How is Thanksgiving celebrated at YOUR house?

Ina said:
Ok ladies, what is it? Sounds like a 'private' joke to me. :wave:
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Ina, spotted dick is a traditional British pudding which is very comforting to eat on a cold winters day.

I posted a link to the recipe in my post 22.

It gets its name from the currants in the pudding.
 

I expect you could use raisins Ina or any similar dried fruit.
 

hollydolly said:
ha!! great explanation jujube..very funny.. :D just gotta point out tho' this fable that Brits eat 'spoted dick pudding' a lot is just that..a fable... in truth hardly anyone eats it ( mainly because it's nasty ...and it would be rare to find it on a menu...
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Spotted dick..... sounds like a disease
 
Yep we eat diseased food all the time, nothing quite like it to warm the cockles of your heart.:zz:
 
When I lived in France..the French had a strange idea that we eat our meat with jams..

Mint jelly..

Red currant jelly..

Medlar compote

They imagined we would just open a jar of sweet strawberry or raspberry jam..and start spreading it all over our beef!!..:D
 
Butterfly said:
I've always wondered -- where exactly ARE the cockles of one's heart???
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There actually aren't any "cockles" of your heart, but the term may come from the fact that the chambers of the heart resemble a mollusk's shell, also called a cockle.
 
You can actually buy Spotted Dick on Amazon. There was a high end grocery store in the San Francisco Bay Area where I saw it once too.
 

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Would love to spend Thanksgiving with part of my wife's family, like we did in 2007, when my MIL, SIL and BIL came to NC for Thanksgiving with us. Had a very nice time, but since that time, finances just aren't there for any of us.


Wife and I will probably go somewhere for Thanksgiving Dinner, since we can't find a turkey small enough for just the two of us. After that, it will be relaxation until later that night and Friday to go shopping. That is, if we see anything ads, of anything we might want, in our newspaper on Thursday morning. If we don't see any of the things, mainly DVD's, that we want, will order them online on Monday.......Cyber Monday, that is.
 
ClassicRockr said:
Would love to spend Thanksgiving with part of my wife's family, like we did in 2007, when my MIL, SIL and BIL came to NC for Thanksgiving with us. Had a very nice time, but since that time, finances just aren't there for any of us.


Wife and I will probably go somewhere for Thanksgiving Dinner, since we can't find a turkey small enough for just the two of us. After that, it will be relaxation until later that night and Friday to go shopping. That is, if we see anything ads, of anything we might want, in our newspaper on Thursday morning. If we don't see any of the things, mainly DVD's, that we want, will order them online on Monday.......Cyber Monday, that is.
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Turkey makes a great multi-meal event.. when I have a small group, I still make a pretty big turkey. We have it for Thanksgiving dinner.. THEN we have another dinner of all left overs.. THEN we may have some sandwiches or I will freeze the left over meat to make turkey tetrazzini.. THEN I freeze the carcass and make Turkey Soup.. which will be a meal.. and I freeze the left over soup for another meal.. so one turkey goes a long way. Six meals if I'm counting right.
 
Justme said:
Pardon my ignorance, but what is this thanksgiving festival about?
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It is a National Day of Thanks to God, for our many blessings. Much more than one of your festivals. Of course we do have local festivals like "Apple Festivals" and such. I guess we have a hard time understanding each other's culture, but would you really believe that an American would seriously think that King Phillip's Wife, Elizabeth is Queen? I don't think so.
 
Meanderer said:
It is a National Day of Thanks to God, for our many blessings. Much more than one of your festivals. Of course we do have local festivals like "Apple Festivals" and such. I guess we have a hard time understanding each other's culture, but would you really believe that an American would seriously think that King Phillip's Wife, Elizabeth is Queen? I don't think so.
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And I wouldn't expect you to..Philip is not our king..he is Prince Philip..

Elizabeth is our Queen..
 
My friend is a nurse..she has told me some tales..man with cucumber up bottom..said he was making a coffee and slipped over the vegetable rack..I don't know how she kept her face straight...
 
QuickSilver said:
Turkey makes a great multi-meal event.. when I have a small group, I still make a pretty big turkey. We have it for Thanksgiving dinner.. THEN we have another dinner of all left overs.. THEN we may have some sandwiches or I will freeze the left over meat to make turkey tetrazzini.. THEN I freeze the carcass and make Turkey Soup.. which will be a meal.. and I freeze the left over soup for another meal.. so one turkey goes a long way. Six meals if I'm counting right.
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You are so right,QS! In fact,since we are going to our daughter`s,we won`t have much in the way of leftovers. But since I know she won`t make turkey soup,I am going to snag the turkey carcasses (we will be cooking two turkeys) from her and make soup myself.
 

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