What is everyone doing for Thanksgiving? I’m going to have a small (very small) group over, and hopefully not nearly induce a nervous breakdown like last year (although it turned out well). What are your plans?
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The husband and I are planning a quiet pair of Cornish Hens before driving up to Amelia Island for a long weekend at our favorite B&B.
Mom and I are going to dinner with some long time friends of the family. They invite us every year, but we’ve never gone before.
I wish everyone who’s leaving home a safe trip, and a day free of family feuds.
Going out to dinner with family. We’ve only ever done one Thanksgiving at a restaurant before, but my mom is justifiably sick and tired of making two huge feasts in the space of a month.
Apparently we will still be having a turkey dinner with all the trimmings. Odd, as it’s a French restaurant.
I’m going to visit my father and brother on Thanksgiving itself. On Saturday I’ll be attending a now-traditional gathering of friends called “Fresh Leftovers,” a potluck Thanksgiving with all the trimmings, without the familial angst.
We’re having a big traditional Thanksgiving complete with the whole family, where my extended family will undoubtably bicker about the stock market, politics and the like, then turn on my sister and me wanting to know why neither of us are dating, then wanting to know when I’m going to go ahead and choose a major. I will likely then retreat to the kitchen on the pretense of doing the dishes, when in fact the truth is being up to my elbows in greasy water is better than being harassed about why “things didn’t work out with that nice boy from last spring.” Oh, the holidays.
I’m headed a few hours’ drive north for the traditional family gathering with a wedding shower twist on Saturday. I’m throwing the shower, so it should be interesting. I found a Pampered Chef lady to feed everyone, and the guests can just buy their gifts then and there to be shipped after the wedding. All I have to do is buy the booze–my specialty when family is involved! We’ll all be together again soon for my brother’s wedding/christmas, so no one will object when I take off early. Yay! It’s weird that Thanksgiving dinner isn’t necessarily the main event.
I’m going to house-sit for my boss, spend a few hours with a nearby sister and her in-laws, then sit in a dark room and rock until the feeling passes!
Let me know if you want to have a typical 80s teen movie house-sitting party escapade.
My husband, child and I will be heading to my parents, along with pne of my sisters and my brother and his family. I’m bringing the red cabbage, pumpkin pie, apple pie, and a chocolate pecan tart. Alot of work, yes, but it sure beats going down to my in-laws and paying to eat out at a vile, sawdust turkey, sodden sidedish, and gelatin glop dessert buffet. And I genuinely enjoy visiting my family, and I really like to cook (but you knew that, didn’t you?)
Brine it, Adam. You won’t regret it.
I actually read, “Going down on my in-laws.” Reading too much porn, reading too much porn . . . also, I fully agree: brining, especially with poultry, is worth the work!
OK you guys have worn me down. I’m going to try the brining this year.
Adam, I don’t know what brining is (soaking the bird in brine?), but in order to fit in, I must insist that you brine this year. I’m having a comma day.
brining is the act of soaking meat in a water / sugar / salt mixture to make it joocier so it squishes when you put it in your mouth.
Thanks, John. The vision that filled my head may just turn me off of sex for the next year. Eeeeww!
Cooks was the first magazine that I saw advocate bringing the turkey, about 3-4 years ago. It’s sweeping the country! Everyone must brine!
*squish*
My dad always bbqs the Thanksgiving turkey. Don’t scoff, it’s excellent. AND it frees up the oven for side-dish & dessert preparation. Of course, I live in California, where such things as bbqing in November are possible (if chilly).
So, I’ll be heading to the folks’ house, along with a bunch of old family friends, for a big long dinner. I don’t know *where* everyone will sit, but my mother will manage to squeeze everybody in somehow.