I just have to drive my family to my mother-in-law's house.
My responsibility this year is to not miss a play of the Eagles/Cowboys game while the others are eating at the table.
I just have to drive my family to my mother-in-law's house.
My responsibility this year is to not miss a play of the Eagles/Cowboys game while the others are eating at the table.
What is the point of thanksgiving?
We don't do anything for it, last year we had chicken salad.
First, I am responsible for not eating anything prepared early and helping to keep the kids from eating any of it either.
Second, I taught my wife, and my mother-in-law as well, to cook the turkey almost 20 years ago. Before that my wife's grandmother made everything.
Now my mother-in-law cooks the turkey and my brother-in-law or I carve. Everyone else, including my wife, brings something so that is why we have things prepared early that we need to keep from eating.
I'll do most of the shopping this weekend and prep work on Wednesday evening. I have a 5K on Thanksgiving morning followed by the second half of a long time HS football rivalry. We will convene to the local pub for a while then head home where I will do most of the cooking. The rest of the gang will do most of the clean up.
Quick someone link me to a good and easy turkey recipe.
I just told my wife that she was driving me nuts and that I would cook the turkey. Its 17 lbs
Never mind we both just came to our senses.
old man and the sea wrote:
Quick someone link me to a good and easy turkey recipe.
I just told my wife that she was driving me nuts and that I would cook the turkey. Its 17 lbs
Per usual, nothing. But this year it's because I'm not bothering myself with attending.
We go to my in-laws and I buy the wine beer soft drinks and bread . My wife tells me what kind of bread and softdrinks and reminds me what her mother likes in wine. I get to pick the beer and buy a couple of cases of the brand my father in law keeps in his garage reefer plus a couple of 6packs of what ever craft beer the guy at the store has on special.
This year one of my sisters is hosting the family get together. I will bake an apple pie the way my grandmother taught me, doing it with my grandchildren and teaching them. My sons and I will convene the wine selection committee and pick some sparkling and still wines. My sons, their wives and I will run an easy 10 miler in the morning even if we have a bit of a hangover from our Wednesday PM get together.
Get drunk and stay out of the way in the kitchen.
As a former grocery store worker, I can assure you that the man's chief role is to go to the store to get the one or two things that she forgot to get the day before. All you see in the stores are men trying to figure out where some obscure item is located, as they have never set foot in the store before. It was the one fulfilling thing about working that day, being able to keep the married men out of the doghouse by finding it or telling them that their idea of a substitute was not a good idea. Marriage counselors lost a ton of revenue by my assistance on Thanksgiving.
I will run 10 miles with 1 of those miles being an all out 1600m TT as part of a Strava segment. Then also a short run before bed
I run the T-day race, drink the Guinness, stay out of the kitchen, mash potatoes, choose wine, entertain guests, carve turkey.
It's awesome!
yeahyeahyay wrote:
I run the T-day race, drink the Guinness, stay out of the kitchen, mash potatoes, choose wine, entertain guests, carve turkey.
It's awesome!
Interesting. Do you mash the potatoes out of the kitchen then if you are not in it?
I am responsible for paying for it,
Making the pumpkin pie.
Pick my yellowed teeth at the table and complain about the over cooked turkey.