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November 27, 2002

The Thanksgiving Meal

What is on the Thanksgiving Menu? Trying any new recipes this year? Will you be celebrating with family and/or friends? Do you consciously save room for pie? I wonder if Martha Stewart will preparing a feast this year, or if she just said to hell with it all. Anyway, Happy Thanksgiving to All!

Posted by at November 27, 2002 02:27 PM

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Posted by Vivi on November 27, 2002 3:41 PM:

What's on the menu? Zippy's. :)

The strange thing is that we never had Thanksgiving turkey while I was growing up, so I have no idea how to cook one if I ever did. I'll just leave it to someone else this year.

Someday, I'd like to try Alton Brown's recipe, where he brines the turkey before roasting it.

 
Posted by helen on November 27, 2002 7:40 PM:

I don't cook so I tend to go to Sizzler's for Thanksgiving, it is all you can eat, you can start as early as noon and it's pretty inexpensive.

 
Posted by kane on November 28, 2002 6:30 AM:

Hmmm...Sizzler sounds good. I cook, but it's kind of no sense to cook a big meal when there is only me.

 
Posted by Linkmeister on November 28, 2002 7:54 AM:

6 of us. We have been buying Safeway's turkey dinner (heat and serve) for the past 7-8 years. If you want a picture of what we have roasted the bird in for the past 20 years, go over to my place and look at yesterday's entry.

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

 
Posted by Ryan on November 28, 2002 7:54 AM:

Zippy's turkey! We've done that before, more than once. I never thought about Sizzler's, though!

I'm sure I'm not alone in having more than one Thanksgiving gathering to go to. Usually it would mean a big lunch with my dad in Aina Haina, then a big dinner with my mom in Mililani, with a long, drowsy drive in between, and an aching belly at the end.

This year, my dad had his family Thanksgiving gathering last weekend, and that made life this week much easier.

I just love Thanksgiving in Hawaii. Deb Aoki, cartoonist for the Honolulu Advertiser, had a great drawing illustrating why. It compared a Mainland thanksgiving (fancy table settings, the "good china," getting dressed up, the whole shebang) and a local one (paper plates, KFC, poke and sashimi, sushi from Kozo Sushi, everyone in T-shirts and shorts). The mix of foods that show up on a Hawaii table for Thanksgiving is what I like best.

True to form, at my dad's we had the big turkey and stuffing, but we also had limu poke, kim chee, a sushi platter, mac salad, gon lo mein... mmm!

Tonight the 'classic' version: we're (Jen, mostly) preparing Cornish game hens, home-made pumpkin pie (including the crust!), corn, mashed potatoes... can't wait!

 
Posted by helen on November 28, 2002 10:57 AM:

The Sizzler is more of a Plan B kind of thing for me, they have been times when someone else invited me over to their Thanksgiving feast.

 
Posted by macpro on November 28, 2002 2:56 PM:

I'm spending Thanksgiving here on the Big Islnd with my family and sister. We had our usual menu of baked turkey, stuffing, rice, sushi, salad, veggies, poke, poi, corn, fruits, jello and pumpkin pie. The nice thing for me is to just simply be away from Oahu for a while.

Happy Thanksgiving to you all.

 
Posted by lisa on November 28, 2002 9:56 PM:

wow, next time let's find out who wants to have a Thanksgiving potluck and go for it. We made way too much food, and couldn't find anyone to come over and help us eat. Plus, it's so much more fun to celebrate holidays with others!

 
Posted by James on November 28, 2002 11:58 PM:

I spent my Thanksgiving in Mililani with my cousin Beth and her Family. I got to see them fill up the emoo/emu (?)
with lots of Turkeys & Porks and then dig it all up the next morning. To learn more, my Thanksgiving entry is at www.hawaiistories.com/james

 
Posted by Albert on November 29, 2002 7:00 AM:


The Sizzler's spread is really quite a bargain. I wish they'd use meat sliced directly from the turkey rather than the pressed version and I don't really think their stuffing mix is as good as StoveTop, but the veggies are fine and you get all kinds of weird options you'd never get on the Mainland (such as sushi or tacos).

I don't really eat enough to justify an all-you-can-eat buffet, was thoroughly stuffed from my first plate (admittedly, it was well heaped). Saved enough room for a little slice of pumpkin pie, tho.

 
Posted by NemesisVex on November 29, 2002 6:39 PM:

Thanksgiving on the Mainland is nothing more than one honking huge bird and whole bunch of starches. Pretty dull, truth be told.

So -- who forsook the turkey and went for a Thanksgiving pizza instead?

 
Posted by helen on November 29, 2002 8:06 PM:

One year I had prime rib but that was because I was doing something else that caused me to come to Sizzler kind of late and they ran out of turkey.

I do know that yesterday KFC was open.

 
Posted by the bunny on November 30, 2002 11:12 AM:

fancy table settings, the "good china," getting dressed up, the whole shebang

I'd be surprised if this happens that often. Most feasts I've been to here have been just as laid back as Hawaii, plus the food is just as varied - one year we had a Thanksgiving salmon. It all depends on who the "family" is. Throw in a bunch of Greeks, Panamanians, Caribbeans, Nordics, you can have a very interesting meal. Yum.

That being said, this year was completely traditional because I didn't have time to cook something before we went up to NJ.

 
Posted by Sue Lenni on December 20, 2003 6:03 AM:

I've been preparing Thanksgiving turkeys for 30 years and thought I knew it all. This year I tried Alton Brown's brine soaked turkey recipe and my family was in awe. The bird was very flavorful, juicy and tender. In fact, they want it again on Christmas.

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