"Vox Humana" > wrote in message >.. .
> I'm back from a week away at a relative's house. It was a bad experience
> all around, and home never looked so good. In addition to the unpleasant
> circumstances of the visit, Thanksgiving dinner was truly awful:
> under-seasoned and overcooked turkey,

Hum...how can you under-season turkey? Isn't turkey pretty awesome
without any seasonings added at all? It's prolly the only thing I
*don't* season.


> sweet potatoes that were way too
> sweet, and glue-like potatoes, the dressing was unthinkably bad. It was
> make from that dried seasoned bread and had small colorful bits in it. I
> thought that some frozen mixed vegetables had been blended in for color, but
> unfortunately that wasn't the case. The confetti-like pieces in the
> stuffing turned out to be mixed candied fruit -- the kind that people use in
> fruitcakes! That's right, the stuffing had rubbery pieces of candied citrus
> peel, glace cherries, and pineapple. I think the recipe came from a
> mid-1960's cookbook.

That has to be the worst-sounding dressing I have ever heard of!

Thankfully, since I made the entire dinner, everything came out pretty
good. I still haven't mastered my Mom's dressing recipe though -
maybe in about 20 years I'll finally have it down-pat...

-L.