thanksgiving..

so who all's cooking for thanksgiving?

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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!!

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!

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!!

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..