They look a little like Poke Salad ( pick me a mess of it chomp chomp!!)

TIS


If some of ya'll never been down South too much...
I'm gonna tell you a little bit about this,
So that you'll understand what I'm talking about
Down there we have a plant
That grows out in the woods and the fields,
Looks somethin' like a turnip green.
Everybody calls it Poke salad. Poke salad.

Poke Salad Annie, huh, Tis??

My mother made mashed turnips. She cuts up the turnip and boils it for what seems like forever. Then she adds one potato. This supposedly takes out the bitterness. Since she and my m-i-l are the only ones that eat it, she only made a small dish. Seemed like a lot of work for a teeny bit of food.

Does anyone ever make potato patties with the leftover mashed potatos? I really like them. Just add Italian breadcrumbs, egg, salt/pepper and make into patties. They're great.


TIS

My mom used to make potato pancakes with them. That was a great way to stretch out potatoes. Now I just throw the leftovers away.

I love potato pancakes. My Mother-in-law will make them with her leftover potatoes.

So, what are everyone's plans this year?? As the family has expanded over the years (not just weight-wise, but also in numbers), we're usually around 20-25. This year, we'll only be 12, though.

And, in honor of my brother, we're resurrecting the pasta dish. Usually we have to make both a turkey and a turkey breast to feed the masses. Since we're skipping the turkey breast this year, we'll have an oven open, so we're making baked ziti.

Last year we did a pasta station with three sauces, but only as an appetizer (if 3 pounds of pasta can be considered an appetizer). The Godfather was on, and we ate pasta and watched the movie. My brother said it was just like the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims!

This year Thanksgiving will be at my house but we won't be having Thanksgiving dinner till Friday cuz my SIL has to work on Thursday. I'm hoping my 2 older kids will get to come home. There will be 14 at my house.

This Thanks Day will be the smallest to date but I'm looking forward to it. The Grandkids will be coming over! They are making the 6 mile journey on Tuesday and staying through to the weekend. Since they are still in a medically guarded condition, only people with the Flu vaccine and Pertusis (Whooping Cough) vaccine can visit them, it will only be six of us. The other grandparents got the vaccines, but they have other plans.

Can't wait to watch the Macy's parade with them. It's one of my favorite Thanksgiving traditions, that and a Bloody Mary at noon!

God bless, MC. That sounds like a great way to spend their first Thanksgiving! BTW - I heard on the radio that 1 out of 4 Americans were scaling back their Thanksgiving bill by doing this one simple thing...cutting back the amount of invitations they extend for dinner. "Unnecessary" or "undesirable" friends & family are not getting the invites this year!

We'll have 5 of our 6 kids and all four grandchildren. We'll have northern (out of deference to me) and southern dressing. The kids always want their mother to make chicken and dumplings in addition to turkey and ham. Oh, I am going to pig out. I can't wait for the pumpkin pie!

So you'll be having a normal meal?

WOOHOO!! my two older kids will be here early Thursday morning.

So in that case why not have a Thanksgiving dinner with the immediate family on Thanksgiving and then have another dinner with your SIL and her family the day after?

Too much cooking. I want to visit with my babies while they are here to.

DC, what are your plans?? Is your family cooking?

Not this year, but sometime soon I wanna take a chance with the deep-fried turkey! Got plenty of (safe) space outside I think (hope)!

My Brother-in-law is gonna bring a small turkey so he can deep fry it. He loves it deep fried. It's not bad that way.

There was a letter to the editor from our local fire chief in the paper yesterday. Did you know that the turkey friers are not UL rated? They refuse to give them any sort of rating because they're too dangerous.

I heard that, too. Next year I won't care.

Aside from the fact that you just might burn your house down or scar yourself for life, you get no wings!!!!!!! You can't have turkey without wings. It's my understanding that they burn and you can't eat them. For me, it's not Thanksgiving without a wing snack around 11 pm.

My neighbor makes a deep-fried turkey every year. Then he leave the frier outside until April. Kinda lazy don't ya think?

And stuffing inside the bird.

Oh you kid!

I'll be having the traditional early thanksgiving dinner with the inlaws and then we'll join my family later. Instead of going to my parents' home, we'll be meeting them and my brother's and sister's families at my uncle's place in the Poconos. And there we will continue the family holiday tradition of watching my 96 year old grandmother down a dozen Manhattans.

God bless..... I love that old lady!!!!

Enjoy your holiday, klyd.

Bless her indeed! If I had dozen Manhattans you'd be continuing a holiday tradition of seeing me in a coma.

Happy Thanksgiving and God Bless to all my BB buddies! Family Pizza night tonight (we all make our own pizza any way we like it!) and the bird gets gluttonized tomorrow! Salute'!

At the very last moment I find myself scurrying about from store to store in my neighborhood, getting all the fixin's together to make a small Thanksgiving dinner for a good friend and myself.

When I say "very last moment," I mean I agreed to do this yesterday (Tuesday) evening! Yes, I know, I'm definitely losing it...

My friend had nothing to do for the holiday (except he had to work) - he and his wife have no marriage left after thirty years except in name only and pretty much go their separate ways except they still live under the same roof. Quite sad, because he is really a very nice person. I have nothing to do on the holiday either. So, when he proposed getting together and chowing down on Thursday, I said yeah, why the hell not. Haven't cooked a holiday meal in years.

So, the menu will consist of a small (9½ lb.) turkey, mashed potatoes, fresh string beans, the most incredible stuffing on earth, a turkey gravy and a special caper sauce that was always a crowd pleaser. We both dislike cranberry sauce in any form, so we'll skip that. Haven't really thought of a dessert, because I have a feeling there won't be much room for it. In the bygone days, out motto for the holidays was, "Feed 'em 'til they burst." (Yeah, I know - gross, right?)

So, it looks like this year I'm dusting off the welcome mat and the Diner is open for business.

Signor V.

I'll be cooking an old brown shoe for Thanksgiving. Doesn't that sound lovely?