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Tonight will be an after midnight Haagen Daz trip to the freezer, because we ate some really good things from another country. Very good! But left me hungry sooner.
It was from Thailand? Gyoza, yum. (like a potsticker with veges.)
And glass noodles with stuff, (veges again), from a different country.
We've been to Trader Joes.

And no, I cannot go thru the trash to find the real names, ha ha.

You would be welcome at my home CW and NHWM. How about next year?

I want to try the Chicken Marsala from Costco, thank you for the tip Bounce.
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Sounds great, Send!

Bounce,

Who looks at calories in Haagen Dazs? 🤣 It’s a splurge kind of deal!

My grandmother was so funny! She hated if I told her no to dessert. She would say that I looked beautiful and didn’t have to worry about calories. If I said that I wasn’t hungry, she would say that a person didn’t have to be hungry to enjoy eating cookies and ice cream, they were good anytime! She was the sweetest grandma.
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Bounce,

That ice cream sounds like a decadent frozen pina colada! I love coconut ice cream. The addition of the pineapple sounds amazing!

We would love that flavor.

Mocha ice cream is delicious. Coffee and chocolate goes well together.
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Bounce,

I agree. They have fabulous coffee ice cream. It’s a much better treat than frozen coffee that is sold in coffee shops.
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Who is cooking thanksgiving dinner? Who is eating dinner at someone else’s house?

I cooked dinner at my house for years and years. I love cooking but several years ago I took a break from holiday cooking. It’s work!

Families who do a pot luck style are smart! I did all of the cooking myself.

This year I am going to cook again for my immediate family and my younger brother. My brother in D.C. isn’t coming in town again until Christmas.

It would be fun to hear what your favorite Thanksgiving meal is! I’m cooking a turkey, mashed potatoes, roasted green beans with mushrooms.

Still debating what dressing to make, oyster or cornbread. In the south, we refer to stuffing as dressing.

My daughters insist that I make their favorite mac and cheese with cheddar, white cheddar and smoked Gouda.

I am buying the desserts, most likely a couple of pies. Pecan and apple are my go to pies. Sometimes I do buy pumpkin pie because it’s a traditional thanksgiving dessert!
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My hubs is cooking dinner for the 3 of us and 3 friends. Turkey, stuffing and gravy, mashed potatoes and green bean casserole and creamed corn( we made the corn this summer) casserole and cranberry relish ( from the local market) Hubs is a great cook if a little heavy handed with the salt, LOL Guests are bringing pimento cheese and crackers, pie and a cheesecake, and a fruit salad. Leftovers for all!! Almost everything is prepped an in the (unheated) sunroom ready for the oven, and I only have to vaccumn the house tomorrow!
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Pam,

Thanks for mentioning cranberries! I forgot to put that on my grocery list! Hubby loves them!

Your dinner sounds fun and delicious!
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Tonight, the main course was asparagus.
I spent the next three hours trying to get my fill of real food.
Meatballs with rice; carrots; and corn with lima beans.

Dessert was the Pumpkin Spice Loaf with icing.
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What is your favorite stuffing recipe for Thanksgiving? In the south, we call it dressing. My absolute favorite is oyster dressing! I love several other kinds too.
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What has been your most annoying mishap in the kitchen during the holidays?

One year my microwave broke on Thanksgiving day! I had a bazillion people at my home and everyone was hungry for our Thanksgiving feast!

I had to heat everything on the stove, in the toaster oven and in my oven. I was not happy but no one complained and everyone pitched in to help me.
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One year I had the gas oven randomly turn off halfway through roasting the Turkey . I had to keep turning it off and back on like every 10 minutes or so when it would shut off on its own. Turned out it was a problem with the igniter . It is supposed cycle off and on while roasting , but it wasn’t cycling back on sometimes .
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Way,

That’s worse than my microwave breaking! Were you able to finish roasting your turkey?
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Need,
Yes but had to watch ( listen ) to the oven constantly so if it didn’t cycle back on , had to turn it off and back on . Honestly I ended up having DH pay his undivided attention to do this so the oven temp did not drop , while I did other things.
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Way,

One holiday dinner several years back, I had tons of people at my house! Family and friends too. It was a fun but exhausting day!

So, I decided to enjoy a couple of glasses of wine with my friend’s husband's who has a great sense of humor!

My sweet potato casserole dish caught on fire in the oven!

LOL, I discovered that marshmallow topped sweet potatoes are extremely flammable under the broiler to brown the top. Oh, and I accidentally burned the dinner rolls when I baked them.

My friend said, “I think something is burning in your oven!” Her husband and I told her that she had too much wine because we didn’t smell anything burning! LOL, she wasn’t even drinking.

My husband looked at John and I and removed the wine bottle away from us. 😆

Oh well…we had lots of other food to eat! The casserole and rolls weren’t missed too much. I had croissants that I replaced the rolls with.

That wasn’t the first time that I’ve burned the top of sweet potatoes! A neighbor’s child told me that my oven was on fire once. This kid was always joking about stuff so I didn’t believe him.

That time was scary. I saw my husband getting the fire extinguisher out! I didn’t have any wine that day. I was making sweet potatoes to go with my baked ham.

So now my family teases me about it every time I make sweet potatoes. No fires recently! Yay!😀
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Nend, I remember my surprise when I found out you could start a fire with sweet potato casserole. Scraped them off and started again, no one was the wiser.

I, also, cremated a chicken once. Amazing that an 8# chicken would just be gone. Thankfully the guys had done well fishing we had some protein with dinner.

Fun memories, thanks for the reminder.
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I made red beans and rice for dinner tonight. A New Orleans favorite!

Burnt shares my love of traditional New Orleans cuisine. I am impressed that she cooks them in her home!
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ITRR,

Great save! I love it! LOL 😝

Sadly, everyone saw my faux pas! We laughed about it.

I really do make a delicious sweet potato casserole. I admit that I screwed up a couple of times!

Cremating a chicken! What a delightful way to describe your faux pas! LOL 😆
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When you leave the kitchen with food in the oven or on the stove always set your timer!
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cw,

Oh yes! That’s what my husband does. He sets a timer. He rarely burns anything. He has the logical engineer’s mind!

He says that I am the creative one who needs an assistant in the kitchen!
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I burned plenty of food before that habit became ingrained NHWM, it's too easy to get distracted and than 10 seconds to get something in another room can turn into half an hour (or more) before you know it.
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So true, cw! It’s easy to become distracted.
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We have an annual crab feed here, and my hubs is a great cook and everyone raves about his baked beans. So they were made and resting in the oven,,, the entire crab feed! People even talked about them, but none of realized they were still in the oven! Found them when we were cleaning up! Alot went home with people or into the freezer. Never did that again!
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Pam,

I saw pimento cheese in a specialty food store just before thanksgiving.

I remember you saying that you eat it. Does your husband make it or do you?

I have only eaten it a couple of times. I wouldn’t mind trying to make it if I knew what recipe to try.

I had it on crackers. I guess it would be good on a sandwich too.
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Making eggs, using the timer yesterday.
I walked away for a minute, then somehow ended up in the bedroom with the door shut and could not hear the timer. Thinking back, maybe I was on the phone.
Two hours later, after napping, I figured out how hungry I was still, and that hubs had turned off the fire when the timer went off. Eggs were inedible. He ate them.

Never underestimate the power of the full moon, and the upset caused by
neighbors being taken away by paramedics. Plus, the misinformation being spread by ignorant persons saying that the person died, and is still alive.

Always ask, is it true? And, Who told you? Confirm with 2-3 reliable persons with their minds still intact.

Do not be deceived by those with a history of gossiping and confabulation.

Wait, what day is this?
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Went to In N Out.
Double double, whole grilled onion, extra lettuce, extra tomato.
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Need hubs and his cousin use a family recipe, and I love it. I do not like the kind you buy in the store. They do not use mayo if I remember correctly. I'll have to get the recipe from him and get it to you. I do know they use the meat grinder to mix it.. cream cheese, a block of chedder, a jar of minced pimentos.. I'll get the amounts
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Pam,

Thanks! 😊
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Late to the discussion here, but several Thanksgiving mishap stories. We live in Maine and used to always have our big Thanksgiving family get together at our "camp" (summer home). After that, we'd have the pipes drained and close up for the winter. One year when we came back in the spring, we discovered 2 packages of VERY MOLDY dinner rolls on top of the bread box. There was so much food on Thanksgiving that none of us realized the rolls hadn't been put in the oven and served. Another mishap occurred in my family when I was young. We lived in NYC and my dad had taken my brother and I to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, leaving my mother home to tend to the turkey. When we got back home, we found my mother almost in tears--the oven door had fallen off! This was one of the old fashioned gas stoves with the oven on the side. She'd managed to improvise and had the door propped closed (mainly) with a chair pushed up against the handle. The turkey did take a bit longer than expected, but it eventually cooked through.
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Newbie,

Oh my gosh! Having the oven door fail off would be quite unnerving!
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I just came across a dessert in next weeks grocery flyers that sounds delicious, a chocolate chip meringata. Anybody have an opinion on whether something like this would be as good as it sounds?
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