Happy Thanksgiving!

[apple_pathways]

Happy Thanksgiving! to all my American friends.

And to everyone on my flist, I am thankful for you for all the fun, laughs, and support you give me. Thanks for playing along!

I'm spending the day at my cousin Jennifer's with my dad's family. (It is a HUGE family. Catholics--bah!) My mother made pumpkin pies, and I made an apple one. Erin (future sister-in-law) is making stuffing.

What is everyone else doing? What sort of yummy goodies are you making/looking forward to?

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[planejane.livejournal.com]

We are having a very laid back affair. I bought pecan pie from Costco - and it's GOOD. Going to a friends' house where we will eat, drink and be merry. My kind of day. :)

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

Sounds ideal! I'm looking forward to the "drink and be merry" part of my holiday--with the antibiotics and the fact that I haven't had any alcohol for more than three weeks, it shouldn't take much of the first to get me to the second part of that phrase. ;)

[sabriel75.livejournal.com]

By my lonesome... reading a book, finishing Christmas cards, finishing Merlin holiday fic and already ate some pecan pie. Might make pumpkin bread later.

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a nice, relaxing day. :) I hope you enjoy! Pumpkin bread is YUMMY!

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

Happy Thanksgiving! That picture is making me hungry already. :/

I'm spending my morning making pretzel bread and hunting down sage and rosemary, since that somehow got left off the list of Things We Need for Thanksgiving Turkey. Then I'm having dinner at my friend's place downtown, where I will attempt to make a key lime pie from scratch.

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

Oh, key lime pie is my FAVORITE! (Or it could be lemon meringue pie--either way, citrus is the way to go.) I've never had "made from scratch", so I'm super jealous. Let me know how it turns out!

I wonder what it would be like to spend a holiday exclusively in the company of people I like, rather than a mixture of people I love and people I tolerate for the sake of the people I love...

Enjoy your Turkey Day!

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

The key lime pie seems to have turned out okay, but I kind of overlooked the part where it has to chill for eight hours so I won't really know whether it's any good until I get up to their apartment again this weekend. (-; But, since it's just a graham cracker crust and some eggs, condensed milk, and lime juice I think I might just make another one for myself and see. (And juicing a million tiny limes is actually pretty fun.)

I haven't had a Thanksgiving with family for something like seven or eight years (I really can't believe it's been that long, omg). This is still one of only two years I haven't been holding my nose and just tolerating some people, though, even among friends (friends-of-friends aren't always the best holiday dinner companions. (-;) It's nice, but my family always did just-us Thanksgivings with the last of the things we took out of the garden, so I miss it like crazy.

Hope your Turkey Day was a fun one. ^_^

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

Now I think I might have to make a key lime for myself this weekend. Just to see. ;)

(friends-of-friends aren't always the best holiday dinner companions. (-;)

Ain't that the truth! There's one particular friend-of-a-friend in my circle who just recently moved out of state. All I can say is: SEE YA!

Is it too big of a trip to get home for Thanksgiving?

My day was nice! I still can't taste food properly, so that was a bummer, but it was nice to see my family, and no one got plastered and started an argument this year, so: bonus!

[alias-amy.livejournal.com]

I am throwing together a last minute Thanksgiving dinner, as we were supposed to go on vacation but hubby has to work :( So I am frantically brining and spatchcocking a turkey I bought last night so we have a hope in hell of eating it before midnight tonight.

On the other hand, I actually love making my own cranberry sauce, and somehow I'm less of a piglet eating half a pumpkin pie at home than going back to a buffet line three times for pie. So a cozy T-day at home, after all, which is probably what we should have planned to begin with.

It's been lovely getting to know you in this short time!

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

It's been lovely getting to know you in this short time!

Ditto! I love that comm for finding fantastically lovely people. :)

I'll have to google "spatchcocking" when I get home from my celebration, because whether you invented that word or not, I want to work it into my vocabulary!

I love making my own cranberry sauce, too, but I forgot to do it last night, and there wasn't enough time today. Oops!

Enjoy your meal! Sounds like it should be lovely. (And have as much pie as you like! That's what the day is for.)

[middlegirl.livejournal.com]

I'll be spending the day at my grandparents' with my dad's sister's family, so it'll be small and great, since I love those relatives. The others live in and around Sacramento, and are getting too old to make the trip. (Is it weird to be thankful that I have a great-uncle recovering from surgery so he and his wife won't make it? I am thankful he's okay, but I'm thankful I won't have to spend time with them, too.)

I'm a turkey-mashed-potatoes-stuffing girl, though I now have to stay away from anything too creamy (thanks to my newly-developed lactose intolerance), which hopefully means all I have to skip is the green bean casserole - but I never liked that anyway.

What I'm really looking forward to after dinner is midnight madness at the mall. Not to really do any Christmas shopping, but more to check the sales and shop for myself. :)

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

which hopefully means all I have to skip is the green bean casserole - but I never liked that anyway.

*gasp* Blasphemy! That's my favorite. Unfortunately, I still haven't regained my sense of smell, therefore I couldn't really taste a lot of the food this year.

(Is it weird to be thankful that I have a great-uncle recovering from surgery so he and his wife won't make it? I am thankful he's okay, but I'm thankful I won't have to spend time with them, too.)

Trust me, I know how this goes! I have plenty of family I don't mind missing at the holidays. And some of them love, but they're just...so much work!

Oh, it is so tempting to buy all the stuff I need for myself during the Christmas sales...I do give in now and again. ;) I used to do the Black Friday shopping, but this year I'm looking forward to sleeping in and laying around the house!

Hope your day was yummy and fun. :)

[middlegirl.livejournal.com]

Well, another great-uncle and -aunt came over, but I was in the craft room watching the parade and dog show, scouring the ads, and making jewelry (Nana pulled out all her beads, cords/wire, and old jewelry we could cannibalize from), so I didn't even see them until dinner! They're not really "so much work" to hang out with, but Aunt Doris is slowly losing her mind (possible Alzheimer's/dementia), so we just kind of smile and nod when she says things that have nothing to do with the topic at hand, and Uncle John would rather watch the game.

I'm too lazy to wake up early for Black Friday shopping, but I'm a total night owl, so staying up late I will do. :)

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

My grandmother is a lot of work. She's hard-of-hearing, and in the throes of Alzheimer's, so I spend a lot of time answering the same questions for her over and over again at top volume. And this year, with my right ear blocked due to illness, I couldn't hear properly either, so we made quite a pair. :)

Ooh, I love making jewelry! That sounds like a really good time.

Good luck with your Black Friday bargain hunting!

[paenteom.livejournal.com]

I wish we would celebrate Thanksgiving, I always loved the symbolism of the holiday. Even though it's probably mostly like Christmas, where nobody even knows what it's worth anymore and is just there for the food. /sigh

Anyways, no turkey or apple pie for me. I'm jealous. D:
I hope you had fun though! ♥

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

The symbolism of the holiday does get a bit lost, especially since the traditional, nostalgic view of the holiday's origins just aren't supported by a modern reading of history. But so long as the focus is on family, sharing, and being thankful, it is a beautiful tradition to celebrate!

I did have fun! Thanks for the well-wishes. Next stop: Christmas goodies!

[jacknjill270.livejournal.com]

Hope you had a good Thanksgiving! Ours was pretty low-key, just had my grandparents over for dinner at my house with the rest of my family. But my mom made ham instead of turkey! It was really good, but there's gotta be some kind of law against having ham instead of turkey on Thanksgiving.

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

I've never been a strict adherent to tradition, but I am slightly unnerved by the idea of ham at Thanksgiving! (And I'm not even a huge fan of turkey...) Still, a good meal is a good meal!

I had a very nice day, thanks! My brother and his girlfriend are home, and the meal at my cousin's house was lovely, even if I couldn't taste most of it!