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Maybe I'll make a "what I'm thankful for" list when I'm good and bloated and drunk. But for now, I'm thankful for warm weather and sunny days.

Happy Turkey day to most of you guys here!  I have love for almost everyone.

Happy Thanksgiving

I'm thankful for my newfound appreciation for cranberry sauce. From henceforth, it will replace gravy.

Since when is it an either/or proposition?  I'll continue to pour my gravy over my cranberry sauce, thanks.

And it must be cranberry sauce in a can.  None of this high-falootin' homemade crap for me, no sir.  I take my cranberry sauce like I take my macaroni and cheese; cheap and store bought.

Damn we don't celebrate this stuff over here, and I love turkey  :cry:

Yes, yes...My bad  :-D. I went too far there.

It's just that all of these years I've been moderate on the cranberry sauce....But now I realize it's a topping, not just a side. I'm gonna douse my Thanksgiving meal with at least half a can from now on (and yeah, screw that homemade stuff!).

So who went out of town for Thanksgiving? Just wondering.

I live near my folks, my brother is an asshole in NYC, and the rest of my family is spread to the four winds.


Oh, and "Home for the Holidays" is the best Thanksgiving movie ever, I think.

We stayed home and didn't notice.

I am thankful for still being alive and not having my stomach asplode from all that food.

Time to go begin my winter hibernation.

Happy, uuh 24th yanks. Eats lots of turkey and whatnot. Hope you all have a good time.

What he said.

FYI, it's Happy Last Thursday in November, whichever day of the month that happens to be.

And Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Americans.  Drove to Buffalo in the snow yesterday, thankfully it was clear so I could be home again tonight. 

Oh, also, let the shopping season begin!  Or something.

Alkiera

I had to work, so I went over my aunt & uncle's for dinner, helped my uncle a bit with his horde of free computers.
(Everything from 1995 Macs to an Athlon 1900)

Visiting them was nice, work was ass.

People need to stay home or go visit family.  Save mindless consumer whoredom and the inability to be home for more than 10 minutes at a time for Black Friday dammit.

Happy Thanksgiving, have to work Thurs, Fri, and Sat.  Thanksgiving wasn't too bad, only had 2 cardiac arrests and both made it.

Our ER Doc's wife made one helluva spread, so we had some great food, even if we were working, and I'm thankful that since I'm working Thanksgiving I get Christmas off.

Had a great day, my mother and my girlfriend's mother are both single, so all four of us got together. I made insane stuffing/dressing with everything but the kitchen sink (including fresh cranberries, Stray ;)). They all enjoyed a nice bottle of white wine, I had some of Saranac's Winter Wassail. I'm thankful the Matt Brewery turned around to make a quality product!

Thanksgiving over here resulted in way too many leftovers, and a sad voodoolily (I'll whine about it in my blog, not here). But I must admit I'm happy that I won't have to cook again for a week. So. Many. Leftovers. I made dinner for 30 when we only had five.

The chai creme brulee was eggy, custardy goodness. I love casserole.

I suppose I went "out of town", but it was just across the bridge so I don't think it counts.  Dinner was turkey, cornbread and sausage stuffing, three cheese potatoes au gratin, real cranberry sauce (I added toasted pecans as an experiment, turned out better than I thought it would), roasted vegetables, pumpkin pie, pecan pie, and mince pie.

Stray, if you haven't already discovered this, try putting cranberry sauce and stuffing on turkey leftover sandwiches.  It's even better cold than hot IMO.   :hulk_rock:

You heathens with your cranberry jelly.  Do you eat potato flakes too?  Bastards.

Homemade cranberries and lumpy mashed potatos.. mmmm.  Unfortunatly we went to my brother's and he made garlic potatos.. cranberries don't go so well with that.

Turkey day was good.  Only problem I ran into was a mess up trying to get to Walk the Line, which I guess will have to wait till later to see.  Hope everyone ate to much.   :evil:

Happy Turkey Day my fellow Turkey people.

I had 14 people and got no turkey.

I feel...sad yet comforted that everyone else got to it first :(

*Cries*

Next year I am forcing you both to trek it to our house for Thanksgiving.

We can have a Turkey Day LAN party.

Well, I'll say thanks for having two friends with transplanted American significant others. This resulted in nine of us getting together for turkey on the weekend. Good times were had by all.

A good day but I'm glad that's over. Spent the day with the family. Both mine and the wives. Started at my Sister's house with a total of 14 people, 6 of them children under the age of 6 (reminds me why we don't want kids). Did the full meal around 1:00 there.

--homemade Italian wedding soup to start (my grandmother makes the best wedding soup ever altough the wife doesn't like the fact she fries the meatballs), turkey, turkey-stuffing, sausage-stuffing, sweet potatoe casserole, twice baked mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, agrodolce (sweet & sour giblets, nasty stuff), rolls, and salad.

Then we went to the mother-in-laws where it was just the 4 of us but we did the entire full meal all over again at 5:00.

--Turkey, turkey stuffing, emeril's recipe for stuffing, green beans, candied sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, cranberry salad, and regular salad.

I've never been so stuffed but how do you tell your mother-in-law no thanks when she's spent the day cooking this huge meal? A fat weekend recovering on the couch and now I'm good to go again and for that I'm thankful.

But you made a wonderful turkey, my love. My house was full of relatives assholes to elbows, but a good time was had by all.

I ended up with no power from Friday until today due to a power issue, and the 3 dollar part (a fuse) being impossible to find.  Yes, I did try and call a professional (electrician), and was told to pack sand until monday.  I have come to realize that there is no such thing as the holiday spirit.  Oh and my bones were cold.  It warmed up today though!

I am moving to Aruba I think.

I have two gallons of turkey stock to freeze. That's after reducing for two hours. I even hacked the bones up and used the liver and heart to get that rich, deep flavor. It's pure jelly now. Last night I made Thai green curry soup with some of it, with creamy coconut milk and lots of fresh ginger and kefir lime leaves. Yummy. Tonight is either turkey enchiladas or turkey chili, depending on how motivated I become to go to the store for beans. Thank god I like turkey.

Shitty about the power outage, Ched. This morning I saw a plumber drive by and just thought how crappy it'd been to need a service like that ,but then hafta wait til Monday.

We went to my parent's for Thanksgiving this year.  We've been splitting Thanksgiving/Christmas for the past 3 years.  This is my first Thanksgiving at my parent's house since we started that.

To paint an example of what the two families are like, just think of the movie, My Big Fat Greek Wedding but with Mexicans instead of Greeks.  Her family at Thanksgiving will have at most 7 people.  We had between 30 and 40 people, in a 1500 sq ft house (the backyard is decent sized though for Arizona). 

2 different style Turkeys
2 different style stuffings (one was a goat cheese/rice stuffing)
garlic mashed potatoes
my mom's special rolls
7 pies
all of the standards and enough various side dishes to feed an army

My family is absolutely crazy too and I imagine somewhat scary to a bunch of white folk of European decent. I could go into details, but you'd be scared too.  I hope I didn't frighten my in-laws too much. 

Didn't get any left-overs, which makes me sad.  We left Friday after the UofA/ASU game and I was staying with my sister at her new "McMansion", so I couldn't raid my parent's fridge at 2am to wolf down more stuffing.

If you move to Aruba, you'll be neglecting everything to go play on the beach all the time.
Is that really what you want? Sun? Surf? Cool Breezes and tall, delicious drinks watching beautiful sunsets?

Come on... you know you don't.

Cold Leftover Turkey and cold weather is what you want. Admit it.

Please pass the turkey. :P

Heh. I am picturing Salma Hayek's family in that mostly crappy movie where she marries Chandler (Fools Rush In (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119141/)).

Did anyone deep fry a turkey? They did one in my office the week before Thanksgiving. Only got a taste, but it was fabulous.

Went to my sis's house- got to play with my 3 year old nephew, ate a bunch of yummy food (3 types of stuffing- life is good), and fell in love with my almost 3 month old niece when I got her to smile at me for the first time. You tricksy women and your smiles!

 Spent the rest of the weekend sleeping in until almost noon and playing lots of video games and poker. I think we should have federally mandated paid 4 day weekends at least once a month. They are quite refreshing.

I'm in the process of moving right now and since we (my family) normally have Thanksgiving in my house (It having the largest kitchen by far) we decided to go out to eat.  That turned out to be a disaster, even though we had reservations for 6 pm we weren't seated until 7, and then, after we had ordered (and been through the salad and waited about 15 minutes), we were informed that they were out of Turkey and asked to reorder.  So I had a pork chop :( And then they ran out of Pumpkin Pie  :cry:

We decided that we would do a huge feast at Christmas to make up for it so I have that to look forward to (I usually cook the turkey).

You might want to lay off some of the recipie posts Lilly, or you and Sauced might find yourselves with a bunch of uninvited dinner guests one weekend...

Deep fried turkey has been an office tradition for a few years now (plus a giant potluck of doom).  If you've never tried it before it's very surprising how well it turns out - none of the oil gets in, and none of the natural turkey juice gets out, so everything below the skin is perfect and very succulent.  Mmm.

I wonder how many people died this year deep frying their turkey.  I had no idea people did this until I came back to the US a few years ago.  Ever since, every year, I hear about fatalities caused by... well... I guess it would be careless turkey frying or something. 

In Glasgow they deep fry pizza to warm it up.  That is so disgusting. 

Leave it up to a Scot to take a perfectly wonderful food and fry it. Don't they also do fried twinkies? However, Scotch eggs are one of my favorite things. I also like fried cheese. Mmmmm....cheese.

I've never seen a twinkie in Glasgow... maybe I just never noticed.   But yes, if they have them, it's likely they would deep fry them.  They do, however, deep fry Mars bars (Milky Way in Britain).

Probably house fires started by the fryer.  (We run ours outside on the patio for a reason.)

Yeah, I saw someone on the Food Network enjoying one of those ( I think it was Anthony Bourdain). It sounds like a fantastic idea.


Oh, and VDL just made me long for a Scotch egg. Been far too long since I enjoyed one!

That is most of the deaths. The rest are from the retards who want to 'drink the cookin' gravy while it's hot'  :evil:

Well, if you and the wife ever come down for that Winterhawks game like you said, we can take a stroll down to our friendly neighborhood English pub for a round of Newcastle and some Scotch eggs. God that place (the Horsebrass) is so perfect this time of year. We never go when it's nice out 'cuz it's so dark and smoky in there. But it's perfect for weathering those cold, rainy Portland nights.

The annual T-Birds fan train to Portland is scheduled for January 14th. We are seriously considering it...will holla when we get it figured out.

Is it Timberhawks? Are the Winterhawks some other sport? Those aren't even real species. I don't know anything about sports. Except that the Bears are kicking ass this year.

Hmm, well up here T-Birds means UBC Thunderbirds. Oh, and I love the Bears, but they aren't really kicking ass. More like they are barely grinding out 13 points a game, but thier defence is so awesome that its enough to win.

Deep fried turkey is the best way to have turkey imo. Dumbasses dying trying to do it makes it even better. Extreme cooking!

OMG! the flames!!!! (http://www.ul.com/turkeyfryers/fryer.mpg) For the safety. Not the amusement value. More information can be found here....http://www.ul.com/consumers/turkeys.html

... the what?

Why do you think you didn't have a ham for thanksgiving?

Portland Winterhawks
Seattle Thunderbirds (or T-Birds for short)
Vancouver GIANTS (get it right, Bunk! =P )

I was thinking of the Portland Timbers, which my Google-fu has revealed to be a soccer team.

They certainly do fried bread.  It just never occured to me to immerse a slice of white bread in hot oil.  I ate everything on my plate except the fried bread.  I am only partly Scot, after all.

I am glad everyone had a good holiday, except for Ched for whom I am sorry had a bad holiday.  My DIY tip for today: aluminum foil makes a great conductor.  Worked when the fuse blew in my Commodore 16.

My holiday was a mixed bag but overall good.  Had dinner at my in-laws house, which is five minutes from my house.  The turkey was sliced when I got there, but I am sure it was not fried since it was pretty dry.  I don't like cranberry sauce.  Ate dressing, turkey, mashed potatoes and cake.  Normally I don't eat cake.  Several people were there, none of them related to me by blood... well, other than my son.  I managed to wiggle out of going away for the weekend since my mother-in-law was tired from making the food, although my wife gave me some guilt about a family tradition and how Sam was so important and why didn't I ever think of anything like that and something about how she has to do everything.  I felt bad until she went to bed, then I played games until 0300.

I'm running out of clever ways to use up the leftover turkey. It's almost a week old by now, too, but it still tastes and smells okay. I guess I'll just make some big batch of something and freeze it. To date I've made: turkey salad samriches (cranberries + mayo = luv), turkey and rice soup (for a hungover Sauced), green curry turkey soup, turkey chili, and turkey risotto. I now have leftovers of all of these things, which sorta defeats the purpose. I think I'll use the leftover risotto to make some arancini (which I think freeze well? SPT-experience with this? Oh, wait, do you hate risotto?). I had turkey chili chili dogs last night which didn't even put a dent in the leftover chili, and my intestines can't take any more beans. Sigh.

Ooh! Maybe turkey pho tonight. I love noodles.

Derail! The place where I take kickboxing and pilates just started up an Indo/Chinese weapons class that I'm gonna start going to. Yay!

That sounds like a winner. Add some Sriracha and hoisin to make it even yummier. I will be at your place about 9 pm for my sample!  :-D

Heh, you know it. I even put a spoonful of hoisin in my chili to cut the heat and add a little depth of flave. I like to call Sriracha "cock sauce". On account of the rooster on the bottle. Not for anything gross.

I think I will have to call it that from now on.

According to Alton Brown turkey can be safely stored, if well wrapped for up to six months, in the freezer. In an Arincini you can use leftover rice/risotto but it doesn't have to be risotto, it can be any kind of "rice". I don't know that turkey would be a tasty addition.. if I were you I'd make a small test batch before compromising the rest of your left over turkey.

Thanks. And since I do have some leftover risotto, I'll prolly just make little arancini-like cakes and freeze those (the turkey and zucchini in the risotto might make neat little balls difficult).