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From: MyGirlFriday
Date: 11-19-2005, 11:17 PM (1 of 39)
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With Thanksgiving Day right around the corner I was trying to plan on just what to fix. This is one of the only times that I really enjoy cooking for my family. I'm not much into cooking! Our family was invited to go to some peoples house for the day but my oldest requested that we stay home so her and I cook dinner. So that is our plan...now for what to fix! My DH said that he has a coupon for a Mrs. Smiths pumpkin pie...I asked him if I cooked that would it become a "Mrs. mgf" pie?  ( I don't eat that kind of pie)He also said why fix a whole bird....why not fix just a turkey breast? Then the youngest daughter piped up saying that she wanted a leg! So then DH said we could buy a breast and a leg. But I like a leg too! I think it would be cheaper to buy the whole thing rather than just parts! I want to make my own cranberry sauce......I love the whole berry kind. I think I might try that. I will read the directions on the package. Mashed potatos...from a box or whole ones, peeled and boiled? I like the peeling and boiling method. (Keep a box of instant around just incase you add too much milk) Have to have real butter too!!! What other veggies?? No sweet taters at my house, noone likes them. Green bean casserole? ~ Love it! Corn~ Gotta have it! Olive tray~ yes yes yes! What else?? I need some ideas! Help make my dinner special! I am pulling out the china and crystal for this special dinner! Anyone recommend a good wine?? I only have a few days to get some ideas!! mgf~ 
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From: MotherInLaw
Date: 11-20-2005, 12:34 AM (2 of 39)
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oooooough I have some recipes for some good pies. Lemon Ice box pie, pecan pie, and what about mississippi mud pie? I have all of those if you'd like them let me know. I'll send them via email unless anyone else would like them I'll post it here. What about corn bread dressing, brocolli and cheese sauce, macaroni and cheese, fruit salad, if you are having mashed potatos then you have to have green peas, the tiny ones with lots of butter on them. Yummy. Rolls don't forget the rolls. I fix gumbo, turkey, macaroni and cheese, mashed potatos, corn, brocolli, peas, chicken and dumplings and some times I fix stuffed vegetable pears (meilatons as we call them in the southern part of Louisiana) I'm regressing back into my youth, I just have to figure out how I'm going to convience my body to come along with me.
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 11-20-2005, 12:38 AM (3 of 39)
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we're actually cooking this year. (we usually order from a restaurant and bring it home, we order extra for leftovers.) Turkey, dressing, cranberry sauce (canned...I like to make my own, but my husband doesn't like tart things, he likes to slice it from the can...oh well) Sweet potatoes (real ones, with butter...no extras like marshmallows.) Sometimes we have mashed potatoes, but not usually...it's just us two and we make enough for 1-2 more meals and thats all we really want. Olives (green...when I was a kid my grandmother always put out a relish tray, pineapple cheese filled celery, olives and pickled veggies (came in a jar, pimento, cauliflower, peppers, pickles, corn) carrot strips. My mother-in-law likes to make cranberry apple salad. I don't have the recipe, but's it's good stuff... I'd go with a dry white or rose`...nothing heavy with a turkey. Don't forget bread...I like parker house rolls....when I worked at the bakery I got them free...now I have to buy'em... Since we live in the south now, it's easier to get sweet potato pie than pumpkin. So we get that and mincemeat. ( but I'm stuck eating the mince by myself..my husband won't touch the stuff, even though all it is is fruit. And he eats tons of that...) Chrys
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 11-20-2005, 12:39 AM (4 of 39)
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Geez Susie....makes me fat just thinking about all that stuff !!!
Chrys
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From: carman
Date: 11-20-2005, 01:16 AM (5 of 39)
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mmmmmm, makes me want to have it all over again
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From: allie-oops
Date: 11-20-2005, 02:34 AM (6 of 39)
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My hubby always cooks the bird, he does a fabulous job, and I make my apple/yam casserole - it's SO easy, but after I made it the first time, it became a must have. It's so good it tastes like dessert. You just use two cans of yams [drained], and two cans of apple pie filling - put in casserole dish with butter and brown sugar, and you can top it with some of those dried cranberries from Ocean Spray. Just cook til bubbly and NO LEFTOVERS, lol! I also make a mashed potato/green bean casserole - not sure what I did with the recipe though. It's easily the best green bean casserole I've ever had. Sure hope I can find it.... Allie "onward through the fog"
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From: Magot
Date: 11-20-2005, 09:49 AM (7 of 39)
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Nothing special - egg and chips maybe!
love and kisses, Jan
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From: MotherInLaw
Date: 11-20-2005, 09:59 AM (8 of 39)
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Jan I didn't realize you had Thanksgiving in England. Live and learn!!!!! I invited my brother and his wife and the kids, my hubby asked me yesterday "Where the h*ll are you going to put everyone at this little table we have. I told him it's going to be nice Thanksgiving day and we have 3 picnic tables in storage, I guess he's going to the storage this week!!!!!!!  He's loves me!!!!
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From: MotherInLaw
Date: 11-20-2005, 10:01 AM (9 of 39)
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Yeah Chrys, and Bren wants me to go on WW this week with her. Gheeeze how cruel can you get!!!!! I love ya Bren!!!!! But not that much. ROFL
I'm regressing back into my youth, I just have to figure out how I'm going to convience my body to come along with me.
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From: sewingrandma
Date: 11-20-2005, 01:55 PM (10 of 39)
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Going to DDs this year. Making sweet potato pie, collards, and chip and cherry loaf to take with us. When we stay home and cook I also fix the usual turkey, dressing, dressing, potatoes, peas. I also fix a special cranberry mold that has nuts and pineapple in it and a mold that has whipped cream, mixed fruit and nuts in it,yum! Welcome back Susie. Please post your recipes here for all of us. I love lemon desserts. Brockie
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From: Hogmami
Date: 11-20-2005, 03:23 PM (11 of 39)
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We aren't fixing any thing. I have to work so my husband is going to come into the hospital and eat dinner with me.
Carolyn
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From: SummersEchos
Date: 11-20-2005, 03:36 PM (12 of 39)
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Carolyn, How nice that your husband is coming where you work to share dinner with you. As we all know it isn't what you are eating, but the company you have. Since I am taking care of my mom, having all my DC and DGC over is to much for her. Yesterday I went home to have dinner with all of them plus some of their friends. We had the usual turkey, dressing, cheesy potatoes, green bean casserole, cranberry sauce out of the can, veggie, cheese trays, jell-o and jell-o jigglers relish tray and a variety of deserts. On Thanksgiving it will be me mom, my 2 sisters and 1 BIL. It will be a simple Thanksgiving dinner, since mom is starting having a hard time eating non finger food. I feel I have the best of both worlds, able to share my time between all of my family. Of course I would have loved to have everyone together on that day, but I have learned to go with the flow as in what works out the best. Summer
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From: MotherInLaw
Date: 11-20-2005, 10:38 PM (13 of 39)
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Mississippi Mud Pie Crust: First Layer 1 cup of pecans coarsely chopped 2 cups of plain flower 2 sticks of butter Mix all together very well and mash into the bottom of a 9 X 13 glass pan and bake at 350 for approx. 20 minutes. Let cool completely. Second Layer: 2 – 8oz packs of Philadelphia cream cheese softened 1 ½ cups of powdered sugar Mix this together until all is blended together. Spread on top of room temperature crust. Third Layer: 2- packages of instant chocolate pudding mix. Prepare like it says on box to prepare for a pie. (It uses less milk for a pie). Spread on top of cream cheese layer. Place in fridge until ready to serve. Then apply fourth layer and serve. Forth Layer: Spoon on cool whip and top with broken pecans. ENJOY I'm regressing back into my youth, I just have to figure out how I'm going to convience my body to come along with me.
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From: MotherInLaw
Date: 11-20-2005, 10:49 PM (14 of 39)
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Lemon Ice Box Pie Crust: Line bottom and sides of pie shell with vanilla wafers or use store bought gram cracker curst already made. Filling: 2 cans of sweetened condensed milk (not pet milk) Eagle Brand I find is the best it's thicker 3 fresh lemons squeezed and strained to remove the pits 2 eggs yellows (save the whites for the meringue) Mix all this very well and pour in pie shell above Meringue: 2 egg whites (use a glass bowl or if you have to use stainless steel bowl make sure it's oil free and clean of any oils. 1 tsp of cream of tartar 1 Tsb Sugar Egg whites fluff better if they are at room temperature, in mixing bowl beat egg white and cream of tartar until fluffy, add sugar and beat until soft peaks are formed. Place on top of pie and place in 350 degree oven just long enough to brown the meringue top. Refrigerate for several hours before serving Enjoy!!!!!! I'm regressing back into my youth, I just have to figure out how I'm going to convience my body to come along with me.
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From: MotherInLaw
Date: 11-20-2005, 10:57 PM (15 of 39)
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Pecan Pie 3 eggs ½ stick of margarine or butter ½ cup sugar 1 cup of light corn syrup 1 tsp. vanilla extract (not flavoring) 1½ cups Pecan halves 1 9 inch unbaked pie shell Melt butter over low heat or microwave, remove from heat mix in sugar, and corn syrup. Blend in eggs and vanilla extract mix well. Add pecan and make sure they are all coated well with liquid. Pour into pie shell, mixture will be runny looking but that's okay. Bake at 350 for 35 to 45 minutes or until well done by testing by inserting a knife in the center. ENJOY I'm regressing back into my youth, I just have to figure out how I'm going to convience my body to come along with me.
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From: LauraM62
Date: 11-21-2005, 06:07 AM (16 of 39)
Well our dinner will be the usual, although I asked dh & kids if they wanted something new, I got a big NO  So a really large turkey (22 lbs, leftovers!), cornbread & sausage stuffing, mashed potatoes (real potatoes, not boxed on turkey day  ), Green Rice (Broccoli, Rice, Cheese mix), Green Bean casserole, corn, sweet potatoes (fresh, with butter, brown sugar, & corn syrup), pumpkin pie (made from our home grown pumpkins this year!), and pecan pie .... well can't forget the Texas size cloverleaf dinner rolls I make too!
LauraM
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From: Mom of Six
Date: 11-21-2005, 07:08 AM (17 of 39)
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I am making the dessarts for our family party @ my sisters. I will make pies Pumpkin,Apple, lemon merange(sp), & pecan. I am also making a pumpkin roll with cream cheese filling. apple crisp, a pumpkin dessert with a crumb topping but no crust, & brownies for the chocoholics. There will be about 60 of us so I hope I have enough. Barb
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From: DorothyL
Date: 11-21-2005, 07:52 AM (18 of 39)
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Number one daughter is bringing over her boyfriend for Thanksgiving but number two is staying with her boyfriends family. It will be the opposite for Christmas I guess. We'll have the usual and my daughter is bringing the pie. Dorothy |
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From: MotherInLaw
Date: 11-21-2005, 09:03 AM (19 of 39)
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Oh Boy Laura, you're making me hungry, is there a chair open at your house I might forget cooking and sneak off to Indiana. LOL
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From: MaryW
Date: 11-21-2005, 09:20 AM (20 of 39)
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Susie, it is sooooooooo good to have you back but you got me fat just reading those recipes.
MaryW
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From: debsews
Date: 11-21-2005, 09:47 AM (21 of 39)
| For several years now we've gone to Cracker Barrel for dinner. No cooking, no dishes, no leftovers!! Without the kids (they're in Ohio, we're in Fla) what's the point? This year with dh having trouble with his gallbladder we might be in the hospital or just having a cup of broth and jello. I love reading about all the recipes though. It reminds me of years past when it was an all day event with a zillion kids and of course football! Have a wonderful holiday all of you! Enjoy your families!! |
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From: toadusew
Date: 11-21-2005, 09:50 AM (22 of 39)
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Thanks for the recipes, Susie! I'm thinking I might have try at least one of those for Thanksgiving! We always have turkey (hubby smokes it overnight), dressing (my mom's recipe), roasted sweet potatoes with onions (a favorite at our house), crescent rolls, and pie of some kind. I usually make 2 kinds of pie. Nobody really likes pumpkin pie at my house and hubby thinks the pecan pies are a bit too sweet so those are out. One pie will be a blueberry pie from a simple recipe a friend gave me years ago. This year it will be me, hubby, my youngest daughter, and my mom. |
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From: Magot
Date: 11-21-2005, 11:57 AM (23 of 39)
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Good grief Susie, I'm putting on weight just reading those yummy receipes! We don't celebrate thanksgiving - hence the egg and chips
love and kisses, Jan
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From: MyGirlFriday
Date: 11-21-2005, 09:54 PM (24 of 39)
Thanks for the great ideas!!  I'm actually looking forward to cooking!! (so is my daughter) that Mississippi Mud Pie sounds yummy!! We have fresh pecans too!! mgf~
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From: MotherInLaw
Date: 11-21-2005, 10:32 PM (25 of 39)
Ladies, I'm in heaven!!! This place is growing on me more and more everyday. When I leave here and go to town, it's like reliving my childhood all over again. This place reminds me of how Chalmette looked when I was a child, farm land all around. The weather has turned kind of cool now here and it's just wonderful. I'm so happy, I told my husband tonight I'm right where I want to be. Raymond is getting his toys and he's happy also. So far he bought a chain saw, a weedeater that has a blade on it for cutting bush and tonight he invested in a chipper. Now we need a storage building to store all his toys until we build his new garage. We're getting there slowly but surely. My son that is living out here next to us bought a 4 wheeler for the kids and we are putting the kids to work tomorrow picking up sticks and pulling the chipper with the 4 wheeler. Happy Thanksgiving everyone my Thanksgiving has already come!!!!!!!!!! Thanks to Katrina we are where we wanted to be all along. 
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From: HeyJudee
Date: 11-22-2005, 07:37 AM (26 of 39)
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Susie, I read those recipes and gained 10 lbs!!! I've heard about Mud pie but never had a recipe. Now I just might give it a try. Great to have you back. As they say...the Lord works in mysterious ways!!!! TTFN from
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From: bren
Date: 11-22-2005, 08:40 AM (27 of 39)
Okay Susie ...I will give you a week's grace  ...Have A Happy Thanksgiving Bud...I know your going to enjoy your cooking for your family...that's right up your alley...along with DGC and sewing...Enjoy my friend ...you well deserve it!!!
Bren:
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From: Sailorliz
Date: 11-23-2005, 08:58 AM (28 of 39)
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Our three daughters will be traveling home for Thanksgiving. They are all bringing their boyfriends. We will have nine people for dinner. Our menu is Appetizers.. Log Rolls Ants on a log Dill & Sweet Pickles Black & Green Olives Hunk Cheese, Cheddar & Colby Dinner.... Turkey and stuffing Hubbard Squash Broccoli Casserole Mashed Potatoes and gravy Rolls Dessert.... Pumpkin Pie Cheese Cake Pecan Pie My husband, myself, and our daughters all help in making the dinner. It is our family cooking time together. I just love this holiday. Happy sewing/quilting/crafting
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From: gm23237
Date: 11-24-2005, 03:16 PM (29 of 39)
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My guest list is getting smaller as I get older but I will fix the following: Turkey (of course) Small ham too mashed potatos buttered yeast rolls green beans, fried cabbage (for a friend that just loves the stuff and my dog, he likes the cabbage raw). Sweet potato pie Double Fudge chocolate cake Apple Pie and banana pudding I have the house decorated already for Christmas. It is my tradition to turn on all the lights, the tree and have the village and train set up and running and presents under the tree all by Thanksgivng night. My guest will take a present home when they leave to start their holiday. Of course alot of the indoors decorated with thing I have made. I have all the beds decorated with Christmas Quilts, pillows and pillow cases and Christmas stuffed bears ( I collect them), every room in the house has Christmas in it. The bathrooms have Christmas fabric shower curtains and towels, wash cloths and hand towels, the kitchen has drapes made of Christmas fabric and there are flower arrangements all over the house(poinsettas, spruce and other holiday goodies) I have 80+ strings of lights all over the shrubs in the yard, the deer and the Christmas trees. I refuse to get too old to love Christmas and top enjoy it with the feel of a person young at heart Christmas is the one time of the year that I always put aside anything bad or worries we have to enjoy the wonderful season of Christmas. Peace to all and Happy Holidays! |
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From: Magot
Date: 11-24-2005, 04:35 PM (30 of 39)
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Liz - what on earth are ants on a log? sounds like you are eating bushtucker! never heard of Hubbard squash either - could you enlighten me? I have had pumpkin pie - Tony tasted it and thought it was disgusting - personally it wasn't that bad but nothing that exciting either. The girls liked it - I tended to think the only reason it tasted of anything was because of the spices. At the risk of being sacriligious I donlt tink I'll bother again - it seems weird having a vegetable for a pudding. Happy Thanksgiving you strange but wonderful people! love and kisses, Jan
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From: Pudge99
Date: 11-24-2005, 05:37 PM (31 of 39)
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Jan, I am sitting here killing time between cooking items. Ants on a log are celery sticks with peanut butter in them then you stick raisins in the peanut butter. Looks like this. http://www.kckpl.lib.ks.us/ys/IMAGES/ANTS.JPG Gina
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From: Pudge99
Date: 11-24-2005, 05:42 PM (32 of 39)
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OH I forgot to list what I am makin'. Turkey Cornbread Stuffing Sweet Potatoes smothered in marshmallows Plain old carrots Buttered Rolls Pumpkin Pie with Graham Cracker Crust Served with French Vanilla Cool Whip Then after we eat we are going to see Harry Potter Gina
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From: DorothyL
Date: 11-24-2005, 06:01 PM (33 of 39)
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My daughter's boyfriend brought a peanut butter pie and it was good. We had all the other good stuff too. Now I am stuffed and my refrigerator is stuffed with left overs. Turkey for dinner tomorrow. Turkey on Saturday. And Sunday -- guess what we are having! But by then the sweet potatoes and cranberries will be gone. But the peanut butter pie will be gone before I go to bed tonight. Dorothy. |
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From: SummersEchos
Date: 11-24-2005, 08:35 PM (34 of 39)
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gm, What a wonderful outlook you have. Your family and friends must be very happy to have you around. Summer
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From: Sailorliz
Date: 11-25-2005, 02:08 PM (35 of 39)
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Jan, A hubbard squash is a winter squash. Here is a link to squash with pictures. My husband grew the green hubbards. He likes to garden and we always have different squashes to eat. The hubbard squash are sweet tasting. He also planted a squash named sweet dumpings. We really liked those. Squash (http://whatscookingamerica.net/squash.htm) Gina already explained what "Ants on a log" are. My kids always made those as children for snacks. They still love them.  As far as Pumpkin Pie, I think you would have to develop a taste for it. But I grew up eating pumpkin pie as a desert for Thanksgiving and Xmas. So not having Pumpkin Pie would break tradition in our family. 
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From: HeyJudee
Date: 11-25-2005, 04:41 PM (36 of 39)
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Liz, I'm with you...I love all kinds of squash and the dryer the better. I have a hubbard squash that I am gonna be cooking this weekend. As for pumpkin pie...I haven't had one in sooooo long that my mouth is watering just thinking of one. Pies are not good for that bad old Cholesterol. If you have a pumpkin pie handy...mmmmm....enjoy a piece for me!
TTFN from
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From: MotherInLaw
Date: 11-25-2005, 09:21 PM (37 of 39)
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Jan I'm with you I don't like pumpkin pie either. My Mississippi Mud pie was gone by that evening and I made it with 4 boxes of chocolate pudding. I made a double batch. They devoured the cheese cake cup cakes also but I still have a little banana pudding left but they are working on that also. We went shopping today all day and all I bought was curtains for my bedroom I'm too busy to sew drapes right now. My arm and back are killing me I pinched a nerve or something in in back and it's hurting me so much I can't hardly move my upper body.  I'm going to bed with my nyquil bottle I think it might be swollen glands making that thing hurt like this, I have a bad sinus cold so it could be that but we'll see if the Nyquil works we'll know what is was. Good night
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From: Magot
Date: 11-26-2005, 03:00 PM (38 of 39)
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Hope you are feeling better soon Susie - don't over do it. I have to admit I bought curtains today as well - it was cheaper than buying the fabric... Pudge, Liz, thanks for the lesson - the ants on a log look great for a kids party - and so like ants on a log! I don't think I have ever eaten any kind of squash- never seen them in the shops. No, I tell a lie, we bought one in France once! Some friends and I went on a surprise birthday weekend. We were given our instructions on the ferry to Calais - we were split into 2 teams and given a budget to buy food for a dinner party for 6. Then the food we bought was given to the other team to cook. We bought them the sqash as none of us knew what the hell it was we thought they wouldn't either! My team won, I was in charge 'natch. My Dad was a chef so it was easy to think big showy stuff - I had problems with one of my team though as she wouldn't prepare the veggies the way I told her so we losts points on our julienne carrots. They were round. Can't get the staff. Enjoy all your turkey leftovers everybody, and I especially hope you had a blessed thanksgiving in your new home, Susie. love and kisses, Jan
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From: MotherInLaw
Date: 11-26-2005, 11:41 PM (39 of 39)
Turkey's all gone and so are all the grandkids except the two that live outside my door in their little Fema camper. My son that is living next to us in the camper went to an auction this morning with the man next door and bought two baby goats!!!!!! They are outside crying for their Mama's. LOL  As if I didn't need anymore KIDS around here he brings home two more. ROFL I have to say I think I'm stuck with my middle son, he is loving it here. He bought that grassy looking carpet and put in outside his camper and fenced an area in for the baby to play in so she won't get in the dirt, then he is looking for the deer in the back yard he found tracks all over out there behind my trailer. He's loving it here I hope his wife learns to like it as it stands now she hates it here and has only been here 4 days of the 3 weeks we've been here. Now she's in Washington visiting family for the holidays. Anyway Jan we had a nice week except for today the kids were getting on each others nerves and they started fighting so it was time for them to go home. AWWW peace and quiet. We went to our favorite restaurant tonight and ate catfish and shrimp, yummy, and then we headed to Lowe's to get the stringers for our door steps. He is building a front porch for us so the shoes can come off outside instead of at the front door inside. I'm regressing back into my youth, I just have to figure out how I'm going to convience my body to come along with me.
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