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Happy Thanksgiving.
Cranberry sauce?
The wife and I went to the in town UMC fora Thanksgiving dinner and it was very welcoming and comfortable. I struck up a conversation with a guy from Taiwan which was enjoyable learning about that culture…all in all, a pleasant and relaxed day.
One tradition I liked growing up at thanksgiving was the trip to Pennsylvania at my grandmothers house. We started our morning early and traveled the 80 miles from NJ to PA. My grandmother was already waiting for us and up at 4AM preparing the feast. Tradition dictated we would sit down to breakfast…. Grandma (our Nona Pia) always had cookies & biscotti prepared with coffee. Now since I was the male child, I was given a dollar bill and told to walk up town to visit with cousin Georgio the barber which was a definite pleasure for me… a right of passage. You see, George’s barber shop was a man’s club, you’d walk in and be greeted by old Italian men getting haircuts, shaves and making bets on the football games. The odds were marked on the gigantic mirror facing you and even at 12 yo, I was asked my opinion on scores & points spreads. And let’s not forget the card games in the back room … LOL. God, I miss that place…George would cut my hair, shave my neck with hot lather soap & a straight razor then send me on my way. I dreamed of the day that I would walk in there, get a haircut & a hot shave and place a few bets on the games.
And all of this is to tell you my lovely wife sensing this just bought me an old fashioned stove top coffee pot so I could have a piping hot cup of coffee like I did as a kid, eating my Nonnas’s fresh baked biscotti’s with coffee. Kids in my day consumed coffee starting age 6 in order to eat the rock hard biscotti… so it goes! LOL
And all of this is to tell you my lovely wife sensing this just bought me an old fashioned stove top coffee pot so I could have a piping hot cup of coffee like I did as a kid, eating my Nonnas’s fresh baked biscotti’s with coffee. Kids in my day consumed coffee starting age 6 in order to eat the rock hard biscotti… so it goes! LOL
Someone else made that and did a very good job with it. Our Thanksgiving meals include four families and is a potluck affair; I'm always assigned to supply the turkey and greasy beans (this year I added dumplings). We had a very enjoyable time. Thank You LORD.
I’ve always admired the American tradition of thanksgiving as a nation, I’m sure it has drawn down many of God’s blessings.
Did you cook a whole monster turkey? I had turkey at a mining camp one time that tasted incredible, but other times turkey didn’t taste very good at all. Is there a secret to it?
It's my favorite holiday, brings family together for a prayer, a meal, good conversation, and kids playing all around (me growing up, the adults indulged in some serious ROOK games), but at my age I really don't need all those carbs
Yes! It brings us together at least once a year, and all the cooks get to do their 'specialties'.
I did an 18 pounder this year, timed it to thaw in the fridge @ 4 lbs per day. Turkeys are easy to overcook and come out dry, especially the white meat. My 'secret' is slow roasted overnight in the oven, in a roasting bag, below boiling temp (like sous vide), with a stab in meat thermometer, lightly salted and olive oiled, on a small rack in the bag in a roasting pan; it's important to initially give it a blast of heat at 375F-400F for an hour to kill surface bacteria and give it a light browning, then reduce temp to below boiling, 180F-200F. I put this one in the oven at 11 PM and turned the oven off at 6 AM. It was perfect.
Aussies don't have similar holiday?