Our first Thanksgiving this year was the end of October, because one of my sisters would be leaving for Arizona for the winter. Then we had a smaller one yesterday, at Mom's. She is 84 now and she made the sweet potatoes, and us "kids" did everything else. My younger sister Ginny and her DH brought the turkey to fry up. I asked, "Had you done it before?" "No, but our friend Brian does it all the time." Uh-huh, do you see where I'm going here? Well they set it up next to one of Mom's flower gardens. And I mean RIGHT next to it. The garden was covered with dry oak leaves, of course. As the heated up the peanut oil, my brother-in-law came into the house and proceeded to read the instructions. (Well at least he brought them along!) "Do not cover pot while heating oil" it read. And he dashed out and uncovered the pot. To make a long story shorter, Mom was on pins and needles the whole time, and nothing happened after all. Besides, it was a small garden and bordered on all sides by sidewalk and gravel drive. Had it gone up in flames, I speculate the only loss would have been a rose. The turkey was good, and Ginny's vegan stuffing was most excellent, as was everything else. We closed the evening playing spoons and a good time was had by all. Anyone else have an "interesting" Thanksgiving? Rick

Jo, I did sweet potatoes that way today also but w/o the brown sugar. I think you could easily turn the mixture into pie. You could also just add cream or 1/2 and 1/2 and make a wonderful soup, similar to a squash soup. Have fun being creative. Nancy

I was going to suggest that it was a Thanksgiving version of a Runza. Perhaps Grandma used a yeast dough? Was Grandma German? Or did she come from Nebraska? Here is a link that might be useful: runza

2many, my dinners sure don't look like AnnT's and sometimes I forget to take pictures until after I have started eating, LOL. I think jasdip has taken a lesson from me in that way too, sometimes. It doesn't always have to be pretty, it just has to taste good. You don't even have to take pictures, lots of members just tell us what they had, it's all good. AnnT, Elery thinks he would like an espresso machine, I sure don't know where the heck we'd put it. Sleevendog, your sesame noodle bowl led me to my own supper tonight, which was certainly not pretty, but it was good. The recipe called it an "egg roll noodle bowl" and that's pretty descriptive. Ground pork, ginger, soy sauce, cabbage, carrots, rice noodles, and Elery and I both enjoyed it. I also started some lamb marinating for gyros tomorrow. I'm not a fan of lamb, but if I chop it up really finely, marinate the heck out of it, cover it with a ton of sauce, I can eat it. Elery loves the stuff, so I sometimes just cave in. Anyway, I was out of dried oregano, so I went out and dug some out of the snow. It was still green and aromatic: Over the weekend Dave and Elery were installing a pellet stove here, and so everyone had dinner here. (Everyone being Amanda and Dave, Makayla and Bud, Elery and I) Saturday we had baked ham, macaroni and cheese, baked beans, brussels sprouts, garlic rolls and gluten free brownies. Sunday we had pork loin, baked potatoes, green beans, fresh beer bread with sorghum molasses and gluten free shortbread squares. . I didn't take a picture either day, of course, because...well...I was busy and I forgot, LOL, except the shortbread: I baked some beer bread and this loaf of Harvest Wheat, filled with dried cherries, dried cranberries and pecans: I had some ripe bananas, so made banana muffins and drizzled them with caramel glaze: My dear helpful grandson was "in charge" of the dessert, and managed to stir the chocolate into the hot cream for the ganache just long enough to justify licking the whisk! Yeah, his sister was here too but she was too busy making mocha with my coffee and playing with the cat to help much in the kitchen. Yes, she's 14 and is already a veteran coffee drinking. I didn't start drinking coffee until I was nearly 30, but she's got a jump on that habit already! Annie