Yeah, I know it’s not Thanksgiving yet, but like Penn Holderness, I really like Thanksgiving and think it should get more due than it does. Of course, it’s not the turkey that I really love as far as food; it’s cornbread dressing. My mom’s dressing is simple, just cornbread, a little stale bread of your choice, onions, sage, broth and whatever other seasonings you want. This year I got Trader Joe’s sous vide turkey tenderloins to go with the dressing (I wanted turkey cutlets or the half breast, but they were out, and I refuse to get a whole turkey for one person). Now, if it were with a lot of people, sure, I’d want that whole turkey and all the fixings, but c’mon, it’s me. I’m a hermit, and I only get the one day off, so I’m not traveling.
But yeah, Thanksgiving!
Serenity is a fuzzy belly 
I thoroughly enjoyed a visual on Facebook that I can’t seem to paste here, so I’ll describe it. Pictured is a bottle of wine at Thanksgiving dinner, with annotations.
The very top of the bottle is annotated: “grandma, you’re looking lovely tonight”
Around the middle of the bottle is annotated: “look you guys I just think healthcare is a human right”
And the bottom of the bottle is annotated: “cousin john you’re a fascist and the revolution will not spare you”
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I can’t imagine what would have been said if there were alcohol at our family holiday dinners. Well, I can, but I can’t understand all the slurring. 🤣
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“In vino, veritas.”
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At least you don’t have to work on Thanksgiving like I do.
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Your mom’s dressing sounds delicious. I vaguely remember, when I was a kid, my mom laying out slices of white bread all over the kitchen counters to dry them out for her dressing. My son and his family still do all that cooking, so I go over and mooch off them. But yes, I agree, the commercialization of Christmas has just about killed Thanksgiving, and it ought to be the other way around.
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Heels are perfect for this. This year I’ll use the very sour sourdough I got from Trader Joe’s a few weeks back since it won’t work for French toast 😂. I think sometimes simple is so much better. My favorite seasonings for sautéed chicken, pork, carrots and potatoes are butter, salt and pepper. Thanksgiving dinner will be dressing, turkey tenderloins and sautéed carrots and potatoes, with a small green salad. Don’t need much, and that’s what makes me happy. And the pumpkin pie coming in my groceries. 😏
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I’m happy with turkey, gravy, dressing/stuffing, potatoes, and cranberry sauce. Pecan pie for dessert (with whipped cream or ice cream). And enough leftovers for sandwiches.
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SusanR mentioned the “commercialization of Christmas” and I completely agree with her because I don’t like the commercialization of Christmas either. Speaking as someone who has been a musician for most of my life, when people ask me what is my favorite Christmas song, I usually reply with: “Mary Had A Baby” because the birth of this baby is supposed to be the real reason we are celebrating at this time of the year (in December).
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I totally agree, simple is best. Happy Thanksgiving, Brenda!
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Happy Thanksgiving to you, too, Jim!
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While the Right Wing worries about immigrants taking over America, Thanksgiving is an appropriate time to remember how Christian Europeans got this place they worry about losing. Stupidity shades into irony when Native Americans are told to go back where they came from.
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The native inhabitants of this continent would probably be glad if all of the immigrants from Europe and Africa and Asia would return to wherever they came from.
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I like “native inhabitants” since “America” wasn’t their idea.
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