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Not really.

Quote from redjen910 : red state, red velvet, redjen. It's a conspiracy.

I forget if this has been posted or what but I've got a headache and I want to be distracted

What do you guys have for Christmas dinner? Even if you go to someone elses house what do you usually have? Or isn't there a "typical" dinner where you have the same approx thing every year?

Like for us, we go to my parents house and open presents and then we have kind of a buffet. My mom makes eggrolls and she's sweet and does it mostly for me because they ARE MY FAVORITE FOOD IN THE WHOLE WORLD! It's got water chestnuts and pork and ham and peanut butter and all sorts of stuff. Then she makes smokey links and meatballs and I bring my taco dip thing and we toyed with the idea of me making Hungarian Gulash this year but then figured maybe we had enough stuff, lol.

And then...AND THEN...she makes my other most FAVORITE FOOD IN THE WHOLE WORLD...cream cheese brownies. I love them so much. So very very much.

We don't have a typical dinner. It's ham this year, I've smoked a turkey and/or wings in the past.

happy birthday to one of the most amazing people ever.

Quote from Autumn : I forget if this has been posted or what but I've got a headache and I want to be distracted What do you guys have for Christmas dinner? Even if you go to someone elses house what do you usually have? Or isn't there a "typical" dinner where you have the same approx thing every year? Like for us, we go to my parents house and open presents and then we have kind of a buffet. My mom makes eggrolls and she's sweet and does it mostly for me because they ARE MY FAVORITE FOOD IN THE WHOLE WORLD! It's got water chestnuts and pork and ham and peanut butter and all sorts of stuff. Then she makes smokey links and meatballs and I bring my taco dip thing and we toyed with the idea of me making Hungarian Gulash this year but then figured maybe we had enough stuff, lol. And then...AND THEN...she makes my other most FAVORITE FOOD IN THE WHOLE WORLD...cream cheese brownies. I love them so much. So very very much.

we basically do a thanksgiving redux. mostly because my family hasn't been together for a thanksgiving since prolly 2000. we have been together for a few times for christmas though.

Quote from redjen910 : red state, red velvet, redjen. It's a conspiracy. My ex and I once stayed in a place with a tub for two. Yeah, I washed it first.

did you wash the comforter though?

Quote from Frogstar : We don't have a typical dinner. It's ham this year, I've smoked a turkey and/or wings in the past.

Have you ever fried a turkey? I saw something at the store that was some peanut oil fryer for turkeys. I don't eat the skin but for some reason I've always thought it looked delicious, lol. I heard that it's supposed to make the turkey super juicy.

Quote from arjunsr : happy birthday to one of the most amazing people ever. we basically do a thanksgiving redux. mostly because my family hasn't been together for a thanksgiving since prolly 2000. we have been together for a few times for christmas though.

Thanksgiving food is delicious. It's the only time of year I ever have stuffing, lol. It's not that I don't like it it's just no one here likes it enough for me to make it during the rest of the year.

Quote from Autumn : Have you ever fried a turkey? I saw something at the store that was some peanut oil fryer for turkeys. I don't eat the skin but for some reason I've always thought it looked delicious, lol. I heard that it's supposed to make the turkey super juicy. Thanksgiving food is delicious. It's the only time of year I ever have stuffing, lol. It's not that I don't like it it's just no one here likes it enough for me to make it during the rest of the year.

i wanted to do a fried turkey this year! stupid family is afraid of the calories though

Quote from arjunsr : i wanted to do a fried turkey this year! stupid family is afraid of the calories though

Puh. One meal isn't going to kill anyone. I once had a friend who was dieting and she said when she went to her families house for Thanksgiving she brought her own pieces of turkey breast and fat free mashed potatoes with no butter or anything and dry green beans, etc. and she was so unhappy watching everyone else eat. And while I admire her restraint the other part of me was like "But ONE meal? Is it THAT big of a deal?"

Quote from arjunsr : did you wash the comforter though?

Nope. It was summer so I took it off the bed.

Quote from Autumn : Have you ever fried a turkey? I saw something at the store that was some peanut oil fryer for turkeys. I don't eat the skin but for some reason I've always thought it looked delicious, lol. I heard that it's supposed to make the turkey super juicy. Thanksgiving food is delicious. It's the only time of year I ever have stuffing, lol. It's not that I don't like it it's just no one here likes it enough for me to make it during the rest of the year.

i know the feeling.:-/

This sucks. SD isn't sending me an email notification of any PMs here. So I can't read them on the sly Which actually I guess is good because when I do that, half the time when I log back onto SD I forget that I have a PM waiting to respond to and then two weeks later I'm like "Ooooh yeah "

Quote from Autumn : Puh. One meal isn't going to kill anyone. I once had a friend who was dieting and she said when she went to her families house for Thanksgiving she brought her own pieces of turkey breast and fat free mashed potatoes with no butter or anything and dry green beans, etc. and she was so unhappy watching everyone else eat. And while I admire her restraint the other part of me was like "But ONE meal? Is it THAT big of a deal?"

the weirdest thing is they won't flinch eating kfc. its my grandparents and dad's favorite foods. the turkey won't be nearly as bad..


oh! so my sister did a thanksgiving in mali, africa. i gave her all these recipes to try and midified to what she had on hand. the grossest part were by far the turkeys. they didn't really pluck all the feathers off. guess they got lazy. in parts where the thicker feathers are like the tail/knees and such there were huge bumps. i told her to try brining it because it's prolly not going to be that good quality meat. she did.. but um they didn't discard the intestines. and she didn't know. it kinda swelled up in the solution and stuff.

rest came out pretty well.

Quote from Autumn : This sucks. SD isn't sending me an email notification of any PMs here. So I can't read them on the sly Which actually I guess is good because when I do that, half the time when I log back onto SD I forget that I have a PM waiting to respond to and then two weeks later I'm like "Ooooh yeah "

my account can't receive them. i asked mr sd and he looked at every setting. its set up right. its not even generating the emails.

Arj I keep getting a pop up notification that you quoted me and according to the feed or whatever it's called it says less than a minute ago. When I click on it though it just takes me to the top of this page. Did you say something I'm just not seeing? Last post of yours I see was the "I know the feeling" one.

Damn it! Another pop up saying Arj quoted me but all I see is me.

(Never thought I'd complain about that Seriously though...grrr).