A Thanksgiving Question

You don't have an image of Boston Market?

 

hockey, I didn't have the image on screen before.

Why don't you look at Swiss Chalet or Kenny Roger's Roasters as an option.

 

I can't see a day where I'll ever play host on Thanksgiving. And for that, I am thankful.

 

I'll be at work for Thanksgiving. Can't wait to dig into that processed turkey loaf.

 

Canada had the holiday last month. At home, we make another turkey to celebrate the American one for no absolute reason.

Well, I shouldn't take credit about making a turkey....I can't cook and the one time I made turkey, well I asked my guests if well done was their preference.

Thank god Swiss Chalet was open that day....

 

I will probably go through the Jack in the Box drive-thru and order a turkey sandwich in honor of an arbitrarily-set artificial holiday.

 

Whatever you do, don't go SPAM.

 

Greenberg Smoked Turkeys are the way to go. (I've never watched it personally, but ...) Oprah gives one to every audience member every year, I believe. You can order them, and you'll never have a better turkey.

 

There's a place between here and Tuscaloosa that has them. Was thinking about that as a turkey breast instead of the full bird. Would be easier and if I'm going to hostthe whole fam damily, far less stressful.

Would make life far easier as I host the world's pickiest eaters. Ms. Slappy's SIL won't eat pork (sausage in the stuffing), her dad thinks bland food is too spicy and won't eat onions (and I think doesn't eat turkey). Her mom insists on cooking something small for him, but she never makes "small". Last year, with 11 people and my insistence that people not bring things other than her mom's sweet potato pie (that a Yankee like me has no idea how to cook), we ended up with OCB-like options and threw much of it out.

Sidebar: why is it, when people ask if they should bring anything and you tell them no, that's ok (or offer an alternative like a bottle of wine or bag of ice), they do it anyway?

 

W

Webs,

Rosie is right about not worrying too much. We have a Thanksgiving tradition at the Legume house called "How will mommy try to kill us this year"? My wife is a terrific cook, but something always seems to go wrong on Thanksgiving. One year, the turkey was really under done, another year, for some reason she stil doesn't know, the stuffing came out almost like a liquid, another year, she left the bag o' guts in the bird. It's a fun game that has now stretched to other family members who like to guess too. My wife is very good natured about it. It's just the way things go when you're trying to cook a lot of different things for a lot of people and have it come out right and at the same time.

 

I love Thanksgiving. The food, family and football. Thank you pilgrims and indians.

That is all.