"Kalmia" > wrote in message
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> On Nov 26, 8:56 am, "jmcquown" > wrote:
>> "JeanineAlyse" > wrote in message
>>
>> ...>
>> On Nov 24, 5:26 pm, wrote:
>> >> I was looking for something to put my mashed potatoes in that would
>> >> keep them warm for the Thanksgiving Day potluck. I didn't make enough
>> >> to warrant using the crock pot so I decided to use the tagine.
>> >> Yippieee Skippieee.
>> >> It made a very pretty serving dish too.
>>
>> > Oh, what a great share, Koko. I have no tagine, but have decided for
>> > the Thanksgiving dinner I will make for bad-cook friends next year I
>> > will use all my Corningware and other nice oven-safe dishes to keep
>> > everything inside a low-temp oven or stove-top
>>
>> (snip)
>>
>> > Wish me luck, I am determined to have these bad-cook people over next
>> > year for a goosd, simple, old fashioned Thanksgiving dinner.
>> > Theit kitchen is just as tiny as mine, they have two grown kids who
>> > each work in restaurants, and thereby each of the four adults
>> > contributed to the dinner I was invited to. I brought only my then
>> > too sour cranberry sauce to share; they provided a very dry spiral
>> > sliced ham, a moisture-less turkey, watery and unsalted mashed spuds,
>> > tasteless gravy, canned and unseasoned-undrained green beans
>>
>> (snipped before I barf LOL)>
>> ...PickyHavingNoLeftoversButForAsliceOfCheesecake, ThankYou!
>>
>> Sorry to piggy back, Picky I'm sure we've all had our share of bad or
>> mediocre holiday dinners.
>>
>> When I was married (a million years ago) I had to go to four different
>> houses for Thanksgiving. I'm an equal opportunity critic My mother
>> made
>> a pretty standard meal: turkey with dressing (made from Pepperidge Farm
>> seasoned bread cubes - not bad). Mashed potatoes (made from a box of
>> those
>> mashed potato flakes). Turkey gravy made from a packet of McCormick's or
>> Durkee or something. Canned green beans (but at least she drained
>> them!).
>> Dinner rolls (she always forgot to set the timer and burned the rolls), a
>> chilled can of "cranberry sauce" that came out shaped like the can.
>>
>> Then we had to go to the (former) MIL's house for another meal. She made
>> cornbread "dressing" that was so runny it looked like vomit. You could
>> literally run a spoon through it and it would close back up, the opposite
>> of
>> parting the Red Sea. I thought perhaps she'd made a mistake so I didn't
>> say
>> anything. But it became apparent from comments she always made it like
>> that. "Isn't it great?!" Being a polite guest I took a spoonful of
>> dressing (which quickly spread out on my plate), and no, it wasn't great.
>> LOL
>>
>> Then it was off to visit one of his aunt's who lived in an apartment with
>> her two daughters, both of whom were probably in their 20's. I don't
>> remember much about that visit except the turkey had been cooked to death
>> several times over. It became apparent why when I walked in the door
>> spotted all the beer cans in the trash. Heh.
>>
>> Over the river and through the woods to [his] grandmother's house we
>> went!
>> His grandparents were lovely people. Very gracious. They lived in the
>> country, had a vegetable garden and the food was delicious. But by this
>> time I was getting tired, although I politely nibbled.
>>
>> lots of liquid refreshments. By that time I needed it We'd been
>> going
>> from house to house all day and I just wanted to go home.
>>
>> Jill
>
> Ha. Reminds me of the Andy Griffith episode in which he had to eat
> spaghetti at three diff. houses one night, due to a series of mixups.


OMG, that was hilarious! What's for dinner? Oooh! Spaghetti!

Jill