What is/are your favorite Thanksgiving dish(es)? Do you tend toward the “classics” like the marshmallow yams of sorrow?
Fruit cocktail Jello?
The green bean casserole of shame?
(I’ve never seen it look this nice…)
Cranberry sauce, complete with can ridges?
Or do you tend to try new, maybe exotic fare? What are some things you’ve tried that have worked out well, maybe even become a tradition? What has not lived up to expectations? What has become the memory of “Remember that banana, wild rice, and clam stuffing you made?” that won’t die?
I make a sweet potato, apple, and butternut squash dish that displaced the dreaded marshmallow yams of sorrow at our dinner. You simply peel the squash and slice it into 1/2″ slices. Slice the sweet potatoes into 1/2″ slices and parboil them for about 10 minutes. Peel, core & slice granny smith apples and slice into 1/2″ slices.
Arrange the slices into rows in a buttered baking dish, alternating the squash, potatoes, & apples. Dot the top with butter, drizzle a few tablespoons of maple syrup over the top (a couple tablespoons of bourbon can also be added. Sprinkle some cinnamon & nutmeg on the top (maybe pecans, too). Bake in a 350 degree oven for about 20-25 minutes until it’s bubbly around the edges.
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With this cake, nobody goes without their favorite pie. (Via Hot Air)
A Cherry Pie, an Apple Pie and a Pumpkin Pie, Each Cooked Inside a Separate Cake, and Then All Cooked Together inside Another Cake
Happy Thanksgiving y’all. Don’t know when I’ll check in later so behave yourselves until I do.
Short, sweet, simple: letter to the editor in today’s HouChron:
Many thanks to all the hamsters. Today’s brain MRI was negative or is it positive. Guess it all depends on how you look at it. Best news so far. See the P O P does work.
All you good folks have a great Thanksgiving with your loved ones.
GO HOGS GO!!! BEAT THE HELL OUTA LSU!!!!
WOOOOO PIIIIIGGG SOOOOOIE!!!
Hamous, it’s ok if you root for the Hogs. It is your best choice.
#49 Hammy
Anyone else remember a story here in Houston sometime in the last 20-25 years, where some renters were found to have excavated a huge hole in their living room, right through the slab of the house, with all the dirt piled up in interior roooms?
#48 Shannon
So whooever it was that dropped their turkey in the dishwater — did that count as brining?
Russian newsreader Tatyana Limanova flips the bird at Obama.
Heh
#44 – SEMPER FI Marine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How ’bout a Queen Bohemian?
My bride is semi-retired so she had the luxury of leaving on Sunday. She wanted to spend some time with her favorite grand niece. They rent girl moives and order Pizza.
Construction on Casa de Hamous is closing in on four weeks. I can cook but no kitchen sink. It’s like camping out. Noise is pretty annoying today.
Say what you want, but the secret to moist baked turkey is brining.
#45 Dave
So the Super family travels like the Obammys, mom & pop in separate vehicles? Sounds like a lonely 600 mi drive to me. Y’all have a great holiday. ya hear?
Oh and Congradulations, Shannon and prayers to Hogfan’s Mom.
Well, I rolled in about 4 and found Small Back-Up Dawg at home by herself, (Mamma went to the store) so I put her leash on and took her for a walk down to the pond. I don’t dare let her run free because of the Coyotes. But she really loved all the foreign smells. Since this place is 600 miles east of Houston and in the same time zone it gets dark early, sun sets around 4:30.
OK,….waiting for wagonbuner, 3,2,1……
At last: The plain truth up on a billboard in Georgia:
Hogfan – best wishes and prayers for a full and prompt recovery.
Until now you Hamsters didn’t know the tribulations of living and cooking for a Hungarian Queen.
#10 Shannon
You can buy “whole berry” canned cranberries that is not a solid mass of cran-gel.
Hogfan
Prayers for your mother.
Warning: When after emptying a large Ziploc bag full of hot Hungarian paprika, don’t hold the open side in front of your face as you begin to wad it up for the trash. A big cloud of hot paprika residue could blow right into your damned eye and burn like hell.
Sheesh.
At least it wasn’t the hot ancho chile powder I was repacking earlier.
Thanks HF. Prayers your way.
And yes, WB, she is a saint.
In a lusty sorta way.
🙂
#33 – kneemail is UP
Hogfan;
Thoughts and prayers for youre mother and congrats on your upcoming 25th.
And I was just getting ready to say I was rootin’ for the Hogs this weekend!
But seriously, prayers for your mama.
On a lighter note…….
Congrats Shannon. Next May will be 25 for me and Mrs HF.
And Hamous, What championship game was that the Gators were supposed to play in? I can’t find it on any schedule.
Afternoon Hamsters from genuine Razorback country. No not Baton Rouge, that’s Friday.
Could use some knee mails from the comfy couch. Mama Hogfan is in the hospital with pneumonia and will be thru the holiday. There is a mass in her right lung and the
quackdoc is not 100% on it being just pneumonia. Things are a little better today for the first time all week.SD: Check in when you get back to ol’ Alabammy so we all know you got there safely.
I just returned from the funeral mass for Mr. G. Our priest, who is relatively new to our parish, gave the homily. He had a few months to get to know Mr. and Mrs. G, as they attended daily mass, Mrs. G is a sacristan, and both were active in parish activities. He commented on their faith as he described how he had gotten to know them. He told us that when he was called and notified that Mr. G. was dying, he went to the hospital, expecting to find a family in crisis. He was surprised to find the… Read more »
Texpat always has ten extra people show up.
Free good food and wine.
The Ghost of Thanksgiving Yet to Come. “Winston, come into the dining room, it’s time to eat,” Julia yelled to her husband. “In a minute, honey, it’s a tie score,” he answered. Actually Winston wasn’t very interested in the traditional holiday football game between Detroit and Washington. Ever since the government passed the Civility in Sports Statute of 2017, outlawing tackle football for its “unseemly violence” and the “bad example it sets for the rest of the world,” Winston was far less of a football fan than he used to be. Two-hand touch wasn’t nearly as exciting. Yet wasn’t the… Read more »
Congradulations, Shannon.
Marriage rules!
#21 WB
I am the CHEF, by the way, and I have a large collection of very sharp knives.
Bonecrusher;
A couple of summers ago we went desert camping with Mrs. Darren’s family. There over a campfire a pressure cooker was filled with lard and we deep fried a turkey. One of the best tasting turkeys I ever ate.
We’re going to have homemade cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving. Although I hate cranberry sauce I still say, “whoohoo!”
Idiot proof turkey: 1) Get one of those big plastic cooking bags from the grocery store 2) Get one of those big turkeys in a plastic bag from the grocery store 3) Take the bird out of the plastic bag and wash and thoroughly dry the bird inside and out. This way you are sure to remove the bag of guts giblets. 4) Rub the bird with olive oil and generously rub in salt and pepper all over the bird inside and out. 5) Take the guts giblets out of the bag and (after making sure they are clean) put… Read more »
We gotta eat something between now and whenever Wolfgang Puck up there finally gets dinner finished.
#21 – Ya heathen – sammitches are for AFTER Turkey Day
#20 texpat
Get back in that kitchen and rattle those pots & pans. And fix yourself up a little bit, will ya?
And bring me a beer and a sammich dammit.
Pearl beer was my first. Because it was cheap by the quart and when you are 14 years old, money is hard to come by.
I am working like a slave cooking and getting ready for tomorrow. We started out with 4 people and were going to enjoy, for once, a small, relaxed Thanksgiving dinner.
We are now at 14 head and I’m praying it stops there. A half dozen others are slated to come over for dessert.
Later….
Texpat and I have an old friend who used to haul hay and drink Pearl.
Cold or hot.
Yech.
Got the pico de gallo finished last night and letting its flavors mix today. Will pick up the tamales in the morning. After a breakfast of pico, tamales, and greasy sunny side up fried eggs no one will be hungry before halftime at least. Back in the good old days, a Pearl beer or two to wash the breakfast down was also required.
Good morning Hamsters. Brisk 50 at 6 and that marvelous clear ebony sky filled with the stars we haven’t been able to see lately because of the clouds. A sliver crescent Moon was on her way to bed. Orion’s belt shone wonderfully bright as he moved toward setting. All was still, fresh, and invigorating. Thank you Lord for this, for the rain, for the blessing You have bestowed upon us.
#9 & #12 – this one has been “out” for a while and GOD BLESS that young and wise Lady student!
I do give at least partial credit to the school for merely giving the little Lady ‘other stuff’ to work on and NOT trying to make her submit to the blatant CacadeTORO
Google finds out that making cheap “alternative” energy isn’t as easy as they thought and pulls the plug on the project.
If only we could convince the idiots at the DoE of that.
More evidence Joe Paterno had excessive amounts of stroke at Penn State. [vice president for student affairs from 2003 to 2007 Vicky] Triponey said that during her time at Penn State there was an “ongoing internal debate” about who should decide about how to discipline Penn State football players. I’d bet that happens at most colleges (and a lot of high schools). The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that differences over treatment of players came to a head in 2007,when police charged six football players for barging into a campus apartment that April and beating up several students, one… Read more »
#8 goatboy
I like the “whole berry” kind as opposed to the jelly. It’s a lot better.
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but Shannon has a very good point about going real.
#9 Goat: Good on that young lady! No doubt the Casper Milquetoast, Metrosexuals will be terrified by her and she revolted by them. One day, after she gets through college, she will make some lucky guy a great wife and children a great mother.
There will be no Nativity Scene inWashington this year!
The Supreme Court has ruled that there cannot be a Nativity Scene in theUnited States’ Capitol this Christmas season.
This isn’t for any religious reason. They simply have not been able to find three Wise Men in the Nation’s Capitol.
A search for a Virgin continues. There was no problem, however, finding enough asses to fill the stable.
The canned stuff is okay during the rest of the year. But nothing can replace real cranberries during the holidays.
I wonder what the actual cranberry content is in the canned stuff.