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This year, none of our relatives will be in town, and my mooching little brother has moved back to Colorado (for some Post-Doc position ), so it will just be the four of us. My wife, my three-year-old, and my seven-month-old. So we are pretty uninspired to make a real dinner. We thought we might just buy a turkey breast, but we couldn’t find one and opted for the smallest whole turkey we could find. I dread the thought of that carcass in our refrigerator for the next month, as we try to polish off the leftovers.

I normally make a good cornbread and sausage stuffing, but I’m thinking that it might not work so well this year. We might want a stuffing that’s a little more ‘normal’, so that it will be palatable to my little girl. My Mom always used to make a great oyster stuffing, but my wife shudders at the thought.

For the same reason, I won’t be making my usual Jalapeño Jelly Glazed Sweet Potatoes. Other than that, we will probably have the usual mashed potatoes and gravy, pickles, olives, and cranberry sauce.

What are you going to have? (Obviously, this question is only directed at those of you who will be celebrating Thanksgiving….. )

Turkey. Broccoli with cheese. Some kind of interesting squash we found, recently. My wife likes cranberry sauce, so that'll be on the table, too.

That's about it. Then I expect we'll lie down like beached whales and wait for the tide to come in...

@Fable: What kind of squash is it? How do you prepare it? And.... No Stuffing? Are you mad? Or are you... <shudder> a health nut?????

Well I'll be having some pizza topped with turkey pepperoni. Also maybe some Mango juice.

Canned Turkey mixed with a lttle free-ranged squash.

There are only five necessary foods on Turkey Day: Turkey (of course!), stuffing (prepared in the bird, not with a pot or out of a box), mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, and gravy (yes, it's a separate food). Everthing else just takes up space on the table, although I understand the some people need rolls on the side.

Dessert is Grandma's pumpkin pie.

Originally posted by HighLordDave:
<STRONG>There are only five necessary foods on Turkey Day: Turkey (of course!), stuffing (prepared in the bird, not with a pot or out of a box), mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, and gravy (yes, it's a separate food). Everthing else just takes up space on the table, although I understand the some people need rolls on the side.

Dessert is Grandma's pumpkin pie.</STRONG>

i agree with everything except you left out rolls. you have to have dinner rolls.

Turkey, Mashed Taters, Stuffing(in the turkey as well as a seperate amount in a pan so we have enough), gravy, and Cherry Pie. I'm not sure what else we'll be having. Dad and I tried to convince mom to make Tamales, but she refuses.

Originally posted by nael:
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i agree with everything except you left out rolls. you have to have dinner rolls.</STRONG>

I do not come from a family that eats a lot of bread products. However, I married in to one. For me, the only function of bread is to hold butter and to feed ducks. For my wife, it is as necessary for life as air or water. Rolls do not last long at my house, but it's usually one of my relatives eating them.

Originally posted by HighLordDave:
<STRONG>I do not come from a family that eats a lot of bread products. However, I married in to one. For me, the only function of bread is to hold butter and to feed ducks. For my wife, it is as necessary for life as air or water. Rolls do not last long at my house, but it's usually one of my relatives eating them.</STRONG>

My mom feels the same way about bread as your wife. My dad's only use for bread is to make a sandwich(though he can make sandwiches without bread, too ). To me, it depends on the bread. Croissants, Red Lobster's rolls, and Marie Calendar's Cornbread---these are the important ones. Except for those three, which I eat because of how great they are, I pretty much only use bread to counter the greasiness of food. My stomach can't handle greasy(even food that isn't very greasy but is somewhat greasy) food any other way.

Whatever I can steal.

j/k


from what I know, we got curried oxtail, rice definetly, maybe lion heads, possibly duck, rice, uh... soup, rice, rice, rice, umm... did I mention rice?

Originally posted by Panther Blkct:
<STRONG>from what I know, we got curried oxtail, rice definetly, maybe lion heads, possibly duck, rice, uh... soup, rice, rice, rice, umm... did I mention rice?</STRONG>

I think you forgot to mention rice.

Oh? I did? Sorry, well, for the record: Rice.
Thanks for reminding me.

Oh yeah, and faeries with ketchup, covered with sugar. Lot's of sugar... and lot's of faeries... lots and lots of sugar...

Originally posted by Panther Blkct:
<STRONG>Oh? I did? Sorry, well, for the record: Rice.
Thanks for reminding me.

Oh yeah, and faeries with ketchup, covered with sugar. Lot's of sugar... and lot's of faeries... lots and lots of sugar...</STRONG>

Yum, sounds delicious! Oh, and don't forget the roses! Dang it, all this talk of food is making me hungry.

Roses! Can't forget the roses! You're hungry, Saturn? *gives you a plate of ketchup covered faeries and roses*

Originally posted by Gwalchmai:
<STRONG>@Fable: What kind of squash is it? How do you prepare it? And.... No Stuffing? Are you mad? Or are you... <shudder> a health nut????? </STRONG>

It's called a sweet dumpling squash, and it's very tasty. We do have stuffing, but it's healthy stuffing: no butter or margarine (we don't even have either item in our house), and we avoid salt. Hell, I'm a chronic severe asthmatic: you thing I need other health problems on top of that?

Originally posted by Panther Blkct:
<STRONG>Roses! Can't forget the roses! You're hungry, Saturn? *gives you a plate of ketchup covered faeries and roses*</STRONG>

Thanks! *uses a spell to turn the ketchup into barbeque sauce* I'm a Texan, remember?

Originally posted by fable:
<STRONG>It's called a sweet dumpling squash, and it's very tasty. We do have stuffing, but it's healthy stuffing: no butter or margarine (we don't even have either item in our house), and we avoid salt. Hell, I'm a chronic severe asthmatic: you thing I need other health problems on top of that? </STRONG>

Good point, but it's the holidays! Who cares about health on Holidays.

Me no like real butter. I've been raised on margarine and real butter makes me feel nauseated, usually.

No salt!? Salt is needed on Mashed Taters, though salt can be left out if there is at least a ton and a half of pepper on them taters.

@ Fable: *stutters* No-no-no-no butter or margine???!? Whas wrong with health problems?
Sign on a health food store: Eat here and live long.
Sign at a nearby barbeque pit: Eat here and die happy.


@ Saturn: Ah, yes, Texan, muchos apologies, yeah I remember you're Texan, who could forget? You remind me all the time

Originally posted by Panther Blkct:
<STRONG>@ Fable: *stutters* No-no-no-no butter or margine???!? Whas wrong with health problems?
Sign on a health food store: Eat here and live long.
Sign at a nearby barbeque pit: Eat here and die happy.</STRONG>

Amen! And think about it, if you die of heart attack, you don't have to worry about anymore health problems.

<STRONG>@ Saturn: Ah, yes, Texan, muchos apologies, yeah I remember you're Texan, who could forget? You remind me all the time</STRONG>

I remind you all the time because it is a very important fact.