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Wed, Nov. 24th, 2004 04:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oyceterHaving a lot of fun reading everyone's Thanksgiving posts, though I am boggling slightly at the sheer amount of food out there! I'm not really used to doing Thanksgiving -- in high school, the moms would prepare a nice lunch with our best attempts at pie (usually bought), smoked turkey, as it was a general consensus that no one liked dry white meat (I am a big dark meat eater, which works perfectly because the boy likes white), mashed potatoes and gravy made by people who had no idea how to make mashed potatoes and gravy, and fried rice and fried noodles. So now, somehow, mi fun (sort of fried rice noodles) have become part of my Thanksgiving landscape.
In college I went to a friend's family's house (with the friend) and had turkey, mashed potatoes, and assorted Chinese food. Sort of a strange mix, but still tasty.
I think the boy's is more traditional ;). Pumpkin pie, cranberry sauce(s), a ginormous turkey, pumpkin soup this year out of pumpkin tureens (they are none of my doing. I shall say that and leave it at that), probably something like yorkshire pudding and green bean casserole. And hopefully some sort of fresh veggies and fruit for me. And, of course, the ever-present cheese table, on which I gorge, so I can eat about three bites total for dinner. Ooo, and I hope there are yams. This year I am also bringing one of the few tasty things that I can bake -- applesauce cake! Tradition for one year now.
This is my third real American Thanksgiving! How exciting ^_^. Maybe next year I shall graduate to attempts at pie.
It's probably rather commercial and not at all based on things to be thankful for, but for me, this is the holiday of food and good eating. I am, however, very thankful for that, and for food in general. I like food.
In college I went to a friend's family's house (with the friend) and had turkey, mashed potatoes, and assorted Chinese food. Sort of a strange mix, but still tasty.
I think the boy's is more traditional ;). Pumpkin pie, cranberry sauce(s), a ginormous turkey, pumpkin soup this year out of pumpkin tureens (they are none of my doing. I shall say that and leave it at that), probably something like yorkshire pudding and green bean casserole. And hopefully some sort of fresh veggies and fruit for me. And, of course, the ever-present cheese table, on which I gorge, so I can eat about three bites total for dinner. Ooo, and I hope there are yams. This year I am also bringing one of the few tasty things that I can bake -- applesauce cake! Tradition for one year now.
This is my third real American Thanksgiving! How exciting ^_^. Maybe next year I shall graduate to attempts at pie.
It's probably rather commercial and not at all based on things to be thankful for, but for me, this is the holiday of food and good eating. I am, however, very thankful for that, and for food in general. I like food.
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Wed, Nov. 24th, 2004 05:06 pm (UTC)Now if you were grateful for Cheez-Its, maybe that's commercial. But grateful for food cooked with love? That's the stuff of life.
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Wed, Nov. 24th, 2004 05:33 pm (UTC)I second that. I am very grateful for the existence of food in general. And taste buds. And good home cooking, because mmmmmm. Stuff of life indeed.
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Wed, Nov. 24th, 2004 05:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Wed, Nov. 24th, 2004 05:51 pm (UTC)