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It's today!

Recently - you remember Stephen Fry's American Tour in his black taxi? He was given a huge traditional Thanksgiving dinner in a most hospitable home, and I was trying to remember what they were eating. I'm sure I remember something like mashed-sweet-potato-with-marshmallows... and cream... or was I suffering from a Dieters Delusion?

Has anybody enjoyed one of these sumptuous dinners? englishangel Mary might have produced one if dragged from the racetrack . Elizabeth! You're on the spot! What are you cooking?

I admit that once I watched an episode of Smallville and everybody spoke around the table in turn, saying how happy and grateful they were, despite Clark Kent's father having been annihilated, Clark Kent's girlfriend having got off with a dubious guy, his widowed mother in a bad way, their kitchen trashed by a tornado, their farm about to be repossessed, and Lex Luther and his evil father smouldering somewhere in a very bad mood. I was impressed.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanks for the up-date (Horrid word !) on the Smallville Soap
I do not listen to, or watch, East enders, Corrie, or The Archers !

I realise that I am becoming more like my Great-Grandfather, who, during the War, heard the Family discussing the latest events on the Archers -------From his chair in the Parlour --"Would they be the Archers who lived down Rampart Road ?" --(He knew every Family in Salisbury !)----" No No Daddy" --from my Grandmother--"It's on the Wireless "-------

Reply from the Chair --- "CHA ! The Wireless !!"

I tend-- more and more to adopt the same attitude !

Oh, but NEILL; never mind Eastenders, Coronation Street or the Archers!

I'm thinking American - on Thanksgiving Day!

In the Vernacular ---- Yeah -- Right !

I did a little searching - look at this!


"Top 10 Delicious Recipes

1. Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies
Keep little fingers busy decorating holiday refrigerated sugar cookies!
2. Twice-Baked Sweet Potato Casserole with Bacon
3. Bread Stuffing
4. Caramel-Pecan-Apple Pie
5. Caramelized-Onion Bread Pudding
6. Corn with Fresh Herbs
7. Spinach, Sausage and Feta Quiche
8. Cranberry-Nut Cinnamon Chex® Mix
9. Cranberry-Orange Upside-Down Cake
10. Creamy Garlic Mashed Potatoes (Makeover)"

"Ahh, yes- the cheeseburger pie is such a classic"

Cheeseburger pie?

Angela Woodford wrote: "Top 10 Delicious Recipes

1. Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies
Keep little fingers busy decorating holiday refrigerated sugar cookies!
2. Twice-Baked Sweet Potato Casserole with Bacon
3. Bread Stuffing
4. Caramel-Pecan-Apple Pie
5. Caramelized-Onion Bread Pudding
6. Corn with Fresh Herbs
7. Spinach, Sausage and Feta Quiche
8. Cranberry-Nut Cinnamon Chex® Mix
9. Cranberry-Orange Upside-Down Cake
10. Creamy Garlic Mashed Potatoes (Makeover)"

"Ahh, yes- the cheeseburger pie is such a classic"

Strange, and stranger still. So the main course is an overcooked 'tater and bacon conglomeration stuffed with bread. they have onions in the pud and they mix herbs with their wheat - don't they even cook it?

I suppose the Mayflower guys were thanful for getting away from British cooking!

I don't thik that the "Mayflower Guys" did any cooking, unless they were out in the Forest.
In the 17th Century the "Mayflower Gals" would have done the cooking --- so they would NEVER have got away from it !

Isn't thanksgiving Day the day when we (Brits) give thanks for getting rid of the Americans, or is that Independence Day? Anyway, I always thought that thanksgiving dinner included roast turkey and pumpkin pie, rather than sweet potato pie.

Fjgrogan wrote:Isn't thanksgiving Day the day when we (Brits) give thanks for getting rid of the Americans, or is that Independence Day? Anyway, I always thought that thanksgiving dinner included roast turkey and pumpkin pie, rather than sweet potato pie.

Yes you're right, Frances. Pumpkin Pie - of course!

Caramel Apple Pecan Pie sounds lovely though... mmm.

And all that all-American homely gathered-round-the-table gratitude. Aah!

I'd be very grateful for all-American teeth! A perfect smile!

Aha. Right on time, A post from an American friend. I'll see if I can copy and paste - here goes -

"Our menu for today (listed just for you, Angela):

We'll start with shrimp cocktail and a cheese & cracker platter and a relish tray. I have swiss, goat, and extra sharp cheddar cheeses, along with some red grapes and a fresh pineapple and assorted crackers to put on the platter. The relish tray will consist of spiced apple rings, green olives, black olives, pickles, and cream cheese stuffed celery.

The main meal will be a 25 lb turkey and gravy, 2 kinds of stuffing, mashed potatoes, mashed buttercup squash, candied yams, dinner rolls, green bean casserole, broccoli & cheese, and cranberry sauce.

For dessert I baked a pecan pie, chocolate pudding cream pie and for myself, a crustless sugar-free pumpkin pie. And whipped cream to dollop on top of course!

I have White Zinfindel and Cabernet Sauvignon for wines, along with ice tea, coffee and water."

yams are sweet potatoes, and pecan pie is absolutely delicious.

Our first Thnaksgiving in the US we had only been in the house 2 weeks and a neighbour came round the night before with a pecan pie and the double cream to go on it, saying that they were going to family for Thansgiving but welcoming me to the neighbourhood. I thanked her kindly an said she had only just caught me as I was going out. she enquired where I was going "Weightwatchers" ooops.

Pumpkin pie is also delicious and you can use the Hallowe'en pumpkin if you have remembered to bring it in and freeze it.

I believe I have somewhere Miss Jukes's recipe for pumpkin pie. She used to sell slices of pumpkin at the sale of work with the recipe. (An aside; lately either my little finger or my keyboard is failing - every time I type a capital letter it fails and I have to go back and correct it!)

I am told by my good friend Julia (orig from Mass. but now living & baking frantically here) that Pumpkin pie is a dessert whereas "candied yams" - that's those mashed sweet potatoes with melted marshmallows on the top that Stephen Fry had - are actually part of the main meal - a vegetable!

That's my kind of vegetable!

...and you should have seen her happy dance when she finally tracked down a 7.5kg turkey .... not very common here.

Then I wasn't imagining the marshmallows!

nope! I don't know when it was on in UK, but they only showed it here a few weeks ago.

Angela Woodford wrote:I did a little searching - look at this!


"Top 10 Delicious Recipes

1. Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies
Keep little fingers busy decorating holiday refrigerated sugar cookies!
2. Twice-Baked Sweet Potato Casserole with Bacon
3. Bread Stuffing
4. Caramel-Pecan-Apple Pie
5. Caramelized-Onion Bread Pudding
6. Corn with Fresh Herbs
7. Spinach, Sausage and Feta Quiche
8. Cranberry-Nut Cinnamon Chex® Mix
9. Cranberry-Orange Upside-Down Cake
10. Creamy Garlic Mashed Potatoes (Makeover)"

"Ahh, yes- the cheeseburger pie is such a classic"
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Glad to see that they use at least one fresh ingredient.

My children's new stepmama (the tatooednipplepiercedHarleyriderfrom Arkansas) was horrified to hear that their birth mama had never fed them pumpkin pie, and offered to rectify the situation.

Shock! Horror! No canned pumpkin in South Australian supermarkets.

'Pumpkin? In cans?' squeaked Jess. 'There are fresh ones in the vege aisle. That's all that we eat'.

Oh Lordy, Lordy. Pumpkins just shouldn't be seen au natural apparently, so no pumpkin pie.

The can of orange mush that Stepmama sent from Houston is mouldering at the back of Jess' pantry.

Happy Thanksgiving indeed