Scrapple:
My "traditional" Thanksgiving menu has, in the last several years, become "Whatever the cruise line serves!" I've taken at least five cruises over T'giving, and am about to embark on my 6th!
One year, I bucked tradition by having four ("count 'em," four) lobster tails! Last year, my traveling companion and I had a wonderful T'giving dinner at an Argentinian/Brazilian-style restaurant on the island of Aruba, along with my nephew and his family, who have a time-share condo there that they use every year. Cost a bundle, but was wonderful!
As a child, I remember our family joining my parents' friends at their country estate, eating unbelieveably huge quantities of their wonderful food, seemingly from dawn to dusk, all prepared by our hostess. Turkey, ham, pork roast, mashed potatoes ("plain" and with cheddar cheese), accompanied by home-made gravy (of course), two different sweet potato casseroles, green beans with mushrooms, sweet peas with pearl onions, salad greens with cherry tomatoes, followed by home-made pumpkin, pecan
and mincemeat pies. And, as unnecessary as it was, home-made whipped cream!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After eating all this, we repaired to our host's den/study/library to listen to the Army-Navy game on the radio. I think we actually heard very few of these games!
Love reminiscing!
SWR
