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General => General Discussion & Topics => General Discussion => Topic started by: Hub on November 17, 2017, 10:14:46 AM
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Thanksgiving Dream?
For years and years I’ve been the main chef for my family’s Thanksgiving feast. I look forward to and enjoy the task immensely AND it totally gets me out of the clean-up process (I’m usually sound asleep in my recliner when that starts). But . . .
I always fix a long list of things that are requests or “traditions” of certain family members or guests. It isn’t unusual for there to be a dozen or more dishes of stuff on or around the table. I don’t mind but I’ll admit that if I were fixing this meal just for me it would be different. My menu would change drastically from our usual fare. Turning my brain loose to roam and dream I’ve come up with my ideal, personal, selfish, absolutely perfect, scrumptious for me only Thanksgiving feast. Here are my menu and treatments:
Pre-appetizer: Very, very, very, very, very dry dirty martini
Appetizer: ABT’s heavy on the jalapeno seeds (hot)
Entrée: Reverse seared prime rib of beef (Wyagu, medium rare)
Vegetables: Real scratch-made mashed potatoes, green bean casserole (with mushroom soup, canned fried onions and all the junk we made back in the 70’s).
Plus: My own home-made “hybrid” stuffing
Gravy: Gallons and gallons. ‘Nuff said.
Dessert: Scratch-made real apple pie with a big scoop of premium vanilla ice cream
Post-dessert: Big snifter of premium brandy.
Problem: Not only my family would find this unacceptable, but also my cardiologist, my rheumatologist, and the team of EMT’s who would have to cart my sorry carcass out to the ambulance after the gluttonous consumption of it. So . . .
I’m preparing and looking forward to a somewhat healthier feast, family-approved and bought into, and that nap I always take afterward.
What would your super-selfish, just for you, perfect Thanksgiving dinner be? Dream big!
Hub
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First of all Hub I will come to your house for Thanksgiving.
But what would i have!
Whiskey & Ginger
Fresh Turkey with lots of mashed potatoes & Tons of Gravy
Creamed Onions
Turnips
Fresh brown & serve rolls with honey & butter
Fresh stuffing
Fresh cranberry sauce & Jelled cranberry sauce (yes I love both)
Pumpkin Pie with lots of whipped cream
Irish coffee with the Jets & cardinals all playing on turkey day.
A nice warm fire.
For Black Friday...lots of sleep :D :D :D
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I sure miss the Thanksgiving Dinners my Mama used to make, that would be my choice...........
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Turkey
Dressing
Gravy
Whisky
Everything else (except maybe some sauerkraut) is wasted effort and calories.
Just sayin'...
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Mine
would will be:
Crown rack of Lamb
Roasted potatoes
Asparagus
Salad
rolls
The wife had to go to take care of her Mom, so we celebrated Thanksgiving this past weekend -turkey and the usual suspects.
So I am a bachelor this Thanksgiving day so I can have my lamb (since no one else likes it).
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Hub you nailed my list. Now I'm hungry
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I wanna be like Hub when I grow up....or at least I want to have his Thanksgiving Dream for real! :D
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I love your wish menue, but I would have to add a nice bottle of red wine. :thumbup: