Happy Thanksgiving
All of our guests enjoyed the running commentary on each dish – the history of the garden and seeds, how everything was harvested, the process of canning and preserving it all. It was different from most Thanksgivings I’d been a part of. It was less about stuffing ourselves to excess, and more about how miraculous it was that there was a full table of food in the first place. I couldn’t help but think that was supposed to be the point of the holiday all along. I also couldn’t help but think that my role as an advertiser contributed to the misperception of food as a commodity whose value was distinguished mainly by calorie count and serving size. Boasting about the size of one’s holiday turkey is really only genuine when one had something to do with feeding it.
Josh Kilmer-Purcell (The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers: An Unconventional Memoir)
Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at Chiot’s Run. We hope you have a day filled with good food, lots of family fun and relaxation. I’m pretty excited about pumpkin pie, cranberry relish and stuffing. I can take or leave pretty much anything else on the table at Thanksgiving.
What’s your favorite Thanksgiving dish?
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My favorite thanksgiving dish is SweetPotatoPie, SweetPotatoPie, SweetPotatoPie;-)
to Lemongrass's comment
Stuffing!
Happy Thansgiving to all creatures great and small at Chiot’s Run, and thank you, for this wonderful blog!
to Marina C's comment
Rolls. Soft white bread slathered with butter? Yes, please.
Happy Thanksgiving to you.
to kristin @ going country's comment
I hope that you and Mr. Chiots have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
My favorite Thanksgiving (and Christmas) dish is a simple raw cranberry salad, just cranberries, oranges and a little sugar or maple syrup, ground up in my great grandmothers meat grinder. I could eat the whole bowl by myself.
to Joan's comment
Susy, Happy Thanksgiving to you as well. Your question about what is my favorite dish for Thanksgiving is a hard one. I like it all. If I had to choose it would be the turkey because Thanksgiving is the only time I get to savor the taste of it. The last few years my family has not cooked one of our own. We have visited a friend’s house. The only disadvantage to that is there are no left overs. I always boiled the bones and made turkey soup with home made noodles. I really miss that. I’m looking forward to a wonderful day.
Have a great being thankful day.
P.S. You & Brian are on the list of things that I’m thankful for this year.
to Nebraska Dave's comment
We have the same favorite Thanksgiving foods. Oops!
to Jennifer Krieger's comment
Happy Thanksgiving from the Great White North. Since my boyfriend’s grandfather was American, maybe we should start celebrating both dates! More Turkey please! My favorite dish are the roasted potatoes. I use Jamie Oliver`s method of parboiling them , then scuffing them up before roasting them in duck fat and sage till crispy.
to Marcia's comment
My favorite dish is the homemade stuffing with gravy over it.
to Jennifer Fisk's comment
My favorite is homemade stuffing with homemade pork sausage. Of course homemade bread and cornbread for the base. Gave up the giblet stock so my mom could make gravy. Raw milk to moisten it. yum!!!!
to cara lewis's comment
MMMMMMMM
to Susy's comment
Happy Thanksgiving~Chiots folks…! A Celtic blessing for you:)
“May the blessing of light be on you—
light without and light within.
May the blessed sunlight shine on you
and warm your heart
till it glows like a great peat fire.”
Horseradish carrots…cranberry relish….cheese pie….I know you only asked for one….but who’s counting:)
to amy's comment
Cranberry sauce.
to Maybelline's comment
Hoping you both had a Happy Thanksgiving! Yesterday I made my new favourite dish, and it won’t be just for Thanksgiving. It was a garnet yam (?) side…with a cider, honey, bacon fat glaze, onions, crumbled bacon and blue cheese, and candied cayenne pecans.
to whit's comment