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schild
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Happy turkey day everyone. I'm thankful I don't live in San Antonio. This place sucks. Riverwalk is for touristy douchebags.
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Sjofn
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I am thankful that I am having a semi-comeuppance after my bitching about Ingmar's family eating so late, because I am sick and don't want to move yet and I don't have to because dinner isn't for another five hours.
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rattran
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I took a 3 hour bath, and now am eating ham, penne pasta in a light tomato and cream sauce, and fresh bread. Surrounded by cats. It's a good thanksgiving.
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Trippy
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I took a 3 hour bath, and now am eating ham, penne pasta in a light tomato and cream sauce, and fresh bread. Surrounded by cats. It's a good thanksgiving.
Did they make any hostage demands? Should we call the police for you? |
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Lantyssa
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I had a Thanksgiving Popeye's chicken and have been working on my RenFest outfit for tomorrow. It's been a pretty good day.  |
Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Margalis
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I haven't had anything to eat today yet. Are ethnic food delivery places open on Thanksgiving?  |
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MahrinSkel
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Happy turkey day everyone. I'm thankful I don't live in San Antonio. This place sucks. Riverwalk is for touristy douchebags.
It was the high point of my Basic Training experience (at Lackland you get a day pass to downtown towards the end). But by then, my standards of "fun" were pretty low, and The Alamo was closed. --Dave |
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rattran
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I took a 3 hour bath, and now am eating ham, penne pasta in a light tomato and cream sauce, and fresh bread. Surrounded by cats. It's a good thanksgiving.
Did they make any hostage demands? Should we call the police for you? The only demand was for ham, which when satisfied left he cats sleeping in little lumps around the room. Well, except Random who seemed more interested in the rosemary and olive oil bread than the ham. But's he's somewhat weird. |
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Signe
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Since we got a freebie turkey (I was even able to get just the boobies!), I made the effort. Threw some cranberries, oranges, and apples in the crock pot this morning for sauce - it came out too tart but the house smells lovely, stuffed the turkey with lemons, oranges and thyme, smushed some potatoes with sour cream, butter, and a bit of nutmeg, made apple, onion and walnut stuffing, steamed sprouts, gravy from drippings which was nice and light due to the citrus. All very traditional food. Even have apple pie, although I didn't make it myself. I just couldn't manage anything else today. We didn't pray or make speeches about being thankful for anything. I haven't watched any parades or football. We'll have leftovers forever.  I'm tired. This is why I don't do holidays! Beans on toast next year. Strangely, I just put some rosemary and olive oil bread in the freezer! We don't use up bread fast enough not to. Magenta ate some turkey but Lister wanted salmon. Cats. |
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Abagadro
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We followed Alton Brown's methodology for a brined and roasted turkey and it turned out spectacular. I am both stuffed and drunk right now.
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Quinton
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Thanksgiving with good friends is the way to go. Had my fill of turkey and the trimmings and catching up with some folks I haven't seen in quite a while.
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Yegolev
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I am finding a small but resilient anti-meringue underground. The lemon pie, I have to say, was awesome. I don't mean to be immodest, but it was the best lemon pie I have ever had. A true sour lemon pie that made my mouth draw up like in the cartoons when Jerry put alum in Tom's mouth. I almost could not eat the whole slice! It was awesome. Easy, too. Maybe too much zest, but I did end up using the dried sort. The wife requested a lemon cream pie for next time... should be easy, just use some cream in place of water, I guess. Then the women started up a bunch of bullshit about mixing Crystal Lite in Cool-Whip, and using Splenda, and the wonders of sugar-free Jello pudding. Stupid women, taking all the goodness out of life. It's like they didn't just eat some heavy cream whipped with confectioner's sugar. |
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Selby
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I had Thanksgiving in West Hollyweird with a bunch of middle aged gay men and women. It was a good time, they sure can cook!
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Sky
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working on my RenFest outfit for tomorrow. Pixplz  |
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Mission accomplished!
Turkey was absolutely awesome, and now there's a bunch of Italians asking for thanksgiving dinner every week!
Mashed potatoes impressed everyone, as being "different" from ours and more satisfying for some unknown reason (probably just pepper, heh).
Lots of lovely gravy, then green bean casserole and butternut squash with honey and curry.
There was some broccoli thing too, but let's face it: everyone hates broccoli.
Wine. Heh.
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Sky
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everyone hates broccoli.
neg Broccoli is awesome. |
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Abagadro
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Well I'm partaking of the traditional Friday after-thanksgiving activities: massive hangover and sandwiches.
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"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
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Bunk
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Just to feel like I participated, I made my favorite Yam recipe yesterday.
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Tonight is the even-better-than-our-awesome-turkey-day-after-Thanksgiving-dinner:  |
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Segoris
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Well I'm partaking of the traditional Friday after-thanksgiving activities: massive hangover and sandwiches.
^This a thousand times. I don't think I've moved this slow in a long ass time. |
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Evildrider
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everyone hates broccoli.
neg Broccoli is awesome. For real, I love broccoli. Cauliflower on the other hand, I wouldn't even feed to my dogs. |
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rattran
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Tonight is the even-better-than-our-awesome-turkey-day-after-Thanksgiving-dinner:
A crab orgy? |
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Ingmar
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Yep! It is dungeness crab season, which is pretty much the best time of year. So good.
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Sjofn
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everyone hates broccoli.
neg Broccoli is awesome. Preach it! |
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Margalis
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Yesterday I ended up eating two microwave burritos and a slice of store-bought pumpkin pie.
Best thanksgiving ever!
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schild
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everyone hates broccoli.
neg Broccoli is awesome. Preach it! Anyone who can actually smell the noxious taint that broccoli gives off hates it. Everyone else thinks they like it. |
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CmdrSlack
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everyone hates broccoli.
neg Broccoli is awesome. Preach it! Anyone who can actually smell the noxious taint that broccoli gives off hates it. Everyone else thinks they like it. Neg. Steamed with sage and possibly rosemary in the steaming water works wonders. Granted, I have one of those steaming basket things... |
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Quinton
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Yep! It is dungeness crab season, which is pretty much the best time of year. So good.
Pre-dinner snacks at the thanksgiving dinner I went to included crab cakes. They were quite tasty. |
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Bunk
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Broccoli is one of the few veggies I regularly buy. Steamed lightly with a bit of butter works fine. I also add it to things, especially curry ramen.
Mind you, I love all the "icky" veggies: artichokes, aspargus, cauliflower, turnips, beets, etc
Could do without parsnips and eggplant, mind you.
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Strazos
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Had a pot luck Thanksgiving with about 30 of my classmates/colleagues/FSO family/wtfever. Not only do I have more in common with these people than most of my own family (makes things more fun), but you also get some very unusual dishes (or preparations of "normal" dishes) that I wouldn't normally see at the usual family function. Like yams with onions and goat cheese - sounds weird as hell, but was actually quite delicious. Also, homemade cranberry sauce. I normally hate the stuff, but however they made it was great (sort of like Lingonberry stuff you'd see at Ikea).
It going to be interesting trying to get some of the US Thanksgiving staples overseas, especially in Africa, Asia, or the Near/Middle East. ESPECIALLY if we don't have access to a US military base.
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Quinton
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Ever since sophomore year of college, thanksgiving has been a "friends" holiday instead of a "family" holiday for me, and it works really well that way. It's definitely fun to get enough folks together that you end up with 2-3 different "family recipes" of stuffing, potatoes, etc, possibly multiple turkeys prepared different ways.
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Murgos
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We followed Alton Brown's methodology for a brined and roasted turkey and it turned out spectacular.
I did that last year, came out excellent. This year we went to Chicago and ate with my GF's family. I'm not sure how they manage to keep that city so clean looking. |
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Cyrrex
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I moved to Chicago (well, the northern burbs anyway) about three years ago, and it really is a remarkably clean and attractive city. I think it surprises a lot of people.
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Abagadro
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Doesn't the wind just blow everything out of town?
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"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
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Ingmar
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We followed Alton Brown's methodology for a brined and roasted turkey and it turned out spectacular.
I did that last year, came out excellent. This year we went to Chicago and ate with my GF's family. I'm not sure how they manage to keep that city so clean looking. By imitating Toronto, I imagine, now that place is *really* creepy clean. |
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