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Re: What's for Thanksgiving?
By: northbayteky Date: November 19, 2021, 6:02 pm
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Am I allowed to while about Thanksgiving here?
Too bad, I'm gonna whine anyways ;-)
So originally it was going to be the two of us empty nesters,
our son and his girlfriend. I had a conversation with my sister
up north and invited her. Well, she invited her friend Larry,
her daughter and her daughter's two sons. !!! I should have
said "Let me think on that one." But I was so surprised I just
rolled over. Mr said no, that's too many people. So I called her
back and said no, Daughter, her sons and their girlfriends will
be too many people.
After giving it some thought, it sounded like she was just
planning to have a party at my house. And she did sound a little
disappointed that I was not playing along.
Yesterday I saw my son, who at least asked if his girlfriends
parents can come also, since all their kids will be having TD at
their in-laws.
Now I'm kinda hoping my sister decides not to make that long
drive.
I'm not a stick-in-the-mud and I normally like having lots of
people for TD. The difference is I like to invite who I want to
invite.
Now that I think of it, I have another sister who has done this
to me. I invite her, she brings some of her kids. Who were
adults. One of them had several kids of her own.
#Post#: 43904--------------------------------------------------
Re: What's for Thanksgiving?
By: animaniactoo Date: November 19, 2021, 6:08 pm
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How do they treat it if they invite someone and that someone
assumes an invite for a bunch of other people?
#Post#: 43908--------------------------------------------------
Re: What's for Thanksgiving?
By: northbayteky Date: November 19, 2021, 6:27 pm
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Not sure a bunch of people want to go to their houses.
:-0
I think my sister in the north wants to see her daughter who
lives about an hour from me. But her daughter doesn't want to
make the trek north.
#Post#: 43953--------------------------------------------------
Re: What's for Thanksgiving?
By: Queenie Date: November 20, 2021, 6:51 am
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Oh dear.
I've been known to ask if I could bring a straggler to a big
Queenie clan thing but this seems like a lot under the
circumstances.
#Post#: 43979--------------------------------------------------
Re: What's for Thanksgiving?
By: TwoASAPsAgo Date: November 20, 2021, 8:00 am
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[quote author=northbayteky link=topic=499.msg40076#msg40076
date=1636578250]
I haven't really even thought of the menu yet. Also, we don't
know if anyone else is coming. My son and his girlfriend are
with us this year since last year was her parents.
Our typical menu:
Turkey (fresh, hopefully,) if we feel spendy we'll go to
Woodland and get the Brannigan's turkey.
(
HTML https://branigansturkeyfarm.com/)
Stuffing
fresh cranberries
And some other stuff. In years past my daughter would make the
sweet potato casserole, I would also make a pumpkin cheese cake,
and of course pumpkin pie.
We have given up potatoes, so I'm not sure what we're doing
about mashed potatoes. Mr makes a killer gravy. Maybe I'll mash
sweet potatoes.
[/quote]
I used to go to a restaurant in NYC that makes mashed
cauliflower, and honestly I love it way better than mashed
potatoes. I don't have a recipe, but I'd bet you can make it
the same way.
#Post#: 43981--------------------------------------------------
Re: What's for Thanksgiving?
By: TwoASAPsAgo Date: November 20, 2021, 8:05 am
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[quote author=Queenie link=topic=499.msg43629#msg43629
date=1637344501]
I am musing about how I'm not really so much a pie fan exactly
and that what I really want to do is convert all of these to
bars: Key lime bars, pecan pie bars, and even (ugh) pumpkin pie
bars with gingersnap base. The only changes I'd really have to
make is to switch the pecan base to shortbread and probably
tweak the amounts to fill a 9X13 pan.
[/quote]
I love pie, but the bars sound great too!
Do you do anything special for the puppy for Thanksgiving?
It'll just be me and the puppy for his first Thanksgiving, and I
was thinking of just making some pumpkin-based treats or adding
a little roasted turkey and a couple of cranberries to his
dinner.
#Post#: 43988--------------------------------------------------
Re: What's for Thanksgiving?
By: northbayteky Date: November 20, 2021, 8:21 am
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[quote author=Queenie link=topic=499.msg43953#msg43953
date=1637412680]
Oh dear.
I've been known to ask if I could bring a straggler to a big
Queenie clan thing but this seems like a lot under the
circumstances.
[/quote]
Oh yeah, a straggler, or two even, no big deal. But "Hey, I'm
bringing my whole family, all 6 of us!" GAH!
When we both worked on base we would invite single airmen, or
women for Thanksgiving. Families have done the same for us. I
spent Thanksgiving in basic training and military Families
invited airmen for dinner. It was an organized thing, not
organic like inviting single coworkers like we did. So we had no
qualms about it.
#Post#: 44011--------------------------------------------------
Re: What's for Thanksgiving?
By: Queenie Date: November 20, 2021, 9:25 am
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[quote author=TwoASAPsAgo link=topic=499.msg43981#msg43981
date=1637417152]
[quote author=Queenie link=topic=499.msg43629#msg43629
date=1637344501]
I am musing about how I'm not really so much a pie fan exactly
and that what I really want to do is convert all of these to
bars: Key lime bars, pecan pie bars, and even (ugh) pumpkin pie
bars with gingersnap base. The only changes I'd really have to
make is to switch the pecan base to shortbread and probably
tweak the amounts to fill a 9X13 pan.
[/quote]
I love pie, but the bars sound great too!
Do you do anything special for the puppy for Thanksgiving?
It'll just be me and the puppy for his first Thanksgiving, and I
was thinking of just making some pumpkin-based treats or adding
a little roasted turkey and a couple of cranberries to his
dinner.
[/quote]
LCP will accompany us to the Queenie clan Thanksgiving. This
will be a huge pain for me but she will love it. Her doggy
cousin will also be there and hijinks will ensue.
#Post#: 44141--------------------------------------------------
Re: What's for Thanksgiving?
By: Queenie Date: November 20, 2021, 8:31 pm
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Welp, the big 'do is off because, coronavirus. So I guess I'll
have to drink all this wine myself!
I guess I'd better buy some dinner ingredients.
#Post#: 44142--------------------------------------------------
Re: What's for Thanksgiving?
By: guest114 Date: November 20, 2021, 8:43 pm
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Yep, a friend got invited to see family instead, so I'm
cancelled as backup thanksgiving and I'm REALLY glad for her.
SO is still sick so I told SO our thanksgiving is postponed
until he's better. No use having it if he's too sick to have
pie and enjoy it. I'll make him soup tomorrow again (I have
plenty of turkey broth in the fridge.)
Picked up plenty of canned veggies & fruit, dry milk, oatmeal,
etc... and I basically could eat my stores bare through March if
I really had to (I probably will replenish with fresh veg and
onion as needed.)
I mean, I have like 10+ lbs of various legumes stored away,
etc. Also picked up some lamb. And suddenly I really, really
crave diet Dr. Pepper which of course I did not get. So I'll get
that and cranberries another day.
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