Thirteen Things about J. Lynne
- Remember when The Wizard of Oz was traditionally shown the night of Thanksgiving?
- The first Thanksgiving I spent on my own, I ate a meal prepared by Piccadilly Cafeteria and watched the whole first season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It was the first time I realized I enjoyed spending most of Thanksgiving on my own.
- My mother and I disagree on who makes the best Thanksgiving Turkey, but she currently holds the title by default since my kidney disease diagnosis has forced me to become a pescetarian and thus I am having Tofurkey for Thanksgiving this year.
- Previously, my traditional Thanksgiving meal when I am hostess has been Roast Turkey Breast with Apple Gravy, Cran-Apple Sweet Potato Bake, steamed green beans with almonds, cranberry sauce, salad, pumpkin pie, and upside down apple pie.
- The key to a perfect turkey is a clay turkey baker with clay top. No basting is necessary. The clay top will cause the turkey to continually baste itself.
- Today I’m having a roast tofurkey with roasted butternut squash, carrots, and mushrooms with vegetarian stuffing, cranberry dumplings, feaux giblet gravy, steamed green beans with almonds, pumpkin pie, and apple pie.
- The roast tofurkey is actually pretty good; I think it tastes a lot like turkey and has a good texture. I wish I could find feaux chicken breasts like that.
- Oh, and by the way, though George Washington tried to create Thanksgiving during his presidency, it was my favorite president, Lincoln, who made it a federal holiday in 1863.
- Every year since I moved from New Orleans, I always miss PW on Thanksgiving, having become accustomed to spending it with her; I think it’s very sweet that her in-laws in England make a big deal and celebrate Thanksgiving for her. Still I miss sharing the meal with her.
- For many years, I was forced to make and bring homemade mac & cheese to Thanksgiving because apparently I made it best. Everyone was always asking for my recipe. You will not find a copy of said recipe in my house or on any webpage I own now. I do not like homemade mac & cheese and thus have conveniently “forgotten” the recipe.
- I’ve never understood the popularity of the green bean casserole either.
- When I was a child, my mother always made us dress up for Thanksgiving dinner and sometimes we had to have dinner in courses.
- Today, I’m having dinner in my PJs.
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What a great list! Thanks for reminding me about The Wizard of Oz/Thanksgiving link—I had completely forgotten….
Your Thanksgiving dinner actually sounds pretty tasty to me; I love tofurkey and your description of your veggies makes me feel kind of hungry. And I can totally get behind spending the holiday with Buffy. But we aren’t doing TG this year, since my husband is British, I don’t cook, and we’re preparing for visitors tomorrow. But I am having butternut squash soup for dinner!
BTW, I am thankful for people who use I FOLLOW. Typepad (my platform) makes it pretty difficult to use, but I really appreciate the comment-love. I wish I could set it up on ours. We do T13 lists manually, but it would be nice to encourage commenters on other things we write.
Lovely list. Now I want to watch Wizard of OZ
Hi Lynne! Happy Thanksgiving
Have you ever come across quorn? It might give you the faux chicken texture you need.
The last two times I have had mac & cheese I have been forced to spend a lot of time regretting it in the smallest room.
I’m glad you had fun on your own. Company is often overrated!
Hope you had a good Thanksgiving up there in the frozen north.
Cranberry dumplings sound amazing, care to share a recipe?
PS I have to disagree with you on the mac and cheese. While it’s not at all holiday food in my east coast Jewish family, it is in fact one of nature’s most perfect foods, and probably a food group all in itself ;-).
I wish I had a recipe for cranberry dumplings but they came with the tofurkey.
Hmm…tofurkey. Sounds, um, interesting. Does is come in slices?
I’ll have to remember your clay pot tip. It sounds like a pretty good idea…
O.K. I don’t work for them anymore, so I can honestly say that Pampered Chef makes the best roaster. You have to buy the pieces separately, but it’s totally worth it. And all of Pampered Chef’s stoneware is lead free, which a lot of the stoneware you buy in Bed, Bath, and Beyond and Linen’s n’ Things and Target are not.
And the tofurkey comes in a roast shape and has stuffing in the middle. When you slice it, it looks like round medallions of white turkey meat.
My mom is desperately trying to find a tofurkey roast in the Silver City, NM area, so if anyone knows where she can buy one, please let me know.