For me, the day will begin with cleaning the house and helping mom cook.

I'll pick up my kids either tonight or early tomorrow morning. My buddy and his wife/kids are coming over for dinner. He's going to the Macy's parade tomorrow so if I decide to tag along with my kids, we'll head out at the crack of dawn. (Meaning lots of cleaning TONIGHT!)

Menu;

Turkey w/ stuffing

lechón (a Latin style roast pork)

cheesy potatoes

arroz-con-gris (Cuban style rice & beans)

some type of pasta

collard greens (from a can )

salad

baked rolls

...and whatever dessert my buddy brings.

Instead of cranberry sauce, I'm picking up a bottle of lingonberries from Ikea today

Hi Dalia Happy Thanksgiving to you as well!

Thanksgiving will be at my uncle's house tomorrow...and I'm hoping it goes by quick because my clueless, immature cousins will be there getting on my nerves thinking that they know everything when they are plum dumb. I'm looking more forward to cooking dinner Saturday night for my mom for her birthday. I'll be making:

Turkey breast

Stuffing

Macaroni and Cheese

Cornbread

Collard Greens

Pear Cobbler

Cranberry Sauce (this will be the only thing store bought, everything else I'm making from scratch)

Hi MissFee. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. The food on your list are all good! Have fun. I will send you an e-mail later.

PurpleJedi said:

For me, the day will begin with cleaning the house and helping mom cook.

I'll pick up my kids either tonight or early tomorrow morning. My buddy and his wife/kids are coming over for dinner. He's going to the Macy's parade tomorrow so if I decide to tag along with my kids, we'll head out at the crack of dawn. (Meaning lots of cleaning TONIGHT!)

Menu;

Turkey w/ stuffing

lechón (a Latin style roast pork)

cheesy potatoes

arroz-con-gris (Cuban style rice & beans)

some type of pasta

collard greens (from a can )

salad

baked rolls

...and whatever dessert my buddy brings.

Instead of cranberry sauce, I'm picking up a bottle of lingonberries from Ikea today

Blasphemy!! Greens are easy enough to make ... NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

dang you guys are cooking an entire lechon?!!

I never had lingonberries...

I just had my first Thanksgivng dinner/lunch

It was soooooooooooooo good!

My plans for turkey day this year....to cook lots of food and spend time with my kids, and sweet, beautiful grandbabies.

Menu:

Turkey

Stuffing

Mashed Tators

Gravy

Mac & Cheese

Creamed Spinach

Fresh Green Beans

Broccoli & Rice

Rolls

Pumpkin, Cherry, Apple Pies

Pumpkin Cheesecake

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread

I will so need bootcamp/Zumba after this turkey day.

I hope everyone has a wonderful day!

OMG! I finished cooking Thanksgiving dinner at 4:30 this afternoon! I've never managed to accomplish that! I'm usually cooking on Thanksgiving day right up until the guests arrive! Now, I can either sleep in tomorrow or go to the gym. Feels great to have it out of the way!

Looks like I'm heading out to Golden Corral for Thanksgiving dinner. Apparently, not all of my family members could make it back home for Thanksgiving this year, so they will be coming home for Christmas. With only half the family around this year, nobody apparently wanted to cook dinner, so me and my family will be stuffing our faces at the buffet.

Gonna have Thanksgiving over at my great-grandmother's house with family (parents, sibling, aunts, uncles, cousins,etc.).

I plan on eating so much my asshole bleeds from being over-stretched when I crap it all out.

Am I the only one who is going to be alone? Wow, you folks are lucky. I have a dog so I guess it's okay. I really hate the holidays with every cell of my body.

Food!

SeventeenDayze said:

Am I the only one who is going to be alone? Wow, you folks are lucky. I have a dog so I guess it's okay. I really hate the holidays with every cell of my body.

paintedlady said:

PurpleJedi said:

For me, the day will begin with cleaning the house and helping mom cook.

I'll pick up my kids either tonight or early tomorrow morning. My buddy and his wife/kids are coming over for dinner. He's going to the Macy's parade tomorrow so if I decide to tag along with my kids, we'll head out at the crack of dawn. (Meaning lots of cleaning TONIGHT!)

Menu;

Turkey w/ stuffing

lechón (a Latin style roast pork)

cheesy potatoes

arroz-con-gris (Cuban style rice & beans)

some type of pasta

collard greens (from a can )

salad

baked rolls

...and whatever dessert my buddy brings.

Instead of cranberry sauce, I'm picking up a bottle of lingonberries from Ikea today

Blasphemy!! Greens are easy enough to make ... NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

dang you guys are cooking an entire lechon?!!

I never had lingonberries...

Actually I misspoke...I guess I meant "pernil" (the lechon is the whole pig, right?)...we just always call it lechon regardless.

Lingonberries are delicious. I've only had them from Ikea. The real stuff is probably awesome.

paintedlady said:

SeventeenDayze said:

Am I the only one who is going to be alone? Wow, you folks are lucky. I have a dog so I guess it's okay. I really hate the holidays with every cell of my body.

having dinner with family and some drop by friends.

i prepared:

glazed ham/w pineapple

beef steaks

corn meal fried catfish

italian seasoned chicken breast

broccoli w/baby carrots

kale greens

string beans w/sauteed mushrooms

spinach salad

shrimp fried rice -white

shrimp fried rice -brown

fluffy mashed potatoes w/garlic butter

baked potatoes w/turkey bacon bits

corn bread

biscuits

garlic bread

sweet potato pie

coconut cake

breyers all-fruit popsicles

(and left over for days ) i love fixing a buffet dinner for thanksgiving.

i've finally come to realize the beauty of thanksgiving. thanksgiving is a time of spiritual giving and appreciation for each other. also the appreciation for what we have and a time of spreading joy to our friends, family and each other.

2 every prince.org member.

from me and mine to you and yours.

Happy Thanksgiving! A bunch of folks are getting together at my parents' house. We're having turkey, sweet potatoes, moro (Dominican style rice and beans), brown rice, green beans, platano maduros (sweet fried plantains ), cranberry sauce, potato salad, some kinda green salad, and cherry pie, flan, and the pumpkin pies I made with fresh pumpkin, one made with sugar and one with splenda

SeventeenDayze said:

Am I the only one who is going to be alone? Wow, you folks are lucky. I have a dog so I guess it's okay. I really hate the holidays with every cell of my body.

I don't know, although the opportunity has never presented itself, I don't think I would be bothered by spending a Thanksgiving or Christmas alone every once in a while. But, because I'm the cook in the family, it will probably never happen. I just finished eating dinner and now I'm being anti-social. I excused myself to another room to watch some movies by myself because I just don't dig being around a bunch of loud people. We had more guests than originally expected so I'm not too thrilled about that.

kitbradley said:

SeventeenDayze said:

Am I the only one who is going to be alone? Wow, you folks are lucky. I have a dog so I guess it's okay. I really hate the holidays with every cell of my body.

I don't know, although the opportunity has never presented itself, I don't think I would be bothered by spending a Thanksgiving or Christmas alone every once in a while. But, because I'm the cook in the family, it will probably never happen. I just finished eating dinner and now I'm being anti-social. I excused myself to another room to watch some movies by myself because I just don't dig being around a bunch of loud people. We had more guests than originally expected so I'm not too thrilled about that.

I pretty much hate from Halloween through New Years, this time of the year irritates me to no end. Yeah, it probably sucks that you are annoyed with everyone there but at least you have the option to feel like you're surrounded by those you know and (hopefully) love, LOL.

My Thanksgiving actually turned out better than I expected. My family didn't annoy me as much as I thought they would...well some did but it wasn't so annoying that I was ready to leave as soon as I ate. Hope everyone else had a great Thanksgiving as well.

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I.CAN'T.MOVE.

I ate too much.... I can barely breathe.... OMG.... why did I eat this much food?

Why is food so damn good? WHY??!!

paintedlady said:

I.CAN'T.MOVE.

I ate too much.... I can barely breathe.... OMG.... why did I eat this much food?

Why is food so damn good? WHY??!!

I want more of this pumpkin cheesecake but I am stuffed!

Back home from a day of Thanksgiving festivities with the family. As I mentioned earlier, I went to Golden Corral with my family around 1:00 pm, and the place was packed. But the turkey dinner they served was quite delicious, and I stuffed my face till my stomach nearly burst. Then some of us made plans to go to the movies, but we left the restaurant about an hour before the movie started, so we made a visit to Walmart, as nothing else was open then. There were more people there than I expected to see, but it was still not too bad. I didn't buy anything, but it was weird seeing a bunch of shrink-wrapped palettes of merchandise in the aisles with signs on them stating they were not to go on sale before 10:00 pm that night for Black Friday. Afte a little bit of window shopping, I went to the movies and saw The Muppets. It was quite good and quite funny, and those of you who remember the original Muppet Movie and The Muppet Show will love this movie. And those of you with young children, well, your kids will love this too. Then I came home, and along the way I saw a bunch of people standing in line in tents at the local Best Buy waiting for the Black Friday sales to begin.

I am spending a few days with my mom and family.

free2bfreeda said:

having dinner with family and some drop by friends.

i prepared:

glazed ham/w pineapple

beef steaks

corn meal fried catfish

italian seasoned chicken breast

broccoli w/baby carrots

kale greens

string beans w/sauteed mushrooms

spinach salad

shrimp fried rice -white

shrimp fried rice -brown

fluffy mashed potatoes w/garlic butter

baked potatoes w/turkey bacon bits

corn bread

biscuits

garlic bread

sweet potato pie

coconut cake

breyers all-fruit popsicles

(and left over for days ) i love fixing a buffet dinner for thanksgiving.

i've finally come to realize the beauty of thanksgiving. thanksgiving is a time of spiritual giving and appreciation for each other. also the appreciation for what we have and a time of spreading joy to our friends, family and each other.

2 every prince.org member.

from me and mine to you and yours.

...save me some leftovers...be over in the morning!

SeventeenDayze said:

Am I the only one who is going to be alone? Wow, you folks are lucky. I have a dog so I guess it's okay. I really hate the holidays with every cell of my body.

Alot of people are alone during the holidays. At least you have a Dog! Pets are better company than humans are. Pets make people happy, prevent stress, etc. People/family make stress for their other family members. Do you have family who live near you or far away? I usually spend the holidays with my friends and their family.

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I actually miss turkey a bit. I think I'll try and have a turkey meal next time.