you are NOT eating turkey on T-Day?

I am eating whatever is being served in the cafeteria at work...

This year it will be turkey, but the past few years it has been Prime Rib roast in the slow cooker with half a bottle of red merlot. Let it cook on low for about 6 hours, then add all your veggys,...its soo good.

My family does turkey, but my grandfather (whose parents were native-born Czechs) makes halupki as well. For those who are missing it, it is stuffed cabbage. Ground beef and rice and peppers and onions wrapped up in a couple huge cabbage leaves, then covered with a tomato-based sauce and baked. It is DELICIOUS.

In reply to Twin_Cam:

AKA Hunky Hand Grenades

Yum, fresh cabbage from Dad's garden and a tight roll from Mom.... she's 83 and been rollin' since she was a teen

I'll be on the road for Thanksgiving and Christmas. So, I dint know what I'll have. When I get home, this weekend, Mom and my brother are coming down and I'm making a big pot of chilly.

^Nice, chili and chicken enchiladas are on the menu for Christmas eve with my family.

NGTD wrote: Thanksgiving was last month!

Silly Canadians.

I guess you can call it that, we can't even agree about it down here. I prefer to think of it as Indigenous Peoples Day.

Mmmmmmmm

Aussiemg:

your pictures look like SERIOUS road rash. The top one especially looks like "....and if you wear shorts and flip-flops on your "crotch rocket" and it collides with a truck, your backside could wind up looking like this."

My family used to go to my grandparents' for Tgiving. My grandmother made the best chestnut stuffing and it was loaded with Sage. She also (as a Botanist) created her own hybrid green beans. She would start cooking them with a cup of lard and cook them about as long as it took the turkey to be done... and they were still crisp. Good beans, great turkey, phenomenal stuffing.

The whole house smelled like Sage for a week.

Traditional turkey at my in-laws, same for the last 19 years. My brother in law did fried turkeys a couple years, absolutely delicious but that went by the wayside when they both lost their jobs and moved in with the in-laws. He then started brining the bird in some spice mix I really don't like. I've requested plain old turkey this year, roasted in the bag.

Hopefully I'll actually be able to taste it since I'm having sinus surgery next Friday to fix my inability to smell that I've had for the last 4 or so years. I knew is was a real problem when at a tack day earlier this year my instructor asked about the gas leak and I said "what gas leak" - fuel was spilling out of the filler and draining into the car and I couldn't smell it.

Going back to Detroit (Farmington Hills) to the in-laws for Turkey. Hoping I make the bird as the MIL likes to baste with a mixture of ketchup and water. No she is not old enough to have lived through the Depression.

Her idea of gravy: remove bird and roasting pan from oven; put bird on carving board; get gravy boat; dump contents of roasting pan into boat; serve.

I now do the gravy