wow! What a father you had! And I’m glad you are here!
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I am very comfortable with mine and in the off season I use it for holding hot sides when cooking space is at a minimum, like at a BBQ.
The first time I saw one was really two, at a huge Thanksgiving gathering. One unit roasted the turkey (like 30#, it was huge!) and made the gravy after the bird was pulled to ‘rest’ and the other unit held 3 ‘steam pans?’ of 1+ quart capacity for sides. It was a well planned operation and the hot stuff stayed hot and no fuses were blown. We must have had at least 5 families of 4 plus extras and there was plenty of turkey with all the trimmings.
As a side note, they are not terribly hard to clean, the enameled ‘tub’ can go in the dishwasher and if you have a burned bottom, you can heat it up (because it sits in a water bath) and let it soak for a bit before scrubbing.
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Our canadian thanksgiving was not a typical one. For supper I made duck breasts, cherry sauce, roasted mushrooms, roasted potatoees, salad and in the afternoon we had chocolate eclairs filled with pastry cream. This was for 4.
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He was unconventional and that was probably the reason for my uneasiness around him. He and my mother had 6 kids. I remember someone at a school event asking him if we were Catholic and he said “No, we’re just sexy Methodists”. I just wanted to crawl under a table and die. But I think I would love having him in my life now.
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Do you have a preferred link to the Canadian Thanksgiving history?
I love that French Canadian-type of meat stuffing. My cousin’s wife makes that type of stuffing, too.
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This is a good summary.https://fiestafarms.ca/article/the-first-thanksgiving
When I was growing up, despite being Canadian and going to Canadian schools, my class learned about the Mayflower around Canadian Thanksgiving . I don’t remember learning about the origins of Canadian Thanksgiving.
Many of the Thanksgiving foods are the same or similar.
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I have a recipe if you want it. From a woman in Vancouver - she perfected the spices for me. I will post a link for you…
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Thanks!
Hers is much better than my MIL’s!!
The Thanksgiving holiday is integral to where we live on the outer Cape. The Pilgrims first landed off of Provincetown and found fresh water there. A National Park site is Pilgrim Springs. They journeyed around the tip into Cape Cod Bay and went ashore in Truro and discovered a stash of seed corn that the Wampanoag Indians had saved to plant in the spring. That pissed off the natives, and the Pilgrims tried going ashore at First Encounter Beach on the bay which is within walking distance from our home. Shots and arrows were fired but then the invaders left and eventually landed on Pilgrim Rock in Plymouth and so the story goes.
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We lived in the Netherlands for a number of years because of my husband’s job on a NATO project. There is a church in Leiden where many of the original Pilgrims worshiped who came via England to Cape Cod. My mother & I did a rubbing of an early 20th century marker in the dunes of First Encounter Beach that had the names of some of the men who were on the marker at the Pieterskerk in Leiden. We used to attend Thanksgiving events there. The US Ambassador to the Netherlands always gave a speech, and young kids who were in the Scouts of both countries would do a parade and the Mayor of Leiden would also talk from the podium.
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My sweet potatoes were inspired by this recipe. We really liked them. Fresh ginger, soy, 5 spice, thyme. I used supremed clementine segments instead of orange juice, omitted the garlic, broth and miso. Omitted the salt since the recipe calls for soy sauce (and miso)
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Oh, yum. I used to love Bobby Flay’s chipotle sweet potatoes but after I went through chemo for breast cancer I cannot stomach any smokey food. https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/bobby-flay/smoked-chile-scalloped-sweet-potatoes-recipe-1945789
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A friend of mine and I LOVE that recipe. From comments on the site, it’s better to cut back on the cream.
I open the can of adobo, take what I need, freeze the rest and never use the frozen stuff, then later throw away!!
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I was one of 5 kids and yes, we got that question about being Catholic a lot. I was the second, born 1955, 18 months after the first, and the last was born 1962. My mother always said she wanted 6 children; she counted an early miscarriage so we were “only” 5. Later on I learned it wasn’t that uncommon post WWII to have 4 or more children, whatever religion. We were in NC where there were very few Catholics and we were Methodist, though neither of my parents would have ever said “sexy Methodists.”
I ended up being the most unconventional one of the seven of us. Second daughter before 3 sons, I managed to stay “off the radar” in some ways while also actually enjoying taking care of 3 younger brothers. My dad was a good cook when he was home, but nothing like your dad.
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We know it is Canadian Thanksgiving because the beer shelves and coolers are totally cleared out and the Wells Cargo trailers are backed up at Costco.
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That one got saved on Paprika!
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I maybe make laksa instead of tom kha gai with my leftover turkey today https://www.riverford.co.uk/recipes/turkey-laksa
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