Post by Debbie on Nov 25, 2014 20:17:09 GMT -1
features Seafood! *tosses confetti.... Eldon and I have finished the last of our foraging for our Thanksgiving 'feast' this year. Since we relish being back on the Oregon coast, our Thanksgiving reflects local foods!!! 
So we have:
Crab cakes: we've just purchased the local crabs caught straight from our coast and bought locally. Eldon's going to make them with boxed stuffing ~ mmmm!
Ivar's Clam chowder: this is a diehard favorite! We've been eating Ivar's from Puget Sound, WA for over 20 years and Ivar's itself has been going for generations.
Local acorn squash
Local sweet potatoes ...we're baking the squash and sweet potatoes with only a splodge of butter
Dessert: An enormous pumpkin pie with whipped cream
We did debate local oysters or smoked local salmon, but in the end decided we already had so much food it would be folly to add those too since it's just Eldon and me.
Okay a traditional American Thanksgiving menu would be: (and this is what we ate for like the first 25 or 30 years of life)
Turkey
Stuffing
Mashed potatoes
Gravy
Sweet potatoes baked with miniature marshmallows (cue fighting with everyone for 3rds or 4ths!)
Cranberries... sauce or a mixture of the berries and sauce
Giblets (*shudders and swapped those out for anything else remotely edible when I was a child)
Baked green beans with French fried onions
Corn ... could be on the cob, creamed or simply corn with butter
Dessert: pumpkin pie with whipped cream or pecan pie
I could only stomach pumpkin pie m'self. As a child, even pecan pie was way too sweet for me. My teeth and stomach ached after even a small amount.
Thanksgiving will happen on Thursday and already people are thronging to the shops for last minute shopping. This morning we had to double back to purchase 12 bottles of water so we can hole up for the holiday. As Eldon wheeled the cart through the parking lot, an elderly lady had backed her car up. She rolled down her window to shout to us, "That looks like a very thin Thanksgiving!" ...bwhahahahahahah! It took me a few seconds to cotton on to what she'd said, but I've been chortling over it ever since
So American Dalesfans, what's on your table for the upcoming Thanksgiving feast? UK Dalesfans...feel free to start your own Thanksgiving feast
it's held the 3rd Thursday in November and basically it's a harvest feast in Thanksgiving to our Native American friends for helping the first colonists in American survive their first winter 
So we have:
Crab cakes: we've just purchased the local crabs caught straight from our coast and bought locally. Eldon's going to make them with boxed stuffing ~ mmmm!
Ivar's Clam chowder: this is a diehard favorite! We've been eating Ivar's from Puget Sound, WA for over 20 years and Ivar's itself has been going for generations.
Local acorn squash
Local sweet potatoes ...we're baking the squash and sweet potatoes with only a splodge of butter
Dessert: An enormous pumpkin pie with whipped cream
We did debate local oysters or smoked local salmon, but in the end decided we already had so much food it would be folly to add those too since it's just Eldon and me.
Okay a traditional American Thanksgiving menu would be: (and this is what we ate for like the first 25 or 30 years of life)
Turkey
Stuffing
Mashed potatoes
Gravy
Sweet potatoes baked with miniature marshmallows (cue fighting with everyone for 3rds or 4ths!)
Cranberries... sauce or a mixture of the berries and sauce
Giblets (*shudders and swapped those out for anything else remotely edible when I was a child)
Baked green beans with French fried onions
Corn ... could be on the cob, creamed or simply corn with butter
Dessert: pumpkin pie with whipped cream or pecan pie
I could only stomach pumpkin pie m'self. As a child, even pecan pie was way too sweet for me. My teeth and stomach ached after even a small amount.
Thanksgiving will happen on Thursday and already people are thronging to the shops for last minute shopping. This morning we had to double back to purchase 12 bottles of water so we can hole up for the holiday. As Eldon wheeled the cart through the parking lot, an elderly lady had backed her car up. She rolled down her window to shout to us, "That looks like a very thin Thanksgiving!" ...bwhahahahahahah! It took me a few seconds to cotton on to what she'd said, but I've been chortling over it ever since
So American Dalesfans, what's on your table for the upcoming Thanksgiving feast? UK Dalesfans...feel free to start your own Thanksgiving feast
it's held the 3rd Thursday in November and basically it's a harvest feast in Thanksgiving to our Native American friends for helping the first colonists in American survive their first winter 
