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It's slow so...Thanksgiving?

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Mom is already talking Thanksgiving.

I don't mind too much.  But we're about to have a family argument b/c Dad only wants traditional stuffs every year and I'm tired of it.  It's seriously like 1955 Thankgiving at my parents...sweet potato casserole w/marshmallows, cranberry sauce from a can, boring turkey, etc.  I'm trying to get over it b/c I know part of the problem is that Dad's tastebuds aren't what they were, so he's relying on memory and those things he remembers as being good.

B/c he's crazy!  :)  Maybe I'll just take over sides or something and let mom do the turkey.
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Re: It's slow so...Thanksgiving?

  • DixieNormous330DixieNormous330 member
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    In the last 3 years we did T-day twice at our place and once in CA with my sister and her ILs. This year we're taking PF to see Frozen on Ice and then out to my ILs. No work for me this year!
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  • 6fsn6fsn member
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    Christmas and Max's bday has already fallen into place so I'm not pushing anything for Tday.  I'm hoping 6let opens it up by saying he wants to go to the woods, but I can see DH wanting to see his family since we won't for Christmas.

    I do imagine there will be drama when nobody goes to BIL's Christmas open house.  Again.

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  • 0Face0Face member
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    I made an awesome poblano/chili cornbread one year.  Is it traditional?  NOPE.  Was it awesome?  YEP
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  • pegasuskatpegasuskat member
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    I'm old fashioned, I love the tradional food.  I don't mind some good sides to mix it up, but I stick with turkey and dressing for the main.  We go nowhere, my kids and their families come here for supper, they do lunch with ILS, BF family etc, but I always get supper.  I would be very sad if it ever happens that they all can't come.
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  • tawillerstawillers member
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    All the T-Days and Christmases have been planned.  I like having it taken care of already.

    I don't host anything so I just bring a dish to everything.
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  • dharmabunnydharmabunny member
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    Yeah, that is coming up :-/

    My folks are coming in this year. So I think I can get away with not doing a ton of food and make them bring the fresh cranberry relish. And I took a stand on those vile marshmallow taters decades ago, so they will not be showing themselves ;)

    I am plotting and scheming on how to smoke a turkey in the smoker. I can do a pretty ossum chicken, a turkey's just a big, damn chicken. Will need to get the electric retrofits up and optimized. And piece together some sort of smoker cozy for cold weather.

    Last year, when ILs and a few other relatives came in, that was probably one of the best ones. We had several vegetarians, an easygoing foreign national, and absolutely no one was a tradition fascist or gorge themselves senseless type. So I just made a quick crockpot turkey breast with rice, warmed up/baked a small presliced ham, bought rolls and spent the effort on interesting sides and pies, made guests contribute the vino. Worked great! Got several days worth of dinners out of it.

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  • 6fsn6fsn member
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    One great thing about having 50+ people is you get oodles of interesting sides.  I save the turkey for round 2.
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  • PMeg819PMeg819 member
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    We'll be going to my parent's house. My sister and her fiance are coming in town so I want to spend time with them. We might go to FIL's house but I don't want to eat there because his food is disgusting. Additionally, DD's birthday is like 3 days before Thanksgiving so we'll be doing a party for that.
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  • mrsconn23mrsconn23 member
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    We're going to be at my parent's this year.  We usually do 'tradtional' stuff, but with a little flair.  There's usually something fun done with some of the potatoes and sometimes the veggies, but for the most part...it's the traditional feast. 

    My IL's never experiment with food.  They have the stuff they make and they stick to it.  And that's all the time, not just at holidays. 
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  • VarunaTTVarunaTT member
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    We have a local BBQ place that does smoked turkey.  You just bring the turkey in, give them $20 and however long it takes (I don't remember now), voila smoked turkey.  I think this sounds like tasty.  Dad doesn't.  

    I might just show up with that too.
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  • AuntFloAuntFlo member
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    My mom *just now* sent out a FB event invitation for t-day dinner.  She does the whole traditional dinner.  We'll probably go there, for lack of other options.
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  • HeffalumpHeffalump member
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    My mother announced that she's going to Florida to see my grandmother, because she "[doesn't] know how many years Grandma has left."  Fair enough, at 98, but my mom's been saying that since my grandma was about 80.  Grandma doesn't travel anymore, though, so my mom is going there.  So our plans are up in the air.  I'd be perfectly content not traveling and having Thanksgiving with just the four of us, but DH may agitate for extended family and travel.  It's too soon for him to think about seriously, so I'm just cooling my heels and eyeing THIS.

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  • VarunaTTVarunaTT member
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    @heffalump I might need to get that for my mother! 

    She has a glass turkey jar that she loves using for Thanksgiving.  She keeps putting in the cranberry sauce.  I pointed out how macabre looking it really was to have a glass turkey, filled with cranberry sauce, that we all ate out of. 

    She's still peeved at me about this, b/c now she can't use it that way.  It's the bread dish now.  :D
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  • *Barbie**Barbie* member
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    I invited ILs to come for Thanksgiving this year. 

    After the craziness of the past 3 Novembers, I'm happy that only one family is thinking of coming to visit. I told DK that after last year, I didn't want anyone coming down for Wolverine's birthday because it was just too much damn work to babysit the families and throw her a party. We had house guests for something like 2 weeks straight last year. (ILs arrived within hours of my parents leaving.)

    I suggested that we invite his parents for Thanksgiving since they have not spent a holiday with us since we moved, and it would give me a little bit of a break between all of the October travel, Halloween, and Wolverine's birthday. 

    If ILs decide not to visit, I'll either do something small for the 3 of us, or we'll go to a friends' parents' house like we have for several other holidays. 
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  • GBCKGBCK member
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    no idea.
    But we need a plan because I will be relatived-out by then.

    I shall, however, make pumpkin roll
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  • thejucheideathejucheidea member
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    My parents are coming to the in-laws' huge family Thanksgiving for the first time this year. It should be really, really interesting.

    I always make this cranberry salad thing and my dad has promised to make a gluten free pumpkin ginger cheesecake for me this year. My mom said that she'll make some bitchin' dressing too, so I'm looking forward to that.

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  • mrscomposermrscomposer member
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    Canadian!  So... this weekend!

    I don't know what we're doing for dinner, just that we're opting out of the large family gathering.  So I think it'll just be myself, FI, FILs, and maybe one or two hangers-on.  I know I'll be getting apple pie, b/c pumpkin's not my favourite.

    The calm before the storm, I guess! Next week is wedding week!  Eeek!

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