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Post by roverpup on Oct 9, 2017 14:42:58 GMT
Happy Turkey Day to all and any Canadians on the forum!
We played host to a special dinner and spent yesterday with my sister and her husband. Today Dan is springing his mom from the nursing home to have a turkey dinner with us. I did all the heavy cooking yesterday so today will be a breeze!
The weather was so beautiful yesterday that Dan and I went swimming in the lake before our meal. I spent a long time in the water and really didn’t want to get out. The beach was deserted of course and the water was calm despite a fair southerly breeze. I actually got a stone to skip quite a ways! Love the beach at this time of year!
:-))
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Post by mllemass on Oct 9, 2017 17:12:23 GMT
Happy Thanksgiving to you, too! We had our turkey meal yesterday, so today is a quiet day of leftovers. I can't remember the last time it was so warm for Thanksgiving. In fact, I remember going to a Fall Fair during this weekend years ago, and if started snowing. It was wet snow - almost rain - and it melted right away, but it was still technically snow!
For me, what this weekend really means is switching my closet from Summer to Winter. I have to do the closet-switch twice a year.
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Post by roverpup on Oct 8, 2018 15:16:39 GMT
Another year and Turkey Day has rolled around again!
This year I am cooking a feast for my sis and her hubby. They just landed at 2 am. this morning from Vancouver after visiting their daughters there for a week. They'll be at our house around 5 today.
Tomorrow, they are scheduled to fo back home but I hope I can convince them to stay a bit longer.
Hope any and all fellow Canadians on this board are having a good Thanksgiving holiday. I have a lot to be thankful for - relatively good health, a hubby who is my best friend and partner, and family and friends who are close to me and happy and productive.
And to everyone else - have a great day too!
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Post by mllemass on Oct 8, 2018 18:38:19 GMT
Happy Thanksgiving!
We had our family dinner yesterday. Even though I offered to cook the turkey, my mother insisted we buy one already cooked - and after an internet search, I found a supermarket that sold them! It was kind of expensive, but it was huge and we barely made a dent in it. We’ll be eating leftovers for days, so we’ll probably do it again next year!
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Post by roverpup on Oct 8, 2018 19:53:54 GMT
Happy Thanksgiving! We had our family dinner yesterday. Even though I offered to cook the turkey, my mother insisted we buy one already cooked - and after an internet search, I found a supermarket that sold them! It was kind of expensive, but it was huge and we barely made a dent in it. We’ll be eating leftovers for days, so we’ll probably do it again next year! A local upscale grocery store was selling cooked whole turkeys and I contemplated buying one but I do love to cook and put my own twist on things so in the end I opted to forgo the cooked version. But I might try it in the future. I was super organised about this dinner and as of right now I have everything prepared already excepect sauteing the green beans and making the gravy. Last night I made the low fat, low carb, low potassium stuffing from scratch and boiled the cobs of corn and "decobbed" them. Then this morning I made the double boiled mashed potatoes (my brother-in-law has a high potassium problem so every recipe has to be friendly to his diet and Dan's diabetes) with garlic and thyme. All I have to do is warm them up for dinner. I also made early this morning the low carb, low fat, low potassium cranberry sauce. So just the finishing touches have to be done now, which means I get to relax and have a martini when my sis and her hubby come! That's just the way I like it!! 😁
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Post by mllemass on Oct 8, 2018 20:22:05 GMT
I wish I could say we made everything from scratch, but we didn’t! We had stuffing from a mix and gravy from a can, but I always make my own cranberry sauce. My mother made mashed potatoes, beets, sweet potatoes and roasted corn. And we had a pumpkin pie from the grocery store.
As I’m sure I’ve mentioned before,we’re Italian so Thanksgiving is really an excuse to eat these non-Italian foods we wouldn’t eat otherwise.
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Post by queenzod on Oct 9, 2018 13:06:38 GMT
Yum! Happy Thanksgiving to my Canadian friends. It all sounds delicious. What time is dinner? 😉
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Post by onebluestocking on Nov 16, 2018 13:26:13 GMT
I love reading about other countries' holiday menus. US Thanksgiving is next Thursday, and I'm just deciding what to make. Is green bean casserole, with mushrooms and fried onions, a thing anywhere else? Also pumpkin, apple and/or pecan pie are traditional here for dessert. You must have both sweet and regular potatoes. I usually make both regular and cornbread stuffing, because some people in the family like one or the other.
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Post by roverpup on Nov 16, 2018 17:53:27 GMT
I love to cook so I am always interested in regional differences in holiday menus. And accommodating dietary restrictions is always a challenge too. My husband is diabetic and my brother-in-law has multiple health issues (cancer meds, and potassium problems) plus he is a really fussy eater!! My sister had bariatric surgery so she has dietary restrictions too. Luckily I will eat almost ANYTHING (I'd eat a bug if it had a French name LOL!) so I can accommodate them all and still enjoy myself.
Yum... Turkey! I love it so much I have bought it a number of times in non-holiday times and cooked it up just to enjoy it. And then making turkey soup from scratch is the bonus!
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Post by mllemass on Nov 16, 2018 18:15:30 GMT
I once went with a friend to visit her wealthy family in Nova Scotia. It was summer, but because of having a visitor (me), they had their maid cook a turkey one day. My friend told me that their turkey tradition was eating the turkey on the first day, eating hot turkey sandwiches on the second day, and on the third day their maid made turkey soup with the carcass. They had soup for the next few days.
I’d love some turkey right now - and a maid!
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