First Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is only a couple of days away.  Are you as excited as we are at our house?  We LOVE Thanksgiving.  As my daughter K.C. says, it's her favorite holiday because the only thing expected of you is to eat!.  And who doesn't love to eat?

Now let's combine Thanksgiving with New Food Night because - well just because that's what we do. This year we decided to go with the theme of the original Thanksgiving.  We did some research on line about what the first Thanksgiving food was.  We learned that most likely shellfish was on the menu along with a lot of root vegetables and fruit and ...... wait for it...... PORRIDGE.

Man, was Remington every excited to hear that!  He quickly said that he wanted to make porridge. So let me share our new food night from last week with you.

 Of course we had turkey.  Because what it Thanksgiving without turkey?  Now this wasn't a wild turkey - we didn't go out 'fowling' to get our bird. We just went to the local Walmart Neighborhood Market.  I love turkey.

Now Miss Annette was going to bring some root vegetables but a dear friend had a fall and she felt it was more important to spend time with her.  We agree - nothing more important than helping friends. We compromised on this and had a dish of cheesy potatoes instead. Very good last minute substitution. Hash brown potatoes, cream of chicken soup, diced onions, Velveeta cheese.

And here you have it.  My Bud making his porridge.

Gotta admit - I wasn't real positive about this dish but it was very good.  Made from cornmeal and the addition of sweetened condensed milk and I'm not sure what else but it was yummy.

Mr. Rick took care of the shellfish portion.  He made a  crab boil kind of dish.  Shrimp, some catfish chunks, beans, potatoes, and corn on the cob. Man this was good.

And we made a quick substitution for our dessert as well.  Miss Annette had a fruit compote she was going to make and we were going to serve it over baked pumpkin.  Instead we had ginger snap cookies. This was from a mix I just happened to have in the cabinet. My thought was - surely there was ginger laying around at the first Thanksgiving and they must have used it somehow.

There you have it - our version of the first Thanksgiving.


We are ready for our Thanksgiving this year. K.C. is making our turkey for the first time and Gary is going to make a new vegetable plus all our 'favorites'.  We do love our food.


How about it - what do you have for Thanksgiving?  Anything unusual? Or maybe you are trying something new this year as well. If so, what is it?


HAPPY THANKSGIVING