Posted on 11/22/2007 4:54:44 PM PST by snugs
can’t complain about the duck as that is one of my favorites. I had duck on sunday actually as part of an annual Dinner.
I don’t celebrate Thanksgiving on thursday so our big turkey meal is friday night. There’s a nice turkey soup on the stove right now and it has that rich turkey smell that I love. I made it with lots of onions, garlic, paprika, thyme and bay.
The stuffing this year will be made from whole wheat and regular challa, mushrooms and pine nuts. My friend brought a lemon meringue pie to go with the pumpkin pie, the pecan pie and the dutch apple pie that we received from my aunt’s mother.
Snugs, thank you for this page. I like your home page too! I wish Cheney could be our next President. We’d be in very capable hands.
Oh, I love boiled potatoes, especially with meatloaf. It has taken me many years but I have finally gotten away from potatoes with every meal.
The all-bran muffins are wonderful tasting - mom used to make them, then I would feel the ill effects.
I did not connect the dots back to the muffins for many years, but while doing research, found that some people are allergic to bran. I was one, and they (anything bran) would send my digestive tract into spasms. I could do nothing during the spasms but roll around on the floor moaning. The minute I gave up bran it stopped. That included - allbran cereals, too much bran in whole wheat bread, some pasta.
Enjoy the muffins for me too, nordy.
I love the way the babies are so relaxed with him they can tell that he genuinely enjoys handling them and that it is not just for the photo opportunity.
He is in rare posiiton of being able to interact with children and babies of people they do not know many men nowadays would love to be able to go up to a baby and pick it up give it a cuddle but in today’s climate you cannot do that even looking too long towards a small child or baby causes problems and if you dare tried to speak to them you could end up being reported. It is sad but this is one perk the President does have he can still do this.
Thank you it is great for someone to say that English food looks nice, I read so much negative such on FR about the English cusine which actually shows that a lot of people really do not have clue what the English actually eat.
You are probably a good person to ask this. I have a lot of American recipes and I find it difficult to get the same result each time mainly due to the measuring issue. I suspect many recipes use oil rather than butter or marg is for this reason. I find it very difficult measuring fat how do you do it I am so used to weighing mine.
Wow sounds great. My stuffing was a bit of mix and match. The basic ingredients was packet of sage and onion which I added mixed herbs, an orange, tin of manderins, fruit and nut mix, little wine, 2 eggs and butter.
This comes from a situation when my nan was ill when he was young because she was on a diet and had cut out all bread and potato and had not substituted any thing instead and she basically collapsed. The doctor came and immediately instructed her husband to put some potatoes on and give her a slice of bread and butter.
Apparently at that time he saw a lot of this where people not understanding how to diet properly. Ever since that almost up until she died she always had one or 2 potatoes every day and a slice of bread, this made an impression on dad and even when I try to explain the pasta or rice achieves the same purpose he still worries if he goes more than a couple of days without potato.
I laughed last night at about 4 AM when I woke up and thought to myself, ari-freedom was RIGHT! It wasn't too unpleasant, but funny as heck--to be laughing at myself at 4 AM. So, what did I do??? I had another one with my coffee this morning! I'm still laughing, and I'm as clean as a whistle. Now, it's a belly laugh while I'm typing! I can't NOT eat them--they're too good. Oh...now my stomach hurts from laughing and eating All-Bran muffins.
I did make one other food-changing observation this year, as well... Did any of you notice a flavor change in Tootsie Rolls during Halloween?--I mean from when you were a kid, to now? The same flavor issue (or lack thereof a bit) has happened to the All-Bran muffins. It's like they USED to taste as though they were richer--as if they were part bran and part graham cracker flavor. Now, like the Tootsie Rolls that have lost a bit of their rich chocolatey taste, the All-Bran tastes a bit less well-rounded too.
Okay, it's my tastebuds because I'm old, and I'm trying to blame it on cost cutting measures by manufacturers, I know, I know.
This has been fun though - thanks for the posts, FRiends ;-)
I’ve not been to UK so have no opinion on taste, but I think I was brought up with English food. So many things I see/read you doing, my relatives did likewise. Many were just one or 2 generations from England. I must admit that I wondered WHY does my mom serve this or that, when I don’t see it on other tables, but I’ve learned from you that it’s the English way :) I think we typically like what we’ve grown up with - the things that are familiar.
Hey--sorry to hear about that cruise ship! Did you hear the name of one of the rescue ships??? The Nord Norge rescued them!
Okay, I'm originally from MN and I don't know what in the heck would EVER possess a person to take a voyage in Antartic Ocean well off the tip of South America. -5 degress Celcius!!!! THEY'RE NUTS!!!!!!!!
Here's a little indication of where I think all vacations should take place (unless you're snow skiing ;-) ---> 
NordP
Mom had very English tendencies in her cooking, and I love flour tortillas (could be from my Lefsa background ;-)
I must admit there are many things I enjoy of the American style of cooking but other things I cannot imagine eating that with that, the same obviously goes for Americans when they see English food.
One thing I have learned from Freepers is that the word salad means something completely different in the US than Britain.
In Britain if you went into a pub or a restaurant and ordered ham salad you would get a couple of slices of ham, some lettuce tomato, cucumber, possibly beetroot, spring onions (green onions) etc and then either in a glass dish/bottle if a restaurant or in a sachet or even the bottle the sauce comes in mayonnaise, salad oil and or more likely salad cream. I believe in American ham salad is cut up ham mixed with various ingredients including mayonnaise.
The same would go for egg salad basically you would get the same as above but instead of ham you would get hard boiled eggs cut in half and served with the salad ingredients. Some places might scoop the yoke out and mix with mayonaise or salad cream or instead of just having the eggs might slice them.
If you choppped the hardboiled up and mix with salad cream or mayonaise we call that egg mayonaise and often serve that between two slice of bread for a sandwich which we would call egg mayonaise sandwich. An egg sandwich would be hard boiled eggs sliced and then put between two buttered slices of bread sometimes served with cress and or tomato but rarely with mayonaise though it is becoming the fashion now to cover everything in mayonaise I think this is something imported from the States. Personally I do not care for it as it takes away the individual taste of the food you are eating and is hidden calories that are just wasted and not needed IMHO. Another reason I think that the current generation of Brits are overweight their diet is different to the older generations with more hidden calories.
My lineage is:
Dad’s side -
His Dad - Scot & probably English (she was a Hatfield)
His mom’s side - German & Dutch
Mom’s side -
English - her father’s side
Not positive about mother’s side, but English, I believe. Have heard Jacobean stories - would that be Scot? But that side had been here in the states for a very long time.
I love the smell of church during Harvest Festival - all those 'mums and sheaves of wheat. Lovely!
Love the hymns too......"Praise o praise our God and King, Hymns of adoration sing; For His mercies aye endure; Ever faithfull ever sure."
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President & Mrs. Bush continue to enjoy their Thanksgiving break at Camp David.
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