INSOMNIACS place to talk in the wee hours
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Smaarty - Here is a pic. of Kirby from about 3 weeks ago. He turned 13 mos. on 11/12/2017. I was outside talking to one of my neighbors and Kirby was tied to the table leg so he could enjoy the fresh air. I looked over and saw him jump on the chair, then the table. Looking so proud of himself. So I had to snap a pic of him.
Your great grandson is beautiful too.
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Smaarty, That is one good looking kid. I wouldn't take him around a crowd at T-giving either. Are they close enough that someone could bring them a plate? 25 years ago DH had heart bypass surgery on a Friday and came home on Monday. The kids asked what we wanted to do for T-giving and we said we wanted someone to bring us plates of the meal. They were great and did it. It was so nice not to lift a finger.
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So nice to see pieces of your lives in snapshots. Our TG tradition used to be to my parents. Then it switched to us grown kids taking turn hosting the holidays. For instance every third year one would get Christmas, Easter or Thanksgiving. Then brother's kids grew up and they stopped coming since their kids hosted. So now it is sister, Hubby and me. Really quiet and still it sucks. This year with our daughter gone to the UK it will be quieter than ever. Hoping Hubby will make the f'ed up turkey as delicious as last year. Cherry cheese pie my sister makes like Mom did, French bean casserole I make from scratch, olives. Simple. Maybe a holiday movie or card game. I like to play rummy.
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Blue - I think your Thanksgiving Day dinner sounds comfy and cozy. Not at all stressful, like when you're trying to make everything just right for a large group of guests. Some who may or may not like each other, or whatever family dynamic there might be.
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Ah traditions. I took over in 1986 no break in it until my eye and BP went screwy last year.
This year few less than tears past. Never the same, always a surprise. I stopped making Turkey a number of years ago after asking everyone who like turkey. None did, except Stephen. Tenderloin beef and salmon. This year individual steaks with lobster on top and some sauce. Thinking Bernaise, but not sure. Cream corn(corn with sweetened white sauce and not mushy), loaded potatoes. Hmm two starches. Everyone has there thing to bring. All the deserts are store bought, but good. Company is the best. Donnie, Steve & Jamie and dog, Brother & SIL, BFF & husband and their dog. All dogs are invited. 8 people and 4 dogs.
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Sas - Sounds like a fun time with the humans and dogs for your thanksgiving dinner. The menu sounds great too.
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Sas: I'm with you on the turkey thing. On Thanksgiving Day, it's a vehicle for gravy and that's about it. (It's the hot turkey sandwich with gravy, and turkey rice soup the next day that I love.) Steak, lobster, bearnaise sauce? That's brilliant.
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We do turkey for Thanksgiving and usually salmon for Christmas. DH and I don't eat red meat. This year 1st Lt will be coming and bringing his lovely vegetarian girlfriend. I'm trying to think of a veggie main dish that would be festive. I love turkey sandwiches a lot more than turkey itself.
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Queenie, so the same page, I love the left over T-day stuff. The sandwich with butter, pepper and salt. Day old celery & onion dressing, left over everything. Sliced turkey at dinner T-day only was tolerable b/c it was expected. I never knew anyone that broke from the tradition. Then I thought what we're talking about, and everyone felt the same way.
Poor Stephen lost out.
The funny part of that was after the turkey thing changed, I decided to changed the cream corn the next year. It was Greg's grandma's recipe. Served at all gatherings since I joined the family in 1972. I did something else. Didn't warn Stephen. He stood at the buffet line and said "No Turkey, no cream corn, next year I'm doing the menu." We all laughed so hard. That was two New York Strip Roast years and three filet years ago. This year I asked him to cook the cream corn. Oddly, I could hear the concern in his voice "How do I do that?". We worked it out. I said he would know how to cook it after this and that was a good tradition and thing for him to know.
Basically, it's a Betty Crocker medium thickness white sauce with sugar added. Approximately, 2 Tbl of sugar. I start at one Tbl and taste . The balance between the salt and the sugar are key to success. Corn kernels cooked aldente(sic), put them together. I cook the recipe the day before and put together to meld, and refrigerate. Take them out the day of, put them into a crock pot and it's an easy, non-last minute thing. Nice taste, lovely color--stark yellow against the white sauce.
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Wren, I did do a vegetarian lasagne one time where I combined three recipes and did my own thing. My BFF and I agreed it was the best ever. I didn't write it down. It had one layer of eggplant or maybe two. Then a layer perhaps two of red green and yellow peppers slices. The color was fantastic. That memory is solid, well, close 1- layer or two?. Then I think I mixed the ricotta and cottage cheese. Then combining three recipes of herb suggestions i.e picking and choosing. As much as BFF and I joke about that dish, it's strange I never repeated it. I did regret not writing it down. When I thought too awhile later, it was a blur. We've laughed about it for years.
My BFF has Scleroderma and her SD group had a speaker that recommended not to eat beef.
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Blue, are you Skyping with your daughter? My BFF is British. She skypes or the other thing, and gets to see everything with her grandkids and greatgrands are doing in England. I really should do it with my only niece and nephew. Should have, bad mistake. Maybe I will make that request as my Christmas present from them. Set me up and teach me.
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Junie, Kirby is beautiful. Methinks we should be roomies on the trip b/c of the CPAP devices. What do you think?
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So, basically: everyone send me and Sassy their leftover turkey?
In return for which, send me your turkey carcasses, and I'll send out turkey rice soup....after I've had my fill.
On a more serious note, creamed onions is my go-to Thanksgiving side dish. (pearl onions, cream sauce, baked with swiss cheese mmm)
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Sas, Skype is easy peasy to install on your computer. I'm a Mac person and DS/DDIL are Vaio. We Skyped when DGS was a baby. We now do FaceTime on our iPads. Sometimes I'm on my laptop when the call comes in and connect that way. No cost involved with either one. John was at a swim meet once and walked around with the iPad so I could see what was going on. Stood next to his coach and introduced me. Then took me to the room his teammates were chillin' in. It was a hoot. Had to give his dad back the iPad so he could go back with his team.
Juni (autocorrect wants to name you Janie), Kirby is a good looking boy. My how he has changed from being a puppy.
Babies are beautiful. Lover, I think John and Maria will be our only grandchildren. DD who got married lost both tubes and part of an ovary to endometriosis. She was misdiagnosed with IBS for several years and suffered the consequence. Before she and her hubby got married, they asked us the grandchildren question. I said that was strictly their call as I remembered how much I hated hearing "when are you going to have children." It's a very personal decision that only the two of them should be involved in. Did talk IVF and I did say they also had the option of adopting. Also, pointed out how your life totally changes so think hard about any decision they make.
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Sassy - I think that would be fine. My machine is very quiet though. I got a new one in May of this year. Kirby is as big as he'll get, but still has a lot of puppy excitement. He loves meeting people, so we are still working on his "off" command because he still jumps on people when he meets them. I have to explain every time to the people to tell him "off". He is improving bit by bit though. He is also learning "under" for when he is waiting for me somewhere like a doctors office or other places. I have him lay down under my walker. He's also working on "paws off" for when he is on my walker, because he likes to hang over the back of my walker and has fallen off 4 times. I don't want him to break his neck if he falls off one time, so "paws off" ;D!
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Here is His Highness sound asleep hogging my chair this evening.
And, yesterday staring outside to spot squirrels.
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Kathy, Thank you, I will work on it with the kids. I've seen everything you describe but making it work, I need lessons.
When I was working if we had tech equipment, I always read the manuals and made sure I knew them inside out. Outside of work, all I care about is on button, set button, return button, off button. Maaaaaaaaybe a few other concepts of technology. I eons, eons ago did correctly, identify that there would be a term Nitendinitis of the thumb after playing Tetris so much. It was written up in a paper using that exact term within the year. Never good at any of the other games. Couldn't work Mario, and the battle killing stuff games--no. Never once have been to the games here. Not negating them for anyone else. Hmmmm never took a look...........hmmm I took a look at Tetris and got hooked......Naw, better not to look.
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Junie, my stuff is quiet too!, but considering my hearing loss that's not saying much. Junie are you using hand commands with him too? there are regular hand commands, but what ever you use on a consistent basis will work.
Reminds me of a story. I would train my dogs to poop and pee on command. i.e pee and poop. Met a women who used a phrase I now forget, but it was simple like anything to not use the words poop or pee. Me walking around saying "Go poop" or "Go pee" loudly isn't dignified. It's true dogs have a vocabulary response to a couple hundred words. Maybe in the future I will say. "Come along now" for poop, and "Smell the roses, honey" for pee. Could be anything.
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Queenie, Onion casserole---------going to find the recipe. It's divine. Likely the same as yours. Haven't done it for years
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Queenie I found it
4 med onions.......................1/4 tsp oregano
3 Tbl butter...........................1/4 tsp basil
2 Tbl flour.............................1/4 tsp thyme
1 cup beef broth....................2 cloves garlic
1/4 cup sherry or...................1/4 cup shredded swiss
1/2 cup dry white wine...........2 Tbl grated parmesan
Cook onions in either butter or olive oil until tender. Add flour & beef broth & sherry or wine. Cook until thick and bubbly. Put in casserole( 1 quart) and chill. Remove to come to room temperature. Bake covered in 350 degree oven for 30 minutes. Bake uncovered for 10 minutes after topping with croutons and cheese. Spices can be added or not depending on taste
Queenie I hadn't thought about this recipe in years. It is best used with beef. Perfect for Thursday. It's a thing that can be made ahead, with the oven thing done the day of. It is divine with beef. Like French onion soup that is thickened. Hmmm consider marjoram as another spice. Substitute it for the oregano.
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Queenie, The onion casserole used to be one of Greg's and mines favorites. It was lost in the troubled times. Whohehhh, you brought it back
I'll let you know how it turns out
Not sure where the recipe came from, but it's in the book with the hand written ones that has all our favorite recipes, that is so thick that it has to have two rubber bands to hold it together. You know that book Hahaha
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Sassy: very similar to my recipe--mine uses pearl onions rather than chopped "grownup" onions--but as far as taste goes, they'd be interchangeable. This came up because we've been invited to a friend's house for Thanksgiving dinner and wanted to bring something; DH suggested creamed onions, and the friend took us up on it. I quite like yours, for the "make-ahead" aspect: I may suggest this variant to my husband, so we're not juggling a hot casserole dish/worrying about whether it'll still be hot when everyone eats/food safety/blah blah blah.
And yes, we all have that cookbook, the one that's interleaved with handwritten recipes, and now has to be held together with rubber bands. My mother's favorite birthday cake was a marbled chocolate/cinnamon/plain pound cake which she called "David's Chocolate Cake", because that's who she'd gotten it from. Presumably, David called it "someone else's chocolate cake", and there are others who call it "Lydia's Chocolate Cake".
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Yum
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It was a delicious birthday cake.
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All the talk about food makes me feel hungry. Oh wait, I haven't had breakfast yet. I have been so confused the last few days. Getting my days of the week mixed up. Kids are out for the holiday and it throws my schedule of wack. This week is my short work week. Got up early to take DD2 to swim practice. Before we left I told DD2 to unlock the side gate for the gardener. Her response was "Mom today is Wednesday not Saturday". Had to laugh at myself for running ahead of the week and skipping Thanksgiving and Black Friday!
Ms. S, the grand nephew is adorable!! I miss that stage minus the sleep deprivation and the pain of nursing.
Kath, I am sorry to hear about DD's infertility
. I have a friend who is the same age as me who has been trying for years. IVF failed. Found out she has incompetent cervix and a weird shape uterus. They have frozen embryos. Just need to find a surrogate mom. Wish I were younger so I could gift them. Loving couples. Not fair. Junieb, that picture of Kirby sleeping on his back made me laugh. One of my sisters' dog sleeps the same way.
ShepK, you surprised me with your knowledge of computers.
MammaRay, rejoicing with you for finding the pleasure in simple things of life. Continue to.....
So grateful we were able to open our home to DD's friend whom she met last year at the University. Her friend is driving home for Thanksgiving by herself from LA to Oregon and just needed a place to rest/sleep. Wish we had more time to chat.
Waving hi to the rest of my Sisters.
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..............................................................November 23rd, 2017
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Happy Thanksgiving!!
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Hubby and the "kiddos" are in a turkey coma! Just relaxing a bit before I start on the cleanup. So stuffed from all the good food.
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Me too! clean up done mostly. One load in the DW. Second on the counter. Wheeehee, I can feel the pain acoming , coming round the bend, don't know if I'll make it through again, just know that I would do it again, thinking the ride is always good, and the bed will be a blessing.
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