itty (Sherry ) wrote in message ...
Happy Thanksgiving Day to all of those who celebrate this calorie stuffed
day. Thanks for our families, friends, cats, kittens, d*gs, goldfish,
chickens, birds of all sizes, colors and shapes. Thanks for all that makes
our lives healthy and happy!

Charleen

You too, Charleen. Hope everyone remembers to be thankful for the "bountiful
harvest" and manages to keep from getting caught in all the trappings aimed at
the consumer just to get us to buy, buy, buy. Forget that. I am thankful for
"enough" food, for friends and family to share it with. For the little
four-legged ones that give me so much companionship & joy.
Sherry --- Who is becoming very jaded with the commercialism of the holidays

This is why I think Thanksgiving is such a great holiday. It's not
about buying, it's about eating and being with people. Making the
meal isn't too huge of a deal because so much of the "comfort food"
that you make for Thanksgiving is pretty easy to prepare (you have to
really *try* to mess up mashed potatoes) and most of the ingredients
don't cost an arm and a leg. Probably because you don't eat it all
the time, I love turkey, especially the Cajun fried turkeys; but done
any way is great by me and it's another item that's hard to mess up.
Green bean casserole, sweet potato casserole, squash casserole;
brocolli casserole (yep, I like casseroles); collard greens,
jambalaya, jalepeno cornbread, yeast rolls, dressing/stuffing
(probably the most involved dish if you want to be fancy), baked beans
and on and on. It's great to have Thanksgiving with family but it's
also nice to share it with people you aren't related to.

Some day if I have a lot of time to get ready I'm going to make a
Turducken (to the uninitiated this is a turkey stuffed with a duck
which is stuffed with a chicken with different stuffings between each
bird). But that is a project that will have to wait. Meantime, I
like the same old Thanksgiving dishes just fine.

Kona and Sebastian get interested in all the smells but they still
seem to prefer their stinky cat food, which is nice.

Hope everyone that participates in it has a wonderful and relaxing
holiday and gives the puddies lots of extra attention.