Thanksgiving

You too Dino!

Happy Thanksgiving! 

Here's hoping you all get to spend some time with family, and don't eat too much!

Happy Turkey Day to all. I'm Thankful for all my Chordie friends.

We prefer to keep to ourselves, or perhaps to visit with our neighbors for a bit and then send them home.  It is how we have a Happy Thanksgiving.  I hope that each of my American Chordie friends has a wonderful day doing whatever it is that makes you grateful, whether that be volunteering to help others, watching football, being with family, or what-all. 

As for the non-U.S. folks on the board, I hope you each have an Awesome Thursday.

Happy Thanksgiving to all our U.S Chordie friends

My favorite holiday.   I'm on a pretty strict weight loss regimen, though (dropped ~30lbs so far) so I wasn't able to pig out like I usually do.  I did manage to stuff my face with turkey, Brussels sprouts, and salad, though, which is pretty good.

No beer and no bread is killing me though. 

Very good Tig!

Peatle, Thanksgiving was originally a matter of celebrating the end of the harvest.  Food was abundant after the harvest, and the pilgrims thanked the natives for sharing their knowledge of how to live in this land that was primarily wild and had all sorts of different things growing and living here than they were used to.  That's the basic story anyhow. 

The original folks didn't just eat turkey though.  Venison (deer) and buffalo (bison) were also eaten in abundance way back when.  There's a lot of deer hunting, but venison is not something you can just buy in the grocery store.  Bison meat is only available as a specialty item (there's an ugly history of what happened to them and why there aren't many living wild any longer).  So, turkey is what we have that's easily available to purchase.    If you wanted to try to cook a turkey again, I could give you the trick to ensure it stays moist!  Even my left overs cold from the fridge will melt in the mouth.   

My Thanksgiving table always has:  Turkey, turkey gravy (homemade from the drippings - I'm adamantly against canned gravy!), mashed potatoes, squash (mashed with butter, brown sugar and nutmeg), corn, enough stuffing to stuff the entire town (sausage stuffing often called "dressing" as well), dinner rolls, homemade cranberry sauce, sweet gherkins, black olives, and my mother brings Apple pie and pumpkin pie.  Most people have a lot more dishes on their table - but I like to keep it to my favorites!   

Jerome - HOW did you survive without bread?  That means no stuffing!  In my world, the stuffing is actually the main course not the turkey!  ha ha!

We have turkey on Thanksgiving - many do for Christmas as well.  Easter is traditionally a ham and possibly lamb. I haven't even tasted a leg or rack of lamb in a long time though (aside from a little bit of ground lamb turned into "sheep burgers" which the kids scoffed at).  Birthdays are always celebrated with cake. 

Mekids your  food sounds delishes. I always make my gravy from the juices of whatever meat I am cooking with. If I ever try to cook a Turkey again I will try to get your recipe of you as the only time I have cooked Turkey I made a mess of it and came it out to dry. Your Mum's pies also would add to the experience.  I like Apple Pie and Pumpkin pie with a dash of cream or icecream added. Here in NZ we have as take out hot food  an abundance of shops selling burger size pies pies with meat fillings which are sold everywhere.  There are varieties such as Steak and Cheese. Potatoe top pies with a mince underneath. Chicken pies, Steak and Onion, Vegeterian pie. Roat beef and Kumura. (Kumura is a local sweet potatoe). Every where you go in NZ we have Petrol Stations and small shops selling basic household needs known as Dairys selling these pies.
I have read a bit about how the Bison was nearly wiped out. My wife has a picture of Sitting Bull and undrneath it are these words of his. Which I think most probably would convey the life his people wanted to keep.
I will remain what I am until I die, a hunter, and when there are no Buffalo or other game I will send my children to hunt live on praire mice, for where an Indian  is shut up in one place his body becomes weak.  Sitting Bull
I know my relations back in Fiji who live the old ways . Living of the land and  sea have better health and life outcomes compared with those who have moved to modern style living.
Bill, my Wife Maree in her younger day use to be a Skydiver jumping out of perfectly good planes. Watching her doing a tap dance on power lines tryinig to avoid been electrocuted after she jumped out of a plane is still a vivid memory.