Every day is the same without any more family left. I have no one to shop for, and like John, not many of those casual friends. Being 15 miles from town, people cant be bothered to come here unless its 90 degrees and really hot to jump in the water.
It's That Time Of Year Again! Who's Cooking And What ?
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norgeway
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I have to work
Thanksgiving, so I'm out of luck, Donalds family eats at 6 and I have to be at work at 6, so I think I will go to the K and W cafeteria on my way to work.Im not going to have time to cook .
Thanksgiving, so I'm out of luck, Donalds family eats at 6 and I have to be at work at 6, so I think I will go to the K and W cafeteria on my way to work.Im not going to have time to cook .
"Oh, and I also provide the hot sausage dip and Fritos Scoops for one of the appetizers. Very much in demand and very rich - a little goes a long way."
Anthony, the sausage dip sounds wonderful. If it's not too involved, could you post the recipe?
Barry
Anthony, the sausage dip sounds wonderful. If it's not too involved, could you post the recipe?
Barry
You can have it! *LOL*
Try to avoid Route 1/9, GSP or NJP are alright further away from Manhattan one gets. *LOL*
Coming back at night is when things get backed up. Try waiting until late as possible, but guess everyone else has same idea.... Oh well, at least there is good coffee from WaWa.
Try to avoid Route 1/9, GSP or NJP are alright further away from Manhattan one gets. *LOL*
Coming back at night is when things get backed up. Try waiting until late as possible, but guess everyone else has same idea.... Oh well, at least there is good coffee from WaWa.
Great Peanut Butter Cookies!
We're having our annual bazaar this weekend in my parish. My contribution, for the past several years, has been around 300 or so peanut butter cookies. Though cakes are really more my pleasure, cookies are not only much easier to bake, but also easier to divide and sell in individual baggies.
Fannie Farmer's cookbook was sorely out of date when Knopf hired Marion Cunningham to update it for our time. She did, with new recipes and ingredients and turned it into a best-seller again. Ms. Cunningham followed it up with the Fannie Farmer Baking Book, from which this recipe is taken.
As it states, "My favorite peanut-butter cookie, thin and crisp, with the good taste of butter and peanut butter". I'll add that another plus for this recipe is that it's relatively inexpensive on a per-cookie basis. The recipe below states in the book that it makes about 120 cookies. Because I have a Bosch Universal, I triple this recipe and it works equally well. This also freezes very well. If you don't have a powerful mixer like the Bosch, the single recipe is just as tasty!
"16 tablespoons (2 sticks or 1 cup) butter, softened
1 cup light brown sugar
1 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs, well beaten
1 cup peanut butter, creamy or chunk-style
3 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
Preheat the oven to 350F. Beat the butter until creamy, then slowly add the brown and granulated sugars, and continue beating until well blended. Add the eggs and beat until smooth and light, then add the peanut butter and mix well. Pour the flour into the peanut-butter mixture, then sprinkle on the baking soda and salt. Beat until all ingredients are well mixed.
(I'm assuming you know how to form PB cookies on the sheets). Bake for 8-10 minutes, or until the edges are slightly brown in color. Remove from the oven and transfer to racks to cool."
We're having our annual bazaar this weekend in my parish. My contribution, for the past several years, has been around 300 or so peanut butter cookies. Though cakes are really more my pleasure, cookies are not only much easier to bake, but also easier to divide and sell in individual baggies.
Fannie Farmer's cookbook was sorely out of date when Knopf hired Marion Cunningham to update it for our time. She did, with new recipes and ingredients and turned it into a best-seller again. Ms. Cunningham followed it up with the Fannie Farmer Baking Book, from which this recipe is taken.
As it states, "My favorite peanut-butter cookie, thin and crisp, with the good taste of butter and peanut butter". I'll add that another plus for this recipe is that it's relatively inexpensive on a per-cookie basis. The recipe below states in the book that it makes about 120 cookies. Because I have a Bosch Universal, I triple this recipe and it works equally well. This also freezes very well. If you don't have a powerful mixer like the Bosch, the single recipe is just as tasty!
"16 tablespoons (2 sticks or 1 cup) butter, softened
1 cup light brown sugar
1 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs, well beaten
1 cup peanut butter, creamy or chunk-style
3 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
Preheat the oven to 350F. Beat the butter until creamy, then slowly add the brown and granulated sugars, and continue beating until well blended. Add the eggs and beat until smooth and light, then add the peanut butter and mix well. Pour the flour into the peanut-butter mixture, then sprinkle on the baking soda and salt. Beat until all ingredients are well mixed.
(I'm assuming you know how to form PB cookies on the sheets). Bake for 8-10 minutes, or until the edges are slightly brown in color. Remove from the oven and transfer to racks to cool."
" Donalds family eats at 6"
Our family has had standing sit down time of 3PM ever since can remember. By 6PM am getting my second, third or fourth trip around the table, that and or maybe hitting the dessert/coffee table.
As a teenager, young adult 3PM suited (it seemed to be rather unanimous in our street), as wanted to head out to visit with friends or "hang out" so an early meal was fine.
It was also accepted practice for myself and peers that later in the day on Thanksgiving was ok to pay calls on friends. Something one never did of course when they were likely to be having a meal. Family together was likely to be discussing events of the day and other matters not fit for outside ears. So well brought up people steered clear until "cake and coffee" time.
Being as all this may am hearing more and more people are either catering or just going out to eat. Maybe this is a NYC thing, and or reflects the smaller families and or single/two person households that are a growing trend.
Our family has had standing sit down time of 3PM ever since can remember. By 6PM am getting my second, third or fourth trip around the table, that and or maybe hitting the dessert/coffee table.
As a teenager, young adult 3PM suited (it seemed to be rather unanimous in our street), as wanted to head out to visit with friends or "hang out" so an early meal was fine.
It was also accepted practice for myself and peers that later in the day on Thanksgiving was ok to pay calls on friends. Something one never did of course when they were likely to be having a meal. Family together was likely to be discussing events of the day and other matters not fit for outside ears. So well brought up people steered clear until "cake and coffee" time.
Being as all this may am hearing more and more people are either catering or just going out to eat. Maybe this is a NYC thing, and or reflects the smaller families and or single/two person households that are a growing trend.
lordkenmore
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Growing up, Thanksgiving was always--always--at more or less regular dinner time. I was really surprised when I found out about having it in the afternoon--at that afternoon might be more common than dinner time. I have no idea why we did the way we did it for so many years.
Being as all this may am hearing more and more people are either catering or just going out to eat.
It's probably not just NYC. I'm not sure how many people go out here...but I sure know some restaurants are open, and some of those are actively trying to get Thanksgiving business.
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Being as all this may am hearing more and more people are either catering or just going out to eat.
It's probably not just NYC. I'm not sure how many people go out here...but I sure know some restaurants are open, and some of those are actively trying to get Thanksgiving business.
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Hans, if you want me to fix you a plate I will bring it to you. Can't imagine having to endure the nursing home food at the "Cane and Walker".
polkanut
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My parents, youngest sister & brother-in-law, oldest sister & nephew will be at our house. There will be 8 people at the table for 5pm supper. We usually have ham & scalloped potatoes because my wife dislikes turkey. Mom brings the pies, and my sisters will bring various sides and /or salads.
We started having Thanksgiving at our home in 2000 when my Grandma Baumann was no longer able to do it. It gives me a great opportunity to haul out the Cunningham & Pickett "Norway Rose" dinnerware that I love so much.
All of the grandparents are gone now, but the great memories will always be in my heart.
We started having Thanksgiving at our home in 2000 when my Grandma Baumann was no longer able to do it. It gives me a great opportunity to haul out the Cunningham & Pickett "Norway Rose" dinnerware that I love so much.
All of the grandparents are gone now, but the great memories will always be in my heart.
Norway Rose
is beautiful--a friend of mine has it.
I ended up doing the same thing after my mama died and I ended up hosting about a half dozen of her surviving siblings after she passed in 1999. I kept that up until the last of them died in their nineties.
But aren't we all so very blessed to have memories! I treasure mine.
is beautiful--a friend of mine has it.
I ended up doing the same thing after my mama died and I ended up hosting about a half dozen of her surviving siblings after she passed in 1999. I kept that up until the last of them died in their nineties.
But aren't we all so very blessed to have memories! I treasure mine.
You cut the toikee without me?
Since this thread has touched upon the film Avalon, cannot recommend it (again) enough to those who have not seen. Especially as so many of us are discussing family and the whole set of dynamics that goes on around Thanksgiving.
Since this thread has touched upon the film Avalon, cannot recommend it (again) enough to those who have not seen. Especially as so many of us are discussing family and the whole set of dynamics that goes on around Thanksgiving.
norgeway
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Re K and W
That's one of my favorite restaurants...NOT as good as the S and W , but good , We go to the one on Healey Drive which is next door to the K and W offices, so it is their flagship store
That's one of my favorite restaurants...NOT as good as the S and W , but good , We go to the one on Healey Drive which is next door to the K and W offices, so it is their flagship store
norgeway
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Steve
I would RATHER have your cooking,but I wouldn't dream of you driving 2 hours to bring it to me!!
I would RATHER have your cooking,but I wouldn't dream of you driving 2 hours to bring it to me!!
Have never seen Avalon. Since it comes with a sturdy recommendation, will try to find it on Netflix / Hulu / iTunes. The only Avalon I'm familiar with is the Roxy Music album---which is also a fine piece of artistry.
Hi Frig!
If you get MOVIES! channel Avalon is on again 30 November:
http://www.moviestvnetwork.com/movies/avalon
Highly recommend the film because it truly does touch on not only long lost family values (or at least they seem to be on the way out), but for anyone that is of an immigrant family it shows the dynamics between first, second and third generation.
The whole "you cut the turkey without me" could be any family and as we all know wasn't about the bird being cut. Every family has an "Uncle Gabriel" type who starts WWIII over the slightest perceived slight.
Thanksgiving figures prominently in the film and it should, as it is a holiday that then and now is totally foreign to non-Americans. Recently arrived immigrants in 1914, 1944, 1974, and even 2014 don't "get it" at once. What is the point? Why are we or what are we supposed to be "thankful" for? Most of all why do we have to eat turkey? *LOL*
So many of the scenes are priceless, especially again those coming from an immigrant family where English is not their native tongue.
This gets me every time; mostly because recall being put through the same routine at school.
If you get MOVIES! channel Avalon is on again 30 November:
http://www.moviestvnetwork.com/movies/avalon
Highly recommend the film because it truly does touch on not only long lost family values (or at least they seem to be on the way out), but for anyone that is of an immigrant family it shows the dynamics between first, second and third generation.
The whole "you cut the turkey without me" could be any family and as we all know wasn't about the bird being cut. Every family has an "Uncle Gabriel" type who starts WWIII over the slightest perceived slight.
Thanksgiving figures prominently in the film and it should, as it is a holiday that then and now is totally foreign to non-Americans. Recently arrived immigrants in 1914, 1944, 1974, and even 2014 don't "get it" at once. What is the point? Why are we or what are we supposed to be "thankful" for? Most of all why do we have to eat turkey? *LOL*
So many of the scenes are priceless, especially again those coming from an immigrant family where English is not their native tongue.
This gets me every time; mostly because recall being put through the same routine at school.
I'll have to try and watch Avalon and see how much it reminds me of my family. We are not Polish Jews but still Polish, and I'm only 3rd generation. Might bring back some memories of my grandparents.
Love it.
I was just telling a friend about the "You cut the Toikey.." scene the other day. As the grandson of immigrants I was really moved by "Avalon"; it reflected my Family's own progress from Ellis Island to the American Dream (automobiles, television sets, appliances and nice single-family homes) at the expense of the family circle. It was also a very positive first impression of Elijah Wood-he did a great job. Joan Plowright was perfectly cast as the granny.
I was just telling a friend about the "You cut the Toikey.." scene the other day. As the grandson of immigrants I was really moved by "Avalon"; it reflected my Family's own progress from Ellis Island to the American Dream (automobiles, television sets, appliances and nice single-family homes) at the expense of the family circle. It was also a very positive first impression of Elijah Wood-he did a great job. Joan Plowright was perfectly cast as the granny.
We haven't fully decided what the plan is for Thanksgiving.
Mom said she's not making a full meal, just a chicken and sweet potatoes with marshmallows. We were told if we wanted anything else, we'd have to make it and bring. Mom has never liked roasted turkey, so we have never had turkey. She was hinting, however, that I should make breaded deep-fried turkey.
I think I have her convinced to make a vegetable jello salad that she makes.
It is cauliflower, carrots, bell peppers and green onions all julienne cut in a lime jello mayo mix. I have not really seen anything like it anywhere else, and as a kid I hated it. I absolutely love it as an adult. Everyone wrinkles their nose when I try to describe it but it has such a fresh light flavor.
Anyways, since there are references to family meals and movies... A lot of the time ... our family get-togethers usually end up like the meal from August: Osage County mainly because of my sister. So... you can about imagine what trying to plan a meal is like... I get in such a funk around holiday time trying to anticipate what the problems and sob stories will be for the season.
This year, I am hoping I can convince mom to just let me do a bunch of little things that we can munch on all day long and not have to have one big meal. Everyone kinda comes and goes then comes back and we try to play dominoes or cards or something and it all usually ends well.
As far as family etc. I am adopted to my maternal grandparents. I generally spend all of the holidays with mom and dad, because that is just what I do. My paternal family is ... large.. I don't usually go around when they are all together because I speak my mind and I will not back down from something.
Generally, if mom doesn't want to have a big goings on, her, dad and I will just have a nice meal and watch TV most of the night, or all play on our computers. Last year for Christmas, my sister couldn't be bothered to show up for some reason or another. I had anticipated it, so I already had a prime rib and potato casserole in the ovens. Had the entire meal ready to go, packed it up and came to town and had a very quiet and calm Christmas dinner with mom and dad.
I should note here that I am 30 and adopted to my maternal grandparents as mentioned above. My sister is technically my aunt and is 46... Interesting how two siblings can go down totally opposite paths in life.
Mom said she's not making a full meal, just a chicken and sweet potatoes with marshmallows. We were told if we wanted anything else, we'd have to make it and bring. Mom has never liked roasted turkey, so we have never had turkey. She was hinting, however, that I should make breaded deep-fried turkey.
I think I have her convinced to make a vegetable jello salad that she makes.
It is cauliflower, carrots, bell peppers and green onions all julienne cut in a lime jello mayo mix. I have not really seen anything like it anywhere else, and as a kid I hated it. I absolutely love it as an adult. Everyone wrinkles their nose when I try to describe it but it has such a fresh light flavor.
Anyways, since there are references to family meals and movies... A lot of the time ... our family get-togethers usually end up like the meal from August: Osage County mainly because of my sister. So... you can about imagine what trying to plan a meal is like... I get in such a funk around holiday time trying to anticipate what the problems and sob stories will be for the season.
This year, I am hoping I can convince mom to just let me do a bunch of little things that we can munch on all day long and not have to have one big meal. Everyone kinda comes and goes then comes back and we try to play dominoes or cards or something and it all usually ends well.
As far as family etc. I am adopted to my maternal grandparents. I generally spend all of the holidays with mom and dad, because that is just what I do. My paternal family is ... large.. I don't usually go around when they are all together because I speak my mind and I will not back down from something.
Generally, if mom doesn't want to have a big goings on, her, dad and I will just have a nice meal and watch TV most of the night, or all play on our computers. Last year for Christmas, my sister couldn't be bothered to show up for some reason or another. I had anticipated it, so I already had a prime rib and potato casserole in the ovens. Had the entire meal ready to go, packed it up and came to town and had a very quiet and calm Christmas dinner with mom and dad.
I should note here that I am 30 and adopted to my maternal grandparents as mentioned above. My sister is technically my aunt and is 46... Interesting how two siblings can go down totally opposite paths in life.
xraytech
Well-known member
We are having dinner at moms, as usual. Our usual dinner time is 1:00
I'm making a few things to take:
Cabbage Rolls
Mashed Potatoes
Velveeta Ritz broccoli casserole
Dinner rolls
Peach pie.
To me it isn't thanksgiving without cabbage rolls. Growing up before we had everyone at moms for dinner we used to eat at Grandma Rose's where we slwYs had cabbage rolls with mashed potatoes as well as Chicken Paprikash with grated noodles.
Even after mom started having dinner grandma always brought cabbage rolls.
So I'll be making the cabbage rolls in Grandmas Revere Ware pot, and for good measure I'll use grandmas MixMaster Power Plus to whip the potatoes
I'm making a few things to take:
Cabbage Rolls
Mashed Potatoes
Velveeta Ritz broccoli casserole
Dinner rolls
Peach pie.
To me it isn't thanksgiving without cabbage rolls. Growing up before we had everyone at moms for dinner we used to eat at Grandma Rose's where we slwYs had cabbage rolls with mashed potatoes as well as Chicken Paprikash with grated noodles.
Even after mom started having dinner grandma always brought cabbage rolls.
So I'll be making the cabbage rolls in Grandmas Revere Ware pot, and for good measure I'll use grandmas MixMaster Power Plus to whip the potatoes
