Food anyone?

[Hayles66]

Ha ha too true Gab! We Brits know how to throw pagan parties! Loads of practice! Hundreds of years!

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[robertlc]

Is it a pagan festival? If its not then we won't touch it with a barge pole!

The Archangel

Thanksgiving is a purely American holiday. Canada has it's own version, I think.

 

[SweetPoison]

drinking mead

Drinking Mead? Do I even wanna know what that is?

 

[Hayles66]

Mead ( /ˈmiːd/; archaic and dialectal "medd"; from Old English "meodu"[1]), also called honey wine, is an alcoholic beverage that is produced by fermenting a solution of honey and water.[2] It may also be produced by fermenting a solution of water and honey with grain mash, which is strained immediately after fermentation.[3] Depending on local traditions and specific recipes, it may be flavored with spices, fruit, or hops[4] (which produce a bitter, beer-like flavor). The alcoholic content of mead may range from about 8% ABV[5] to 18%. It may be still, carbonated, or sparkling, and it may be dry, semi-sweet, or sweet.[6]
Mead is known from many sources of ancient history throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia, although archaeological evidence of it is ambiguous.[7] Its origins are lost in prehistory. "It can be regarded as the ancestor of all fermented drinks," Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat has observed, "antedating the cultivation of the soil."[8]
Claude Lévi-Strauss makes a case for the invention of mead as a marker of the passage "from nature to culture."[9] Mead has played an important role in the beliefs and mythology of some peoples. One such example is the Mead of Poetry, a mead of Norse mythology crafted from the blood of the wise being Kvasir which turns the drinker into a poet or scholar.

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[MadChef]

Here is my menu for Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Menu

Rolled Sausage Stuffed Breast of Turkey with Giblet Demi Glacé
Country Apple and Sage Dressing
Cranberry Sauce with Marsala,Cherries and Rosemary
Cream Cheese and Chive Yukon Gold Whipped Potatoes
Brussels Sprouts and Cauliflower Gratin
Homemade Dinner Rolls

My guests are bringing appetizers and desserts

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[Harley man]

first we have some appetizers we have cheese and salami and crackers on a platter . also veg platter with dip and lots fresh baked cookies the meal is turkey with stuffing mash potatoes and some mash sweet potatoes and cream of spinach let's not forget some corn and cranberry .turkey gravy and fresh bake dinner rolls when that's done then on to the pies apple pie or pumpkin pie with ice cream . the men watch football on tv the women talk about what there getting on black Friday the start of the christmas sales . it's good to share the day with the family .

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[leelai]

You guys are making me so hungry!

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[55julie55]

Here is my menu for Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Menu

Rolled Sausage Stuffed Breast of Turkey with Giblet Demi Glacé
Country Apple and Sage Dressing
Cranberry Sauce with Marsala,Cherries and Rosemary
Cream Cheese and Chive Yukon Gold Whipped Potatoes
Brussels Sprouts and Cauliflower Gratin
Homemade Dinner Rolls

My guests are bringing appetizers and desserts

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Is there a spare chair ?

 

[robertlc]

Turkey's been in the roaster for the past 1.5 hours, cornbread just went in the oven.

 

[AdmiralAdama]

Thanksgiving is a purely American holiday. Canada has it's own version, I think.

Well actually ......... We've been giving thanks longer than our good neighbours to the south.

The very first Thanksgiving celebration in North America took place in Canada 43 years before the pilgrims landed in Plymouth. In 1578. English explorer Martin Frobisher threw a feast for his crew after arriving in Newfoundland. He wanted to give thanks for his safe arrival to the New World.

For almost 300 years, Canadian Thanksgiving (giving thanks for the fall harvest) was celebrated in either late October or early November. In 1879, 12 years after Confederation, November 6th was set aside as the official Thanksgiving and it became a national holiday.

In 1957, an Act of Parliament declared the second Monday in October, Thanksgiving because Remembrance Day (Veterans Day) and Thanksgiving kept falling in the same week.

AA

 

[kingnba6]

where all the pictures? show me what are you cooking/baking or eating?

 

[55julie55]

Dinner last night
Thai chicken salad

 

[leelai]

You are a genius Julie, that looks delicious!!

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[Hayles66]

I want to come to your house! Jealous!

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[Richard Brown]

This is all getting the old taste buds dancing.

Don't forget the mulled wine.

Cheers (hic!)

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