The cornbread is baked, the cranberry sauce is made, the onions and
celery are chopped, the turkey is thawed and the giblets and neck have
just been simmered to perfection for broth.
So tomorrow I salt and pepper the turkey inside and out, saute the
vegetables, mix them with the cornbread and bread cubes, season hell
out of the mess with poultry seasoning, salt pepper, sage and just
enough broth, stuff the turkey and pop it into the oven.
I'm serving dinner with asparagus this year. Normally I cook Brussel
sprouts.
The turkey is 13 pounds, and we will have turkey, dressing, gravy,
asparagus, olives and brown and serve rolls. No dessert. Frankly, I
forgot to buy a frozen pumpkin pie but no matter. It's one less thing
to cook.
We will eat what remains for a while. There are only two of us
nowadays, but this particular dinner is mandatory.
Facetime/Skype helps to connect.
Happy Thanksgiving to all!

leo

On Thursday, November 24, 2016 at 2:44:27 AM UTC-5, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
> The cornbread is baked, the cranberry sauce is made, the onions and
> celery are chopped, the turkey is thawed and the giblets and neck have
> just been simmered to perfection for broth.
> So tomorrow I salt and pepper the turkey inside and out, saute the
> vegetables, mix them with the cornbread and bread cubes, season hell
> out of the mess with poultry seasoning, salt pepper, sage and just
> enough broth, stuff the turkey and pop it into the oven.
> I'm serving dinner with asparagus this year. Normally I cook Brussel
> sprouts.
> The turkey is 13 pounds, and we will have turkey, dressing, gravy,
> asparagus, olives and brown and serve rolls. No dessert. Frankly, I
> forgot to buy a frozen pumpkin pie but no matter. It's one less thing
> to cook.
> We will eat what remains for a while. There are only two of us
> nowadays, but this particular dinner is mandatory.
> Facetime/Skype helps to connect.
> Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Happy Thanksgiving to you.

The turkey is salted, the sausage for the stuffing is made, the
squishy white bread for the stuffing is bought. I spent a little
time this morning figuring out how to roast a 10-pound turkey.
The day that I had time to shop, it was 10 pounds or 20 pounds
and nothing in between. For the two of us, 20 pounds would
just have been ridiculous. I prefer about 14 pounds, and have
really perfected the procedure for that size turkey, but if
I can't adapt, I should just get out of the kitchen.

Turkey, stuffing, gravy, tossed salad. That's it.

He doesn't like pumpkin pie, but I'm trying (for myself) a
pumpkin bar recipe:

<http://www.cooks.com/recipe/ih9b9937/old-world-pumpkin-bars.html>

With a little self-discipline, I can eat a little bit and put
the remainder in the basement fridge to take to work on Monday.
We've got a passel of 20-something male engineers, so I expect
anything I put out in the break room will be eaten.

Cindy Hamilton

On 11/24/2016 9:47 AM, Sqwertz wrote:
> I haven't started anything yet except I baked some rolls.

Plenty of time left for you to stalk some more women...

We dined at 3 PM and here it is 6 PM and we're still too stuffed for
my mince meat pie and my wife's punkin pie.
A perfectly roasted 12.25 lb gobbler... underneath that's the neck for
moi:
http://i64.tinypic.com/2eluoaa.jpg
Baked yams in jackets and my very favorite, kasha varnishkas:
http://tinypic.com/r/2wrko4n/9
My piggy plate:
http://tinypic.com/r/4kxyyc/9
I'm always amazed at how much turkey a cat can devour, especially the
ferals, thay can eat turkey lurkey like a bottomless abyss... Jilly is
the smallest and she ate the most, her 14th Thanksgiving and still
going strong. I hope all had an enjoyable Thanksgiving.

"Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
...
> We dined at 3 PM and here it is 6 PM and we're still too stuffed for
> my mince meat pie and my wife's punkin pie.
> A perfectly roasted 12.25 lb gobbler... underneath that's the neck for
> moi:
> http://i64.tinypic.com/2eluoaa.jpg
> Baked yams in jackets and my very favorite, kasha varnishkas:
> http://tinypic.com/r/2wrko4n/9
> My piggy plate:
> http://tinypic.com/r/4kxyyc/9
> I'm always amazed at how much turkey a cat can devour, especially the
> ferals, thay can eat turkey lurkey like a bottomless abyss... Jilly is
> the smallest and she ate the most, her 14th Thanksgiving and still
> going strong. I hope all had an enjoyable Thanksgiving.

It all looks very good. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Cheri

Brooklyn1 wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> We dined at 3 PM and here it is 6 PM and we're still too stuffed for
> my mince meat pie and my wife's punkin pie.
> A perfectly roasted 12.25 lb gobbler... underneath that's the neck for
> moi:
> http://i64.tinypic.com/2eluoaa.jpg
> Baked yams in jackets and my very favorite, kasha varnishkas:
> http://tinypic.com/r/2wrko4n/9
> My piggy plate:
> http://tinypic.com/r/4kxyyc/9
> I'm always amazed at how much turkey a cat can devour, especially the
> ferals, thay can eat turkey lurkey like a bottomless abyss... Jilly is
> the smallest and she ate the most, her 14th Thanksgiving and still
> going strong. I hope all had an enjoyable Thanksgiving.

Looks good!

We had a good one here as well. I ended up with 7 for dinner as Art's
daughter's car broke down (so of course he came over here as an open
invite since we moved in 1995 next door to him).

Jacob and Sal brought Marti (Martina). She has a small business cutting
grass and simple yardwork. Her husband is at sea and no kids. She was
about to do a TV Turkey dinner when they heard of it and called me last
night.

I had to break out the pack-n-play pen to keep my loved little trip
hazard Iowna out from underfoot but she was sweet about it all with
only rare little soft yips when she felt it was her turn to get a
little Turkey (she'd hear Cash getting a little and every third time or
so, remind us to bring her a little bit if we missed her).

Conversation ranged from my apple trees needing pruning (Marti knows
fruit trees and will take care of them for optimal yield and her fees
for yard cutting are good so next year, she's going to cut ours when
she does Art's) to Brexit then over to the pipeline and seeged to
fishing (fresh and salt). Suprisingly Sal works making games and he
and Charlotte had a lively conversation on what she likes.

As food was ready, everyone helped such as able and space provided and
the only awkward moment was if grace would be an issue. Don solved it.
He said 'it is my tradition the men say grace, because the women
already have it. That doesnt match everyone's tradition so we pass it
about the table this time?'.

LOVELY way to deal with it! Don gave blessings to God then passed to
me who gave them to the Great Spirit and over to Sal who said blessing
on all from Allah, then to Marti who blessed Jesus, and to Art who
blessed Yahwhea (sorry, cant spell that) then Charlotte used a simple
bless all our friends.

Those simple moments define us all.

My heart is still grinning at how much fun we had! We passed bowls
about and thank goodness Sal knew how to carve a Turkey! We normally
just hack it up but he offered and we had real slices!

Well, we finished about 6pm and it's all cleaned up now. Leftovers
went off with my friends and we have a meaty carcass for Turkey soup
and some mashed potatoes.

The only thing forgotten? Of all things in my house, was bread! Don
had asked fpr Croisants so I got a tube. I went to go get them at 2pm
and couldn't find them. Turned out Charlotte not knowing that, had put
them in the freezer. My bad... It was too late to defrost and make
them with the meal then.

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