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I realize that Thanksgiving is something more those of us who live in the States, but for those of you who celebrate the holiday I wish to know how you will spend it. If you don't celebrate Thanksgiving, I would be interested in hearing how you will spending this Thursday, anyway.

Perhaps a debate may arise of the best pumpkin pie recipe, or perhaps there may be discourse on the finer points of monkey bread. I look forward to any responses.

Perhaps a debate may arise of the best pumpkin pie recipe, or perhaps there may be discourse on the finer points of monkey bread. I look forward to any responses.
What the hell is monkey bread?

I was supposed to be going with my boyfriend's family to visit his younger brother (he's in Basic Training right now), but a "family friend" ousted me and usurped my spot on the plane. Now I suppose I'll be spending the evening with my great-grandparents and grandmother, playing cards and eating more food than I ever ever should.

And yourself?

The same thing I do every year: eat a lot and get hammered.

Wait a minute...I do that everyday.

Thanksgiving is for people to impatient to wait for Christmas to stuff themselves with food.

Stuffing myself at my relatives as practice for stuffing myself at Christmas at my relatives.

Thanksgiving is for people to impatient to wait for Christmas to stuff themselves with food.
Is it a tradition to eat a lot on Christmas?

All we usually do is just the gifts and then we all talk for a few hours over drinks (cider, hot cocoa, ale, paint thinner.....whatever's around). There's no real big food thing for my family....which I guess is why I love Thanksgiving so much.

The doctors don't let us have turkey. One of the patients always ends up, well you get the idea. :)

Well, I've already started cooking today for thanksgiving. Probably should have some baguettes, stuffing and pumpkin pie ready by the end of today. Tomorrow, it'll be time to work on stuffing the duck and making the sweet potatoes.

I am cooking dinner for my in-laws. (I got out of having to cook a turkey, by having my friend smoke it for me :) )

to the OP- I am in bad need of a monkey bread recipe, can you hook me up? you can TG me.

pleeeeezzzzzeeeee:cool:

Simonist']Is it a tradition to eat a lot on Christmas?

All we usually do is just the gifts and then we all talk for a few hours over drinks (cider, hot cocoa, ale, paint thinner.....whatever's around). There's no real big food thing for my family....which I guess is why I love Thanksgiving so much.
Well maybe it's because we don't have Thanksgiving in the UK. It's traditional to eat huge amounts of turkey, 'pig blankets' (mini sausages wrapped in bacon), roast potatoes and Christmas pudding with brandy butter.

We don't have thanksgiving in Britain. I'm not even sure what it is, but I remember the scene from that addams family movie where the natives kill the settlers in the thanksgiving play.

Errrmmm, eat some food and play computer, I guess.

It's usually a bigger thing when I'm at my grandmothers, but since I'm in Panama right now, I really don't care. I would rather not have thanksgiving at all, to tell the truth.

We don't have thanksgiving in Britain. I'm not even sure what it is, but I remember the scene from that addams family movie where the natives kill the settlers in the thanksgiving play.
If Thanksgiving was always like that then we definitely should adopt it.

I'll go with my parents to my grandmother (mother's side of the family) house and eat the biggest meal of the year (other than Christmas Dinner) with family, then we will all decorate her Christmas Tree for her, talk for a few hours watch a movie then go home and prepare for Christmas Shopping MADNESS!

Well maybe it's because we don't have Thanksgiving in the UK. It's traditional to eat huge amounts of turkey, 'pig blankets' (mini sausages wrapped in bacon), roast potatoes and Christmas pudding with brandy butter.
Wrapped in bacon? You live it up. We wrap them in croissant like bread. Which I guess is why we call them "pigs in a blanket" instead of "pig blankets."

I am cooking dinner for my in-laws. (I got out of having to cook a turkey, by having my friend smoke it for me :) )

to the OP- I am in bad need of a monkey bread recipe, can you hook me up? you can TG me.

pleeeeezzzzzeeeee:cool:
There are a bazillion monkey bread recipes out there. What will determine which one you pick is if you want to use refrigerated biscuit dough for the convenience or are opposed to refrigerated biscuit dough.

Simonist']What the hell is monkey bread?

I was supposed to be going with my boyfriend's family to visit his younger brother (he's in Basic Training right now), but a "family friend" ousted me and usurped my spot on the plane. Now I suppose I'll be spending the evening with my great-grandparents and grandmother, playing cards and eating more food than I ever ever should.

And yourself?

Monkey bread is small slices biscut dough rolled in cinnamon and placed in an funnel cake pan. It is then convered in a sweet sugary syrup and baked. It is gooey and delicious. If you have never had some, you have never lived.

I will be going back to my house five blocks from my university and having Thanksgiving dinner with my grandmother and a few other members of my family. It will be a good meal, but there will not be many of us. There are very few members of my family who still live, so we try to enjoy what moments we can as a family. My best friend from high school just got back from basic and AIT, so he will likely be joining us. The world has a new air traffic controller, so beware. Actually, if any of you remember Sniper Country, that is him. He has gone on into the military since leaving Nationstates.

We don't have thanksgiving in Britain. I'm not even sure what it is, but I remember the scene from that addams family movie where the natives kill the settlers in the thanksgiving play.

Historically, thanksgiving started because the first colonists in America were so grateful to have survived for a year that they decided to have a big feast to celebrate. I would suggest taking up thanksgiving as a holiday celebration just because it involves large quantities of food and celebrating. For that matter, celebrate Cinco de Mayo just because it's a good excuse to drink lots of Corona with lime in it.

Well maybe it's because we don't have Thanksgiving in the UK. It's traditional to eat huge amounts of turkey, 'pig blankets' (mini sausages wrapped in bacon), roast potatoes and Christmas pudding with brandy butter.

Oh man, pig blankets are great. Actually, we take the sausages wrapped in bacon and then wrap them in dough, turning them into pigs in a blanket.

My family likes to eat huge meals on both Thanksgiving and Christmas. Come to think of it, we try to eat huge meals whenever we can. It still makes my relatives mad that I eat as much as I do and never weight more than 140 pounds, despite the fact that I am six feet tall. They say I could eat a rack of lamb and lose two pounds.

There are a bazillion monkey bread recipes out there. What will determine which one you pick is if you want to use refrigerated biscuit dough for the convenience or are opposed to refrigerated biscuit dough.
I have to make my own biscuit dough because my kids have celiac disease (can't have wheat, rye, barley, oats, ect.)

I have to make my own biscuit dough because my kids have celiac disease (can't have wheat, rye, barley, oats, ect.)

I will be offline over the Thanksgiving weekend, but if no one has given you a recipe by then I can get you mine. Just subsitute in the biscut dough that you make. True, it will probably take a lot of time, but it is worth it.

When I make monkey bread, I make my yeast bread dough a little sweeter than usual, roll it into balls, dip in melted butter, then roll the balls in a sugar & cinnamon mixture. I layer the dough balls into a bundt pan, sprinkling pecan pieces as I go. Finish up by drizzling the remaining butter and cinnamon sugar over the top. When done baking, let cool for a few minutes, upend it out of the pan onto a plate and drizzle with a little honey. You then eat it by pulling off pieces...like a monkey.

Edit: I use the same process to make a garlic monkey bread. Biscuit dough is OK for a quick recipe, but yeast dough is ooooo so much beter.

When I make monkey bread, I make my yeast bread dough a little sweeter than usual, roll it into balls, dip in melted butter, then roll the balls in a sugar & cinnamon mixture. I layer the dough balls into a bundt pan, sprinkling pecan pieces as I go. Finish up by drizzling the remaining butter and cinnamon sugar over the top. When done baking, let cool for a few minutes, upend it out of the pan onto a plate and drizzle with a little honey. You then eat it by pulling off pieces...like a monkey.

Oh, I've done that! I just didn't know it was an actual recipie. I made buns like that (with maple syrup instead of honey) as part of a circular centerpiece for a big dinner.

When I make monkey bread, I make my yeast bread dough a little sweeter than usual, roll it into balls, dip in melted butter, then roll the balls in a sugar & cinnamon mixture. I layer the dough balls into a bundt pan, sprinkling pecan pieces as I go. Finish up by drizzling the remaining butter and cinnamon sugar over the top. When done baking, let cool for a few minutes, upend it out of the pan onto a plate and drizzle with a little honey. You then eat it by pulling off pieces...like a monkey.

Edit: I use the same process to make a garlic monkey bread. Biscuit dough is OK for a quick recipe, but yeast dough is ooooo so much beter.

Smunkeeville:
Zooke's recipe sounds good. The ingredients aren't precise, since you are just coating the bread balls anyway. The only other thing I would add is baking recommendation: 350ºF for 35 minutes until done.

We traditionally spend Thanksgiving with my wife's family. We'll prepare a large turkey and all the trimmings, the kids will watch the parade, then we'll have a few drinks and watch football.
Dinner is early afternoon, so tommorrow night, we'll be eating leftovers on Italian bread sandwiches. Scraps will be made into turkey soup.

Its always a good time. It got really cold in the past day,so the fireplace will be lit too, which I love.

I will celebrate Thanksgiving just as I have for lo these many years ... by sharing two turkeys and all the trimmings with these guys:



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I'll play chauffer for my grandmother and great aunt. What fun. :rolleyes:

I will celebrate Thanksgiving just as I have for lo these many years ... by sharing two turkeys and all the trimmings with these guys:

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Which one are you?

Jesus, Eut, SOMEBODY'S family has been busy.... ;)

Where'd the little red-head kid come from? Did you buy him from the gypsies or something? I'm not seeing where he fits the equation.

And Lightning Star, Eut's the old guy in the center.

[QUOTE=Eutrusca]I will celebrate Thanksgiving just as I have for lo these many years ... by sharing two turkeys and all the trimmings with these guys:

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Which one are you?
Third from your right, first row, seated next to the lovely blonde-haired lady. :D

And thank you for the compliment! :D

Simonist']Jesus, Eut, SOMEBODY'S family has been busy.... ;)

Where'd the little red-head kid come from? Did you buy him from the gypsies or something? I'm not seeing where he fits the equation.

And Lightning Star, Eut's the old guy in the center.
LOL! Yeah, at least they learned one lesson well, eh? :D

The lil red-headed guy is the son of the blonde lady just behind him. He gets the red hair from a recessive gene on both his dad's side ( who isn't in the picture ), and from his mother's side via his grandmother, one of whose brothers has red hair. :)

Whut chew talkin' 'bout "old," young phoole! :P

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Third from your right, first row, seated next to the lovely blonde-haired lady. :D

And thank you for the compliment! :D

You're welcome :p

LOL! Yeah, at least they learned one lesson well, eh? :D

The lil red-headed guy is the son of the blonde lady just behind him. He gets the red hair from a recessive gene on both his dad's side ( who isn't in the picture ), and from his mother's side via his grandmother, one of whose brothers has red hair. :)

Whut chew talkin' 'bout "old," young phoole! :P
Well, considering the gap between our respective ages, I think I'm entitled to that remark.

"Phoole" looked a lot like "poohole" at first glance....I cracked the hell up. Thought I'd fire back by calling you "mouth-breath" or something.

Off to work for a busy little Simonist....

Simonist']Well, considering the gap between our respective ages, I think I'm entitled to that remark.

"Phoole" looked a lot like "poohole" at first glance....I cracked the hell up. Thought I'd fire back by calling you "mouth-breath" or something.

Off to work for a busy little Simonist....
Hell, boy! Virtually anyone on here could make the same "gap" statement! :D

"Poohole!" ROFLMFAO!!! Son, you ain't right! :p

For some reason we get Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow at college, even though we're in Britain. Probably because of the number of Americans who take it upon themselves to flock over here. Jeez, what is the world coming to.

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OMGooses! The Eutrusca Clan! :eek:

-snip-... prepare for Christmas Shopping MADNESS!
ah Black Friday!!!!! The best day of the year :D I am getting up at 3am this year and hitting 6 stores, I should be done by 8a and back in bed knowing that my Christmas shopping is over :D


*my poor husband gets dragged along every year, but who else is going to run interference for me I am only 5'1" and those ladies get crazy, one tried to take my Barbies away last year :mad:

I will be spending Thanksgiving with my neighbors. We do this every year, so we don't ALL have to cook a turkey. I forgot which family is hosting this year.

Well, my parents and my sister and I go down to so-cal to visit our grandmother who lives down there, and usually my aunts and uncle on that side of the family come as well, and we have thanksgiving dinner, which involves turkey, tofu turkey (my aunt and uncle are vegans), other assorted foods, and excellent pumpkin pie and berry pie. The rest of the time is just spent relaxing.

What the fuck is monkey bread? Is it like monkey brains, but in bread? That's gross

OMGooses! The Eutrusca Clan! :eek:
Heh! Yup! The meanest men and the best lookin' wimmin on the planet! :D

What the fuck is monkey bread?
Sweet bread made with bananas; thus "monkey bread." :D

drunk... Very very very drunk, starting at 5:30 today, and going untill somtime Sunday night.

Not really getting drunk. STUFFING MYSELF UNTIL I HAVE A HEART ATTACK!!! WOOOOOOOT:D

ah Black Friday!!!!! The best day of the year :D I am getting up at 3am this year and hitting 6 stores, I should be done by 8a and back in bed knowing that my Christmas shopping is over :D


*my poor husband gets dragged along every year, but who else is going to run interference for me I am only 5'1" and those ladies get crazy, one tried to take my Barbies away last year :mad:
Oh. My. God. You're one of THOSE people. The rabid, real-shoppers who don't have the decency and consideration of poor college kids in retail jobs to WAIT UNTIL A LESSER SHOPPING DAY to get your Christmas shopping done. You know what? While I still like you and respect you as a person, I hate your sort. Everybody I work with hates your sort.

Just....stay home.

I was going to spend it with my extended family, playing games, and eating more than I have any right to. But I am apparently now spending it arguing about rape...

Simonist']Oh. My. God. You're one of THOSE people. The rabid, real-shoppers who don't have the decency and consideration of poor college kids in retail jobs to WAIT UNTIL A LESSER SHOPPING DAY to get your Christmas shopping done. You know what? While I still like you and respect you as a person, I hate your sort. Everybody I work with hates your sort.

Just....stay home.
We like to call them pirahnas...

We like to call them pirahnas...
We like to call them something MUCH less polite. I get eight hours of it tomorrow.

Simonist']We like to call them something MUCH less polite. I get eight hours of it tomorrow.
*snickers*

So far laying in bed. I just got off three consectutive gigs, one which was 3 1/2 hours away from me that as soon as I drove back I had to drive 1 1/2 hours up to SF to work where my primary duty was to drive crews around and capped that off with having to drive a 16' box truck from SF to LA and back to SF where I picked up my car again and drove the 1 1/2 back home. So what ever I do with whatevers left it should involve little to no driving. Dammit.

Simonist']Oh. My. God. You're one of THOSE people. The rabid, real-shoppers who don't have the decency and consideration of poor college kids in retail jobs to WAIT UNTIL A LESSER SHOPPING DAY to get your Christmas shopping done. You know what? While I still like you and respect you as a person, I hate your sort. Everybody I work with hates your sort.

Just....stay home.
hey I went through working in Retail on Black Friday when I was young, I know it's crazy.

When you are on a short budget though and your 3 year old asked for a Barbie that costs $40 and you can get it for $5 when you get up early on the day after Thanksgiving though, who is really going to turn that down?

I got my entire shopping for Christmas done last year for about $30, after all the sales, free gift cards, rebates and cupons.

retail value over $400.00

hey I went through working in Retail on Black Friday when I was young, I know it's crazy.

When you are on a short budget though and your 3 year old asked for a Barbie that costs $40 and you can get it for $5 when you get up early on the day after Thanksgiving though, who is really going to turn that down?

I got my entire shopping for Christmas done last year for about $30, after all the sales, free gift cards, rebates and cupons.

retail value over $400.00
Oh, ok, well.....buy me something and I'm sure I'll find a way to cope :p

((Which reminds me.....if you're still planning on being in Kansas City in January, and wanna meet somewhere for coffee (assuming you'll be in Johnson County, that is), IM me and we can figure out somewhere around the approximate area of where you'd be staying))

Simonist']Oh, ok, well.....buy me something and I'm sure I'll find a way to cope :p
yeah, I know the type you are talking about though, I remember my first year going shopping on Black Friday, there were these two old ladies (in thier 70's) and they got into a fight over a cabbage patch doll (yeah it was the 80's)

I remember thinking "what in the hell is wrong with these people?!"

I am not like that, I am super effiecient, I have been planning this out for 2 weeks, researching everything, I pop in get what I need and am out of the store in less than 10 min. (if I don't get a slow cashier) I have a game plan for tomorrow, maps of the stores, lists of what I am getting sale price, retail price, and any applicable rebates. I have my husband running interference for me (to keep the looters out of my basket) and I have only been in one mild fight with someone in my 15 year history of shopping on Black Friday, and I wouldn't have gotten into that fight except I was pregnant and this lady elbowed me in the stomache to try to get the Furby I had.

((Which reminds me.....if you're still planning on being in Kansas City in January, and wanna meet somewhere for coffee (assuming you'll be in Johnson County, that is), IM me and we can figure out somewhere around the approximate area of where you'd be staying))
My cousin said she may not be able to take off a weekend, she is falling behind in her studies at the Uni. We may have to wait until Spring Break if she doesn't catch up soon.:(