I'm required to stay out of the kitchen.
What is your task for Thanksgiving?
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I have to drive the sleigh over the river and through the woods.
Clean the house. Goes easier with a math problem in your head and Casino Royale (which you’ve seen 175 times) going on the TV.
First time in five years we do not have a Washington Ballet commitment so visiting family in Bucks Co. SIL is a beast and hosting; she’s doing everything. We brought pies. Assume I’ll be relegated to keeping refreshments topped up and watching football…sigh.
I did drive the 300 miles from house 1 to house 2, but that was yesterday, so I don't think that counts.
Sure it counts. Teamwork makes the dream work.
Buying a pumpkin pie and a pecan pie. Oh crap, I forgot to get them.....is Giant open today? 
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Great gig if you can get it!
I’ll probably be the one carving the turkey. Beyond that not much other than fetching Diet Cokes for my aunt.
Cook. Everything. You all need to step up your game.
Sitting at the kitchen bar watching my dear bride cooking like a crazed person while drinking coffee with Baileys. I did make her a hot chocolate with some too so I’m counting that as my days effort.
sounds exhausting- you deserve a nap
two formally trained chefs in the house- I'm not wanted in the kitchen
Doing the Turkey, rolls, gravy, and dressing..
Appetizer tray with venison jalapeno and cheese summer sausage
Appetizer tray with venison jalapeno and cheese summer sausage
I make the deviled eggs and that’s it, so of course I push the eggs on everyone.
I picked up the meals from the restaurant yesterday and put them in the fridge.
If you were making boilo they’d let you in the kitchen.
Everything.
I work “less than full time” and my wife puts in 10-hour days.
move been cooking daily family meals for 25 years.
Today I have the trkey stuffed and on the grill (use it as an oven), corn soufflé, green bean casserole, potatoes and gravy. Very traditional.
Stuffing/dressing goes back to my great great grandma Apt.
Now, my wife does get heavily involved with baking.
Pumpkin apple streusel muffins early this morning and to die for apple pie!
Much to be thankful for.
Blessings, board members!
I work “less than full time” and my wife puts in 10-hour days.
move been cooking daily family meals for 25 years.
Today I have the trkey stuffed and on the grill (use it as an oven), corn soufflé, green bean casserole, potatoes and gravy. Very traditional.
Stuffing/dressing goes back to my great great grandma Apt.
Now, my wife does get heavily involved with baking.
Pumpkin apple streusel muffins early this morning and to die for apple pie!
Much to be thankful for.
Blessings, board members!
I am the dessert and booze guy.
I have Pecan pie, pumpkin pie, apple pie, ice creams, fresh fruit (for some folks in the family who watch their sweets). homemade whipped cream and .....baklava.
Got red wines (including a malbec) some white wines japanese whiskey for my brother, and found a recipe for an apple cider old fashioned.
I have Pecan pie, pumpkin pie, apple pie, ice creams, fresh fruit (for some folks in the family who watch their sweets). homemade whipped cream and .....baklava.
Got red wines (including a malbec) some white wines japanese whiskey for my brother, and found a recipe for an apple cider old fashioned.
I will prep and cook the bird. Put up Christmas tree and start setting train platforms for the Lionels
My job is to go f*ck myself.
Sounds like a great spread!
My family also uses a stuffing recipe that goes back generations. My late father always took very seriously the role of taste-testing the stuffing before it went into the bird, so he could formally declare whether it had “twang” or not.
We also use a generations-old family technique of slow cooking the turkey inside a paper bag at a relatively low-ish temperature. The bag keeps the bird basting in its own juices — as well as some butter it gets rubbed down with before going into the bag.
It comes out tender and juicy every year!
And you never get a day off it seems!My job is to go f*ck myself.
And you are great at your job!My job is to go f*ck myself.
At least you should be good at it by now.My job is to go f*ck myself.
I am smoking a turkey outside. This is the first time that I have smoked in cold weather, so I’m trying to adjust for potentially uneven heating. In fact, it was variable in terms of holding 225, as I saw it bouncing between 210 and 225. I then put it at 250, which is higher than I wanted, but may compensate for the cold ambient temperature outside. I am in my rookie year with my pellet smoker, and I really do love it.
Daughter and SIL are in Japan for their best man's wedding (his bride is from the Tokyo area) and their own delayed honeymoon. With them away, wifey and I are going out for Thanksgiving dinner for probably just the 2nd time in the last 100 years or so of marriage. Since our appetites aren't what they once were (ok, mostly mine, wifey was always pretty normal), we decided to skip the big buffet offerings and go local for a plated T-giving dinner. Don't know yet if that is a mistake, but there's a whole weekend ahead to make up for that if so.
Happy Thanksgiving to all, and for those who celebrate.... here's to a real feast of college football offerings all day Friday and Saturday!! Maybe my favorite 2-day stretch of the season, especially when we are away and I can squeeze in about 24 hours of games into a 36 hour window. (Oh, please, calling me a hero isn't necessary. Well, ok, if you insist. I just try to set the example for others).
Happy Thanksgiving to all, and for those who celebrate.... here's to a real feast of college football offerings all day Friday and Saturday!! Maybe my favorite 2-day stretch of the season, especially when we are away and I can squeeze in about 24 hours of games into a 36 hour window. (Oh, please, calling me a hero isn't necessary. Well, ok, if you insist. I just try to set the example for others).
The Eva Green one. And, right now, I’m trying to prove that the bisectors of the angles of a triangle meet in a point. Euclid surely had a proof (and there are proofs online) but I like doing it myself. Strictly minor league but all of a sudden I’m stupid.
I’m just working the NYT spelling bee app. Gearing up for tonight’s Boggle match .
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Listening to my wife yell at me and bark orders as she frantically prepares for the 12 people we have coming in not counting our 3 adult children who are back in town.
My wife is a vegetarian so we eat differently. I’m responsible for roasting my turkey breast while she makes her vege lasagna. I’ll chop the celery and onions for the stuffing which she’ll make. She’ll make the cranberry sauce and I’ll bake the sweet potatoes. I bought the apple pie yesterday and a bottle of Reisling. I’ll bake the dinner rolls.
This whole thread is one giant can of awesome.
Deafness has its benefits.
I make the cole slaw (grate the cabbage and carrot, add Marzetti’s and a little salt and pepper), do some minor cleaning, taste test the stuffing (wife can’t have gluten), and carve the turkey.
Keep the smoker at 225f for the next six hours!!
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