[Sca-cooks] Thanksgiving

[Aurore]

Anahita, I feel sorry for you, dear.  If you want you can swing by Central
Texas and have dinner with my family.  It's just going to be me and my
husband and two kids.  My dinner is going to be turkey, gravy, stuffing,
mash potatoes, green beans, corn, cranberry sauce, rolls, apple pie, sweet
vanilla ice cream, white grape juice.  Mostly still missing something else
to go with this mess.  I don't often cook like except for holidays and
company.  Breakfast that morning is going to be big too.  French toast,
cheesy scramble eggs, breakfast sausage, hash browns, and toast.  I like to
cook and eat.  If you don't want dinner with family, come have dinner with
friends and have a second helping and a third helping, here take some with
you too.  Aurore
----- Original Message -----
From: <lilinah at earthlink.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 1:14 AM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Thanksgiving


> My mom alternates hosting Thanksgiving with my brother's in-laws who
> have nothing special, just the usual and while not bad, nothing is
> outstanding. My mom can't cook for the family anymore - she hasn't
> for years - she is physically not up to it - so she just took us all
> out to an expensive restaurant.
>
> This year my mother has hired someone to cook, so i suppose it will
> be as close to what she used to cook as possible. Another boring
> typical Thanksgiving. My mom likes things *her* way, so whenever i
> try to help or bring something that actually is interesting to eat, i
> get yelled at or my food gets sneered at.
>
> Plus my brother's wife and her mother just play with their food
> anyway, since they're typically Southern Californian and that kind of
> SoCal woman would rather be thin than anything else, except rich and
> thin.
>
> And his two young sons, ages 11 and 9, while not particularly fussy,
> are not experimental - and my mother makes sure to keep feeding them
> sugary stuff throughout the meal while my brother and his wife keep
> asking her not to.
>
> And my brother has confessed to me that he doesn't really like food
> anyway and doesn't understand the pleasure some folks take in eating
> good food. He'll also be chiding me and his wife about eating too
> much (she certainly won't be - most of the time she and her mother
> eat enough food for one, maybe, between the two of them)
>
> So i'm off to
> -- a regular tossed green salad with bottled dressing
> -- store bought bread and sweet butter
> -- canned cranberry sauce (both the clear smooth kind and the kind
> with berries in the jell)
> -- whole roast turkey with a very dull but butter rich stuffing (i've
> made much tastier stuffings, but my mother doesn't like anything
> except her own)
> -- sweet potato casserole topped with marshmallows (shudder - i'd
> rather have them just baked in the skin and dressed with butter and
> salt by each diner)
> -- either green beans or broccoli
> and
> -- pumpkin pie made the way the label on the can says (i've made
> variations, such as pumpkin mouse in a pan lined with lady fingers
> and a coating of toasted pecans and brown sugar on the bottom, but if
> it isn't just a boring regular pumpkin pie, no one wants it)
> -- topped with either excellent home made whipped cream - or - since
> my mother and my nephews like Reddi-whip (ugh), that may be what we
> have (sigh)
>
> maybe some Martinelli's sparkling apple juice to drink if we're
> lucky. Otherwise it will be some not very palatable overpriced white
> wine, so i'll just drink water.
>
> And, after testing Tofurkey and UnTurkey last year (you all read my
> reports), i'm bringing a frozen UnTurkey and a side container of
> Tofurkey gravy for my vegetarian daughter.
>
> Sigh. And frankly, the company (other than my daughter) does not
> redeem the food. So, i'm off to torture at the hands of seven other
> people who have little in common with each other and 4 of whom have
> nothing but some genes in common with me (again not counting my
> daughter, whose company i enjoy).
>
> I'd rather be reading e-mail from all of you about what you're eating
> for Thanksgiving :-)
>
> We shoulda left already for the drive south this afternoon, but my
> daughter, who flew into SF late Thursday night, from the East Coast,
> had some last minute errands to run this afternoon, so we're going to
> try to hit the road around 5 AM tomorrow. I'm estimating a 10 hour
> trip with about 8 hours of driving, what with stops for gas, food,
> and toileting.
>
> I will be incommunicado until next Sunday. Have a safe and happy
> holiday to everyone in the US, and a good week to everyone else.
>
> Anahita
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