Happy Thanksgiving - What's your story?

[jon-nyc]

Wow.

I’ll start cooking about noon. Turkey, scalloped potatoes, and Caesar salad. Apple crumble pie for dessert is the only thing I bought rather than attempt to cook.

Oh and cranberry sauce with a splash of orange juice mixed in. A recipe from the NYT that I’ve been using for a decade or more.

It’s totally the Jon show in the kitchen. If I let Mayla help we might end up with a guinea pig instead of a bird. lol

[ShiroKuro]

@kluurs i have been keeping an SOP for Thanksgiving since I started hosting (2016??)

I always buy a precooked whole turkey, makes things easier. That gets heated up of course.

This year we have a 9lb turkey.

I will also make green beans almondine and stuffing (myself). I haven’t yet added mashed potatoes to the list of make-it-myself items, maybe next year!

Oh and since we moved to an evil state where people put celery, pineapple and walnuts in the cranberry relish, last year I learned how to make the relish myself. I have a great recipe for cranberry orange relish (no word ingredients, just cranberries, orange, and sugar) and it is delish! Mr SK is responsible for zesting the orange and I do the rest. (Such as it is, cranberry orange relish has got to be one of the easiest thing to make!)

I did the relish yesterday. This morning I got up at 5am so I could do my PT exercises first. Mr SK is doing most of the move-around stuff. We just finished the last bit of straightening up and putting things away just now.

Then in few minutes I’m going to do some prep for the stuffing (roast the walnuts) and then I’ll start prepping for the green beans.

The turkey prep will start at 1pm and go in the oven at 1:30pm. Target eat time is 2:30pm but I still don’t know this oven so we’ll see.

Friends are coming so they’re brining some things, and my mother bought two froze pies that you bake yourself, so she’ll bring those. (She’s 81 y/o and this past June moved to our town, in an apt about 5 minutes from our house.

So that’s where we’re at.

[wtg]

@kluurs, storming the Thanksgiving castle. I was exhausted by the end of your description of the prep work. And the day is young!

As I mentioned a while back, we roasted a vintage turkey a few weeks back, trying to do our part to bridge the divide between the US and Canada by having our Thanksgiving meal somewhere in between the two countries' celebrations.

Our hosting of big holiday celebrations is a thing of the past so it's just the two of us here. We are having some prime sirloin steaks, Brussels sprouts, homegrown potatoes made into potato salad and bernaise on the side to put on whatever you want. Also watching about 20 minutes of the Macy's parade, just to feel like it's the official holiday.

[Bernard]

Quiet and low key here. I slept in, got out of bed at 10 am. Had breakfast, skimmed a few websites, then took a half hour to make a molded waldorf and cranberries. All in the fridge to set. Some time, later today, I'll cook the acorn squash and stuffing and eat when the spirit moves me. In the meantime, some piano, some reading, and maybe start decorating the Christmas tree. Like yesterday, it was in the low 40's F when I got up, so I don't need to stoke the fire today, just flick the on switch of my small space heater to take the chill out. A nice respite. A calm day with Cielo and the rest of the birds. On the 13th I'll have six friends over for brunch. Looking forward to it.

[DougG]

Where to start? I got up at 8 AM, made myself a coffee and drove off to the gym . It was surprisingly crowded with a mixture of kind of scary-looking motorcycle gang types and elderly retired geezers. Weird- I don’t think of myself as a motorcycle gang type….

I spent about an hour this morning reviewing some work documents. Needed to review and approve the work plan for a new branch going in Hawaii in a few months and finish the minutes from last month board meeting. I’m still not clear why I’m the one who has to do the damn minutes, but I think it’s related to the fact that I’m the only one for whom English is their first language.

Wandered over to the corner pile for the sheet music for today’s habitual playing of the ragtime of the day. Today was Artie Matthew’s pastime rag number 5. it’s a nice slow one so I did not injure myself.

still to come ? there’s a local place where I can grab some tacos for lunch and then head over to Virginia Lake for a short hike.

I may watch episode four of Ken Burn’s American Revolution this afternoon if I have time . Heck I might even shower and shave at some point..

I love the holidays .

[Steve Miller]

Cold and snowing lightly here. Kids are in from Boston, staying until Sunday.

Turkey breast instead of whole turkey this year -a first for us. Much simpler - we shall see. Cooking in the countertop oven I got for the basement and it’s making me nervous - it’s being very slow to return to temp after I put the turkey in. This could take a while.

Sharon is making the usual sides then later we’ll go to Kim’s in-laws for desserts.

Happy Thanksgiving!

[AdagioM]

We have celebrated Thanksgiving for the last 43 years with Mr. AM’s family, round robin St. Louis/Chapel Hill/Queens or Portland after we moved back home. Most recently always in St. Louis where Mom is now in memory care. This year we celebrated it last week (easier travel, less expensive) in St. Louis. Today in Portland with my side of the family! Two Thanksgivings, lots of fun.

[Piano*Dad]

We're in Santa Fe with the sons, the daugher-in-law, the two step grands and wife's sister.

I'm doing a whole beef tenderloin this time, not a turkey. I'm not responsible for anything else!

Here's sunset last night from the driveway.

[Steve Miller]

Bird update:

The countertop oven works fine once I figured the oven thermostat is off by 75 degrees. Everything is browning nicely.

I know how you worry….

[wtg]

@Steve-Miller said in Happy Thanksgiving - What's your story?:

I know how you worry….

Well, I was just trying to figure out if I should wait a bit to come over if the turkey was running behind schedule....