Happy Thansgiving week! 🦃 🍁🍂 🍻🥃🍷🍾

[skippy1999]

I'm ticking off the minutes until I tomorrow afternoon when I can take off for Orlando to spend Thanksgiving with my grandbabies and son, what's everyone else up to?

[1995hoo]

My parents live in Fairfax and they’re hosting this year. We will bring sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce (ask me if you want the recipe....super-easy), and pecan pie. (I have a better pie recipe that doesn’t include liquor, but it takes longer to make and includes a ton more sugar, which is a problem for my father.  If anyone wants that recipe, let me know and I’ll post it—I’m off work all week.)

I'm thinking about making a run down to either Port City or Fair Winds for a growler fill to bring along as well so as to avoid consuming too much liquor.

[imref]

just a small family gathering, no more grandparents.

I'm making a 13lb turkey, homemade cranberry sauce, stuffing, green beans and bacon, sweet potato mash, and parker-house rolls (store-bought).

I used to follow Alton Brown's turkey cooking method that starts with a 500 degree sear for 30 min, but it always sets off the fire alarms.

[tomterp]

Daughter's flying in this evening (solo, her first ever such adventure     ), and I'm picking up the turkey today at the Lancaster Dutch farmer's market in G-burg's backyard.

Will be hosting again this year, and trying to steer clear of political discussions.   

[JCA-CrystalCity]

I think this will be the first Thanksgiving I'll be soloing it.  Brother and sister-in-law have been hosting since Mom stopped about 15-20 years ago. I was my parents driver up to NH for all holidays.  This year, I've been up the past 3 weekends on separate trips. I've got a major brief due in a couple of weeks, and just having been up in NH to care for Dad for a week, I just can't take more time.  It'll be CCSP for me Thursday.

[spidernat]

Daughter's flying in this evening (solo, her first ever such adventure     ), and I'm picking up the turkey today at the Lancaster Dutch farmer's market in G-burg's backyard.

Will be hosting again this year, and trying to steer clear of political discussions.   

  I remember the picture of her when she was just a little girl (was it Zack Day? )

[tomterp]

  I remember the picture of her when she was just a little girl (was it Zack Day? )

May 21, 2006, she was 7.   Nats had just brought Zack back for a last, very brief stint with the club.

My daughter's 19 now.                  

[imref]

Happy Thanksgiving everyone, especially to Chief for continuing to provide this forum. 

[varoadking]

Happy Thanksgiving everyone, especially to Chief for continuing to provide this forum.

[mitlen]

Gobble.   Gobble.    Gobble.

[tomterp]

Best all.  Didn't make it 2/3 of the way through the Thanksgiving beer list before the wine took over, but it's all good.

We do in fact have much to be thankful for.  My cousin's daughter had a tumor the size of a lemon removed from her brain, but the prognosis is good.  My daughter is home from college for a few days and appear not to have starved to death.   And the turkey was edible. 

[Mathguy]

How old is your cousin's daughter ?

Best all.  Didn't make it 2/3 of the way through the Thanksgiving beer list before the wine took over, but it's all good.

We do in fact have much to be thankful for.  My cousin's daughter had a tumor the size of a lemon removed from her brain, but the prognosis is good.  My daughter is home from college for a few days and appear not to have starved to death.   And the turkey was edible. 

[tomterp]

How old is your cousin's daughter ?

Mid 30's

[Mathguy]

Did anybody have too much to eat ?

[skippy1999]

Did anybody have too much to eat ?

Yes! Because my grandbabies didn't want anything I cooked other than crescent rolls lol those kids don't know what they missed out on!

[Mathguy]

This article in the WashPost was pretty funny about family gatherings

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/when-a-liberal-goes-to-a-trump-country-thanksgiving/2017/11/21/7ec2581a-cd4f-11e7-9d3a-bcbe2af58c3a_story.html?utm_term=.4922f77737a1

[The Chief]

Just woke up from food coma.  Happy belated Thanksgiving all