For the first time ever, we decided on TG dinner at a restaurant.
No shopping, no cooking, no mess, no clean-up.

Unfortunately, the restaurant presented the meal you described !
( must be a popular preparation )

<rj>

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 20:34:39 GMT, "Vox Humana" >
wrote:

>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, 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.
>
>I wonder if anyone can top that?
>

<rj>