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Your worst TG food this year?
(-L.) wrote in
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> "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,
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> 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.
We don't much care for turkey. If I don't season well, I can't get it
down. Seasoned nicely, and with a good gravy, it's passable fare, and I
don't mind eating it once a year. It's probably the only meat I have
to treat this way.
Wayne
>> 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.
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> That has to be the worst-sounding dressing I have ever heard of!
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> 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.
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