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[southernmedicine]

Happy Thanksgiving, to those who celebrate!

Happy Thursday, to those who don't.

As a concept, I've always been kinda iffy. I like that it's a holiday about togetherness and eating a lot of food, but otherwise, I could take it or leave it. Learning that the tales we were fed in elementary school were all BS left me - and a lot of people, I'm sure - a little jaded. Besides, my extended family were all horrible people who were very hard to be around, so I've always had a love-hate relationship with the major holidays.

I will be alone again this year! Therefore, I reasoned that there is no reason to try and cook anything fancy or traditional (though I loved the turkey wellington I once whipped up!). So! I will be making Thanksgiving pizza. Your typical crust, gravy instead of sauce, a blend of different cheeses, and then of course your toppings. I'm going to cook mashed potatoes, stuffing and some deli turkey and use all of those as toppings for my pizza. It's gonna be pretty rad. I have also acquired cranberry ginger ale, a pecan pie, and I will assemble a platter of goodies I have bought for pre-meal snacking: a box of chocolates, those butter cookies in the blue tin, some chocolate peanut butter cookies, and chocolate covered Ritz crackers. Decadent, clearly. I also impulse bought a loaf of French bread with Italian herb, but I don't know what I'll do with it. I don't have a dip or a soup or anything. Just... slice it? And eat it with butter? Who knows! We will find out.

Hope you all have a great day, whatever you get up to!

Comments

[mxcatmoon]

Thanksgiving pizza sounds very interesting! And I love Cran ginger ale. It's all about the food for me too, although I find it a great time to watch Addams Family Values. I love Wednesday's speech right before her gang of natives torches the village. The WKRP turkey drop is another great watch tradition too.

We had a potluck dinner at work last night and I went home with leftovers for today, then tomorrow I get leftovers from a co-worker's family meal, so I'm eating good for the next few days, and I don't even have to cook anything. I bought a pumpkin cheesecake as a treat, too.

[southernmedicine]

Ohhh pumpkin cheesecake is sooo gooood. I did consider cheesecake when I was picking out food, but pecan is the one tradition I kept to tie my meal in with The Olden Days. (And I also do really like pecan pie).

[mxcatmoon]

Not a pecan fan, myself. I'll take pumpkin in almost anything, though (I draw the line at things like pumpkin spice flavored cereal and that sort of insanity!).

[used_songs]

It sounds wonderful! :)

[spikedluv]

I wrinkled my nose at your description of the pizza and yet I am dying to know how it tastes! I suppose the crust could be thought of as a biscuit-type thing, and I do love chicken and biscuits, so it's probably not as bad as my first thought was. I hope you let us know how it goes!

[southernmedicine]

Oh, it turned out good as heck, haha. Potato forward, honestly. Good gravy flavor. The stuffing added something wholly unique. I laughed when you wrinkled your nose, though, hehe.

[michaelmyers]

Happy Turkey day! Mine sucked, I felt lightheaded from my headache a few times that day, and felt over anxious and stimulated from everyone over. Same, especially with the family I live with now, I hate some of their relaives or friends they think are family so I always try to stay in my room. Plus this side of the family always has to drink a lot and smoke weed constantly throughout the holidays and everyday.

Turkey wellington? Don't think I heard of that. We been making turkey sandwiches after Turkey day, it's finally all gone, so now it's eggs and left over ham for breakfasts. Pizza, yum. That sounds good, never heard of or tried one of those types.

[reeby10]

That sounds like an excellent meal! Hope you had a good holiday :)