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In my house, Midnight Cowboy is a must-watch movie every Thanksgiving. It's truly our Thanksgiving movie. Our child will never be able to separate Thanksgiving from Ratso Rizzo and Joe Buck.

Well, the younger one has an ear infection and the wife has a severe cold so no Tucson trip tomorrow.

azgreg wrote:Well, the younger one has an ear infection and the wife has a severe cold so no Tucson trip tomorrow.

Sorry. At least you have the stuffing and the mashed potatoes.

Alieberman wrote:I fucking love stuffing.

I don't need any dry boring turkey.

Stuffing, stuffing and more stuffing please.

Maybe your turkey is dry because of the stuffing?

Longhorned wrote:In my house, Midnight Cowboy is a must-watch movie every Thanksgiving. It's truly our Thanksgiving movie. Our child will never be able to separate Thanksgiving from Ratso Rizzo and Joe Buck.

What do you tell your child during the "Rated X" scene?

catgrad97 wrote:

Longhorned wrote:In my house, Midnight Cowboy is a must-watch movie every Thanksgiving. It's truly our Thanksgiving movie. Our child will never be able to separate Thanksgiving from Ratso Rizzo and Joe Buck.

What do you tell your child during the "Rated X" scene?

I tell her not to worry because the whole movie was rated X.

LBdCactus wrote:Going over to have Thanksgiving with the in-laws in Brooklyn, 66% of whom I'm not really speaking to at the moment because of shenanigans they pulled last Thanksgiving. Fun! Brother-in-law had to get a halal turkey. Yes, you read that right. Then cutting out at about 5pm to go get shitfaced in a bar and watch an important soccer game with about 200 other lunatics. Wife is understandably not happy, of course.

Standard stuff I think.

I just cracked open a great mental time capsule seeing this post. So we went over there to this one bedroom apartment and the whole time I'm just antsy hoping dinner is done early enough for me to cut out and head to the city to see that big game. The bro-in-law's gf/fiancee is Turkish. Her gay Turkish friend is there who is allegedly in the closet but seemed obvious to us...? Apparently he is fooling the devout Muslim Turks he works for. Who happen to be the GF''s brothers. Those guys show up a little later, and they definitely had an edge to them, which made me feel bad for the gay dude.

Dinner ends around 4:30 and I'm all..."see ya later, gotta run, be back for the wife and kid in a couple hours." Wife is pissed and in tears as I leave, barely spoke to me all day. In laws are incredulous and pissed that I'm leaving, plus we were already on bad terms because of the drama the previous year.

Oddly, the Turks understood you have to go see important soccer games and enthusiastically wished me luck, hah! Bro in law's fiancee tells me on the way out the door that she also understands, because in Turkey that is normal, but demands I come back with flowers for the wife after the game.

Go to the bar, we win, place is going nuts. Hang out a bit and by 8pm I'm heading back to Brooklyn, reeking of all the beer that was flying at the final whistle. Enter the apartment, sans flowers of course because I totally forgot, and immediately sense a disturbance in the force. Everyone is a little less festive. Did the brothers find out the gay guy is gay? Did someone accidentally put some bacon in their mashed potatoes? Is everyone still mad at me for leaving?

I have no clue, but soon after the brothers and the GF are screaming at each other in Turkish. The older brother has a vein popping out of his forehead, screaming and punching the table. Then he storms out of the apartment and slams the door, while the GF runs to the bedroom crying. The rest of us are left in silence in the living room. I'm still buzzed and find it amusing. As the gay guy was explaining it was just some family shit, the brother pops his head back into the apartment and in his thick accent says "Sorry! Happy Thanksgiving, have a wonderful night!" with a huge used car salesmanesque smile, and heads back out the door. I can't help but laugh.

So the rest of the night they try and explain what happened, but I don't even care, because we won and I've had seven or eight too many. Night ends, and shortly after the bro in law breaks up with the fiancee, and now I don't have to pretend I like hanging out with those maniacs.

Tomorrow I anticipate a much quieter affair, at home with the family. But who knows.... Happy Thanksgiving y'all!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

azgreg wrote:Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

And to you and yours Greg.

Turkey's in the oven. Thinking about breaking into the whiskey. Starting at 10am is cool when you're eating dinner at 2, right?

Happy Thanksgiving Internet Family/BDWs!

I promise not to get too crazy uncle today.

Prime rib roast is about to be prepped. My favorite bourbon is at the ready.

Just made homemade white dinner rolls.

dough is rising. Still not sure if I made rolls or dog biscuits. Luckly be have Kings Hawaiian as backup.

Oven just stopped working 1hr into my Alton Brown Turkey roasting.

touch pad is frozen and there is a continuous beeping...

Famous last words when purchasing an old house... "as is"

Oven is busted.

looks like a persian or chinese food type of dinner tonight...

That sucks man.

CalStateTempe wrote:Oven is busted.

looks like a persian or chinese food type of dinner tonight...

If a good Chinese restaurant is open for take-out, get a whole Peking duck and you won't miss a beat.

The food has been decimated. Time to collapse.

My neighbor shared this:

http://blackamericaweb.com/playlist/11- ... tem/188733" target="_blank

Beer
Wine
Red Bull
Crown
Peach schnapps
Turkey and taters
Family and friends

About to get this thing going. Watched the parade and some college bball. End it with AZ tonight. Great day

Still 2 hours til food here

I'm thinking about another hour and a half on the prime rib roast. It's scienced by Kenji Lopez-Alt.

Roasting in a oilless fryer, which is of course a misnomer.



With this rub.

News flash: I ate too much.

azgreg wrote:News flash: I ate too much.

Silent inward apology?

Longhorned wrote:

azgreg wrote:News flash: I ate too much.

Silent inward apology?

Apologize for nothing. Puke and rally brother.

Hell YEAH! Duel Fuel grill FTW!!!

We have a 13lb bird on charcoal with pecan wood smoke and the sides and homemade bread on the propane side.

Thanksgiving is saved!

Will post pics later.

This is how memories and traditions are made.

What a comeback CST!

CalStateTempe wrote:Hell YEAH! Duel Fuel grill FTW!!!

We have a 13lb bird on charcoal with pecan wood smoke and the sides and homemade bread on the propane side.

Thanksgiving is saved!

Will post pics later.

This is how memories and traditions are made.

CST with the spurt of death rallye!!

Late one for us this year. Just now pulling the bird out and popping the sides in the oven.

Happy Thanksgiving Wildcat brethren. I'm thankful for this spot in space and the fun we have here together. Much love and peace to all of you.

Best fresh turkey, courtesy of wife's sister, and brown sugar-cinnamon carrots, stuffing and pumpkin and cherry pie, courtesy of wife, in Northern AZ.

Three types of fresh-baked cookies too. French Onion casserole, like the rest, from scratch, with the ttaters and turkey gravy courtesy of yours truly.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

azcat49 wrote:

CalStateTempe wrote:Hell YEAH! Duel Fuel grill FTW!!!

We have a 13lb bird on charcoal with pecan wood smoke and the sides and homemade bread on the propane side.

Thanksgiving is saved!

Will post pics later.

This is how memories and traditions are made.

CST with the spurt of death rallye!!

Better than the spurt of life...eww.

Okay that was the best prime rib I've ever had.

Wow, what a day, and thanks for the support guys! I seriously think I'm going to have to "grill" the turkey from here on out. The pecan smoke gave a nice sweet taste to the meat and this was on of the juiciest Turkeys I've ever had. Even my extremely picky father-in-law loved it!

That bird looks amazing!


One note, a personal peeve, no lighter fluid ever.

Get a charcoal chimney.

After a perfect Thanksgiving my wife mentioned that with Trump coming in, this could be our last year of nice holidays, and we spent the rest of the evening extremely depressed.

My smoked turkey was awesome. Just the perfect level of smokiness with very moist and tender meat

what plans/turkey recipes/sides/desserts/booze is everyone making for next week??

Going to Memphis. Rented a huge house with some friends and we're all going out for barbecue instead of roasted turkey.

One my brothers shared this recipe on FB, baked corn pudding.

http://www.southernliving.com/recipes/t ... w_facebook" target="_blank

Merkin wrote:That bird looks amazing!


One note, a personal peeve, no lighter fluid ever.

Get a charcoal chimney.

Had one. Never worked. Period.

I've got a gas BBQ now, my Weber Kettle, which I did love, having rusted back into the earth from whence it came. I am in the process of building a bench for the Gas BBQ after 6 years of promising to 'get er done'.

Floating BBQ Bench

As for TG plans, last years celebration was cancelled due to lack of anything to give thanks for, but this year we somehow managed to not go up in a nuclear holocaust as a result of last year's catastrophe, so there will be about 30 friends over for the traditional kick on. Slow cooked Turkey Breast and loads of trimmings to go with it, desserts to kill for, and enough wine to float a battleship. I think we'll be jolly enough.

Going to smoke a turkey for the first time

MrBug708 wrote:Going to smoke a turkey for the first time

2nd year for me. Definitely recommend either:

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2015 ... ecipe.html" target="_blank

Or

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2009 ... ecipe.html" target="_blank

Dude I smoked one last year when our oven stopped working 20min into cooking.

I'll never go back. Awesome!

Big dose of Paul Kelly last night in Oz live on TV.

Since its that time of the year:

11th year in a row not having turkey for Thanksgiving. Doubt I ever go back.

Turns out my wife's brothers and sister are all scattering out with their better half's in-laws inadvertently leaving their father all alone. So, me and the family ordered a meal at Fry's (meal for 6 for $50) and will be at his place Thursday. After making this announcement one of her brothers has decided to join us.

as someone who doesn't celebrate a horrible holiday such as thanksgiving, i'll just enjoy the time off that comes with it, grab a couple turkeys while on sale and eat them at my leisure at a later date.