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Moonchild Diamond Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 525 Germany Gender:	Happy Thanksgiving ..... Nov 22^nd, 2005 at 6:13pm ..........I hope everybody will have a safe holiday! Enjoy the food and the company of your friends and loved ones! I am baking my pumpkin pies right now.....and I thought about all of you on LL
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Christiana Sapphire Offline Posts: 189 Gender:	Re: Happy Thanksgiving ..... Reply #1 - Nov 22^nd, 2005 at 7:14pm Happy Thanksgiving to you too, and to all. Let us count our blessings and see how they far outnumber what we complain about!!! Something I need to remind myself of constantly..... "Only the grateful keep the gift." "Adopt an attitude of gratitude." God bless!!!!!!!!
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Reply #2 - Nov 23^rd, 2005 at 12:29am

Thanksgiving well wishes to all.

It seems everyone has traditions for certain holidays. Thanksgiving in the US typically means a turkey dinner with "all the fixin's". Growing up, we would have dinner with my mother's sister and family. They would bring fresh pheasant which would be our main meal.

Since I have married, and my hubby was from Wisconsin and the deer hunting season in Wisconsin is the week of Thanksgiving, I typically have had the day alone. If hubby had already taken his limit of deer, we would have a simple venison dinner. We've continued this tradition of either venison or pheasant for dinner with a bit of squash, baby carrots, and apple pie for dessert.

What are your traditions for the holiday?

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Reply #3 - Nov 23^rd, 2005 at 3:14am

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Thanksgiving well wishes to all.

What are your traditions for the holiday?

I have Thanksgiving for the entire family and some friends. The traditions are many.

First, it was the first day to run the Christmas display with all the animation working. Four years ago, this was moved to the 5:55 PM Friday night before Thanksgiving to coincide with the lighting of the Salvation Army Tree of Lights. (Actually five minutes early. I DARE them be first!) Shocked

Here's this year's display

I have my annual Thanksgiving fire in the fireplace. I smoke my turkey outside and when it is done, me and Lady Rat devour the skin as we slice the thing before the guests arrive.

This is one of two major happenings at the Rat Abode. The other is the July 4th pool party we have every year.

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Reply #4 - Nov 23^rd, 2005 at 3:24am

Since we are from different cultural backgrounds, hubby had to introduce me to a typical (southern) Thanksgiving after we were married. I have since made some little changes, but overall our Thanksgiving meal is:

   one huge turkey - normally about 24 lbs
   sweet potatoes with marshmellows
   corn on the cob
   stuffing
   baked beans
   gotta have some greens
   fresh cornbread or dinner rolls
   gravey - must have Grin

   German dumplings
   purple cabbage
   and for dessert: pumpkin pie

and a house full of friends ready to enjoy the feast.
Hubby will get a case of German beer and I have some wine chilled. I am looking forward to just sitting around,
talking. amd laughing....
Our daughter will be in Lincoln, Nebraska at some friend's house and our son is going to spend Thanksgiving with one of his friends down in Alabama.

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Curlygirl22 Diamond Offline Posts: 606 Gender:	Re: Happy Thanksgiving ..... Reply #5 - Nov 23^rd, 2005 at 10:50am Happy THanksgiving! YUMMy turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, and stuffing. my fave. Have fun everyone.
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Reply #6 - Nov 23^rd, 2005 at 10:16pm

Oh!

JUST MY LUCK to read this thread while I'm very hungry!

At our house we never really had any Thanksgiving traditions. This is mainly because we never knew how to cook any of those yummy American foods for the season: Wild yam, pumpkin pie, green bean casserole, cranberry stuff, whatever.. nope nope nope. Probably the only thing we knew how to do was roast a chicken and make mashed potatoes. We don't even know how to make proper gravy.

Our Thanksgiving would be steaming noodle soup, or a hodgepodge of exotic dishes served with rice.

Last year was different and this year will be different - My aunts know how to cook American, so we're going to their place.

Happy Thanksgiving holiday, everybody!

Anais

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Beesan16 Diamond Offline Posts: 677 st. louis, MO Gender:	Re: Happy Thanksgiving ..... Reply #7 - Nov 23^rd, 2005 at 11:54pm HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO EVERYONE! mmmmmmmm...I LOVE pumpkin pie drool, but i don't like turkey . We bought ours today, and we're cooking it on friday since we don't celebrate Thanksgiving. Enjoy your holiday!!
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Reply #8 - Nov 24^th, 2005 at 12:28am

Happy Thanksgiving! We do the "usual" stuff. This year my 20 year old son can't come to grandma's house because of work, so he's invited a few friends over for Thanksgiving dinner -- he's cooking Shocked

??? I did do the turkey and gravy today so he can just heat it. And, yes, our homeowner's insurance is paid up Wink

Oh to be a fly on the wall!!!

Rodent - that's some display at the Rat Abode!! 8) 8)

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Ruzika Sapphire Offline 1a/1b F ii Posts: 178 Florida Gender:	Re: Happy Thanksgiving ..... Reply #9 - Nov 24^th, 2005 at 1:43am Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We're doing a small family dinner with turkey, candied yams, apple pie, all the usual sides, and hush puppies which I'll be making. I also picked up some drinks.
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Reply #10 - Nov 24^th, 2005 at 2:08am

Happy Thanksgiving!! Cheesy

Some of my relatives from Maui and the Big Island (aka isle of Hawaii) are coming for the weekend and we're going to have dinner at someone's house. Besides the turkey, there's probably going to be sushi, poke (raw fish with seaweed and other things Tongue

), macaroni salad, Chinese chicken salad, and a plethora of other dishes. We won't be able to move after eating dinner.

Rodent--YOWZAH!! That's a mighty impressive display! Shocked

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Reply #11 - Nov 24^th, 2005 at 2:56am

Happy Thanksgiving!! I'm so thankful I found this board and all of you who were here then and are here now

I'm making turkey stock as I'm typing this...mmmm it smells divine!! I've already made the cranberry conserve (amazingly yummy, thanks to Emeril Lagasse for the recipe), the 14# turkey is in the fridge brining and I've got 3 huge baked sweet potatoes cooling to peel for tomorrow's sweet potato spoon bread. Many new recipes this year, including sweet corn pudding, the conserve, sweet potatoe spoon bread, creamy mashed potatoes, and sauteed kale with bacon. The usual (and outstanding) brined turkey and Madeira gravy (I am a gravy making Goddess) and stuffing. Looks like dessert will be lemon angel food cake, my ingredients for the white chocolate hazlenut cheesecake didn't get here in time.

If anybody wants to swap recipes, I'd love to share.

Did I mention its just going to be hubby & me? Yay, leftovers. BTW, I make turkey mulligatawny soup with the carcass and it is delicious.

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Reply #12 - Nov 24^th, 2005 at 2:26pm

I'm hosting Thanksgiving at my house for the first time ever. I don't have to do much cooking luckily. My in-laws are bringing the turkey, we bought a ham, and everyone is bringing a dish or side dish, or whatever they want. So all I'm cooking today is the mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes and vegetable. Hubby made the pumpkin cheesecake and cranberry dish yesterday.

We're have 17 for dinner, plus a couple stragglers that are popping in before or after due to other plans.

Its fun and exciting.

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Sakina Stardust Offline August 2O1O @ the Louvre Posts: 3399 Arizona Gender:	Re: Happy Thanksgiving ..... Reply #13 - Nov 24^th, 2005 at 3:48pm Good Luck, Valerie! I hope your 1st time hosting Thanksgiving is a stress free enjoyable one!! Moonchild-can I have your purple cabage recipe? That dish and the pickles were my two favorites when I was in Germany. I wanted to bring a bunch home with me!!!
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Reply #14 - Nov 24^th, 2005 at 5:23pm

Happy Thanksgiving everyone and to anyone not celebrating, I still wish you a warm and happy day.

I grew up in a German household, I was first generation American. We did not celebrate Thanksgiving at all until I was a teenager and my uncle married (he is only about 13 years older than me) and his wife made Thanksgiving and we carried on after that.

Nowadays, it is just us four having Thanksgiving with everyone wanting their favs made. So we generally have a turkey for all of us, herb mashed potatoes and rolls for my older son, sausage stuffing and cranberry sauce for my youngest, green bean casserole and sugar free pie and cookies for hubby, baked white potatoes and yams for me.

And, of course, numerous desserts because otherwise it just wouldn't be fun. lol

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