How to turn a frown...

All right here we go my pointers for a successful Thanksgiving meal. I have eaten just about 60 of these holiday meals, over 44 years, and I consider myself to be a bit of an expert in the area of the eating of a Thanksgiving meal. One year I ate at 5 different dinners and 3 dessert visits… (Personal best right there).




So let’s dive right in on how to be a huge success…



-Serve roasted turkey, I mean come on this is the center of attention, at least until the strange cousins get enough booze in them to start flashing…

-For the non-meat eaters or herbivores, or what ever you like to be called these days, just eat everything else, and no I will not make you a tofurkey, you are lucky I did not make meat cake! (Oh it’s real)

-Be sure to have lots of wine and beer on hand for those relatives who are much more entertaining when drunk like the afore mentioned cousins. Or uncle Bob who cannot keep his teeth in after 2 drinks… oh how we laughed and laughed…

-Side dishes, potato’s mashed, turkey gravy store bought, I know but I have found home made to always be lumpy and/or oily. Where as that is fine for other areas, for this if you cannot make it just go ahead and buy it. String Bean casserole and candied yams are musts. Dressing a friend of mine made a killer dressing the other year I suggest making that recipe it was very good and no I cannot tell you what it was called. Swap out what you will here as your family traditions will be what help to make or ruin your event.

-Setting the table; have the spouses/girlfriends/boyfriends do this. Tell them they will get no food if they fail this test. And mean it, if they cannot set a table they have no place at a dinner table. Give them $5 and send them for a McTurkey…

-Dessert; now pumpkin pie and raisin or chest pie and of course pecan all give me heart burn so I eat none of it instead I insist upon a cannoli or a nice Dutch apple pie. Don’t be swayed into pie being part of the tradition, as I am very sure of the fact that the pilgrims did not serve pie…

-I have one last piece of advice, make dinner reservations to a local dinner that does Thanksgiving. Trust me in the end you will be ahead of the game and no dishes to clean, relatives to shoo away or find the shirts they lost. Just a nice dinner and no one had to kill themselves. I know but what of the left-overs… trust me much easier to make a small turkey breast or whole turkey on the side than an entire meal.



Just my 2 cents