Or in keeping with the thread's theme, get back over to the little table.
I always get the little table...
Or in keeping with the thread's theme, get back over to the little table.
Kind of sorry I started this thread, things got out of whack!
It was meant to help people with any cooking questions pre-Thanksgiving.
Since the busiest day on this site is Thanksgiving or leading up to it.
I always get the little table...
My most memorable Thanksgiving was when I was around 8 or 9 years old. I had an ear infection. Everyone was sitting around the dining room table eating Thanksgiving dinner and I was laying on the studio couch in the corner with a hot water bottle.
And the second most memorable was a couple years ago when I was hosting and I came down with shingles the day before. I refused to go to the ER so I suffered through dinner with terrible pain and went to the ER the next day.
My most memorable was the year Mom woke up sick and couldn't cook our dinner.... I piped up that I could do it.
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Then there was the year I talked them into letting me cook the turkey in the microwave...it was good! I did have to use the oven to crisp it at the end, but it worked!....
My kids never liked turkey until they became adults.
I cooked my first bird day dinner when I was 6 or 7. It was memorable because the turkey weighed about as much as I did and I had to get it into the oven by stages - hauled it up out of the sink onto the drain board (this was in ancient times when we thought the safest way to defrost giant birds was in a sink full of cold water), clean, remove giblets, place pan over sink well, shove bird onto rack ... haul pan up onto drainboard, whomp pan onto top of kitchen stool, push stool to open oven with rack pulled all the way out, whomp pan onto rack (they don't build 'em like that anymore) ... push oven closed by wedging kitchen stool against sink (it was one of those 40's all-steel monstrosities, if you remember those)... wedge self onto second step of step stool (seat up) ... push oven closed with feet protected by potholders ... had to repeat this last phase every time I basted the bird, LOL!
It was the more memorable because I managed to burn my toe at one point (the potholder slipped, LOL!)
Wow, you must have the most ginormous microwave in the world, LOL!
Mom always did Thanksgiving dinner for us every year. She loved cooking for holidays! Good thing even after we were married because I never wanted to get up early enough to throw that bird into the oven - she liked to be ready by 1:00PM. And no one wanted to eat Thanksgiving day dinner at 9:00 PM. Mom did dinners for a few years, but when she had heart surgery I took over. We had a fairly large microwave with a few whistles and bells, bought around 1983 (never had one until the kids were around 2 or so), and a rather decent cookbook included that told how to cook a bird around 12-14 pounds. I got a small box of those micro cooking bags, used the probe...and we were surprised how good it turned out! Now my SIL likes to make the turkey. One big enough to feed the neighborhood because she loves the leftovers for days. And days, and days........Then there was the year I talked them into letting me cook the turkey in the microwave...it was good! I did have to use the oven to crisp it at the end, but it worked!
I watched my second husband go through a bout with shingles. I didn't know it was contagious and I was sleeping right next to him. He was in such horrible pain. You have my sympathy. All my kids had chicken pox. And they have all gotten their shots again. I have never had them and mentioned it my doctor. He told me that I could very easily catch them if I came in contract with the shingles. So I got my shot right then and there. At my age, any of the childhood diseases could kill me very easily.
Mom always did Thanksgiving dinner for us every year. She loved cooking for holidays! Good thing even after we were married because I never wanted to get up early enough to throw that bird into the oven - she liked to be ready by 1:00PM. And no one wanted to eat Thanksgiving day dinner at 9:00 PM. Mom did dinners for a few years, but when she had heart surgery I took over. We had a fairly large microwave with a few whistles and bells, bought around 1983 (never had one until the kids were around 2 or so), and a rather decent cookbook included that told how to cook a bird around 12-14 pounds. I got a small box of those micro cooking bags, used the probe...and we were surprised how good it turned out! Now my SIL likes to make the turkey. One big enough to feed the neighborhood because she loves the leftovers for days. And days, and days...
Parts is parts was a Wendy's ad about "processed chicken" used in sandwiches at other stores.
That's too funny, not eating meat because it's "not attached to the bird" - LOL!