Thanksgiving Dinner!

[Jawn]

Just in the USA I believe. Friday is technically not a holiday. It's actually a shopping day from Hell! Lot's of bargins if you want to stand in long lines and get up way too early. Needless to say, I normally pay a higher price. LOL!

Iam, I do not like spinach and I love these spinach balls. Both my boys hate spinach and gladly gobble these down. The first time or 2 I didn't tell them there was spinach in them. LOL!

 

[Lady of Longbourn]

Yeah, Friday is not a holiday ( Why I don't know! I love thanksgiving!) The Friday after thanksgiving is called, Black Friday. For the shopping reason. I used to work retail, it was HELL! I think the Canada does celebrate some form of thanksgiving ( may be wrong)

I love spinach. Where's the recipe??? Sounds yummy.

 

[Lady of Longbourn]

Sorry to sound really ignorant :oops: Just curious.

You don't! You will just have to tell us about boxing day, and what it is like...

 

[Jawn]

Luckily the companies I have worked for in the past 20 yrs or so give us Friday off too. But that is a company holiday, not a national one. On Friday you won't even find me at a grocery store 'cause the crowds are too much and there are even people fighting over stuff. Not for me. My wife says she will be at some store that opens at 5am and try to get something she is after and then go to work after that. <shaking my head>

 

[Lady of Longbourn]

I hope y'all have fun :D

My turn to sound a little ignorant! Don't get upset...I'm trying to be funny but curious too.... I've never heard a English person say y'all ( two of my favorite tv shows are British...maybe I wasn't paying attention though). ;) do you?

I was born and raised in Texas. You should heard them say "yy'alll" my neighbor would always say "Howdyy" with a complete west Texas dd-rr-aa-ww-ll. Really cute guy though...hehehe. Here in Tennessee some the accent's are crazy. I'll be standing in a bookstore, and some woman walks by with a cell phone. Talking and talking. Heavy, heavy southern accent! Then I remember " I'm in the south!"

 

[seedling]

Just the four of us, a mellow day with all the food we can possibly eat. Movies, naps!
Turkey, stuffing, yams, carrots, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, gravy, and pie.
Actually feel like making pie this year, I haven't made pie in years. Am making a shoo-fly pie (molasses pie with crumb topping - an Amish thing here in PA) and apple pie.
Am supposed to be making the pie crust dough right now, may be having virtual pie :eek:.
Started cooking on Sun, a little every day, will pull some stuff out of the freezer and reheat. Always make extra so we can eat all weekend. Too much work not to get the mileage out of it!

Definitely thankful for everyone here! And mole and tamales and Dim Sum - my mouth is watering!!!!!

 

[curiouser]

Great thread, Thanksgiving is always a favorite of mine. This year my parents will be visiting us which is always nice.

I'm trying to decide if I'm going to brine or not brine my turkey. We'll be having roasted turkey, homemade garlic and herb mashed potatoes, cornbread stuffing with sausage and apples, bacon wrapped green bean bundles (which are OMG yummy), gravy, dinner rolls or bread-sticks from scratch ( I haven't decided yet) and some homemade dessert. I'm trying to decide between pecan pie with a maple whiskey cream sauce, white chocolate pumpkin cheese cake with a ginger snap crust or cranberry cinnamon chip bars.

And ditto on the finding things to be thankful for. :)

 

[cherryblossom]

You don't! You will just have to tell us about boxing day, and what it is like...

Boxing day is traditionally the next working day after Christmas day (ie Monday to Saturday, because Sunday is traditionally classed as a day of worship, rather than a working day). Though now a days, boxing day is classed as the day after Christmas day. If Christmas day falls on a Saturday, then the following Monday becomes a public holiday (called bank holiday in the UK). Not exactly sure where the term 'boxing' day comes in. I was told that it dates back to when wealthy landowners would give servants the day off after Christmas. They would give their servants left over boxes of food to take to their familes - I don't know how true that is

But, these days, it sounds very much like your day after Thanksgiving - being a day that all the shops start their sales. That's not for me. My ideal boxing day is going for a walk in the Park, watching the hunt set off (lets not get into the rights and wrongs of that:eek:), followed by left overs (almost better than the hot Christmas dinner) for lunch, and a lazy afternoon.

And no, we don't say "y'all" here, it just seemed an appropriate phrase, to wish y'all a good day hehe :D

 

[Lady of Longbourn]

And no, we don't say "y'all" here, it just seemed an appropriate phrase, to wish y'all a good day hehe :D

Yeah, thought you didn't...but had to ask.

watching the hunt set off

I wont. but hunt what?

 

[Nighthawk]

CB,
I always thought growing up that boxing day was because there usaly was a big fight on the next day. Much too my surprise I too learnt that it had to do with boxing the leftovers to send with the servants home. I also thought it gave everyone time to clean the boxes up:D Wow now I am really confusing myself. Not coming from the USA I just don't get Thanksgiving., but I gladly take the days off and try to get a bargin or two. I can not handle that many family members in one room.Sad to say I have canceled the shopping trip this year.

I this year will be spending the day with my dogs alone:eek:

 

[anni]

I loveddddd Boxing Day! It was like another Christmas, but with everyone going to eahc other's houses to sort of continue the party. In those days, shoping wasn't such a huge 'thing', plus, we lived in a village fairly far removed from any large stores so it would have been a chore to get there. It was in Porlock, right across the Bristol Channel and if ever a place deserved TWO Christmas's..... ! I lived there for 5 years and never, ever had a single day where I wasn't stunned by how beautiful it is.

Nighthawlk, I wouldn't wish NOT living in the UK on anyone, but you'd do something amazing with a Thanksgiving dinner I'd think! You know, right, it's meant to symbolize the feast which happened when the first settlers and the Native Americans had a sort of celebration together, basically? Your lot kicked our lot out of England for being Puritans ( although in my opinion dressing badly may have had a lot to do with it ), we came over here, fell over something now called Plymouth rock, didn't have a clue how to survive, shot a lot of Native Americans, starved, made buddies with one tribe, who we helped annhilate another tribe in exchange for figuring out how to do things like eat.We celebrated the various successes with a big feast together. It must have been a really good meal because we all remember it every year. I guess the next day everyone went to the mall, since we keep replicating that, too.

 

[atl22]

Anni,

Thanks for the excellent summary of Thanksgiving. It rocks.