Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family! Patrick, Katie, and their friends prepared a wonderful Holiday feast: chicken, gravy, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, two different stuffings, pierogi, latkes, green beans, broccoli, pumpkin soup, homemade rolls, and cranberry jello salad.
Desserts: pecan pie, apple pie, banana cream pie (with a peanut butter crust and Carmel drizzle), homemake chocolate chip cookies, charcuterie board, and four different mini-cakes.
We had a great time on Thanksgiving and hope you did, too!
Big plans for the day?
Or just a bunch of wild parties?
Dan, by the time you read this we should be flying to NYC to join Patrick and Katie for Thanksgiving! Don’t eat too much turkey!
Wishing you and Diane a wonderful Thanksgiving, full of good food and blessings galore!
Jerry, Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. I’m looking forward to the pecan pie!
Happy Thanksgiving to all! In addition to family, we’re hosting the “in-laws” (Julia’s boyfriend & his parents), so it will be a pretty full table. John’s been up all night—smoking the brined turkey for today’s dinner, along with pork butt & chicken (that we’re taking to another get-together this weekend). Yesterday, I made dressing (Giada’s Ciabatta & Pancetta recipe) and cut all the veggies for a roasted veggie side dish. Today I’ll be making the mashed potatoes and creamed spinach. The in-laws are bringing dessert. Looking forward to a great day of family, friends, fellowship, and food!
Deb, your Thanksgiving menu sounds fabulous! Patrick and Katie have be mum on their Thanksgiving menu so later today I’ll post a photo of the feast and list all the yummy stuff they prepared. Family, friends, fellowship, and food…what more could anyone want? Oh, maybe a few books, music CDs, and Blu-rays…
And football?
Jeff, we missed the first two THANKSGIVING NFL games but caught the last quarter of the 49ers and the Seahawks. None of the games seemed to be compelling.
Happy Thanksgiving, George. Have a grand time with your family.
Same to you and Diane, and have a safe trip to New York today! Personally, I would have taken an early flight, but…it is what it is. We’ve never traveled on Thanksgiving Day, but we have flown to the West Coast on Christmas Day (also Christmas Eve and what the Brits call Boxing Day). We left at 8 am and arrived at 11 am in San Francisco in 1985. The next years we left at 7:30 am. In 1995 we left at 111 am and didn’t get to San Francisco until 11 pm!
In 2002 and 2003 we flew to New Orleans on Christmas Eve, arriving at 11 am both times. And in 2005, we flew to Vegas on Christmas Day, leaving at 9 am and arriving at 11:45.
But never on Thanksgiving. We always claimed dinner at our house when we were still entertaining.
That was 11 am
That would’ve bee a hell of a layover otherwise! Happy celebrations, celebrants!
Todd, thanks! Hope you had a wonderful THANKSGIVING, too!
Jeff, we originally had an early flight but JetBlue kept changing the time. We were supposed to take off at 11 A.M. but with the flight changes and the 45 minute delay, we never took off until 2 P.M. We landed a little after 3 P.M. at JFK but by the time we got our luggage and caught a cab to Patrick’s apartment in Brooklyn, we didn’t arrive for THANKSGIVING dinner until 4:30 P.M. But, the food was great! And, of course, being with Patrick and Katie and their friends was a delight!
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you from Germany and Hungary!
But don’t eat too much of the good stuff …
Totally OT:
This morning I was in shock reading about the “accident” on Rainbow Bridge. I still remember how we drove there from our holiday in New York to continue in Niagara on the Falls.
Wolf, the RAINBOW Bridge is heavily travelled especially on holidays like THANKGIVING. With the car explosion, all the International Bridges were closed until the investigation was over. Still a lot of questions about why that car was going over a 100 mph.
Happy Black Friday! My major purchase today might be whatever discount Wegman’s might’ve put on their tofu Thanksgiving packages. The gravy is usually too salty, but not too shabby otherwise. Mad linguine for Alice and myself for dinner, after she had a brunch with friends at a Brazilian meat-heavy restaurant, and I continued to sleep off the vestiges of the current plague. The cats enjoyed their kibble…don’t know if they feel the lack of leftover turkey.
Hope you have a good long weekend in the Apple.
Todd, I’m going to see @JULIETTE this afternoon and dining at a cabaret tonight.