Re: happy Thanksgiving

Just rereading my own story about turkey dinner and pumpkin pie... and it
reminded me about when I was about 7 or 8. My older sister (the oldest one
had been gone and married a few years by this point) and one of our uncles
had a contest one Thanksgiving to see which of them could eat the most.

Now you have to realize that we had a HUGE turkey (big get-together), with
mashed potatoes, turnip (rutabagas), carrots, corn, peas, dressing,
cranberries (both jellied and whole berry), gravy, pumpkin pie, apple pie,
and my aunt would make THE most delicious cherry tarts with whipped cream
topping that anyone has ever tasted to bring along for the feast. Oh, of
course there was a drink too... milk for Carol and coffee for Uncle Vick.
Well Carol and Uncle Vick ate two heaping plates of dinner... with
EVERYTHING on the plates (minus the desserts, of course), then had a slice
of apple pie, a slice of pumpkin pie.... and Uncle Vick had to quit at that
point because he was about to burst... and Carol continued on to have two of
Aunt Rose's cherry tarts. No one could believe that Carol had actually
eaten more than Uncle Vick.... he had a very big appetite and was a grown
man, Carol on the other hand was a *skinny* teenager. Mind you, she
wasn't moving too fast afterward for a while... but still, she won the
contest! LOL Fun memories!

Sad thing is... I am not a thin woman by any stretch of the imagination, and
I can barely make it past one plateful of turkey dinner... you'd think that
I would be the thin one in the family. *sigh* If I do go back for seconds
of anything, I definitely can't move for a few hours afterward. Either way,
I can't have dessert for a few hours... which is why we end up having our
pie for supper. ;o)

Oh, and my brother doesn't even like turkey (I think he's adopted. LOL
Just kidding, he and I are too much alike for that to be the case.), so
instead of turkey for Thanksgiving or Christmas, he eats hotdogs. Like
SERIOUSLY... eat chicken or roast beef, or something, but HOTDOGS?!?!?
LOL

Peace!
Gemini


"MRH" <mthecarpenterATxcelcoDOTonDOTca> wrote in message
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> Happy Thanksgiving Day to everyone celebrating it... wherever you may be
> on Monday! ;o)
>
> Matthew took our turkey out of the freezer last night and put it on the
> top shelf of the refrigerator to thaw slowly... so it should be good to go
> when the time comes. Thankfully his last unemployment cheque came last
> week, so we bought the turkey and all the other fixings for Thanksgiving
> dinner right away.
>
> Made the mistake of buying the pumpkin pie the same time though... not a
> good plan with Matthew here, it was gone the next day. Then he went to
> the store for me the other day, and I *thought* he would buy some cookies
> or something for dessert.... pumpkin pie again... guess what? Gone
> again! I told him we aren't getting anymore pumpkin pie in the house
> until Sunday *after* he has eaten a big dinner and will be too full to eat
> it... maybe then it will last until Thanksgiving Day! LOL Funny thing
> is, after eating our big turkey dinner (lunch), we're both usually quite
> full and therefore the pumpkin pie ends up being supper. ;o)
>
> Although Matthew liked the homemade dressing that I made last Christmas
> (that turned out like my Dad's... I *tweaked* a similar sounding recipe I
> found in a magazine because my Dad never wrote his recipe down), he
> prefers dressing to be a bit drier, so he wants StoveTop Stuffing for
> Thanksgiving. When we have that kind, I usually mix a box of Chicken
> Stuffing with a box of Turkey Stuffing as we aren't crazy about either of
> them on their own, but together it's nice. I will likely make the
> homemade kind again for Christmas, but do a large pan of it for Matthew
> *outside* the turkey so it isn't moist.
>
> Anyway.... Happy Turkey Day to everyone!! :o)
>
> Peace!
> Gemini
>


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