Adam Sandler's Turkey song was a sorry excuse for a post...but I felt guilty about not really writing for nearly a week. But that week was filled with some family time, cooking, baking, visiting, sleeping, coughing, sneezing, hacking, coughing, wheezing, and a lot of sweating.
Yes, our family was sick Saturday and Sunday following Thanksgiving. The kids came back from their Cedar City swim meet with some kind of crud and thought they'd share with Genius Golfer and myself. GG is worse than the kids when he is sick. And he laid in bed Thanksgiving day, Friday after thanksgiving, then Saturday golfed in a tournament he has entered (and he won it!) and then back to bed Sunday and most of yesterday. I hosted Thanksgiving for my family on Thursday here, then did some Christmas shopping with my mom and The Girl Friday and then hit the bed all day Saturday and Sunday...and would have probably still been there yesterday but a Mom's work is never done....so I was back at it yesterday. Weekly administration meeting for PTSA, laundry, groceries: the usual. I am still coughing and my voice sounds awful, but I am vertical and dressed and keeping food and meds down, so on to Tuesday, I say.
Not my idea of a fun Thanksgiving break--no matter how you look at it.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
For the Love of Cranberries
My morning was spent today making pumpkin pies and my favorite Thanksgiving dish Cranberry Relish. It is something that I will bring with me, even if the hostess--usually Grandmama, for this family--doesn't ask me to. I make it for me. And I'll eat all of it over the course of the week, even if no one else has any.
Luckily Grandmama has taken a shine to it, and this year I have two friends who wanted to try it too. So my regular double batch won't last as long for me, but perhaps I can bring to life a love of cranberries in these other two friends.
When Genius Golfer and I first married, the first Thanksgiving we spent with his family they served cranberry straight from the can. It even had the indentations from the metal can still on it. They just slid it out and laid the poor thing on a plate. Pathetic. I'm not sure I even knew cranberries came that way.
That is because I was spoiled to always have fresh cranberry relish for Thanksgiving. Actually I had the option of a cooked cranberry sauce too, but I prefer the relish version. But my mom made both, as they were each my grandmothers' recipes.
It is funny how certain family traditions can be ignored, until the holidays roll around. Then it feels like the celebration itself would suffer should we not resurrect that special dish. So my Grandma's Cranberry Relish is made and chilling for tomorrow's feast.
All is right in the world.
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Ed. Note---Lovely Friend Peggy made a good point in the comments: I should have left you all the recipe for this delish dish. So here it is, probably too late for this year's celebration, but keep it around for next season!!
FRESH CRANBERRY RELISH
1 small package of raspberry or cran-rasp flavor Jell-o
1/3 C very hot water
Mix the water into the Jell-o to beginto dissolve the powdered Jell-o. Chop the following (until like a salsa consistency) in your food processor or grind them all together with the grinder attachment to your mixer:
1 pkg fresh cranberries (find them bags in the product section of the market)
1 peeled orange
1 cored apple
Then add about 1/4 C sugar, to taste, just to make the relish as sweet as you like.
Chill the entire mixture in the fridge overnight if you have time. The Jell-o will set up and the flavors will even out. It is so yummy. Trust me.
Luckily Grandmama has taken a shine to it, and this year I have two friends who wanted to try it too. So my regular double batch won't last as long for me, but perhaps I can bring to life a love of cranberries in these other two friends.
When Genius Golfer and I first married, the first Thanksgiving we spent with his family they served cranberry straight from the can. It even had the indentations from the metal can still on it. They just slid it out and laid the poor thing on a plate. Pathetic. I'm not sure I even knew cranberries came that way.
That is because I was spoiled to always have fresh cranberry relish for Thanksgiving. Actually I had the option of a cooked cranberry sauce too, but I prefer the relish version. But my mom made both, as they were each my grandmothers' recipes.
It is funny how certain family traditions can be ignored, until the holidays roll around. Then it feels like the celebration itself would suffer should we not resurrect that special dish. So my Grandma's Cranberry Relish is made and chilling for tomorrow's feast.
All is right in the world.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ed. Note---Lovely Friend Peggy made a good point in the comments: I should have left you all the recipe for this delish dish. So here it is, probably too late for this year's celebration, but keep it around for next season!!
FRESH CRANBERRY RELISH
1 small package of raspberry or cran-rasp flavor Jell-o
1/3 C very hot water
Mix the water into the Jell-o to beginto dissolve the powdered Jell-o. Chop the following (until like a salsa consistency) in your food processor or grind them all together with the grinder attachment to your mixer:
1 pkg fresh cranberries (find them bags in the product section of the market)
1 peeled orange
1 cored apple
Then add about 1/4 C sugar, to taste, just to make the relish as sweet as you like.
Chill the entire mixture in the fridge overnight if you have time. The Jell-o will set up and the flavors will even out. It is so yummy. Trust me.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
My Family's Favorite Grocery Store
The week before Thanksgiving at a grocery store is like the Black Friday shopping craze at the rest of the retail world. The close to Turkey Day it gets, the worse the grocery store is too. It is crazy.
I just got back from our local grocery store. So far so good. If I have done my job today, I am hoping that I need not make another trip before the big day. Shopping isn't my favorite activity anyway, but through in crazed people and calendared time limits, and I have no desire to be there.
Is it just me, or do we loose sight of the purpose of the Thanksgiving holiday in the hustle and bustle of shopping, preparing, and gorging ourselves on that one day only to then spin around and do the very same thing for the next month or so prior to the Christmas holiday?
Simplicity awaits patiently for me to choose it over the chaos of the holidays. Yet, each year as I try to choose that, I get sucked in to the retail vortex. And it makes me mad every year.
Thanksgiving gets pretty overlooked, but for the food, when we really have so much to be grateful for that one day out of the year seems disproportionate. Maybe it is just me.
Is it just me, or do we loose sight of the purpose of the Thanksgiving holiday in the hustle and bustle of shopping, preparing, and gorging ourselves on that one day only to then spin around and do the very same thing for the next month or so prior to the Christmas holiday?
Simplicity awaits patiently for me to choose it over the chaos of the holidays. Yet, each year as I try to choose that, I get sucked in to the retail vortex. And it makes me mad every year.
Thanksgiving gets pretty overlooked, but for the food, when we really have so much to be grateful for that one day out of the year seems disproportionate. Maybe it is just me.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Food Blisters
Have you ever eaten MUCH more than you should have, but it felt soooo good? Yeah. Me too. More often than I'd like to admit.
Last night I did it again. I ran away with some friends to enjoy some girls' time--sans husbands and children. It was lovely. Part of our evening involved reservations at Schneitter's restaurant. On Fridays they have an all-you-can-eat Seafood Buffet. Oh yeah.
Do you see this bowl of ocean goodness fronting the ice sculpture? Yes. Yes, I nearly pulled up a chair and parked myself there. Oh the deliciousness that is snow crab legs and cocktail shrimp!! Yumm-oh!!
Needless to say, as this was an "all-you-can-eat" buffet, it begged for me to eat all I could. Well, there is no turning down an offer like that. So, I didn't--turn it down, that is. I ate crab and shrimp and even tried a shrimp taco and a cod taco. Then back to the crab and shrimp. Succulent morsels of ocean's wonder. If I was any kind of poet, I think I could wax poetic about the loveliness that is crab meat. Nothing quite like it in the world.
Well, as the evening progressed, so did the size of my food blister.
What's that? You don't know what a food blister is? A food blister is the physical protuberance that begins to show just under your rib cage when you have just eaten way more food that you should have and you feel so full that you might hurl, but it tasted so good you don't want to waste it.
My food blister developed just as it should: little bite by little tasty bite. I capped the evening off with a thorough visit to the dessert table and was rewarded for my effort in many chocolaty delicacies that were called names which I have no idea. But, wow! They were tasty.
To tend to a food blister, especially one properly prepared and adequately developed, takes some skill. A food blister demands to be stretched out on some soft, confortable furniture piece, preferably a couch or recliner. If must be kept warm, maybe with a cotton throw, acrylic blanket or quilt. It should also be kept quite to really begin to heal. This might mean a nice enjoyable movie with good plot and excellent characters to play out some family friendly story. A food blister mustn't be jolted by scary or sudden surprises. Keeping it settled is vitally important.
So that is what I did--almost. There was no recliner and the couch was full of three friends. So I lounged in the upholstered chair in the condo's family room, and enjoyed the conversation of live, in-person friends. This works too.
I recommend this prescribed treatment the next time you get a food blister and it must be cared for. This is timely information, as Thanksgiving is coming, and that is a particular time when most of us are especially susceptible to food blisters. Trust me in this remedy. You'll thank me later--even if your diet doesn't.
Last night I did it again. I ran away with some friends to enjoy some girls' time--sans husbands and children. It was lovely. Part of our evening involved reservations at Schneitter's restaurant. On Fridays they have an all-you-can-eat Seafood Buffet. Oh yeah.
Do you see this bowl of ocean goodness fronting the ice sculpture? Yes. Yes, I nearly pulled up a chair and parked myself there. Oh the deliciousness that is snow crab legs and cocktail shrimp!! Yumm-oh!!
Needless to say, as this was an "all-you-can-eat" buffet, it begged for me to eat all I could. Well, there is no turning down an offer like that. So, I didn't--turn it down, that is. I ate crab and shrimp and even tried a shrimp taco and a cod taco. Then back to the crab and shrimp. Succulent morsels of ocean's wonder. If I was any kind of poet, I think I could wax poetic about the loveliness that is crab meat. Nothing quite like it in the world.
Well, as the evening progressed, so did the size of my food blister.
What's that? You don't know what a food blister is? A food blister is the physical protuberance that begins to show just under your rib cage when you have just eaten way more food that you should have and you feel so full that you might hurl, but it tasted so good you don't want to waste it.
My food blister developed just as it should: little bite by little tasty bite. I capped the evening off with a thorough visit to the dessert table and was rewarded for my effort in many chocolaty delicacies that were called names which I have no idea. But, wow! They were tasty.
To tend to a food blister, especially one properly prepared and adequately developed, takes some skill. A food blister demands to be stretched out on some soft, confortable furniture piece, preferably a couch or recliner. If must be kept warm, maybe with a cotton throw, acrylic blanket or quilt. It should also be kept quite to really begin to heal. This might mean a nice enjoyable movie with good plot and excellent characters to play out some family friendly story. A food blister mustn't be jolted by scary or sudden surprises. Keeping it settled is vitally important.
So that is what I did--almost. There was no recliner and the couch was full of three friends. So I lounged in the upholstered chair in the condo's family room, and enjoyed the conversation of live, in-person friends. This works too.
I recommend this prescribed treatment the next time you get a food blister and it must be cared for. This is timely information, as Thanksgiving is coming, and that is a particular time when most of us are especially susceptible to food blisters. Trust me in this remedy. You'll thank me later--even if your diet doesn't.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Happy 26th!
26) I am thankful for the day to reflect on my many blessings. I am thankful for the free land I live in and the opportunity this country gives me to pursue happiness. I completely believe this land was preserved by God to be established as the home of free men and women who love and serve the Lord. It was preserved to be a place where the Gospel of Jesus Christ could be restored. It is a blessed land. It is a special land. It is my home and I am blessed to have been born a citizen of this country, and today I am so grateful for the privileges living here affords me and my family.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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