Whose baking or getting ready for Thanksgiving (and weight gain)

klq@stl said:
I am going to experiment with this as an alternative to the mandatory pumpkin.
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Unpopular opinion:

Pumpkin is a garbage pie.

Don't get me wrong, I'll eat it if someone puts it in front of me. I'm not going to be a jerk about it or anything. But just about any other pie is better. Apple or Pecan, now those are real pies. Cherry, Peach, etc are all good too. Even that cranberry tart looks interesting. Pumpkin I can do without.
 
Shawn Seeger said:
We love to bake and cook during the holidays... this morning I made my pie dough and will bake later in the week.

My wife has created her own sourdough starter and we used it today to make some Thanksgiving bread. (I hope it makes it to Thursday)

What's your favorite holiday food item, mine is pie! (I have told my family my death row meal is Thanksgiving meal).

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Bring on the butter and Honey Yum!!
 
I don't mind a turkey once or twice a year. Leftover thanksgiving sammys are outstanding. But I was thinking that if I were in charge of the menu, I might like a big roast this year instead of the bird.

Maybe I'll put that on the docket for one of the other winter holidays.
 
When staying home for Thanksgiving we rarely eat more than usual, but will thaw out a coho fillet or smoked coho. Cranberries and blue berries are a must. My days of cooking turkey are long over! I am daily very thankful for the good food, good health, and home we live in every day.
 
Thanksgiving is the only holiday that I take seriously, I suppose because I have so much to be thankful for. The others are mostly mattress sale or get drunk days.

Back in 2017 I was buying a new cell phone and the sales clerk-a lovely young Moldovan lady-asked me for my next of kin while filling of the paper work. When I told her I had none she paused and said: "Well, I need a grandpa, will you be my grandpa?" From that moment I have been Grandpa Ivan and over the years the entire family has adopted me making me one of the luckiest men in the world! Now I have 2 granddaughters and a grandson and their wonderful parents. I will be spending Thanksgiving with them again and if the past dinners are any indication there will be lots of Eastern European food, accordian, guitar and piano music, folk songs in their native language and much laughter. The best day of the year!

And this year I am teaching my youngest granddaughter to make bread. I usually take fresh bread when I visit and always have it when the family visits me. If I am successful and she is patient she will be able to duplicate exactly what I do and then be able to expand on it over the years. In June my granddaughter and I celebrated our 5th anniversary as grandpa/granddaughter and the entire family came up for the day. I baked a rhubarb/strawberry cobbler for them and they had never tasted it before. A big hit with vanilla bean ice cream! I have enough rhubarb left in the freezer for one more cobbler....
 
iveofione said:
Thanksgiving is the only holiday that I take seriously, I suppose because I have so much to be thankful for. The others are mostly mattress sale or get drunk days.

Back in 2017 I was buying a new cell phone and the sales clerk-a lovely young Moldovan lady-asked me for my next of kin while filling of the paper work. When I told her I had none she paused and said: "Well, I need a grandpa, will you be my grandpa?" From that moment I have been Grandpa Ivan and over the years the entire family has adopted me making me one of the luckiest men in the world! Now I have 2 granddaughters and a grandson and their wonderful parents. I will be spending Thanksgiving with them again and if the past dinners are any indication there will be lots of Eastern European food, accordian, guitar and piano music, folk songs in their native language and much laughter. The best day of the year!

And this year I am teaching my youngest granddaughter to make bread. I usually take fresh bread when I visit and always have it when the family visits me. If I am successful and she is patient she will be able to duplicate exactly what I do and then be able to expand on it over the years. In June my granddaughter and I celebrated our 5th anniversary as grandpa/granddaughter and the entire family came up for the day. I baked a rhubarb/strawberry cobbler for them and they had never tasted it before. A big hit with vanilla bean ice cream! I have enough rhubarb left in the freezer for one more cobbler....
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A fellow Ivan? How do you do. Not a very common name!
 
iveofione said:
Thanksgiving is the only holiday that I take seriously, I suppose because I have so much to be thankful for. The others are mostly mattress sale or get drunk days.

Back in 2017 I was buying a new cell phone and the sales clerk-a lovely young Moldovan lady-asked me for my next of kin while filling of the paper work. When I told her I had none she paused and said: "Well, I need a grandpa, will you be my grandpa?" From that moment I have been Grandpa Ivan and over the years the entire family has adopted me making me one of the luckiest men in the world! Now I have 2 granddaughters and a grandson and their wonderful parents. I will be spending Thanksgiving with them again and if the past dinners are any indication there will be lots of Eastern European food, accordian, guitar and piano music, folk songs in their native language and much laughter. The best day of the year!

And this year I am teaching my youngest granddaughter to make bread. I usually take fresh bread when I visit and always have it when the family visits me. If I am successful and she is patient she will be able to duplicate exactly what I do and then be able to expand on it over the years. In June my granddaughter and I celebrated our 5th anniversary as grandpa/granddaughter and the entire family came up for the day. I baked a rhubarb/strawberry cobbler for them and they had never tasted it before. A big hit with vanilla bean ice cream! I have enough rhubarb left in the freezer for one more cobbler....
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So cool. Every time I lose hope in humanity, I hear a story like this. Beautiful!
 
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