When daughter Lise comes, we always try to see former neighbors Connie and Marla. We had a mother/daughter lunch in Bryson City, catching up on recent events. When the restaurant closed for the afternoon, we went to their house and laughed ourselves silly. We caused Albert to bark, but that’s better than having other diners glare at us.
It’s marvelous to have long roots with neighbors, as well as family members. Marla took a photo of Lise and me, a rarity these days.
If you are celebrating Thanksgiving, may you have lots to be thankful for – family, friends, a moist turkey, and sides that are not at war with each other. After all, you will be taking sides.
If anyone cares to share your menu, I’d enjoy knowing what you had for your holiday dinner. I was horrified to discover today that we are having fake turkey! I read the label in the store as “turkey breast”. Despite handling it there, putting it in the freezer and taking it out, I did not read the complete label. It’s a BONELESS turkey breast. That means turkey meat was mashed together and put in a mesh casing to hold it together. Next year I’m going to ask David to pick it out.
Mehrling Muse 
I love that photo of you and Lise! I chuckled at fake turkey. I have often opted for a boneless turkey breast, but they were just breasts with the bones removed, like boneless chicken breasts. We are having ribs or pork loin roast–not sure which yet. If I do the loin roast, the weather will permit Randy to smoke the ribs Saturday or Sunday…hard choice, right?
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We’ve always had turkey, never considering anything else.
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LOL..There is fake every where these days. Careful….You seem to have started early but why not. Party on while you can.
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Yes! We will party AND be thankful.
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Great photo of you and Lise. As for the fake turkey breast, at least it isn’t a tofu turkey. LOL!
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Oh! I never heard of tofu turkey. Interesting.
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Because I’m a vegetarian, but I make Christmas dinner for my meat-eating family, they are always worried I’ll make a tofu turkey. (now that would be a real fake turkey!) Of course, I always make them a real turkey, I just don’t eat it. xo
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It is very kind of you to prepare turkey when you won’t eat it. I was not so kind to John. He loved to eat lamb, and I disliked it. My workaround? I always pointed out lamb if I saw it on the menu.
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I do the same with steak. I don’t cook steak so encourage Paul to have it at a restaurant.
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I think our feast may be one of those boneless turkey breasts, too. I’m not a fan of turkey so to me it makes no difference. And my husband will eat anything. Happy Thanksgiving, Ann
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The boneless turkey will be much easier to slice, and I was the one who did the carving when we moved here eight years ago. In NY I did all the pies.
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Excellent point about slicing. We’re getting our pies from an European bakery. It’s the one time of year when I buy dessert instead of making it. Looking forward to it.
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It will be wonderful! We are treating ourselves with filet mignon. There are only 4 of us so why not! We still have the traditional stuffing and sweet potatoes but will have cake to celebrate 2 birthdays instead of pumpkin pie!
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Sounds marvelous. I’ll make a pumpkin cheesecake pie tomorrow — a new recipe. We have half the lemon cheesecake left over from the Gobbler Fest last week, too.
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Leftover cheesecake? How did that happen?
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It was a large cheesecake. The recipe begins with four packages of cream cheese. There was a huge apple pie someone brought. We will probably finish the cheesecake tomorrow.
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I’m sorry I’m not close enough to help out. Really I am! 🙂
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How I would love to have you close enough to share cheesecake!
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I want my turkey to have legs, too. I’m not a fan of white meat, so I like thighs and other dark meat. We don’t do big get -togethers any more. Carol is working at Life Banc, and they are very short handed now, which is a mixed blessing in that she gets really nice overtime pay.
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I laughed that you want your turkey to have legs.
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Love the pics and so glad you’re with family for the holiday. With us in a different state, it will be a little weird this year, but I plan on doing some FaceTime with them! Not sure what we will eat but we won’t starve!
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I’m glad you won’t starve on an American feast day.
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at least you got some Turkey! It could have been Tofurkey! Now that’s an abomination!
We had our Thanksgiving a while ago. I do not know how many years that is without any Turkey?
I miss the big celebration. You are lucky!
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Tofurkey! No thanks!! There will be only seven of us, but it will be a big celebration.
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So beautiful picture and so glad you’re with family for the celebration Thanksgiving. Not sure what will be eat. Here is can’t celebrate Thanksgiving.
Happy Thanksgiving, Ann!
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What is your favorite holiday?
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My favourite holiday is Dipawali and Navratri Indian festival. My religious fastival on the 13th December and 21st March. We are celebrating with my religious togather .
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That is lovely. I would like to look them up, but company is coming today, and I must cook for five people today and seven tomorrow.
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What you had to cook? Which disses cook. ?
You don’t tired that time?
Very hope you have to good experience.
Iam so happy 😊!
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My brother and his wife are on their way to spend Thanksgiving with me. Today I baked a coffeecake and made a pumpkin pie. Tomorrow I will cook the turkey, prepare stuffing, and cook squash. Others are bringing a salad, a sweet potato casserole, and baked zucchini. I won’t have time to write for a couple of days. We will have a wonderful time together.
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Well at least it is turkey and not some weird plant based turkey! We are having turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce and a green salad with fresh rolls. Pear cranberry or pumpkin pie for dessert.
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That is a lovely menu.
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I forgot the green beans 😆
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Oh, funny, but as others have said, at least it isn’t tofu, LOL!! I got a 12-pound turkey for 37-cents/pound, didn’t think there would be any real discounts on those this year. We’ll have it slow roasted with my sourdough/sausage/mushroom dressing, gravy, spinach casserole with parmesan cheese topping, cranberry sauce (jellied from the can!), homemade egg bread and a mixed berry fruit pie for dessert. I’m doing the prep cooking today, happily in the kitchen.
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I’m glad you enjoy cooking. So many people complain about it. Your menu sounds fantastic.
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That’s nice getting together like this and a great picture of you and Lise as well. My mom and I used to get a turkey breast to have for Thanksgiving or Christmas as it was just the two of us and white meat which we both liked. I have never cooked a large meal – going to make something in the crockpot which I’ll have around for a few days. Enjoy!
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I’m thinking of you today. Wish you could come to our house.
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Thank you Anne – I wish I lived closer as well. Hope you enjoyed your holiday today.
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We’re at Mom Pollock’s and had planned on having a pre-cooked meal from the local grocery store. But we accidentally missed the sign-up deadline so we’re scrambling. Forgot the pie, there was no lettuce for salads, they didn’t have cranberry sauce so we had to get actual cranberries, and we realized there are no veggies on the menu. But the turkey will be amazing, I think. Whatever it is, it will be great ‘cuz there’s a lotta love here. Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. We are most thankful for you.
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This sounds like it could turn into an amusing post. Hope your day is a happy one.
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Happy belated thanksgiving 🦃❤️
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Sounds like a great time Anne! They say that laughter is very healthy for you. We didn’t celebrate until Saturday. Our menu was turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, dinner rolls, cranberry sauce, corn, raspberry cheesecake, pumpkin pie with whipped cream. Enjoying leftovers today!
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Your dinner sounds delicious. Our leftovers are almost all gone.
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