Happy Thanksgiving.

[Commander Wallace]

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone here in Subsim and elsewhere that celebrates this day. I hope your day is happy and healthy and spent with good friends and family. I know that in Canada, Thanksgiving is celebrated the second Monday of October. So to our friends in Canada, happy belated Thanksgiving as well.


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[em2nought]

Happy Thanksgiving, and happy belated Guy Fawkes day as well. :D

[Ostfriese]

Happy Thanksgiving to you Americans.


It's a normal working day over here (with lots of NFL-Football in the evening, though).

[Jimbuna]

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[mapuc]

Wish all my fellow friends here and their family a HAPPY Thanksgiving

Markus

[Onkel Neal]

Happy Thanksgiving! I'm so excited, feast!

[Buddahaid]

Happy Thankgiving! I hope the day finds you at peace and among those you love (even if they are family).
:Kaleun_Cheers:

[Eichhörnchen]

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[CTU_Clay]

HAPPY THANKSGIVING
:Kaleun_Cheers:

[Aktungbby]

Happy Thankgiving! I hope the day finds you at peace and among those you love (even if they are family).
:Kaleun_Cheers:...in 'Merikanese, 'damninlaws' is one word!:D With daughter & fiance off to Big Bear with her impending inlaws(wedding in April), it's just a quiet two-some for us this year; so dinner at Corderos to avoid the customary kitchen cleanup(I'm the sculleryboy:O:) and some homemade pumpkin pie my wife made from scratch. We grow our own pumpkins. We declined two kindly invitations to neighbors' turkey-fests. They each got wife's pumpkin pies though!

[Commander Wallace]

HAPPY THANKSGIVING
:Kaleun_Cheers:

Hope you have a great Thanksgiving, Clay.
All the best. :Kaleun_Salute:

Happy Thanksgiving to you Americans.

It's a normal working day over here (with lots of NFL-Football in the evening, though).

I hope you enjoy the NFL game there, this evening. :Kaleun_Thumbs_Up:
@ Eichhörnchen. Good stuff. :haha:


We graciously declined a few awesome invitations for Thanksgiving dinner and festivities. My lady decided she wanted the day to just be us to make dinner here at home and enjoy the day / evening together.


Translated : I'm making dinner and assisting her. :haha:

[u crank]

Happy Thanksgiving to all the American SubSimmers.

Have a good one.

:salute:

[les green01]

happy thanksgiving everyone had smoke boar and deer here but the damn family wouldn't let me have the pecan pie

[Rockstar]

Happy thanksgiving everyone. I gotta give myself a pat on the back too for smoking a 7 pound bone-in turkey breast to juicy perfection.

[August]

Happy Thanksgiving Subsim!

[Reece]

HAPPY THANKSGIVING ALL

We may not celebrate it over here, but I'm happy for those who do!! :Kaleun_Applaud:
Cheers.:woot:

[blackswan40]

Happy thanksgiving to our couzens over the other side of the big duck pond

Now thats what ya call a Family Shindig :yep:

[ET2SN]

Anyone want some pumpkin pie? :Kaleun_Wink:

As mentioned in the "food thread", I got into doing this "Painless Thanksgiving" thing several years ago. The Hormel Sliced Turkey and Gravy "food" turned out better than expected, all I had to do was microwave the package for three minutes and then treat the gravy like it was Plutonium while I cobbled together some instant gravy mix with my own spices.

My goal with this style of Thanksgiving is to make it a pleasant memory by the late afternoon. That includes prep time and minimal leftovers and clean up.

I already covered the "Turkey". Since it was Hormel, there's always that "it tastes like Pork, somehow" effect. Still, I try to not make the fowl the star of the show and this stuff, well at least I didn't wind up on the floor. :up: Three minutes in the microwave for the meat and 10-15 minutes to stir up the instant gravy.

Taters were super simple. Dried instant mashed taters spiked with some crumbled bacon product (like you would add to a salad) plus some fresh ground pepper and freeze dried Sage. Painless yet tasty. :up:

Stuffing. It was almost impossible to make "one shot" stuffing so I'm using the leftovers to make baked stuffed Cod this weekend. Very basic Stove Top corn bread stuffing that would have been fine box-stock but I added a minimal amount of butter plus some Sage and Parsley. The one thing it REALLY needed was minced roasted chestnuts and some crumbled breakfast pork sausage but I was thinking ahead to how I wanted to re-purpose the leftovers. Still, it was just fine and dandy. :up:

Veggies. Microwaved steamed frozen Brussel Sprouts with "buttery tasting spices", whatever that means. :timeout:
Don't gag, the way you make fresh Brussel Sprouts is by simmering them in hot water for a couple of hours. Let's not guild the lily on this stuff.
Also, a side portion of my Cajun canned greens. The big trick to this dinner is to keep things tasty but simple. Throw your spices at the side dishes and just choke down the rest. Believe it or not, it works. :up:

That just leaves the pie. I always try to find a generic Sara Lee frozen pumpkin pie because they are relatively small and painless to bake.
They are also the equivalent of warm paper pulp, it terms of taste, so you want to throw something "extra" at them before they get loaded in the oven.

An ideal ingredient to transform this "meh" pie into something memorable is the traditional New England spices. But, go into any super market in Iowa and ask the manager if they have a pint of Black Strap Molasses and they'll look at you like you just said, "I planted a bomb somewhere in your store, you'll never find it before it goes off". :yep:

What I did have on the shelf was some ground nutmeg, ground cinnamon sugar, and a jug of "famous icon from the 1970's" buttery tasting maple pancake syrup. Badda-boom, you just transformed your pie into something that tastes like your granny made it from scratch. Just sprinkle a decent amount of the spices on top of the frozen pie, add a drizzle of the syrup, then load it into an oven set to Bachelor's Standard +25 (ie, 375 degrees F) for 75 minutes. :yeah: If you REALLY need to impress the in-laws, add a shot of rum to the top of the pie after it comes out of the oven and is still hot (you really want the alcohol to cook off) . :D Then, allow to cool to room temp and load it into the ice box for at least 2 hours so the filling fully sets. :yeah:

Not counting the pie, I went from Cold Metal to over-fed and cleaned up in about ONE HOUR. :yep: :arrgh!:

[Eichhörnchen]

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