Chocolate pudding pie!  Haven't even had breakfast yet!  <SMILE>

I know that doesn't matter over there - anything goes for breakfast!
<GRINS>


--
Carol



----- Original Message -----
From: "Ariel" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2003 12:35 AM
Subject: Re: instructions for Carol on an American Thanksgiving.


> 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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