thanksgiving..

[slipknotpsycho]

so who all's cooking for thanksgiving?

i'm cooking and i can't wait <.<

[birdgirl73]

That's my role, too, Slip, the family cook. At least for a large portion of it. This year we're all gathering at my sister's house. She has a brand new three-week-old baby and has her hands full (and doesn't cook a lick anyway). The rest of us are taking the food. Dave and I are smoking a turkey and also taking a spiral sliced ham. I decided to do a brisket, too, in the smoker while we were at it. Then I'm making cornbread dressing, gravy, garlic cheese grits, amd my famous cole slaw, which isn't a Thanksgiving staple for most folks but is for us. My parents are bringing vegetable sides like carrots and green beans and squash. My aunt is doing desserts. My cousins are bringing sweet potatoes and rolls and pickles/olives/cranberries. There'll be enough food for 40 people and probably only about 12 of us. If I feel like it, I may make my dad a surprise apple pie, which is his favorite.

I just returned from a late-night run to Kroger, where I bought the last of what I need. The turkey's thawing in the garage fridge. I still haven't figured out how I'm going to get all my contributions packed in the car and carried down there, but I'll let Dave worry about transport logistics.

[Gundari]

My mom will probably end up saying that she "just doesnt have time" and make me do the cooking, which is fine with me. I love to cook...and my food tastes better then hers.

[rebgirl420]

Well, i'm not that great of a cook but i'm really trying to learn. So this year i'll be making my home made mashed potatoes (my mother is teaching me) and possibly a (spelling?) Lemon Marangue pie (b/c thats the only kind John likes).

John's mother is making the ham and turkey. My mother is working that day and my father will be at bear camp so it will just be John's family this year.

[birdgirl73]

Mashed potatoes are a good dish to know how to make, Reb, and they're hard to mess up. You can add all sorts of things to them from roasted garlic to cream cheese, and they'll be yummy! Lemon meringue pie is more tricky, but it's fun. Make sure when you're spreading the meringue on top that it touches the edges of the crust all around (or else it'll shrink up and draw inside toward the center of the pie as it browns--it has to be anchored to the edges before it goes into the oven).

What's "bear camp," hun? Is that like bear hunting?

[rebgirl420]

Thanks for the advice birdgirl!

I learned the Lemon Meringue from Alton Brown's Show "good eats"...I love that man haha.

And yeah, bear camp is where my dad goes once a year with his friends. They hunt bearm smoke weed, and have a generally good time. Last year my dad actually got a huge bear. They have it at the house on the wall, next to the deer heads and fish. He's a huge hunter/fisherman type of guy.

[StickyfingahZ]

I'm doing an umu (Imu-Underground Oven) with Kalua Pig,Taro and some other goodies.I gotta do it the night before so it can cook till the next day afternoon.But my mom is doin the rest of the Cooking,I cant wait for her to make Pumpkin Pie with Haupia Topping!
Thats sounds yummy birdgirl, I just love Cornbread!!

[birdgirl73]

I love Alton Brown, too! He's great. He's really smart, too.

Hey, Reb, I'm going to send you a PM. I need a favor from you. Stand by for that PM. Thanks, hun!

[happiestmferoutthere]

For once I'm not cooking (or working!) this year :dance:. On Thanksgiving Day we are going to my nieces. She is 21 and cooking her first Thanksgiving meal in her first apartment. She is very excited, so this day is hers!:thumbsup: I have deviled egg duty.
On Sunday we have another dinner to go to at my sisters. She is the family hostess, so she never lets me do anything. She lives to host!
This week, it's all about the food!!

[geonagual]

I am flying into Dallas/fort Worth airport the morning of Thanksgiving for Birdgirls feast...that sounds like some serious grub you got going on there..

Being real...I have been invited to a few peoples house..I am just not into it this year to much..I am going to go to the store..buy some chips, soda and some other stuff and take it down to Ocean Beach and give it to the homeless hippy kids down there..if I have some weed I am going to get them high too..

[birdgirl73]

You're more than welcome here, Geo! I'd pick you up at the airport in a heartbeat and bring you on over to meet the family. They'd love you and you'd love them.

It does sound like some serious grub, doesn't it? Far too much of it, too.

[geonagual]

You're more than welcome here, Geo! I'd pick you up at the airport in a heartbeat and bring you on over to meet the family. They'd love you and you'd love them.

It does sound like some serious grub, doesn't it? Far too much of it, too.



It is a lot of food...tis the season of over indulgence.lol..it would be awesome to hang out with you and your family..I am sure they are all as funny and cool as you and Dave:)

but i do feel I have a duty this year..I have done it previously too..this year it will be the homeless hippy kids....a few years back, I gathered extra blankets from friends and family and took them to Tijuana and gave them to the kids and women that are on the streets begging..the winter is coming

[rebgirl420]

No problem birdgirl, anyway I can help :)

[birdgirl73]

My family is all nutty and funny. They're good folks. And my aunt Marylou who's coming from Fort Worth is a riot. She's a crack-up. She's the one who normally hosts everyone at her hour. She's wonderfully funny, but she's not much of a cook. So in many ways we're glad other folks are in charge of the big main dishes.

I need to overindulge. This last little bout of hospital stuff trying new meds for the arrhythmia caused me to drop 12 pounds, which I didn't really have to spare. The medicine they sent me home on takes my appetite completely away and makes me feel slightly queasy all the time. I'm sure everyone'll be bugging me to eat a lot. I just hope I don't hurl.

Thanks again for your help, Reb. You're so good to me!

[geonagual]

My family is all nutty and funny. They're good folks. And my aunt Marylou who's coming from Fort Worth is a riot. She's a crack-up. She's the one who normally hosts everyone at her hour. She's wonderfully funny, but she's not much of a cook. So in many ways we're glad other folks are in charge of the big main dishes.

I need to overindulge. This last little bout of hospital stuff trying new meds for the arrhythmia caused me to drop 12 pounds, which I didn't really have to spare. The medicine they sent me home on takes my appetite completely away and makes me feel slightly queasy all the time. I'm sure everyone'll be bugging me to eat a lot. I just hope I don't hurl.

Thanks again for your help, Reb. You're so good to me!

WoW..that dosent sound good at all....I heard there is this stuff..it is green and grows from the ground and just a few small tokes can help that nausea that you are feeling..but for the life of me, I cant think of the name.....

[Hilder420]

I've just finished moving into my house. we get our brand spankin new fridge, gas stove, and a new set of corningware casserole dishes just for this occasion. We get electricity tomorrow, and Im going grocery shopping the afternoon after I get off work and take powder to the vet for his latest x-ray and since this will probably be his last, hes gonna get his own chair with a pillow on it at the table. This is my first thanksgiving Dinner in MY new house, and i intend to make it an awesome one.
Im making the turkey with a mushroom red wine stuffing, yellow squash casserole, sweet potato casserole with the marshmallow on top, green bean casserole, and rosemary butter roasted asparagus. for dessert it will be pumpkin pie and plenty of bong rips...
I am having my best friend over for thanksgiving dinner for the first time, so it will be her, my sis, her boyfriend, our 5 dogs and me. I'm doing all the cooking despite working the day before and the day of, till 2 pm, but my sis can't cook like I can...
and like the saying goes, if you want something done right, ya gotta do it yourself, or hire a mexican! lol

[geonagual]

I am eating at hilders house too..that all sounds so good

[Hilder420]

dont tease me! awesome avatar btw!!!

[KingsBlend420]

Usually my aunts and grandmother will do the cooking. My stepmom as well sometimes, but I don't really consider her important enough to count.

[Psycho4Bud]

Eating turkey at the parents and watching the Packers kick Detroits ass.......what a great day!:thumbsup:

Have a good one!:jointsmile:

[peacefrog14]

i will be going to my old high school football game in the morning, probably smoking on the ride home, then eat my brains out cuz i always get the munchies!

[Reefer Rogue]

mmm this is making me hungry, i'll be across the pond but i'll send my american family good wishes.

[Nightrafe]

No such thing as Thanksgiving in Belgium.

[jeepboi]

fried turkey because im healthy like that.

[friendowl]

start the day with a nice death march up one of the local peaks
after that take a hot shower and get comfortable
as quick as i can im going to down a bottle of hennesey [15.00 bottle]
and smoke some weed till im hungry
then ill stumble to my girls house and eat her food
regular thankgiving menu....turkey,potatoes,pies,..you know