Eating, eating, eating, oh...and giving thanks. =)

Eating my Greatgrandmother's dressing. My mother has the recipe in her head, but the key is the yellow bowl. I have been searching in yard sales for years. My sister has found one. I'm still looking. Until I get the bowl, I have to get my #2mom to come for Thanksgiving so she can make it. The best dressing I've ever eaten anywhere!!!!

I have a special moment, after the big meal and the house is all quiet, and people has gone to bed, my father in law and I make t-day sammichs with all the trimmings :)
we pour some soda and sit in the living room and watch John Wayne and eat our wonderful sammichs and drink . We talk and relax and go to bed somewhere around 1 or 2 am (way past his bedtime)
and its always just the 2 of us just sharing quiet time.....he does this for me as my dad passed away 17 yrs ago 2 weeks b4 thanksgiving and after that he made it special again for me ;)
Hugs
Morgaine

Special times with family. My family is very close. We usually play a card game called 500. We play for hours nonstop, sometimes. We play other times besides Thanksgiving, only Thankgiving is when we have uninterrupted hours. And Chrsitmas.

It is hard to keep a tradition alive with my mom 300 miles and the two of the boys in Vegas.

But when i was little, my grandmother would cook, she was a brilliant cook. The whole family would gather at her home and after dinner the grownups would play cards and the kids, would rehearse some sort of skit and we would then we would put on our show.

I moved away to the West Coast before I had a chance to enjoy watching my nieces and nephews and little cousins taking their turn at stardom.

Ouch

We usually got together with my in-laws, I made a ham with a glaze that I experimented with 20 years ago, and it caught on. I had people asking that I make it every year. My SIL made the turkey, and my MIL baked dinner rolls, cinnamon rolls, and enough pies for us to eat that day, and one for each of her children to take home. We would buy a jigsaw puzzle, and the whole family would work on getting it done. We also watched football.

This is the first year that we will be having Thanksgiving without my mother-in-law. She passed away in August from blood clots in her lungs. My husband wants to change the tradition this year because he can't handle her not being here. We will be having a duck instead of a turkey, and since we're not going to my FIL's house, we won't be cooking much. I'm hoping that next year we will be going back to the old tradition.

I wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving.

Oh yes, momma's dressing, we have made that together for years, I make the cornbread, mix it up, and use to be the official taste tester.

here's the recipe, even with it you can't make it as good as my momma. You just have to have the feel. It also feeds the entire clan.

I pon of cornbread

2 cans of biscuit

6 eggs

chopped celery, you have to take all the strings out of it, use the tender inside pieces of the stalk, chop thin

onion, a large one is enough, chopped thin

one box of kellogg's croutons, she uses the seasoned kind, with the sage in it.

do not add additional sage, yuk.........

chicken broth, we always use the broth from the chicken to make dumplings. Mix till it looks right.....kinda soupy but not sopping, this is the trick to the entire dressing.



after mixing, pour in all in one of those great big aluminum pans, the deep ones, and bake at 375 or about an hour or until the top turns golden brown......just too good.

Funny, everyone in our family uses the same recipe, but no ones taste the same.

It the love put in it.........and the broth, determines wheather it will be dry or not.

Oh yes, momma's dressing, we have made that together for years, I make the cornbread, mix it up, and use to be the official taste tester.

here's the recipe, even with it you can't make it as good as my momma. You just have to have the feel. It also feeds the entire clan.

I pon of cornbread

2 cans of biscuit

6 eggs

chopped celery, you have to take all the strings out of it, use the tender inside pieces of the stalk, chop thin

onion, a large one is enough, chopped thin

one box of kellogg's croutons, she uses the seasoned kind, with the sage in it.

do not add additional sage, yuk.........

chicken broth, we always use the broth from the chicken to make dumplings. Mix till it looks right.....kinda soupy but not sopping, this is the trick to the entire dressing.



after mixing, pour in all in one of those great big aluminum pans, the deep ones, and bake at 375 or about an hour or until the top turns golden brown......just too good.

Funny, everyone in our family uses the same recipe, but no ones taste the same.

It the love put in it.........and the broth, determines wheather it will be dry or not.

by clan, I'd say it is enough for at least 25 people.

There are 5 siblings, 9 grandchildren, and most with mates and kids of their own, so it feeds alot. Just depends on how much they all eat, and how many times they go back for seconds......

sorry for the computer burp, lets see, make home made chicken dumplings, cranberry, green bean cassorole, sweet potatoes, ambrosia, congealed salads, gee I love it all. Oh, and the pumpkin pie, carrot cake, and ten other desserts....anyone else eat those pickled fruits and veggies, pickled orka, corn, peaches, sweet pickles and others served on a tray with black olives, carrots and other muchies. Kid love it. So do I.

and I forgot the ham and turkey.....