Let us begin a new fun thread to share with Thanksgiving ideas, trivia, fun/furry remembrances or hilarious anicdotes from years passed!
Plus if you care to add what you are thankful for...here is a start!
BTW...I am thankful for this site and opportunity to share these fun links with you, my fun furry TDK Family...next!
Here is a trivia quiz I spotted when searching the net today!
www.brownielocks.com/thanksgivingtrivia.html
Well that's a very fun and interesting trivia page - I learned a lot! One of the selections on question #10 was my Grandmother's maiden name!
Posted 6 months ago by JoanfromNewJersey #
Not sure which thread it was on but someone was looking for an easy dessert so I will offer up this one--we always called it "Cherry Goop" but I am sure you could come up with a classier name than that! Make a double recipe of graham cracker crust (found on most any graham cracker box) use a 9x13x2 cake pan, put the graham cracker crust in that, bottom and sides and bake according to instructions. Let cool. Meanwhile use 2 bricks of cream cheese or two of the large containers of already whipped cream cheese and fold in one extra large or two regular containers of Cool Whip. If you use the bricks, you have to add some milk and soften it so it will stir in. Spread this mixture over the graham cracker crust (it will be a thick layer). Then use two cans of cherry pie filling and spread over the cream cheese mixture. Refrigerate if not serving fairly soon. That is it. You can use other types of pie filling, strawberry, blueberry, whatever you like. It turns out to be a sort of cheesecake dessert without all of the fuss. It is great in the summertime too as it will hold for a long time in warmer weather. If you are creative you could probably gussy it up with some green garnishes and it would be pretty for Christmas too!
Shelley, that sounds fantastic - thanks!
Posted 6 months ago by JoanfromNewJersey #
Shelley, I've made that but with the already prepared crust! I was so excited to discover the containers of the cheesecake stuff already whipped up. For potlucks, I fill the crust with the cheesecake, then the cherry pie filling, then the cool whip on top. Will have to try mixing the cool whip in the cheese stuff first. Always goes over great. For the non baker like me, it's an ideal dessert to take.
Posted 6 months ago by paulajeanne #
Great Thanksgiving trivia JK, we don't celebrate it here so I thought I would try it and see how much knowledge I have managed to absorb over the years from TV and books. I managed 39/80 so I'm wondering just how good my absorption rate is. It was very interesting and informative, thanks JK.
Posted 6 months ago by Moonshadow_NZ #
MS, even though you guys don't celebrate Thanksgiving, you could make a 'Thanksgiving' meal next time you and KKs family get together...... might be a fun way to experience our traditional dishes like Turkey with stuffing, yams, squash casserole, etc.
............ I'd love to have a description of one of your special holidays that has traditional dishes, and try them........... that would be a fun way of sharing cultures and traditions!........... and anyone else around the world that has special holiday.............. Spain, Britian, Dennmark...... wouldn't that be fun?
Shelley, your "Cherry Goop" sounds like what a local store makes for the dessert department and calls "our own cheesecake." The only difference is that the store makes it like a dessert cup with graham cracker crumbs on the bottom, then the mixture, and topped off with chocolate syrup and pecan nuts. I absolutely love it, but they sell out fast.
This is something I must try. Thanks so much for sharing!
Posted 6 months ago by LadyKat of IA #
Whew, just looked at the calendar again...have a few extra days according to my last report of 2 wks away from last week, so we have a bit more time to get organized! Mmm, the cherry goop sounds yummy. My Aunt makes a lemon dessert that is similar! Still enjoy this funny one: www.icanhascheezburger.com/tag/turkey
LOL@cheezburger!!! i can't believe they trusted that kitty to be so close to the turkey.
Heard on radio chatter this morning about cooking your turkey in the ?Dishwasher! News to me, but maybe this will come up as a new tradition!!
www.appliance.net/2009/cook-your-holiday-turkey-in-the-dishwasher-1539
great idea! when i was younger, we used to have big thanksgiving day celebrations. the one year, i slept over at my grandparents and ate too many oranges. i woke up with bumps. i had to get allergy meds, but it cleared up, and i was able to enjoy my birthday celebration that was always mixed with turkey day because it's on the 30th. i also remember being in the hospital and coming home for the day to celebrate (another year). i got a load of beatles albums but couldn't enjoy them because i had to go back to the hospital. (i did get to enjoy them when i came home) i look back to my cares then, and my cares now. and now, i'm thankful for my mr. catface, thankful for new york city, thankful for the challenges in my life, although i wouldn't mind not having some of them. i'm also grateful for those who have helped me thru the hard times, and most all grateful for u guys!
Always have eggnog left over during the holidays!
Spotted this Eggnog Bundt Cake Recipe in the paper the other day, it looks easy esp for me as my style of fussing which is not much!
1 18 1/4 oz boxed spice cake mix
1 4 serving pkg instant pudding as vanilla or cheescake Pud/pie filling mix
1 c nonfat vanilla yogurt
1/4 c canola oil
1 c light eggnog
1 egg
3 egg whites
1 1/3 c toasted pecans
Powdered sugar for dusting on top
Preheat oven 350. Coat nonstick Bundt pan w/cooking spray. (Can use a large loaf pan w/ 5-10 extra min of cooking.)
Combine cake mix, pudding mix, yogurt, oil, eggnog, egg and egg whites in large bowl. Mix until creamy.
Stir in pecans. Pour into prepared pan. Bake 40 to 45 min. until wood pick in center comes out clean. Let cool on wire rack. When cool dust w/powdered sugar.
This song is called Alice's Restaurant, and it's about Alice, and the
restaurant, but Alice's Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant,
that's just the name of the song, and that's why I called the song Alice's
Restaurant.
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant
Walk right in it's around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant
Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago, was on - two years ago on
Thanksgiving, when my friend and I went up to visit Alice at the
restaurant, but Alice doesn't live in the restaurant, she lives in the
church nearby the restaurant, in the bell-tower, with her husband Ray and
Fasha the dog. And livin' in the bell tower like that, they got a lot of
room downstairs where the pews used to be in. Havin' all that room,
seein' as how they took out all the pews, they decided that they didn't
have to take out their garbage for a long time.
We got up there, we found all the garbage in there, and we decided it'd be
a friendly gesture for us to take the garbage down to the city dump. So
we took the half a ton of garbage, put it in the back of a red VW
microbus, took shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and headed
on toward the city dump.
Well we got there and there was a big sign and a chain across across the
dump saying, "Closed on Thanksgiving." And we had never heard of a dump
closed on Thanksgiving before, and with tears in our eyes we drove off
into the sunset looking for another place to put the garbage.
We didn't find one. Until we came to a side road, and off the side of the
side road there was another fifteen foot cliff and at the bottom of the
cliff there was another pile of garbage. And we decided that one big pile
is better than two little piles, and rather than bring that one up we
decided to throw our's down.
That's what we did, and drove back to the church, had a thanksgiving
dinner that couldn't be beat, went to sleep and didn't get up until the
next morning, when we got a phone call from officer Obie. He said, "Kid,
we found your name on an envelope at the bottom of a half a ton of
garbage, and just wanted to know if you had any information about it." And
I said, "Yes, sir, Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie, I put that envelope
under that garbage."
After speaking to Obie for about fourty-five minutes on the telephone we
finally arrived at the truth of the matter and said that we had to go down
and pick up the garbage, and also had to go down and speak to him at the
police officer's station. So we got in the red VW microbus with the
shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and headed on toward the
police officer's station.
Now friends, there was only one or two things that Obie coulda done at
the police station, and the first was he could have given us a medal for
being so brave and honest on the telephone, which wasn't very likely, and
we didn't expect it, and the other thing was he could have bawled us out
and told us never to be see driving garbage around the vicinity again,
which is what we expected, but when we got to the police officer's station
there was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon, and we was
both immediately arrested. Handcuffed. And I said "Obie, I don't think I
can pick up the garbage with these handcuffs on." He said, "Shut up, kid.
Get in the back of the patrol car."
And that's what we did, sat in the back of the patrol car and drove to the
quote Scene of the Crime unquote. I want tell you about the town of
Stockbridge, Massachusets, where this happened here, they got three stop
signs, two police officers, and one police car, but when we got to the
Scene of the Crime there was five police officers and three police cars,
being the biggest crime of the last fifty years, and everybody wanted to
get in the newspaper story about it. And they was using up all kinds of
cop equipment that they had hanging around the police officer's station.
They was taking plaster tire tracks, foot prints, dog smelling prints, and
they took twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles
and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each
one was to be used as evidence against us. Took pictures of the approach,
the getaway, the northwest corner the southwest corner and that's not to
mention the aerial photography.
After the ordeal, we went back to the jail. Obie said he was going to put
us in the cell. Said, "Kid, I'm going to put you in the cell, I want your
wallet and your belt." And I said, "Obie, I can understand you wanting my
wallet so I don't have any money to spend in the cell, but what do you
want my belt for?" And he said, "Kid, we don't want any hangings." I
said, "Obie, did you think I was going to hang myself for littering?"
Obie said he was making sure, and friends Obie was, cause he took out the
toilet seat so I couldn't hit myself over the head and drown, and he took
out the toilet paper so I couldn't bend the bars roll out the - roll the
toilet paper out the window, slide down the roll and have an escape. Obie
was making sure, and it was about four or five hours later that Alice
(remember Alice? It's a song about Alice), Alice came by and with a few
nasty words to Obie on the side, bailed us out of jail, and we went back
to the church, had a another thanksgiving dinner that couldn't be beat,
and didn't get up until the next morning, when we all had to go to court.
We walked in, sat down, Obie came in with the twenty seven eight-by-ten
colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back
of each one, sat down. Man came in said, "All rise." We all stood up,
and Obie stood up with the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy
pictures, and the judge walked in sat down with a seeing eye dog, and he
sat down, we sat down. Obie looked at the seeing eye dog, and then at the
twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows
and a paragraph on the back of each one, and looked at the seeing eye dog.
And then at twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles
and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one and began to cry,
'cause Obie came to the realization that it was a typical case of American
blind justice, and there wasn't nothing he could do about it, and the
judge wasn't going to look at the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy
pictures with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each
one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us. And
we was fined $50 and had to pick up the garbage in the snow, but thats not
what I came to tell you about.
Came to talk about the draft.
They got a building down New York City, it's called Whitehall Street,
where you walk in, you get injected, inspected, detected, infected,
neglected and selected. I went down to get my physical examination one
day, and I walked in, I sat down, got good and drunk the night before, so
I looked and felt my best when I went in that morning. `Cause I wanted to
look like the all-American kid from New York City, man I wanted, I wanted
to feel like the all-, I wanted to be the all American kid from New York,
and I walked in, sat down, I was hung down, brung down, hung up, and all
kinds o' mean nasty ugly things. And I waked in and sat down and they gave
me a piece of paper, said, "Kid, see the phsychiatrist, room 604."
And I went up there, I said, "Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I
wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and
guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill,
KILL, KILL." And I started jumpin up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL," and
he started jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down
yelling, "KILL, KILL." And the sargent came over, pinned a medal on me,
sent me down the hall, said, "You're our boy."
Didn't feel too good about it.
Proceeded on down the hall gettin more injections, inspections,
detections, neglections and all kinds of stuff that they was doin' to me
at the thing there, and I was there for two hours, three hours, four
hours, I was there for a long time going through all kinds of mean nasty
ugly things and I was just having a tough time there, and they was
inspecting, injecting every single part of me, and they was leaving no
part untouched. Proceeded through, and when I finally came to the see the
last man, I walked in, walked in sat down after a whole big thing there,
and I walked up and said, "What do you want?" He said, "Kid, we only got
one question. Have you ever been arrested?"
And I proceeded to tell him the story of the Alice's Restaurant Massacre,
with full orchestration and five part harmony and stuff like that and all
the phenome... - and he stopped me right there and said, "Kid, did you ever
go to court?"
And I proceeded to tell him the story of the twenty seven eight-by-ten
colour glossy pictures with the circles and arrows and the paragraph on
the back of each one, and he stopped me right there and said, "Kid, I want
you to go and sit down on that bench that says Group W .... NOW kid!!"
And I, I walked over to the, to the bench there, and there is, Group W's
where they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army after
committing your special crime, and there was all kinds of mean nasty ugly
looking people on the bench there. Mother ***rs. Father stabbers. Father
****rs! Father ****rs sitting right there on the bench next to me! And
they was mean and nasty and ugly and horrible crime-type guys sitting on the
bench next to me. And the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one, the meanest
father ***r of them all, was coming over to me and he was mean 'n' ugly
'n' nasty 'n' horrible and all kind of things and he sat down next to me
and said, "Kid, whad'ya get?" I said, "I didn't get nothing, I had to pay
$50 and pick up the garbage." He said, "What were you arrested for, kid?"
And I said, "Littering." And they all moved away from me on the bench
there, and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things, till I
said, "And creating a nuisance." And they all came back, shook my hand,
and we had a great time on the bench, talkin about crime, mother stabbing,
father *****g, all kinds of groovy things that we was talking about on the
bench. And everything was fine, we was smoking cigarettes and all kinds of
things, until the Sargeant came over, had some paper in his hand, held it
up and said.
"Kids, this-piece-of-paper's-got-47-words-37-sentences-58-words-we-wanna-
know-details-of-the-crime-time-of-the-crime-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-
you-gotta-say-pertaining-to-and-about-the-crime-I-want-to-know-arresting-
officer's-name-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-you-gotta-say", and talked for
forty-five minutes and nobody understood a word that he said, but we had
fun filling out the forms and playing with the pencils on the bench there,
and I filled out the massacre with the four part harmony, and wrote it
down there, just like it was, and everything was fine and I put down the
pencil, and I turned over the piece of paper, and there, there on the
other side, in the middle of the other side, away from everything else on
the other side, in parentheses, capital letters, quotated, read the
following words:
("KID, HAVE YOU REHABILITATED YOURSELF?")
I went over to the sargent, said, "Sargeant, you got a lot a damn gall to
ask me if I've rehabilitated myself, I mean, I mean, I mean that just, I'm
sittin' here on the bench, I mean I'm sittin here on the Group W bench
'cause you want to know if I'm moral enough join the army, burn women,
kids, houses and villages after bein' a litterbug." He looked at me and
said, "Kid, we don't like your kind, and we're gonna send you fingerprints
off to Washington."
And friends, somewhere in Washington enshrined in some little folder, is a
study in black and white of my fingerprints. And the only reason I'm
singing you this song now is cause you may know somebody in a similar
situation, or you may be in a similar situation, and if your in a
situation like that there's only one thing you can do and that's walk into
the shrink wherever you are ,just walk in say "Shrink, You can get
anything you want, at Alice's restaurant.". And walk out. You know, if
one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and
they won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony,
they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them.
And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in
singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an
organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said
fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and
walking out. And friends they may thinks it's a movement.
And that's what it is , the Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacre Movement, and
all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it come's around on the
guitar.
With feeling. So we'll wait for it to come around on the guitar, here and
sing it when it does. Here it comes.
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
Walk right in it's around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
That was horrible. If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing loud.
I've been singing this song now for twenty five minutes. I could sing it
for another twenty five minutes. I'm not proud... or tired.
So we'll wait till it comes around again, and this time with four part
harmony and feeling.
We're just waitin' for it to come around is what we're doing.
All right now.
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
Excepting Alice
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
Walk right in it's around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
Da da da da da da da dum
At Alice's Restaurant
Posted 6 months ago by JoanfromNewJersey #
*passes pumpkin pie with whipped cream*
Oooh, I see I didn't credit Mr. Arlo Guthrie for my post. It's tradition for radio stations to play "Alice's Restaurant", circa 1967 on Thanksgiving. Around these parts, anyway.
Posted 6 months ago by JoanfromNewJersey #
There is a link to BPA's found in some tradn'l. Thanksgiving menu ingredients, hope it comes up!
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2011/11/new-study-found-bpa-in-popular-canned-food-products.html
BPA's are related to breast & other cancer.
Here's Arlo singing the full version...It's long!!!!(Like the lyrics above). Unfortunately, I do remember when it was released. :(
Posted 6 months ago by 12PAWZinFL #
Hope this comes up! Happy Thanksgiving 2011 Fun to all!
www.itchmo.com/cat-picture-happy-thanksgiving-3939
I saw that movie,(boy does that date me) and Arlo Guthrie has the most monotone voice eveh! I like him. Liked Woody better tho.
Posted 6 months ago by paulajeanne #
Okey-dokey - dinner's at Mom's and I'm making potatoes and stuffing and I have a pile of apples to do something with. What I don't have is a lot of time.
If I don't go with classic mashed potatoes (with added cheese, of course), I would like to make Cindy's. Otherwise I will make hers on Christmas, which I think is at my house.
The stuffing is out of a bag, so that should be fairly easy. It's a cornbread stuffing and I thought I would add carrots, celery and some apple chunks. Might have to run that by neice, though - she's picky about stuff in her food! There is always KYK's cornbread pudding, which sounds heavenly. Again, if not now, Christmas.
I will make the apple crisp that I posted on the Gobble-Gobble thread. The most time-consuming part of that will be peeling the apples. A mix of macintosh and empire - yum!
In addition, I'll bring a few cans of corn, a jar of sweet gerkins and dinner rolls. Big brother will put a turkey in the oven for Mom. She's got a cheesecake and a pumpkin pie in the freezer. I think sister is making some veggie dishes - eggplant, bean salad, and I don't know what else.
Neice makes a yummy cranberry pudding.
Hubby usually picks up fresh pressed cider from the mill - nice!
Happy Thanksgiving littermates!
Posted 6 months ago by JoanfromNewJersey #
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