Thanksgiving 2018!
The End of November. “Tempus fugit!”
“Still Crazy After All These Years” – Paul Simon
HOLIDAY TRAFFIC in Los Angeles. This weekend will set new travel records!
TravelTuesday in Los Angeles! 6pm at the 405 Freeway and Wilshire Blvd
HAPPY THANKSGIVING! A time to be thankful and grateful for all you have.
Celebrate with Family and Friends, but do not forget the less fortunate. Enjoy your bountiful feast, but remember there are many people who have nothing to eat.
We always have too much food.
Thanksgiving Feasts! “FOOD ORGY FESTS” from past years:
Thanksgiving Turkey 2015
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We have documented our Thanksgiving for the last four years (2014-2017), so if you are interested in HOLIDAY TRADITIONS, you can read our previous Thanksgiving Blog Posts!
NOTE: There are MANY GREAT RECIPES available here on this Blog! Check them out!
Thanksgiving 2018 (Bird #1) – Resting quietly before meeting its plate.
Are you ready for some NFL Thanksgiving Day Football? Always fun!
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EVERY D*MN YEAR!
Thanksgiving Football 2018! All day Thursday, NFL morning to night.
Thanksgiving Day Final Scores:
Chicago Bears 23, Detroit Lions 16 (played in Detroit)
Dallas Cowboys 31, Washington Redskins 23 (played in Dallas)
New Orleans Saints 31, Atlanta Falcons 17 (played in New Orleans)
NOW LET’S GET COOKING!
Burn Baby…………………. Burn.
“I dont’ want to sell anything, buy anything or process anything as a career.
I don’t want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed,
or process anything sold, bought or processed, or repair anything sold, bought or processed.” ~ John Cusack as Lloyd Dobler in the film “Say Anything”
TIME TO MAKE THE CHEESECAKE! (Back By Popular Demand)
Thanksgiving 2015 – Grandma’s Cherry Cheesecake
ON THE MENU (the night before Thanksgiving): Thai Food for Wednesday Dinner – BBQ chicken, BBQ spareribs, Chicken Satay w/peanut sauce, Pad Thai noodles, fried rice, cucumber salad, mee grob noodles, and Thai iced tea to drink.
Wednesday after midnight! Time to make the cheesecake!
And chocolate truffle & marshmallow brownies too.
Time To Make The Cheesecake!
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- Midnight Baking!
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- Life is just a bowl of cherries!
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- Chocolate truffle & marshmallow brownies
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- Chocolate truffle & marshmallow brownies
Getting Baked! Cherry Cheesecake 2018 (in the oven)
Frosty! Cherry Cheesecake 2018
NOTE: “No sleep ’til Brooklyn” We finished baking after 4am, the cheesecake cooled. and then we woke up early to refrigerate and then frost and decorate the cake. We tried to take an afternoon nap, but the dogs would not stop barking. The party was called for 4pm at the house, but people always show up early to prep and cook beforehand.
4pm TIME TO FEAST!
“Save us some white meat.”
TRADITION! We’ve been hosting the Thanksgiving Party for years and years. It’s a family affair with friends and guests of family and friends, so you never know who might be in attendance. The number of people varies each year, sometimes as few as 20, the record year was about 40. It’s always a major endeavor to prepare the party and all the food, and it’s usually also a group effort with people bringing prepared dishes, desserts and gift bottles of wine. As previously noted, the last four Thanksgivings are recorded in past Blog Posts with lots of pictures.
THANKSGIVING FEAST 2018!
ON THE MENU: 2 Large Turkeys with gravy, 2 kinds of Stuffing/Dressing, Fresh Baked Challah Bread, Carrot-Butternut Squash puree, Corn Pudding, Asparagus, Brussel Sprouts, Vegetable Medley, Greenbean Casserole, Fruit Compote, Cranberry Sauce, Deviled Eggs, and Green Salad. Beverage choices: Wine, a selection of Single Malt Scotches (and other hard liquor), and soft drinks. And then Dessert: Grandma’s Cherry Cheesecake, Chocolate Cake, Apple Pie, Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Chip & Chocolate Chip Blondie Cookies, and Chocolate-Peanut Butter Fudge.
THE AMAZING THANKSGIVING FEAST! Dinner and Dessert for 20 People.
(One year we had 14 different desserts for 20 people!)
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Mom baked a beautiful Challah! And it was delicious.
(Homemade Fresh Baked) CHALLAH! (Bread)
AVOID A TURKEY DAY DISASTER!
Always cook with caution…… and a fire extinguisher.
This year, the CDC and FDA have RECALLED ALL ROMAINE LETTUCE!
The food supply is vulnerable. Bureaucracy is impairing Public Safety.
“WKRP in Cincinnati” – The “Turkeys Away” episode. A Thanksgiving Classic!
“Mr. Carlson comes up with a Thanksgiving promotional gimmick that involves a helicopter and live turkeys.” (with a wonderful homage to the Hindenburg Disaster)
SPOILER ALERT!
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- “Oh, the humanity!”
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- “As G-d is my witness, I thought Turkeys could fly.”
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- “Cheers” Thanksgiving Food Fight!
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- “Planes, Trains & Automobiles”
The “Cheers” Thanksgiving Food Fight episode, John Candy and Steve Martin in “Planes, Trains & Automobiles”, and of course the “Addams Family Values” Thanksgiving Pageant.
“I am a Turkey. Kill Me.”
Or there’s always the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade:
(BOYCOTT MACY’S AND NBC AND SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE!)
WTF? What is this “Shimmer” crap and why are they all freezing their asses off? BOYCOTT MACY’S AND NBC AND SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE!
From the Berkshire Eagle
Thanksgiving, an annual national holiday in the United States, celebrates the harvest and other blessings of the past year. The “First Thanksgiving” was celebrated in October 1621 by English colonists (the Pilgrims) of Plymouth, Massachusetts, and the Wampanoag people, after their first harvest in the New World. The feast lasted 3 days, and (as per a written account by attendee Edward Winslow) it was attended by 90 Native Americans and 53 Pilgrims.
The Continental Congress proclaimed the first national Thanksgiving in 1777.
NOTE: “They didn’t just Massacre a group of Indians and then have a feast to celebrate it there were so many massacres and so many feasts that George Washington created one single day for celebration. And that celebration isn’t celebrating a feast of mutual celebration it’s a celebration of multiple massacres. These massacres were the beginning of the genocide of the North American population.” – Glenn, telling the historical truth
Credit for our modern Thanksgiving goes to Sarah Josepha Hale, the editor of Godey’s Lady’s Book, a popular women’s magazine. In 1827, she began a campaign to reinstate the holiday, she petitioned the Presidents, and finally succeeded in 1863 when President Lincoln declared two national Thanksgivings in 1863, one on August 6th celebrating the Civil War victory at Gettysburg and a second holiday for the last Thursday in November.
In 1939, Franklin Delano Roosevelt lengthened the Christmas shopping season by declaring a Thanksgiving holiday for the next-to-the-last Thursday in November. And two years later in 1941, Congress permanently established a national holiday on the fourth Thursday of the month. Happy Thanksgiving Americans!
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