What’s terrible about it? I can count on one hand and have fingers left over the number of “happy holiday” dinners I’ve been subjected to…The only upside is when the dinners were put together by my parents the food was terrific – none of that Anglo crap (mashed potatoes? why God?)
😂 Nothing terrible about it from my perspective, trust me. It’s considered rude but as I get older I don’t give a rat’s ass about being polite. Hahaa, I hate Thanksgiving food. I’m just talking out my ass on the next part here, but… I assume the pilgrims had no concept of olive oil and were working with what they had. Want to feed a bunch of people? What’s the easiest way? Boil a bunch of potatoes, mash ’em up, and throw a bunch of butter/lard in there. My thing is canned cranberry sauce, I’ve never understood that and stuffing makes me gag. I don’t doubt the food in your family was absolutely delicious.
I doubt very much the ‘first Thanksgiving” involved potatoes, butter or lard perhaps not even turkeys…Somewhere in this blog archive I wrote about holiday dinners – it would have you drooling, has me drooling just thinking about it – Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter – pretty much the same menu except Easter we had lamb and then “everything else”, Thanksgiving – just “everything else ” which always included some kind of meat – maybe a roast beef? Christmas – same as Thanksgiving or maybe a ham? Except of course New Year’s Day dinner had to have pork as the centerpiece….
Also, I feel like there might be a wikipedia search in my world about pilgrim diet soon. You were the inspiration for this. 🙂. If it’s interesting enough, I may do a whole post.
Pork and black eyed peas for New Years to ensure a ‘fat’ (prosperous) new year…only my mother ate thee black eyed peas. Pork could be a ham or a pork roast. Every holiday meal had the same basic menu – antipasto, some kind of pasta dish (ravioli, manicotti, lasagna, fettuccine alfredo), meat from the gravy, eggplant parmesan, asparagus with homemade hollandaise sauce, stuffed mushrooms, sausage and peppers, mixed green salad and whatever else my father wanted to make. Sometimes a roast; Thanksgiving there was a turkey but it never made it out of thee kitchen, Oh and sausage stuffing – fabulous! Afters was espresso (called ‘black’ coffee), fruit, roasted chestnuts. After that was dessert – Italian pastries, homemade pies, cookies etc and what we called ‘brown’ coffee (just regular everyday coffee). Holiday meals ran to three hours with a few breaks in between. Leftovers went home with guests and there was still some for us. Oops, I forgot – bread, there was bread often homemade.
Oh did I mention that the pasta dish, whatever it was, was homemade? That includes the fettuccini pasta and the lasagna pasta. Also, I make way better ravioli than my mother, mine are light, hers were like lead…
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I love that. This is terrible, but I have taken to skipping Thanksgiving gatherings.
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What’s terrible about it? I can count on one hand and have fingers left over the number of “happy holiday” dinners I’ve been subjected to…The only upside is when the dinners were put together by my parents the food was terrific – none of that Anglo crap (mashed potatoes? why God?)
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😂 Nothing terrible about it from my perspective, trust me. It’s considered rude but as I get older I don’t give a rat’s ass about being polite. Hahaa, I hate Thanksgiving food. I’m just talking out my ass on the next part here, but… I assume the pilgrims had no concept of olive oil and were working with what they had. Want to feed a bunch of people? What’s the easiest way? Boil a bunch of potatoes, mash ’em up, and throw a bunch of butter/lard in there. My thing is canned cranberry sauce, I’ve never understood that and stuffing makes me gag. I don’t doubt the food in your family was absolutely delicious.
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I doubt very much the ‘first Thanksgiving” involved potatoes, butter or lard perhaps not even turkeys…Somewhere in this blog archive I wrote about holiday dinners – it would have you drooling, has me drooling just thinking about it – Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter – pretty much the same menu except Easter we had lamb and then “everything else”, Thanksgiving – just “everything else ” which always included some kind of meat – maybe a roast beef? Christmas – same as Thanksgiving or maybe a ham? Except of course New Year’s Day dinner had to have pork as the centerpiece….
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Also, I feel like there might be a wikipedia search in my world about pilgrim diet soon. You were the inspiration for this. 🙂. If it’s interesting enough, I may do a whole post.
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Pork as the centerpiece sounds amazing to me right now.
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It appears my comments were displayed in the wrong order. WordPress is a bit annoying sometimes. Maybe it’s only on my end though.
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Pork and black eyed peas for New Years to ensure a ‘fat’ (prosperous) new year…only my mother ate thee black eyed peas. Pork could be a ham or a pork roast. Every holiday meal had the same basic menu – antipasto, some kind of pasta dish (ravioli, manicotti, lasagna, fettuccine alfredo), meat from the gravy, eggplant parmesan, asparagus with homemade hollandaise sauce, stuffed mushrooms, sausage and peppers, mixed green salad and whatever else my father wanted to make. Sometimes a roast; Thanksgiving there was a turkey but it never made it out of thee kitchen, Oh and sausage stuffing – fabulous! Afters was espresso (called ‘black’ coffee), fruit, roasted chestnuts. After that was dessert – Italian pastries, homemade pies, cookies etc and what we called ‘brown’ coffee (just regular everyday coffee). Holiday meals ran to three hours with a few breaks in between. Leftovers went home with guests and there was still some for us. Oops, I forgot – bread, there was bread often homemade.
Hungry yet? LOL
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Yes indeed! I wasn’t going to eat today, but I can always count on my friend Grace to get me in the mood to eat.
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Oh did I mention that the pasta dish, whatever it was, was homemade? That includes the fettuccini pasta and the lasagna pasta. Also, I make way better ravioli than my mother, mine are light, hers were like lead…
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