THE ARRIVAL OF THANKSGIVING 2024 IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER

 

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THANKSGIVING A FEW YEARS AGO

My Mom cutting up the ingredients for the turkey stuffing.  The raw turkey can just be seen at the right-hand edge of the picture.

My middle Sis making something for the Thanksgiving feast – probably pumpkin nut bread.  Yum!

Dad taking the perfectly roasted turkey out of the oven.

And we sat down to a perfect Thanksgiving dinner of turkey with creamy gravy, stuffing (cooked inside the turkey), mashed potatoes, green-bean casserole, & cranberry sauce with pumpkin pie along with Sis's pumpkin nut bread for dessert!  Around the table beginning on the left:  My Grandma Louise, my youngest sister, my brother, me, my middle sis, and Mom.

Following dinner,  after Dad got all the leftover turkey carved up and saved for another day, he got to nibble on the carcass. J

A decade later at my house the menu was almost exactly the same except by then I was using “Stove Top” boxed turkey stuffing mix.  Nor did we have my sister’s yummy pumpkin nut bread, but we did have pumpkin pie with piles of whipped cream!  L-R: youngest daughter, my two sisters, my husband, and my Dad & Mom.

Luckily back then, Thanksgiving dinner menus didn’t have to deal with this current-day nightmare.

:->

La Nightingail

HAPPY THANKSGIVING


Comments

  1. TimelessladyNovember 23, 2024 at 9:47 AM

    I love this post. It looks like Thanksgiving at our house all through the 70s 80s 90s and beyond. The menu was exactly the same. I still use Bisquick. It makes the best biscuits.

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  2. Barbara RogersNovember 23, 2024 at 4:16 PM

    Wonderful memories of feasts with the family!

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  3. Mike BrubakerNovember 24, 2024 at 2:26 PM

    These could be my family snaps of Thanksgiving Days past, too. The photo of the presentation of the turkey is always a classic. Hope you enjoy another thankful day.

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  4. Molly's CanopyNovember 25, 2024 at 5:14 AM

    Loved this post! Agree with Mike, this could have been our house, too. We also cooked stuffing inside the turkey and lived to tell about it :-) I still remember helping my grandmother crush up the air-dried bread (never toast!) and squish it with the other ingredients into stuffing. Such fun as a child. Have a great holiday week!

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