Canadian Thanksgiving, Monday

Oh my goodness, yes, Happy Thanksgiving to our Canadians. May you have great feasts, happy company, beautiful weather and heaps of blessings to count. Polly

I have both sons visiting, cooking lots of food. Today will be turkey day with lots of veggies and pumpkin pie with whipped cream for dessert. Also mincemeat tarts for those with room! There is always chocolate in my house! DS1 returns to Toronto on Monday. DS2 is staying here to house-sit for the winter.

Thank you for the wishes! My family is also using turkey dinner day to celebrate a birthday (nephew's wife) - Thanksgiving is earlier this year and so - the dinner is 10days before the birthday date! It will be turkey cooked by her Mum (Aussie style with peaches) - my sister is doing the carrots and parsnips; I have a nice bunch of leeks to prepare with white sauce. Dessert will be birthday cake followed by the opening of prezzies. My Mum is on record as having said, "Debbie enjoys opening gifts more than any other person I know - whether they are hers or not!" The weather here is beautiful - crisp air, sunshine, fall day - perfect for turkey. jennellh

I'll chime in here with my best Happy Thanksgiving wishes to our Canadian friends. :)

Thank you! My fresh turkey's sitting in the fridge, and my pumpkin-pie ingredients are waiting, for dinner Monday afternoon/evening. I stubbed my toe on the rutabaga that rolled across the floor before I got it put away. It'll be part of the dinner too.

Canadians don't tend to travel to family for Thanksgiving as much as Americans do, at least in my observation. People who have summer cottages often use Thanksgiving weekend for "closing up the cottage" tasks, enjoying the fall colours and having a fire in the fireplace to take the edge off the chill.

I think I'll rearrange some of my projects and storage, and put away something that I don't seem to feel like working on.

Louise, in Kingston Ontario

Happy Thanksgiving for Canada! I'm eager to hear about the lovely food and treats.

We had our Turkey dinner yesterday, with cauliflower, red peppers and brussel sprouts [family rule: each family member must eat 4 brussel sprouts a year...sworn affidavits from mothers-in-law attesting prior consumption may be accepted on a case-by-case basis.] Mashed yams with brown sugar, butter, and orange zest baked atop; individual cottage cheese/dill breads; homemade cranberry/orange relish; bucket pickles; pumpkin pie and whip cream or fruit and coffee-flavoured meringues for dessert. Wonderful homemade rhubarb wine courtesy of my sister-in-law. Yum! Major sluggishness around here today as we dig out the last of the dishes from 15 people.

For fellow Canucks, or for the rest of you when you have leftovers, here are a couple of recipes for the aftermath: the turkey pot pie is more popular than the turkey itself around here:

Darn! Here I was hoping to take her stash out for, er, walks or something while she was away.

Louise, not too far away from Susan.