It's here! With maybe 20 min more effort, my kitchen will be ready for Baking Day!! I am making a Pumpkin pie and an Apple-Cherry pie as well. Then I am cooking the whole meal, a day ahead, with the exception of the mashed potatoes and peas. This way it will be easier to transport on Thursday morning and warm through in our son's oven. Minimal mess there and less to schlep.
Where will you be on Thanksgiving, and how are you spending the day? We will be at Root*Center*Son's house for the meal midday, then help him decorate his (first ever!) outdoor Christmas tree. In the evening, Eldest and PhD*Son are coming over with our three eldest grands for soup and wheat loaf, then pies and a bonfire!! Whoo hoo! There will be s'mores for those who like them.
All three of us will be at home. I have the day after TG off, too. Not a big turkey this time, only a fifteen-pounder. Good idea you have there, cooking ahead, listener.
The Nationalist's Delusion [Click] "Trump’s supporters backed a time-honored American political tradition, disavowing racism while promising to enact a broad agenda of discrimination."
I am STILL cleaning! Will have to quit soon or I'll run out of time for doing the pre-prep stuff I have planned. Ugh. I'm happy to do it, but fully intend to fall down in a heap when it's all over. Youngest grandson will remain here until Sunday night.
I'm serving turkey, ham, meatloaf, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, green bean bake, corn, stuffing, croissants, raisin sauce for the ham and turkey gravy. Pumpkin pie with LOTS of whipped cream for dessert. And then I'll fall down in a heap.
The cleaning is the part I hate. The cooking is fun and I makes lists and coordinate everything - what time it goes in, how long it cooks, how long I can keep it warm, etc. I wouldn't do it every day, but once in a while it's fun and it makes my sons and brother happy.
Puddle, I do that jellied cranberry sauce in a can too. Nobody ever eats it, but I put it out anyway because we've always had it on T-day since I was a kid.
Lol! I actually eat it, and like it. I've done better cranberry relish, but it doesn't *feel* like Thanksgiving. . . . Same with the "candied "yams"--boiled first, sliced with butter and sugar, hot enough to melt the sugar to brown. Fluffy sweet potatoes come from some other family, grin.
Today I baked two pies, Wheatloaf, stuffed Hubbard Squash, a Turkey breast (poor bird! 🦃 This may be our last Turkey year), Squash & Sweet Potato Soup, and carrots. Tomorrow we'll warm it all through and have peas and broccoli as well, pies a la mode and possibly s'mores around the bonfire. 🔥 Very much looking forward to Thanksgiving Day at Root*Center*Son's house!! Friday marks 6 months since he bought it!
Susan, I am pretty much in that heap! The only thing keeping me sane right now is that tomorrow the meal and the mess will happen at my son's house and not mine! Ha!
Donald Trump’s Eternal Feud With Blackness[Click] “In a presidency defined by its unpredictability, one of the few constants is the president’s eagerness to attack black people for failing to show deference.”
Women Exit the Party of Trump[Click] “After laboring for years to close the gender gap, GOP strategists are suddenly facing a gender chasm.”
I'm not surprised women leave the Cheetolini party. All they do is pass intrusive laws telling women what they can't do with their own bodies. And now that the creepy-crawlers are being exposed.......well, not the kind of thing to convince women you have their interests at heart.
It's here! With maybe 20 min more effort, my kitchen will be ready for Baking Day!! I am making a Pumpkin pie and an Apple-Cherry pie as well. Then I am cooking the whole meal, a day ahead, with the exception of the mashed potatoes and peas. This way it will be easier to transport on Thursday morning and warm through in our son's oven. Minimal mess there and less to schlep.
ReplyDeleteWhere will you be on Thanksgiving, and how are you spending the day? We will be at Root*Center*Son's house for the meal midday, then help him decorate his (first ever!) outdoor Christmas tree. In the evening, Eldest and PhD*Son are coming over with our three eldest grands for soup and wheat loaf, then pies and a bonfire!! Whoo hoo! There will be s'mores for those who like them.
I'm pretty excited about it!! 🎄😃👍🌟
All three of us will be at home. I have the day after TG off, too. Not a big turkey this time, only a fifteen-pounder. Good idea you have there, cooking ahead, listener.
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A very long read, but worthwhile IMO:
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[Click] "Trump’s supporters backed a time-honored American political tradition, disavowing racism while promising to enact a broad agenda of discrimination."
--Alan
Thanks, Alan.
DeleteI am STILL cleaning! Will have to quit soon or I'll run out of time for doing the pre-prep stuff I have planned. Ugh. I'm happy to do it, but fully intend to fall down in a heap when it's all over. Youngest grandson will remain here until Sunday night.
ReplyDeleteI'm serving turkey, ham, meatloaf, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, green bean bake, corn, stuffing, croissants, raisin sauce for the ham and turkey gravy. Pumpkin pie with LOTS of whipped cream for dessert. And then I'll fall down in a heap.
That is an awful lot of work, Susan.
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The cleaning is the part I hate. The cooking is fun and I makes lists and coordinate everything - what time it goes in, how long it cooks, how long I can keep it warm, etc. I wouldn't do it every day, but once in a while it's fun and it makes my sons and brother happy.
DeleteNothing special here. We basically don't do holidays.
ReplyDeleteJust turkey, candied sweet potatoes, dressing, olives (black, green), cranberry sauce (jellied/in can), That's it.
ReplyDeletePuddle, I do that jellied cranberry sauce in a can too. Nobody ever eats it, but I put it out anyway because we've always had it on T-day since I was a kid.
DeleteLol! I actually eat it, and like it. I've done better cranberry relish, but it doesn't *feel* like Thanksgiving. . . . Same with the "candied "yams"--boiled first, sliced with butter and sugar, hot enough to melt the sugar to brown. Fluffy sweet potatoes come from some other family, grin.
DeleteToday I baked two pies, Wheatloaf, stuffed Hubbard Squash, a Turkey breast (poor bird! 🦃 This may be our last Turkey year), Squash & Sweet Potato Soup, and carrots. Tomorrow we'll warm it all through and have peas and broccoli as well, pies a la mode and possibly s'mores around the bonfire. 🔥 Very much looking forward to Thanksgiving Day at Root*Center*Son's house!! Friday marks 6 months since he bought it!
DeleteSusan, I am pretty much in that heap! The only thing keeping me sane right now is that tomorrow the meal and the mess will happen at my son's house and not mine! Ha!
From the Let’s Hear It For Uppity! file:
ReplyDeleteDonald Trump’s Eternal Feud With Blackness[Click] “In a presidency defined by its unpredictability, one of the few constants is the president’s eagerness to attack black people for failing to show deference.”
Women Exit the Party of Trump[Click] “After laboring for years to close the gender gap, GOP strategists are suddenly facing a gender chasm.”
From another file altogether:
A Geological Curiosity in Bavaria.[Click]
—Alan
I'm not surprised women leave the Cheetolini party. All they do is pass intrusive laws telling women what they can't do with their own bodies. And now that the creepy-crawlers are being exposed.......well, not the kind of thing to convince women you have their interests at heart.
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