Cooking for Thanksgiving

[tonyj]

Okay, I really don't cook as a rule. I would have to clean off too much counter space in the kitchen to do that. But I'm going over to a long time family friend's house for lunch tomorrow and I can't show up empty handed. So, I'm making my sister's Buttermilk pie recipe. Have two in the oven with 45 minutes to go.

What are y'all making?

Oops--the timer just went off (the smoke smoke detector!). Guess I better check it out or take the battery out!

[oklahomajewel]

I thought I would be here , like last year so I was going to either eat or eat in ....possible cook some chicken drumsticks and a sweet potato.

But my now 18 year son doesn't want to spend it over at his dad's wife's family's place , so me and him will be likely going to Cracker Barrel. YUM and they have lots of gingerbread things in their little store this year ( I collect and LOVE gingerbread things!)

Happy Gobble Gobble Tony !!! Thanks for being my teardroppin friend!

Julie

Yes, I edited this... don't feel sorry for me . I stuffed myself at our potluck last Friday and might have a 'date' later!!!

[Ira]

I've been prepping and cooking since SUNDAY, and today, I started at 3PM and I'm just about to collapse.

It's after midnight here, and I'm so overtired that I can't even go to sleep.

[ARKPAT]

oklahomajewel Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 12:08 am Post subject:

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I thought I would be here alone , like last year so I was just going to either run to the nearby McDonald's or the diner/truck stop across town.

But most are closed at 11 AM till the next day. I guess that Breakfast Thanksgiven for me at Mikey'D's.




Pat


Hmmm.......I might get out the Dutch Oven and try some recipies with what I have on hand after I wake up.

[madjack]

...well most of my family has decided to goto a casino for dinner and avoid cooking anything but desert and snicker-snacks...Marlene(aka the poor girl) has to work a 12 hour graveyard shift tonite and tommorrow, so we are on our own...I cooked a ham today, prepped the stuffing for tommorrow and will cook a turkey breast, sweet potatoes, the dressing and the rest tommorrow while Marlene sleeps...when I get her up for work, she will have a nice Thanksgiving Dinner waiting for her.......
madjack

[asianflava]

I'm working all week long so the only thing I'll be making is a trip to somebody else's house.

[sdtripper2]

...well most of my family has decided to goto a casino for dinner and avoid cooking anything but desert and snicker-snacks...Marlene(aka the poor girl) has to work a 12 hour graveyard shift tonite and tommorrow, so we are on our own...I cooked a ham today, prepped the stuffing for tommorrow and will cook a turkey breast, sweet potatoes, the dressing and the rest tommorrow while Marlene sleeps...when I get her up for work, she will have a nice Thanksgiving Dinner waiting for her.......
madjack

Jack:

Your so nice to prepare dinner for Marlene,while she sleeps.
I bet she will appreciate having a traditional Thanksgiving Dinner before she has to go back to work.

Enjoy your day ~ Jack

[kajamelu4]

Just took pumpkin muffins out of the oven. Already have a pumpkin pie and two egg custard pies cooling. Got the ham ready for the oven, and the chicken is ready to make dumplins in the morning. We''ll take eveything and go to my folks house for the big feast at 1:00.

Julie- You and your son are certainly welcome to come join us. We always have several guests, but this year I don't think anyone is joining us. Come on down if you want to!!


Karol

[bledsoe3]

I have to do the whole meal at my house so it'll be a long day. I wish it was at somebody else's house and I could just make MaryK's pumpkin desert I made last year. It's really good!

[martha24]

Let's see, I've got 2 homemade pumpkin pies made, stuffing prepped to finish tomorrow, turkey in frig waiting for tomorrow. Tomorrow finish stuffing, roast turkey, make mashed potatoes & gravy. Then we'll haul it over to my parents house. My dad is 90 & my mother is 87 so they appreciate leftovers so I make plenty because they don't do much cooking anymore. My sister & son will make other parts of the meal.

The thing that is harder to get used to is not having my children home for all the holidays. My daughter (24) is with her boy friend in Oregon at his parents house & my son (22) is in the Air Force in SD.

[Geron]

Grill cheese samich and a bowl of 'mater soup.

Ummm Ummm

Geron and Brenda

(We have four boys so they go to the wives families for thanksgiving. Whewwwwww! Gloorrryyy!! What a blessing!!!!!.) [hey, Christmas, also!!!!]
We catch them at odd moments throughout the year when we DON"T have to cook -- BTW I have to do 90% of the cooking. Anyway, every bodies such PICKY eaters. "I don't eat this." I don't eat that" When I was young - long time ago- Mom put the food on the table. If you didn't eat it you went hungry -- If you were absent for a meal you waited till the next.

Lost my cool but held my mouth when I set the honey mustard dressing before the 7 year old grandson. He asks, " what kind is it?? I only eat the kind with the black specks in it."

That woulda been butt whoopin' time when I was a boy
My folks kept a wheel barrow full of "*** whoop" around for "whenever needed"

[Gage]

We were going to my youngest daughter's house for a nice dinner. She told us she would do all the cooking. Well the other night she call and ask if we could put it off until the first weekend of December. They are going camping this weekend. So Tanya and I are headed to Marie Callender's for a nice dinner and pie. The next best thing to home cooking.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

[Ira]

Anyway, every bodies such PICKY eaters. "I don't eat this." I don't eat that"

I have the same problem with the wife and kids, and it's really aggravating.

[b.bodemer]

Heading over to my brother's house in NY.

My sister-in-law and brother have been hosting the dinner there for the last 10+ years. All my nieces and nephews will be there! They relocated in Sept to Boston and their NY home just sold. There's time for the last Thanksgiving meal at this house and next year we all head up to Boston to keep the tradition going!

Barb

Ps...I'm bringing the beverages.

[Nitetimes]

Not much cookin' goin' on at my house. Packin' our arses and 3 pumpkin pies off to my mom and dad's house where there will be close to 30 of us gathered up for the eatin'!!
The only cookin' that will happen here is nukin' the leftovers tomorrow!!