Indeed! I was up baking TG eve then turn around & up at sunrise. It was more than a notion. …, my lower back ached, my arthritic fingers throbbed & the mental lists with time to put this in , take that out, which goes inn oven next was very tiring. But I did enjoy the meal!
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My wife and I didn’t have guests this year so we took a shortcut with a pre-cooked spiral cut ham, then made stuffing and sweet potato/pineapple casserole. Just the basics. Now it’s recycle time with a ham and noodle casserole, southern biscuits and ham with gravy, ham in egg fried rice, ham, ham, ham for a while. Then freeze the rest when we’re sick of it.
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My Mom was on the volunteer ambulance squad in town for 25 years. Her call day was Thursday, 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., so she was always on call on Thanksgiving (quite a few Christmases, too.) There was always at least one call on Thanksgiving day, usually around 2:00. Bertha would have a heart attack. The scanner would go off, Mom would get into her jumpsuit and head for the station. The crew would assemble and they would pick up Bertha and head for the ER ten miles away. After she was safely handed off, the ambulance crew would do all the paperwork at the hospital, go back to the station to get the ambulance ready for the next call, fill out all the additional paperwork at the station, then head home. Bertha was always back home before the ambulance crew was.
We would get our Thanksgiving dinner, cooked by the daughters after 6:00 or when Mom got home whichever was later. A few years ago, Bertha passed - she was 85 and had outlived all six of her sons (and my mother) although she still had a few living daughters.
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Who is that?
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The losingist coach in the NFL
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That’s the way to go (and a spiral sliced ham on a smoker is excellent).
When I was in NYC, my mom and my daughter, then 12, came for Thanksgiving. There was no question of being able to a Thanksgiving with my kitchen so I got us reservations at the Centeal Park Boathouse, which can normally be kinda meh food-wise, but the Thanksgiving meal was good.
Another year my then-wife worked in Global Events for AT&T, so we could go to just about any AT&T event for anything they sponsored (everything, a nice perk but not worth it) went to the Cowboys game in the box and have Thanksgiving dinner served to us. It was pretty good.
In both instances, there was no cooking involved, and no clean-up after.
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That’s a great idea, thanks! I’ll have to try that next time.
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It’s real easy. You don’t have to be too precise on you temps, up to 300 is fine. I use a disposable broiling pan or an old junk pan to catch the drippings, plop the ham in face down, and go work on your sides for 2-3 hours.
The result is juicier and more flavorful than one done in the oven.
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Awesome! Love that photo!
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Good points. BTW, read that David Plouffe, probably the smartest political strategist in the country, from either party, is reported to have said in a podcast, that the Harris campaign was never ahead of Trump anytime during the campaign. They gave it a great try, but they started in a hole deeper than they could get out of - all due to the global anti-incumbent wave that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Given where they started, Plouffe said that they were surprised by how close it ended up in the election - they almost beat both Trump and the anti-incumbent trend.
Trump’s support is both shallow and among the most unengaged and ignorant part of the Electorate. These people still think that 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico are a good idea. My guess is Trump’s honeymoon phase will be the shortest in history.
The Democrats would be advised to throw poop in the punchbowl at every opportunity - starting with the debt ceiling. Make the GOP own it and force them to pass it ALL on their own. That way when Trump blows the deficit wide open and interest rates fly upward again, it will all be on Trump and the ReThugs. The Rubes will never understand what happened until they are paying $10 for a dozen eggs. Likewise for every lousy governing decision Trump makes. Just oppose it all because there is ZERO payoff for helping run the country into the ground come 2026 and 2028.
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Agreed in the abstract, but in the meantime I’ll need to buy food.
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And I’d stay away from the punch bowl 'cause maybe not abstract.
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That’s a genuine antique photo. Not sure what year.
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The poor time management at the end of the game made me happy to be a lions fan.
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Yep, that’s the wee problem with “Let 'em go ahead and blow up the economy because we can use it against them!” It will affect all of us.
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When the MAGAts have to pay $10 for eggs, they will still blame Biden or the Evil Godless Socialist Liberals. They will believe whatever fits on the Fox chyron.
ETA I think autocorrect is hung over.
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It would be nice to see the Lions in the Superbowl.
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