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LET ME JUST blow your mind. I've decided that I don't have to cook the traditional Thanksgiving Dinner. I can be just as thankful with a menu that we will enjoy. It's always just me and Mr. Esther and he doesn't particularly care one way or the other. So. I've decided to fix salads: potato, shrimp ... maybe ham ... Might even get 'cute' and serve a mound of each on a lettuce leaf. Because .... We haven't had a banana split in decades and I have really been longing for one. (Mr. Esther never met ice cream he didn't love.) Easy meal; spectacular dessert. I almost remember how the creation goes: banana split lengthwise. Three flavors ice cream Chocolate syrup on the chocolate scoop Pineapple something on the vanilla one. something? on top of the strawberry ice cream scoop whipped cream on all , chopped nuts on top of that and a cherry on top. I've got it all remembered except: what goes on the strawberry ice cream? Do you remember? And can you think of any reason why we have to have what most folks are eating? h

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Polly Esther
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Sorry...can't help you with the strawberry topping. Believe it or not I've never eaten a banana split! But whatever work for you and Mr. Esther should be just perfect. DH and I will be falling asleep in our friends mashed potatoes after piloting/captaining the Buzz Lightyear balloon in the NY Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. We've done the parade for several years now so we don't have to make any other plans for Thanksgiving and get the family in an uproar. Enjoy those banana splits!

Kim in NJ

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AuntK

Delightful! Share with us the pilot/captain balloon in the parade adventure. We would love to hear all about it. How do you prepare for: rain/snow/ice... typhoon level wind? What if you're dying of thirst? Do you have to deal with over-excited careless toddlers? How many hours/miles? We want to do it with you. ( Collapsed on the sofa, of course.) Polly

Sorry...can't help you with the strawberry topping. Believe it or not I've never eaten a banana split! But whatever work for you and Mr. Esther should be just perfect. DH and I will be falling asleep in our friends mashed potatoes after piloting/captaining the Buzz Lightyear balloon in the NY Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. We've done the parade for several years now so we don't have to make any other plans for Thanksgiving and get the family in an uproar. Enjoy those banana splits!

Kim in NJ

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Polly Esther

Marshmallow cream is good on the chocolate. IIRC they just have strawberry topping on the strawberry? Yay for you. We're not doing traditional either. I have looked at my last pitiful turkey carcass with the breast picked off in the fridge for a week until I finally haul it out to the garbage, and feel all guilty about the families who would have eaten it. The reason I never just cooked a turkey breast is that DH gets a whole turkey from his work. This year I'm giving the frozen turkey away to someone who needs it. There will only be 4 of us. One kid doesn't like celery in the dressing. One kid doesn't like onions. One kid spends half of dinnertime picking the "things" out of giblet gravy. I'm tired of serving half-naked dressing. If the weather's good, DH is gonna smoke a brisket. If it's not, I'm fixing beef burgundy with those tiny red-skinned potatoes and a salad. I love your banana split idea, maybe after dinner we'll have a banana split or sundae bar with all the toppings buffet style. Yum-o.

Sherryd

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Sherry

Sounds great Polly. Whatever you want is fine with me. After all, the name is "Thanksgiving". Thankful for what we have, whatever that may be. Good food, good friends, good family. We're going to the Potluck at the GLBT Community Center and enjoy the time and food with good friends.

Bert never met an ice cream scoop he didn't like either.

Steven Alaska

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Steven Cook

Hot fudge on the chocolate ice cream. Pineapple sauce on the vanilla ice cream. Strawberry sauce on the strawberry ice cream.

I have only had 2-3 of these -- many, many years ago. I remember tiny bits of the fruit in both the pineapple and strawberry sauce. It may have been heated, or slightly thinned jam or preserves, rather than syrup, as I remember it jelling up some on the ice cream.

I searched for recipes on the web and they say "syrup" not "sauce" or "hot fudge".

I suspect there are many versions.

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Bev in TX

Strawberry sauce? Melt and whizz a couple of tablespoons of strawberry jam and shove through a sieve to get rid of the pips. Personally I wouoldn't bother with the pineapple... Just drizzle chocolate (pure melted Belian choc for me!) and strawberry over all three ice creams, sprinkle with toasted flaked almonds, and add a dollop of whipped cream if you can take it.

And you have what you like: it's YOUR feast! We don't do thanksgiving over here, but Christmas is a good one. We've done local lamb, roast beef, venison, turkey, goose, wild boar... This year may well be a duck. A brace of pheasants goes down well, too.

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Kate XXXXXX

Sherry, we raised 'one of those'. Sherry wrote, in part, LET ME JUST blow your mind. I've decided that I don't have to cook the

Marshmallow cream is good on the chocolate. IIRC they just have strawberry topping on the strawberry? Yay for you. We're not doing traditional either. I have looked at my last pitiful turkey carcass with the breast picked off in the fridge for a week until I finally haul it out to the garbage, and feel all guilty about the families who would have eaten it. The reason I never just cooked a turkey breast is that DH gets a whole turkey from his work. This year I'm giving the frozen turkey away to someone who needs it. There will only be 4 of us. One kid doesn't like celery in the dressing. One kid doesn't like onions. One kid spends half of dinnertime picking the "things" out of giblet gravy. I'm tired of serving half-naked dressing. If the weather's good, DH is gonna smoke a brisket. If it's not, I'm fixing beef burgundy with those tiny red-skinned potatoes and a salad. I love your banana split idea, maybe after dinner we'll have a banana split or sundae bar with all the toppings buffet style. Yum-o.

Sherryd

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Polly Esther

On Nov 15, 11:17=A0pm, "Polly Esther" wrote:

We actually started out several years ago as handlers - the people you never see on camera holding all those lines coming from the balloon. We then progressed to captain (me) and pilot (DH). We have field training each year with the actual balloons and run around a parking lot or football field doing turns and keeping everyone in line looking pretty. The training is held regardless of weather since the parade happens regardless of weather. We've been drenched during both; had snow on the trip into the city, etc. The parade route is

2.5 miles long. We arrive in NYC about 5:30AM, get into our coverall costumes and then get bussed to the start of the parade - 77th st. and central park west. The balloons are lined up on the 2 side streets and all the floats are lined up on central park west. There are a bazillion people in clown costumes and make up running around everywhere. Party atmosphere doesn't even cover it. One by one each float and balloon is called into the parade. The giant balloons (like Buzz Lightyear) have 3 pilots; 3 captains; 2 vehicles and about 50-70 handlers each. Along with a NYC policeman. The pilots make sure the balloon is 'flying' at the correct height for the wind/weather conditions and the captains make sure all the handlers have their lines in correct position and that they are in proper formation and to make sure that the balloon does not hit any trees, light poles, etc. Spectators are held behind low, portable fencing by said police and everyone is incredibly polite and jovial. The kids get a tremendous kick out of the whole thing. As do the adults, actually. You eventually make your way past the camera area and the parade ends at the Macy's store in Herald Square. You then continue to the deflation area, let out all the helium, squish these monsters as flat as you can, put them back in their carts - which are basically giant postal bins on wheels - and then walk back to the New Yorker hotel to get your pin and head home. There are NO potty breaks during the parade. They don't feed you until you are done and then it's packaged danish and coffee/tea/water. We get home about 2-3PM and then head over to friends and have dinner there. Usually in my slippers cuz the feet are DONE by the time we get home. Eat dinner about 4 and usually nodding off during dessert. I'm usually in bed by about 8:30 that night. It's a VERY LONG day but it's great fun. All the participants are either Macy's employees or, like us, members of a hot air balloon organization. The employees are from all over the country. Most are bussed from the more local areas and I'm guessing those from further away fly, probably at their own expense. All are volunteers - there is no pay involved.

Enjoy those salads and banana splits. We'll be thinking of you as our tummy's are growling.

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AuntK

Polly, Being vegetarians for 38 years we never celebrate Thanksgiving the "traditional" way with lots of Animal bits and pieces. We have established our own tradition of Pine Nut Loaf, Mushroom Gravy, Casserole of Stuffing which is three layers and beautiful, a vegetable like Peas, and Sweet Potatoes and for desert Pumpkin Pie. We have had non vegetarians over for the meal and they always marvel at the taste sensations and say that they never miss all the meat. It does take 2 days to prepare, so it is not for the cooking challenged. But it is possible and enjoyable to do your own version of what a good meal of celebration is. One of the strangest things for an American, is to be overseas on Thanksgiving where they don't celebrate our Holidays. It is just another day for them. John

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John

Growing up our household was similar. There were 4 children - everyone hated something different as well. Each child was only allowed to pick out one item that they hated during a given meal - you had to eat the rest. Still didn't do a thing to not make me a picky eater as an adult.

Kim in NJ

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AuntK

Sounds delicious! Can you provide recipes?

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Bev in TX

What a wonderful day! Thanks for the description!! Allison

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Allison

Your Thanksgiving meal sounds yummy to me! For more than 20 years we celebrated with a homemade Mexican meal because within the next few weeks we had turkey at 2 "work" dinners and 3 family dinners. We craved something different! Barbara in FL where we now find an open buffet to go to

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Bobbie Sews More

I will have to as my wife about the recipes. I am sure she will give them out. The Casserole of stuffing is rather complex, and I will have to scan it into the reply. The pine nut loaf is no mean feat either. Probably will have to scan most of them. Being as there are only 2 of us, and the recipes make enough for a bunch, we usually make the entire recipe and then save half of it and freeze it and have it again for our Christmas dinner. John

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John

On the banana split - I remember chocolate sauce on the chocolate, caramel on the vanilla, and strawberry sauce on the strawberry, covered with whipped cream, a sprinkle of nuts and a cherry on the top!

When most of our kids were grown we still invited all of them (and wives/hubbys, kids) over for dinner -- then we "gals" got to talking one year and found that each of them STILL did up their own turkey at home!!!! With 6 kids, our table began to get waaay tooo small (24+ family members over) SO we decided to have everyone over for desserts instead. ...and we use the "good china" (i.e.paper plates) so we can enjoy the time spent together instead of cleaning up! Works for us!

ME-Judy

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ME-Judy

Quality ingredients! We make our own ice cream using the best ingredients we can afford - organic milk, berries from the local pick-your-own fields, etc. So we don't use anything except bananas and our own ice cream. I say buy the best ice cream you can afford and knock yourself out.

Not literally please.

-- Jo in Scotland

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Jo Gibson

Quality ingredients! We make our own ice cream using the best ingredients we can afford - organic milk, berries from the local pick-your-own fields, etc. So we don't use anything except bananas and our own ice cream. I say buy the best ice cream you can afford and knock yourself out.

Not literally please.

-- Jo in Scotland

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Jo Gibson

That sounds like the PERFECT Thanksgiving meal to me --- and I'm always "thankful" for a banana split!

-Irene

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IMS

Now that we have the strawberry topper resolved, I'm wondering about name brands. We probably haven't bought any real ice cream in a decade - or whipping cream for that matter. Is there really any difference in the quality of store-bought ice cream or is it just a matter of personal preference? Polly

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Polly Esther

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