Hey, Kathy

The only thing I would add to your description is that most churches have
services on Thanksgiving.  In some churches it's one of the few times of the
year folks feel guilty enough to go.  Smile.  That, Christmas and Easter,
that is.

Oh, and you did a nice job of explaining how folks add their own cultural
and regional touches to the Thanksgiving turkey.  We always had every kind
of food you could imagine for every holiday "just in case" someone didn't
like one thing or the other.  So in addition to the turkey we'd have the
typical Italian stuff of antipasto and some kind of pasta.  And chocolate
pudding pie, don't forget that!

Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kathy Du Bois" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 3:19 PM
Subject: instructions for Carol on an American Thanksgiving.


> Hi Carol,
> You had asked in an earlier post what the traditional Thanksgiving dinner
> is over here in America and I haven't seen any other answers so I guess
> I'll step up to the plate, so to speak. The dinner varies a bit depending
> upon where you live. For example, in the north east, where I live now,
> they will add lobster and in the midwest where I used to live, there
> would be vennison, that's deer meat, added, but the basic meal kind of
> goes like this. I think that Matt would use his cheese log as an
> appetizer, but the main meal is turkey, because it was plentiful in the
> new world, stuffing, cranberry sauce, probbly because cranberries too,
> were so abundant in Massachusetts, and then the vegetables are the ones
> that you think of most commonly in the fall, squash, turnips, (yuck
> personally), mashed potatoes, corn and then pumpkin something, usually
> pie for dessert. Oh Yah, along with the stuffing, there are all kinds of
> breads and I will be serving rice pudding tomorrow as a throw back to my
> Swedish heretage. Some people also make a green bean caserole, but I'll
> probably be serving them straight because I won't have any room in my
> oven..
> After eating, most people can hardly move so you lay on the couch and
> watch football, fortunately, my favorite team is playing tomorrow. Then,
> somehow you have to muster the strength to clean up the kitchen, make a
> soup or stew out of the turkey bones and find a clever way to put all the
> left overs into the fridge.
> Enjoy, and happy thanksgiving to you across the pond as well.
> In Him,
> Kathy
>
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