Can't Believe It, Next Week Is Thanksgiving? Who is baking this weekend?

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With all the drama over "super storm" Sandy totally did not notice Thanksgiving is next Thursday. That means next week will be a short work one for us in the States, and that many will be cooking/baking starting this weekend.

Really don't know what is going on with us dinner wise. Family in SI is pretty much recovered from Sandy but not sure about South New Jersey. Will probably bade a few sweet potato pies this weekend just to be on the safe side.
 
Just Finished

A corn casserole for our office luncheon tomorrow. We'll, that and a big pot of greens! The house smells great. I am starving right now!

Malcolm
 
Just One Thing:

Work will be occupying me all next week, but there will be one baking project - a mincemeat pie.

I would normally just purchase a ready-made one in a time crunch like this, but no grocer anywhere in this area carries them, not even Wal-Mart. Seems they're just not an Iowa thang.

Mincemeat filling in jars is available, so all I really have to do is to knock out a crust. But I am not going through another Thanksgiving season without a mince pie, thank you very much, Hy-Vee, Fareway and Wal-Mart!
 
I currently have no plans

for Thanksgiving Day itself. I have a nice beef roast in the freezer, however.
I have spent Thanksgivings alone. As long as I have something nice to eat, something interesting to read, and love from The Current Cat, I'm good.

Today I baked shortbread cookies.

I just found my jelly (Swiss) roll pan after a long time of looking, and I might make pumpkin cake roll for Book Group this coming Saturday.

I can tolerate Fall and Winter, because my kitchen is so inviting, and my oven all but calls to me out loud. I am on very good terms with this oven.

Lawrence/Maytagbear
 
Whooboy! You are right!

Thanksgiving is one of the two days per year that THD is closed. The other being Christmas.

My sister e-mailed me today to have a quiet Thanksgiving. ShopRite still giving out free turkeys with minimum purchase totals. It will be my duty to make traditional cole slaw for us. Nephew is officer with NYPD and will still be on mandatory OT in Bed-Stuy. Just us and the cats.

Things to be thankful for: Today I heard at last from my friends in STATEN ISLAND who are OK. Staying with friends in DA BRONX. They gathered up clothes, money, cats and dogs and left before storm hit. I couldn't reach them for weeks, finally wrote to them via US Mail and they called. WHAT A RELIEF! Their 'hood pretty much trashed, but their house OK. Save for flooded basement with sewage (ICK) and other mess.
 
This will be a busy week for me as I work the weekend, but I'm off the rest of next week starting Tuesday. That day I have to get a tooth repaired, Wednesday I have choir practice for Confirmation mass, as well as mass to play Wednesday evening. I also have mass to play this weekend.

Somehow I'll find time to bake a peach pie, an apple pie, a few sour cherry pies, dinner rolls,as well as whip up the usual dinner and hors d' oeuvre spread, as well as pressing linens and polishing the silver
 
25 pound turkey with home made bread stuffing using sausage as well, whole wheat Parker House rolls, mashed potatoes, green beans with French's fried onions and cream of mushroom soup, cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, home made giblet gravy, sweet potato pies, pumpkin pies (home made) and home made eggnog. The next day, I'm flying to Oahu to celebrate my 56th birthday at North Beaches.
 
And Black Friday is coming as well and I am not in the US. Would like to shop a lot *lol*
 
Black Friday Should Be Interesting

Many Brick and mortar stores such as Best Buy are promising to meet and or beat prices for online retailers. Of course the devil is in the details and one imagines there will be all sorts of exclusions and so forth.

IMHO "Black Friday" is a bit over rated. It certainly isn't enough to get one out of a warm home Thanksgiving night to camp out in front of a shop.
 
I would never camp but just join the crowd during the day and having fun. There is no such shopping rush in Germany. Once I was in L.A. during Black Friday. It was just crazy but fun to join.
 
In the Minority in this forum

I know I am.  I don't bother with doing anything for Thanksgiving or Christmas.  I go out to eat and let the restaurant,  hotel, or eating establishment do the cooking and  presentation and then - they can do dishes until they die-- not me.  If family comes around they are welcome to go out with me -  of course I pay for everything.  Been doing this for years.  Its fun, relaxing and I get to have foods that I normally would not  make.

 

Black Friday - People running wild,  women stampeding stores in a frenzy, near  riots, clothes thrown all over the place, unable to find a salesperson that knows a wit  about what they are selling -  I skip this insanity.  By then I have already bought most of what I am going to buy -  and I buy online.

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started pastry today

My menu is going to be simpler this year, I swear. But, the phone calls have begun--"Are you going to make Grandma's pecan bars" etc. We shall see. I complain, but in the end it makes me happy.
 
We're actually doing T'giving on Saturday. It's much easier to have Rich's parents down then than to have them come down Thursday, then stay here Friday (I'm off but Rich is working), and Saturday... maybe Sunday.....

They'll bring the bread stuffing and a pie and we'll take care of the (+/- 20#)turkey, French stuffing, brussel sprouts, candied yams, pearl onions, gravy and another pie. And, we'll have both whole berry and jellied cranberry. I buy the jellied one in this great mold- comes out with decorative rings on it and everything!

I'll do some prep on T'day or Friday, and Rich will probably make the pie and yams then too. The rest will probably be done Saturday. The biggest thing is gonna be remembering to take the bird out of the freezer Tuesday instead of Sunday!

Chuck
 
The five pounds of shelled pecan pieces I ordered from Texas arrived yesterday in the mail. So I will start cranking out half a dozen pecan pies next week. All ingredients are already procured minus the maple syrup (I don't use corn syrup; my recipe calls for maple syrup) and I will buy that at Trader Joe's this morning.
 
Gonna go to sister's house & she's actually inviting a childhood friend of ours who posted on Facebook about his "celebrating Thanksgiving alone" status!

Me, I can't yet put on a big feast, at least not til my daughter's grown (& maybe able to help), so we'll see...

But meanwhile, I'll take a few cues from my sis's feast & might put on a post-Thanksgiving Thanksgiving spread...

-- Dave
 
Going to my mom's (she insisted) and bringing four fabulous friends (who my folks already know and like). Bringing Maple Chiffon Pie, browned brussels sprouts and mashed taters...
 
Well, no actual baking for me, but I am preparing some dishes for our annual Thanksgiving with our childhood friends. I have the candied sweet potatoes (no marshmallows, thank you), spinach gratin and broccoli rabe sauteed with garlic and oil (I am Italian after all..). I have also been assigned two desserts so I have ordered an apple and a pecan pie from an excellent local store with a knock out bakery (butter crust pies with no shortening!!) Since I am not hosting this holiday, I kind of ordered a pie for me at home as well. Especially important since I am usually kind of full Thanksgiving and don't really enjoy the dessert at that time.

Oh, yes and lest I forget, I have to bring my carving knife. Amazing - - six straight men, but I have to dismember and carve the birds because they "can't do it".
Well, actually it isn't a big deal and I don't mind. Another thing I just remembered that people can become absolutely irrational in their desire to preserve "traditional" food on this holiday. Not to complain, but canned peas heated in the canning liquid? Does that even count as a vegetable? I mean, frozen peas can be very delicious...
 
Well, we arent doing the Thanksgiving dinner at home this year, will have to see if I can bring some rolls or a pie. I am definitely making my Grandma's corn casserole, she made it every Thanksgiving. I remember one year it was in the oven downstairs smelling so good, and the next thing the smoke alarm was going off down there. The dish had shattered, dumping the contents on the floor of the oven. Needless to say, it never made it to the table. I tried to make it last year, but the recipe was apparently on two pieces of paper. Several ingredients were missing. Tasted great, but looked like soupy creamed corn. While going through some of her recipes this summer, I found the original recipe. Will probably make it wednesday to make sure it turns out ok. It reheats really well anyway.
 

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