By orange turkey breast crockpot recipe

November 12, 2007 12:00 PM | Link to this

I found a crockpot recipe once for orange turkey breast, came out delicious, tender, and lasted several days with no waste. This year I have no Thanksgiving plans at all. Holidays in this country have become all about gluttony and materialism and we’ve lost the original meaning. It’s such a turnoff. So I forego the dreaded family get-togethers and try to look for ways to make it a good time for others.

By Mr.Happy

November 12, 2007 12:47 PM | Link to this

I’ve written off Thanksgiving. I used to spend it with family acting like I like them, but now I just stay at home and eat bologna sandwiches, and drink beer while watching football ALONE.

By MelbaToast

November 12, 2007 1:07 PM | Link to this

We start planning early because family will be coming in from all over.

For me, it’s not about the consumerism. It’s about taking the time to come together and enjoy each other’s company. We don’t get together at Christmas, so this is our time together.

But I do plan, because there’s nothing more frustrating than being in a checkout line the night before Thanksgiving. I worked in a grocery store in college - and it was always mayhem!

Good luck!

By JJ

November 12, 2007 1:17 PM | Link to this

We started planning yesterday. I already bought my turkey and some of the fixings. We are expecting 20 friends and family.

We fry one turkey (actually the guys fry) and I will cook another in the oven, and we have all the traditional trimmings. We will make our pies this weekend and freeze them until the big day.

By r

November 12, 2007 1:53 PM | Link to this

Six years ago,I planned not to have anything more to do with Thanksgiving.So far the plan has worked.

By Smitty

November 12, 2007 2:32 PM | Link to this

R I feel the same way about Christmas.

Why should I spend my hard earned money, get stressed shopping, to show the people in my life that I love them. I do that all year long.

I don’t understand why everyone makes such a big fuss over Christmas.

By Val

November 12, 2007 3:12 PM | Link to this

I wonder do others realize HOW much we have to be “thankful” for. If we really look @ other countries. We are blessed. Its a shame we dont realize it and rather complain.

By joy

November 12, 2007 3:21 PM | Link to this

Some of you people are sooo grouchy. If you don’t want to enjoy a Thanksgiving meal with family/friends and celebrate Christmas we don’t want to hear about it. Stop being miserable, life is too short. Celebrate life! You only have one.

By FCM

November 12, 2007 3:29 PM | Link to this

As perviously stated under similar topic on Table Talk:

We start thinking Thanksgiving right at Halloween time….Logistics if not food:

Which house, who will be there, etc play a big part into the table.

For instance if its at my house then somebody volunteers to make Turkey….because I don’t like turkey….I make a pork roast. That I will provide anything that you expect unless you want it made like ‘so & so’ makes it. That’s because ‘so & so’ is usually invited and if its their signature dish, I ask them to bring it.

If it is at my Parents house then I know that other than showing up there is little Mom wants me to do until dinner is over (then she wants me to clean the kitchen that she hasn’t bothered cleaning all day).

If it’s at my brother’s, other than the Turkey, rolls, and mashed potatoes, you better volunteer to bring something or the harvest will be less than bountiful.

If it was at my inlaws (back when I was married) then you knew to stash any ‘beverages’ in the trunk of the car and partake when they were in bed. Also that any diets would be out the window because every side dish was a cassarole made with a stick of butter, velveeta, and ritz crackers or combos there of. Additionally you learned not to ask what to bring because she got offened.

Last, we look at who is new to the table….and try to make sure there is something that reminds me them of their own ‘home’ table…..for instance, one of those cassaroles from MIL table has become a staple at mine. Orginally made so my (then) husband would feel welcome at the table, my Mother loved it (though I knocked the 2 sticks of butter back to 1 and steamed the vegetable instead of boiled it).

Truthfully, I hate the whole Thanksgiving Feast thing. I would rather just sit around and talk and have ‘finger food’….for me the holiday is about the people who gather together not the food….but in my family—that’s sacreligious!

By JJ

November 12, 2007 3:53 PM | Link to this

FCM I feel the same way, finger food friends/family and football……I don’t know why all the fuss for one meal, but I won’t complain, because I am usually the first one at the table……ha ha.

I, however, look at it as a 4 day weekend……..and the beginning of the Christmas season!!!!!

By chris broe

November 12, 2007 4:00 PM | Link to this

One year I got drunk early on Thanksgiving. (10am). I ended up roasting a football and then went out back and threw a raw turkey around with the guys. A game broke out; the fried-skins vs stuffed-shirts. I remember the football was very dry that year. (Always stick with Butterball). I guess some people shouldn’t drink.

By dyinghere

November 12, 2007 4:01 PM | Link to this

FCM, how boring can you be. After you mentioned everything, you concluded by saying, “Truthfully I hate the whole Thanksgiving Feast thing”. You got some serious problems. Is everyone in your family as talkative as you are? Question is, Who the *&^%# cares!!! Don’t do that again, step away from the keyboard, please.

By time for the truth

November 12, 2007 4:49 PM | Link to this

ITS A GIANT POINTLESS BORING YAWN FEST!!!

My wife is American, I am American by passport/naturalisation. To me its an utterly pointless and stupid holiday. The food really sucks, there is NO real sense of holiday, just a contrived middle of the week day off to supplement the pathetically inadequate holiday entitlement most Americans endure. The moronic parade in New Yaaawwwk City is as tedious as watching paint dry. As for the appalling garbage masquerading as some kind of sport on this day … christ only knows why they bother!!! Happily neither of us have any family to have to endure so the only thing to do is ignore the whole thing and try and find a restaurant that is open and that has actual food being served and not the slop that passes for so called turkey day puke.Occasionally there is a film worth going to see. But that’s less and less the case.But each to their own … in the UK the Christmas holiday is usually for at least 2-3 days - sometimes 4 days which makes for a real holiday - unlike 1 day American holidays and the UK xmas food is at least a 1000 times better than here!!

By atlmom

November 12, 2007 4:54 PM | Link to this

My family is out of town, my husband’s is in town. It’s so STRANGE to me that they never have thanksgiving together. My mom would just invite everyone over and we’d have thanksgiving, no big deal.

By chris broe

November 12, 2007 5:23 PM | Link to this

atlmom: Where do you stand on the roasting turkey temperature controversy? Higher temps and shorter times, or lower temps and longer times? I’ve argued with my mother for fifty-seven years about this.

By monteal

November 12, 2007 7:08 PM | Link to this

so many people have such a rotten attitude on this blog toward a holiday that is about being thankful,if we’ve forgotten our roots that made this country great then perhaps we don’t deserve the blessing of living here.

I love thanksgiving and would be thankful to be able to cook this wonderful traditional meal with my family . I me its about spending the day together in the kitchen enjoying one another’s company and spoiling the ones we love with special dishes we prepared ourselves

thank you all for reminding me how blessed I am in country, family and plenty

By Malcolm

November 12, 2007 8:49 PM | Link to this

If you took all the calories, in all the food, prepared or served in Atlanta, on Thanksgiving Day, and added them up, you could never equal the BLESSINGS we enjoy, living in the USA and having the wherewithall to purchase what we choose, its sad that the TRUE meaning of the holiday has been lost, by most, but we dont have to despair, we can bring it back, if we choose, I thank God for all of my bountiful blessings!, HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!

By JJ

November 13, 2007 7:38 AM | Link to this

Dyinghere* Back off **FCM, she is a regular and has a right to express her opinion. You on the other hand, need to find happiness SOMEWHERE!!!!!

By atlmom

November 13, 2007 8:31 AM | Link to this

Don’t eat meat, so I don’t care how the turkey is prepared. Husband takes care of that!