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Happy Thanksgiving to all the Canadian peeps.

I'll be eating what everybody else is cooking...I'm bringing my own Aluminum foil and paper-plates...I'm a picky eater..I won't be eating any Nasty Potatoe Salad, Nasty Candied yams and Nasty sweet potatoe Pie. Giblet gravy is beyond Nasty...

What is this thanksgiving I hear them 'mericans talking about?

Isn't that bad for the environment?

udo said:

since my home dwellers do not like roast turkey, here's what i'm fixing

1. whole red snapper stuffed with wild rice, sauteed onions and shrimp

2. steamed broccolli and carrots

3. plain brown rice as well as white rice

4. corn bread/biscuits/whole wheat rolls

5. garden salad (with iceburg and romaine lettuce, cherry tomatoes, chopped green onions, mushrooms and veggie - cheddar cheese)

6. bar b que ribs, chicken breast, and hamburger patties

7. kale and mustard greens combined

8. nachos with jalapeno pepper salsa and melted cheese

for dessert

1. sweet (yam) potato pie

2. chocolate cake w/white coconut frosting

3. (and for the light dessert people) natural fruit popsicles.

I love to cook

Aw, man.

I started to post this article about Thanksgiving Canadian style, the history of the turkey and stuff. Now I lost the article.

I have no idea what I'm eating, every year I love experiencing something new, or at least a new twist on an old favorite (don't like purple sweet potato pie, tried 10 different variations, don't like), but this weather we've been having as limited my desire to experiment. I'm not going to wait until the actual holiday to try something real new. Heck I might just go out to dinner and forget cooking all together.

free2bfreeda said:

since my home dwellers do not like roast turkey, here's what i'm fixing

1. whole red snapper stuffed with wild rice, sauteed onions and shrimp

2. steamed broccolli and carrots

3. plain brown rice as well as white rice

4. corn bread/biscuits/whole wheat rolls

5. garden salad (with iceburg and romaine lettuce, cherry tomatoes, chopped green onions, mushrooms and veggie - cheddar cheese)

6. bar b que ribs, chicken breast, and hamburger patties

7. kale and mustard greens combined

8. nachos with jalapeno pepper salsa and melted cheese

for dessert

1. sweet (yam) potato pie

2. chocolate cake w/white coconut frosting

3. (and for the light dessert people) natural fruit popsicles.

I love to cook

morningsong said:

A day late. that fuss just for a turkey dinner. Speaking of which… The truth about turkeys Appropriately for the Americas – which were mistaken for a totally different continent by the Europeans who encountered them – turkeys are an unintended symbol of major confusion. If you’re wondering why they’re named after a country that is nowhere near their actual home, this explanation from NPR gives the rather wonky backstory. It seems when the birds were first imported to England, it was via merchants operating out of Constantinople, capital of the Ottoman Empire of the Turks. Average folks buying it for a meal would have associated it more with the Turks rather than the little-known New World, and it stuck. The other explanation: Explorers may have mistaken it for a version of a Guinea fowl from West Africa … often called Turkey coqs due to the Turkish merchants who traded it. It’s an odd naming fate for a bird so deeply rooted in the Americas. Your thanksgiving meal has an evolutionary history of 11 million years (according to this source). It was domesticated in Mexico as early as 800 BC and in the southwestern U.S. by 200 BC (according to Discovery). Aside from food, the Maya, Aztecs and other peoples prized them for their plumage and as part of religious rites, as did some of the peoples in North America. http://www.theweathernetw...cts/37649/

...therefore let's call it the Guajolote - which is the commonly used name in much of Mesoamerica after the Nahuatl name for the bird. (Nahuatl is/was the language of the Aztecs). As opposed to the Spanish word for the bird; Pavo.

PurpleJedi said:

morningsong said:

A day late. that fuss just for a turkey dinner. Speaking of which… The truth about turkeys Appropriately for the Americas – which were mistaken for a totally different continent by the Europeans who encountered them – turkeys are an unintended symbol of major confusion. If you’re wondering why they’re named after a country that is nowhere near their actual home, this explanation from NPR gives the rather wonky backstory. It seems when the birds were first imported to England, it was via merchants operating out of Constantinople, capital of the Ottoman Empire of the Turks. Average folks buying it for a meal would have associated it more with the Turks rather than the little-known New World, and it stuck. The other explanation: Explorers may have mistaken it for a version of a Guinea fowl from West Africa … often called Turkey coqs due to the Turkish merchants who traded it. It’s an odd naming fate for a bird so deeply rooted in the Americas. Your thanksgiving meal has an evolutionary history of 11 million years (according to this source). It was domesticated in Mexico as early as 800 BC and in the southwestern U.S. by 200 BC (according to Discovery). Aside from food, the Maya, Aztecs and other peoples prized them for their plumage and as part of religious rites, as did some of the peoples in North America. http://www.theweathernetw...cts/37649/

...therefore let's call it the Guajolote - which is the commonly used name in much of Mesoamerica after the Nahuatl name for the bird. (Nahuatl is/was the language of the Aztecs). As opposed to the Spanish word for the bird; Pavo.

Interesting.

You just gave me my new thanksgiving idea this year.

Mole Poblano de Guajolote

morningsong said:

PurpleJedi said:

...therefore let's call it the Guajolote - which is the commonly used name in much of Mesoamerica after the Nahuatl name for the bird. (Nahuatl is/was the language of the Aztecs). As opposed to the Spanish word for the bird; Pavo.

Interesting.

You just gave me my new thanksgiving idea this year.

Mole Poblano de Guajolote