Thanksgiving? What are your plans?
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I'm the cook in the family. I love cooking and am often disappointed when I am fed something I don't like. Whether it's at home or at a restaurant, not being satisfied with my meal really puts me in a bad mood. That goes for recipes I mess up as well :)
That said, many times I'd rather cook than be disappointed by others' cooking. Enter Thanksgiving. No offense to my mother-in-law but I've asked her to let me take over the kitchen this year. I"ll do everything except her awesome candied yams. The turkey and the rest of its companions will be my domain and to be honest, I can't wait to grab that bird and marinate it over night. It's the only way I know it will turn out juicy and full of flavor.
I'd like to know what you guys are doing. In Peru, we don't celebrate Thanksgiving. Our turkey day is Christmas and we tend to go all out. The bird spends the night marinating in burgundy or some other type of red wine. The next day it gets seasoned and stuffed with orange wedges, lemons or anything else we feel like throwing in there. We cook rice, maybe beans, tamales, potato salad and vegetables. For dessert we have Paneton, an Italian fruit cake and my favorite seasonal snack.
So what are you doing this Thanksgiving? Are you cooking or are you letting someone else do all the work while you run after the kids? Me? I'll be cooking with a glass of wine and enjoying the aromas which will come from the pots and ovens. Aaaahhhh :)
That said, many times I'd rather cook than be disappointed by others' cooking. Enter Thanksgiving. No offense to my mother-in-law but I've asked her to let me take over the kitchen this year. I"ll do everything except her awesome candied yams. The turkey and the rest of its companions will be my domain and to be honest, I can't wait to grab that bird and marinate it over night. It's the only way I know it will turn out juicy and full of flavor.
I'd like to know what you guys are doing. In Peru, we don't celebrate Thanksgiving. Our turkey day is Christmas and we tend to go all out. The bird spends the night marinating in burgundy or some other type of red wine. The next day it gets seasoned and stuffed with orange wedges, lemons or anything else we feel like throwing in there. We cook rice, maybe beans, tamales, potato salad and vegetables. For dessert we have Paneton, an Italian fruit cake and my favorite seasonal snack.
So what are you doing this Thanksgiving? Are you cooking or are you letting someone else do all the work while you run after the kids? Me? I'll be cooking with a glass of wine and enjoying the aromas which will come from the pots and ovens. Aaaahhhh :)
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Permalink Reply by Mary on -
We are now in Puerto Rico so we will spend Thanksgiving day at my parents and hopefuly my sister will have the day off so we can all get together. Since PR is a US territory everybody celebrates this day as in the states but we usually set the Xmas tree and xmas decorations on this day. We have turkey, pumpkin pie and all that stuff but also some PR dishes like arroz con gandules, pasteles and turron. My family also prepare Italian dishes but they have adopted PR culture as their own so PR dishes are more abundant.
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Yummy!
Arroz con gandules! Would love that recipe!!!
Mary said:We are now in Puerto Rico so we will spend Thanksgiving day at my parents and hopefuly my sister will have the day off so we can all get together. Since PR is a US territory everybody celebrates this day as in the states but we usually set the Xmas tree and xmas decorations on this day. We have turkey, pumpkin pie and all that stuff but also some PR dishes like arroz con gandules, pasteles and turron. My family also prepare Italian dishes but they have adopted PR culture as their own so PR dishes are more abundant.
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It sounds like you will have a wonderful time. I hope everyone comes back to report on what was done and eaten and how you felt on that day. I'm sure we all have a lot to be thankful for this year.
•Betty• said:Sounds like Your Turkey dinner is going to be great!
My mom does the cooking for Thanksgiving for the whole family. My husband does Christmas dinner. We have been wanting to ask her to let my husband make Thanksgiving dinner as well, but are too chicken to, so Joe (my hubby) makes a small turkey for us at home for that weekend. My mom for some reason takes the turkey apartonce it's done and it's a bit annoying when you don't like the dark meat & it all ends up mixed in. But hey we feel bad she's always been the cook in our family, can't take Thanksgiving away from her too.
I end up clearing the table & washing the dishes. A couple of years ago I brought a journal & now what we do is each of us puts an entry in it on Thanksgiving. Then my mom makes us all go for a walk before eating desert.lol!
When inwas little one of my uncles used to say "I need to run around the block" and he would pull out a cinder block, set it on the floor & run around it once, plop back down on the couch & say "Man what a work out!" lol! I miss him!
It's memories like this that makes Thanksgiving for me, of course along with being grateful for everything I have been blesse with in my life.
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