzy), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 18:31 (five months ago) link
mr veg is currently in the process brining a turkey breast, then to be smoked on the barbecue :D tomorrow i’ll make a sugar-free cheesecakeday-of i will make brussel sprouts, green beans & cauliflower sides and that’s it! just the two of us this year
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 19:44 (five months ago) link
I am in charge of the Szechuan green beans, and have been ever since I swapped for those instead of green bean casserole three or four years ago
― active spectator of ecocide and dispossession (Eric H.), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 20:05 (five months ago) link
i’m making mary berry’s chestnut stuffing which is v easy apart from shelling the fucking chestnuts ffs
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 20:24 (five months ago) link
I've also grown into the habit of having a whole Greenberg smoked turkey delivered each year to the house that is specifically used to just make a lot of soup and stock and chili on my end to put into the freezer for down the road in winter. (But I'll make a bunch of stock from the actual dinner turkey too, just over at that house for folks there.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 20:59 (five months ago) link
I enjoy, perennially, that this thread exists.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 21:22 (five months ago) link
I just peel and lift stuff, and clean up. My wife and daughter in law are the kitchen geniuses. It's an effective division of labor.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 21:25 (five months ago) link
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― budo jeru, Thursday, 23 November 2023 15:59 (five months ago) link