(early) Happy Thanksgiving to y'all

[Sweet]

I'd like to say this early.
May each and every one of you (that means you, whose reading this) have a great happy, healthy and joyous day filled with too much laughter, too many smiles, and so many hugs that ya gotta take an extra breath......

...and a belly full of all the good stuff, followed by sweet dreams......

....enjoy the relatives, give em an extra hug....

...enjoy ur friends...

....above all be safe.....

[M_Six]

Thank you muchly, Sweet.

Same to you.

[Knothead]

HeeHee, I'm taking all those good wishes to heart, and sending them right back atcha, Sweet, DOUBLE, hahaha!

/me: Giving thanks for the good life I've been given. I am truly grateful!

[nunyadam]

Thanks for the good wishes, and I wish you the same. (to bad I will be at work.)(gee I get a free meal at work, yummy hospital food.)

Happy Thanksgiving to you too Sweet!

Are you going to be home or go somewhere?

[goldpag]

hey i dont meen to be rude but we dont have that in Australia can someone explain what it is all about i kinda dont get it ?????????

is it like christmas thing

[Theophylact]

From today's New York Times (and no, I haven't made it myself, in case you were wondering):

Turducken

Time: About 6 hours, plus overnight chilling

1/2 pound pancetta, sliced 1/4-inch thick, then cut into 1/2-inch squares
3/8 pound sweet Italian sausage seasoned with fennel
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 cup chopped onions, plus onion halves for pan
1 cup chopped carrots, plus carrot halves for pan
1 1/2 cups chopped celery
2 cloves garlic, mashed
1 teaspoon aniseed
1 3- to 3 1/2-pound chicken, boned, giblets and wings reserved
1 4- to 5-pound duck, boned, giblets and wings reserved
Sea salt
Freshly ground black pepper
1/4 cup brandy
1 tablespoon chopped thyme
3 tablespoons chopped tarragon
2 cups dry baguette in 1/2-inch cubes
1 10- to 12-pound turkey, boned.

1. The day before serving, cook pancetta in large sauté pan over low heat until fat is rendered and pancetta is browned. Drain on paper towels. Remove sausage from casing, break into small pieces and add to pan. Cook sausage until no longer pink. Drain on paper towels.

2. Pour off fat in pan. Add oil, along with chopped onion, carrot and celery and garlic and aniseed. Cook over medium heat for 2 minutes. Add chicken and duck giblets, and season with salt and pepper. Cook until giblets are almost cooked through. Raise heat to high and pour in brandy. Reduce until almost gone, then shut off heat and stir in thyme and tarragon. Remove giblets from pan and chop. In a large bowl, fold together pancetta, sausage, vegetables, giblets and bread cubes. Taste and adjust seasoning. Let cool and chill overnight.

3. The next morning, lay turkey out on counter, skin side down. Season with salt and pepper. Spread 1/3 of stuffing over its surface, pressing some into each drumstick to make it plump again. Trim about 2/3 of fat from duck, leaving some fat on breast. Butterfly duck drumsticks. Lay duck pieces on top of turkey in their corresponding parts. Season with salt and pepper. Spread 1/3 of stuffing on duck. Lay chicken on top, again skin side down and corresponding in arrangement to turkey. Season with salt and pepper, and spread with remaining stuffing.

4. Heat oven to 250 degrees. Thread a carpet or upholstery needle with 2 feet of thin twine. Beginning at tail end, begin pulling sides of turkey together, reforming its body, stitching every inch or so. Have someone hold bird while you stitch. Do not sew turducken together too tightly or it will split open when cooking.

5.Turn bird over; with a 3-foot piece of twine, truss it as you would a chicken, wrapping the twine around tips of drumsticks, then crisscrossing it and going down around base of drumsticks. Crisscross twine under bird, then bring it up sides and crisscross it on top, wrapping it down and around wings, crisscrossing it on back side, and up again, tying it over breast.

6. Season roasting pan with salt and pepper. Place turducken in pan breast side up, and season it. Place chicken and duck wings, along with some halved onions or carrots, in pan.

7. Cover pan with aluminum foil and bake. After 2 hours, begin checking bird every 30 minutes or so, and basting when juices form. Turn pan every now and then so it cooks evenly. When a thermometer inserted in turducken reads 130 degrees (probably about 4 or 5 hours), remove aluminum foil and turn up heat to 375 degrees. Baste every 15 minutes or so, until turducken reaches 165 degrees at its thickest point. Remove from oven and let cool for 10 minutes or so. With sturdy spatulas, lift onto platter. Cover turducken with foil, and let sit another 15 to 20 minutes. Meanwhile, strain pan juices and spoon off fat.

8. Using a bread knife or carving knife, slice turducken like a loaf of bread. Serve, passing cooking juices.

Yield: 12 servings.

(For those unfamiliar with it, pancetta is an unsmoked Italian bacon. And a baguette is a standard loaf of French bread, the kind you see in postcards: guys in berets, on bicycles, with bread.)

[vass0922]

Origin of Thanksgiving

I too will be at work, so I'll probably have thanksgiving cookies from the vending machine lol
My family is all in Michigan so won't be able to make it home.. but HOPING (haven't heard yet) that I'll be able to make it home for christmas
However, the way I look at it.. if I'm working that means somebody else who has a family nearby doesn' t have to
Hopefully everybody will enjoy their day

[Brainchild]

Well happy thanksgiving Sweet,M_six,Knothead,nunya surreal,goldpaq,theo,and vass,Whew! glad I got here early
I can already smell the turkey....MMMMMM
We always have a big dinner, followed by the leftovers for supper, and kinda do what happens in between.

Anyway have a great day wherever ya are.

[Sweet]

Hi Surreal, yea, am packin now for Sat departure.... 4 hr drive to my favorite place on the planet..... Destin Fla.

here's the area...http://www.oceanreefresorts.com/resort.html

plan to do some fishing, catch a dolphin cruise, gotta do putt-putt, cook up some grouper and shrimp, make a turkey & trimmings, wake up early and grab a cup of coffee and walk barefoot in the sand catching the water spashing up and watching the sun rise.....

...the Destin fishing fleet is an awesome organization. take the catch in ziplocks to the fisherman's wharf where they cook it to perfection....Mmmmm

...shop a little at the huge discount mall, need a good winter coat fer the little one...(he's grown 5 inches this year, so far, taller than me!)

...my bro flying in, 4 great friends from Houston driving from Houston staying next door....(they've never been there, they usually just go to other exotic places)...boy are they in for a treat!!!

I plan to get into the waves and body surf, get tossed around by Mother Nature....then make subtle feeble attempts to get the sand outta the bathing suit!!! It's a ritual thing....

My mind is already there, just waiting for the body to show up....


Thanks y'all for the well wishes........ y'all be good and safe