@DannyBoy O.M.G. I could eat about 100 Oatmeal Creme Pies and never look back! They are one of my kryptonite junk foods and therefore I never keep them in the house. I sidestep past the snack cake aisle because I also could eat about 150 Devil Dogs. ?
I am definitely a stress baker. Thankfully I have lots of family and friends around to share my bounty with. One of my best friends bought me an apron early in the pandemic that says "currently stress baking". In April and May I was making bread every other day and a cake or cookies every weekend. My sweets addicted brother told me to stop because his pants were getting too tight. I am the opposite of the stress eater. My stomach gets super jumpy and I subsist on crackers and seltzer.
@jeanne-mayell LOL There may be...not telling on myself... a couple of slices of it eaten tonight!
I actually LOVE cooking Thanksgiving dinner. I always make it, usually it is just the 4 of us, occasionally family from out of town joins us. I have been doing it for years. We make the pumpkin pies a day or 2 ahead of time and 1 or 2 side dishes ahead. I only have one oven so planning is key.
For 3 years when my children were in Middle/High school I also made a complete Thanksgiving meal the week before so they could celebrate a Friendsgiving with their close friends. So, 2 Thanksgivings in one week. Yea, that was nuts, but memorable and they loved it.
Sometimes my birthday falls on Thanksgiving and while I would rather NOT cook all day on my birthday, what can you do? That's life.
One great thing about cooking Thanksgiving dinner is that the house smells wonderful.
For me, Thanksgiving is just that. A time to be with family and reflect on all the blessings in our life. The food is a double blessing, being able to have a bountiful feast, and creating memories of cooking and eating together. Traditions too. After desert we start the Holiday season by singing Christmas carols and a family tradition of creating a song and playing it on crystal goblets filled with water (filled at different levels for different pitches) and recording it for social media.
Ok, now I can't wait for Thanksgiving, can you tell?
Lovely holiday tradition especially Friendshiving (my kids do their own at their houses for their friends the weekend before --or they did! Now with children of their own it's very challenging).
Now with Covid we most likely not going to be able to merge 4 households with work contact upping the danger ante. Sigh.
We all will miss our family of 12 gathering and even harder we probably will have to give up our big family Christmas.
Oh the little losses are adding up too quickly but as long as we have no big losses we will sacrifice and keep hoping and praying!
Oh i love love love your family singing together too! Last year we had the little ones playing with our preschool musical instruments after Thanksgiving dinner. Several of us joining in the clanging, banging and kazooing and spontaneously tried to teach them Christmas carols. It was hilarious.
Each memory of the verses varied and i had to resort to 40 year old Little Golden Books of Christmas stories (Away in a Manger, Jungle Bells, Rudolph, Little Drummer Boy to find the actual lyrics! What a hoot. We laugh until we cried and the preschoolers loved it all!
@lovendures well the week of Thanksgiving I may have to create a Thanksgiving non-intuitive prediction thread so that I can ask you a bunch of questions about how exactly I’m going to do all of this! ??. I like the pie making several days early thing. And call it a hunch, but I don’t think those yams candy themselves.
" And call it a hunch, but I don’t think those yams candy themselves."
Hahahahaha! Oh the stories we all shall have to tell!
Can't wait for yours dannyboy!
Oh my goodness.. were will I post my famous cranberry chutney recipe? its a real keeper.. ? ? ?
@journeywithme2 Deborah Carey is my sister, and her cranberry chutney is amazing! We have done large family Thanksgiving in the past, but this year it will just be the two of us. We will still enjoying cooking the feast together.
@mtgal99 Y'all gonna have to share that recipe!!! We need to start a Holiday post thread!!! Share good memories and recipes of feasts gone by and encourage and support one another for this Thanksgiving and Christmas.. anyone interested in a thread like that?