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The Power Four => Big Ten => Topic started by: MrNubbz on November 26, 2025, 12:51:17 AM
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That includes our humble Michigan correspondents also
May this season be a gracious reminder of how much there is to truly be thankful for. A respite from modern mayhem.Whatever you're roasting/smoking/grilling/frying hope it exceeds expectations.Thankful for family,friends,football,health and this place,safe travels - Best Wishes to you/yours
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Almost forgot
https://youtu.be/WaKIX6oaSLs
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Happy Thanksgiving to you all.
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Amen
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Enjoy it to the max, and be safe🦃🍽
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Have a great Thanksgiving everyone and cherish the moments you have with people: I have two close friends that just recently lost key pieces to their family and they’re struggling going into Thanksgiving this week. A reminder of how much we should value opportunity to be with family when we get it. If anyone in this group is facing the holiday without people, I hope you find a place of peace and their memory brings more smiles than sadness.
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If anyone in this group is facing the holiday without people, I hope you find a place of peace and their memory brings more smiles than sadness.
OK, Cindy kicked me out when's dinner? :dance:
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We are going to korean BBQ tomorrow feel free to join
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Alton Brown roast turkey
Braised brisket
Giblet dressing
Gravy from drippings
Mashed potatoes
Green bean casserole
Mac and Cheese
Lobster and corn casserole
Bobby Flay cranberry sauce
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Giblet dressing
Gravy from drippings
Mashed potatoes
Green bean casserole
Throw in a piece of white/dark meat and I'd have this ever time.Cindy makes all that and the traditional accoutrements
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Happy Thanksgiving to everyone here.
I'm thankful for this place because of the people here.
I'm also cooking the Alton Brown roast turkey.
Son-in-law has done a spatchcock smoked turkey the past couple years
He and my daughters and his mother are taking care of the rest.
I am fully stocked on beer & wine!
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Hosting 26 people at the house on Thursday, the largest we've ever done. Luckily the weather looks good so we'll be able to use the back patio.
1 BBQ turkey
1 deep-fried turkey
1 smoked ham
Giblet gravy
Cornbread dressing
Homemade rolls
Mashed potatoes
Candied yams
Gruyere mac n cheese
Fresh snapped green bean casserole
Cranberry sauce
Pumpkin pie
Pecan pie
Sweet potato pie
Homemade ice cream
Homemade whipped cream
I think that's it.
I also bought about 12 bottles of wine, my (grown) nephews are notorious for showing up to holidays and forgetting to BYOB...
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Son-in-law has done a spatchcock smoked turkey the past couple years
BTW how did those come out? I'd love to try but pretty confident I'd faff it up
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oh ya, I'm warming up a ham
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I'm expecting 8 like last year.
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BTW how did those come out? I'd love to try but pretty confident I'd faff it up
best turkey I've ever had
put my Alton Brown bird to shame
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BTW how did those come out? I'd love to try but pretty confident I'd faff it up
Spatchcocking is easy. It's what I do for smoked birds. It doesn't change the flavor or anything, just cooks faster and more evenly between the light and dark meat.
Toughest part is getting the backbone out. A set of heavy duty kitchen shears is mandatory. Or, there's a guy on surlyhorns, who uses his reciprocating saw...
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Spatchcocking is easy. It's what I do for smoked birds. It doesn't change the flavor or anything, just cooks faster and more evenly between the light and dark meat.
Toughest part is getting the backbone out. A set of heavy duty kitchen shears is mandatory. Or, there's a guy on surlyhorns, who uses his reciprocating saw...
I have that done for me. Arthritis and shit.
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Hosting 26 people at the house on Thursday, the largest we've ever done. Luckily the weather looks good so we'll be able to use the back patio.
Gruyere mac n cheese
I also bought about 12 bottles of wine, my (grown) nephews are notorious for showing up to holidays and forgetting to BYOB...
Call the nite before and give them a reminder or give me their numbers & I'd be obliged.It's the least they could do after that generous spread,unless of course their down & out like me 🙃
BTW one of the online cooking mags called that
The BEST Homemade Mac and Cheese of your LIFE.
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Only going to be 7 this year. My wife and the kids, and then her two close friends (sisters of each other) coming down to join us.
Relish tray (appetizer)
Filet mignon
Green bean casserole (family recipe, not the "standard" one)
Mashed potatoes & gravy
Roasted beets
Dinner rolls
Chocolate bourbon pecan pie
Another dessert (brought by guests; don't know what it is yet)
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Roasted beets - let me know how those turn out
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Roasted beets - let me know how those turn out
They are great with filet mignon - and I would add a blue cheese sauce to complete the flavor profile.
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a blue cheese sauce is great with filet mignon
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You guys are making me feel fat just reading this. Elastic waisted pants tomorrow.
Standard fare:
Royal Red Shrimp appetizer
Roasted Turkey
Mashed potatoes and home made gravy
Green bean casserole from fresh beans
Home made stuffing
Buttered corn
Cinnamon/brown sugar squash bowls
Fresh dinner rolls
Pumpkin Pie
Dutch Apple pie.
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Happy Thanksgiving everybody!
I'm feeling extra thankful this year, for obvious reasons.
Thankful for lots of things, and people. Among them: this place--a thing--where I can goof off at work during down time with y'all--people!
I used to think this place wouldn't have as much value to me if I didn't love college football. Over the years as the sport changed and my interest wanes, I now realize that's not true. Turns out, for some reason, I just like talking to you goobers, about whatever.
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Happy Thanksgiving everybody!
I'm feeling extra thankful this year, for obvious reasons.
Thankful for lots of things, and people. Among them: this place--a thing--where I can goof off at work during down time with y'all--people!
I used to think this place wouldn't have as much value to me if I didn't love college football. Over the years as the sport changed and my interest wanes, I now realize that's not true. Turns out, for some reason, I just like talking to you goobers, about whatever.
Goobers. 😂😂😂😂
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term of endearment
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I'm spinning all of my favorite Thanksgiving carols.
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OK, Cindy kicked me out when's dinner? :dance:
You know you’d always be welcome to drive down to North Royalton. Just close your eyes pulling into the driveway with the Michigan flag blowing beneath the Stars and Stripes.
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We're hosting two waves: a small gathering of 10, with the elderly involved, then a second wave of the eldest's bf, and the boy's gf and her parents, who, like us, will be escaping some traditional Thanksgiving family tensions.
As for some minor thanksgivings, (1) I'm not starting a trial on Monday (settled), which has made for a much nicer November; (2) I'm grateful that youse guys here--particularly 847 and MikeDeTiger--seem to be in good health, (3) grateful that my kids are here for the holiday, even if it's really because they want to see their BF and GF, respectively, and (4) that I've wandered my way back here and that that dumpster fire of a political thread has been relegated to the trash heap. Oh, and that I have at least a little hope going into the Border Battle that I may be able to talk some smack to SFGopher when it is done.
:)
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You know you’d always be welcome to drive down to North Royalton. Just close your eyes pulling into the driveway with the Michigan flag blowing beneath the Stars and Stripes.
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I have that done for me. Arthritis and shit.
That's what the reciprocating saw is for! :)
BTW one of the online cooking mags called that
The BEST Homemade Mac and Cheese of your LIFE.
It's definitely the best. Also, probably the most expensive, because Gruyere cheese is pretty darn pricey. This big dish of it, is probably around $40. But it was our choice to add it and my 16yo son is making it because it's his fave and he learned how to make it last year.
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It's definitely the best. Also, probably the most expensive, because Gruyere cheese is pretty darn pricey. This big dish of it, is probably around $40. But it was our choice to add it and my 16yo son is making it because it's his fave and he learned how to make it last year.
Mastro's Ocean Club near us has a lobster mac & cheese as one of their sides, that might exceed this one in cost :57:
We have a recipe from one of my buddy's former coworkers. It's this Ina Garten recipe (https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/grown-up-mac-and-cheese-recipe-1937496) but with some changes like adding in some sauteed mushrooms, using panko bread crumbs fried in a little garlic & oil, etc... But it's Gruyere, Roquefort, and Cheddar.
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Thanksgiving to all.
This holiday is so much better than Christmas. Being thankful, just because. No made-up birthday for a deity, no running around spending money. Just eat and fellowship and watch football.
'Murica!
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Lots of football and food, and no thank you notes. Brilliant.
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I'm thankful I can enjoy Christmas the same way I do Thanksgiving
I don't worry much about the birthday for a deity, or a made-up fat guy from the north pole wearing Husker RED, I don't do much running around spending money.
Just eat and fellowship and watch football.
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mac & cheese was never one of our sides in this part of the country - still isn't
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I think I've talked about this... My sister's in-laws had a long-standing tradition of a "gratitude journal". Every year on Thanksgiving, anyone who is together with them celebrating is expected to write in it, expressing what they're thankful for that year.
When I met my wife (2016), we started doing that as well. This will now be our 10th Thanksgiving together, so we've amassed 9 years of entries into the journal and will have our 10th tomorrow.
It's great fun, because each year you can look at the previous years, reminisce about the good times with whoever was there to celebrate, look over the years at how people (particularly kids) have changed and grown, etc... I recommend it for pretty much anyone, but especially for those of you who still have kids at home, or are into the stage of life where you're celebrating with your kids and their kids...
So I realize it's probably a little late in the game, but if you want to introduce a new tradition for whoever you're with tomorrow, there's still time to run out to a store and get a blank journal...
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Thanksgiving to all.
This holiday is so much better than Christmas. Being thankful, just because. No made-up birthday for a deity, no running around spending money. Just eat and fellowship and watch football.
'Murica!
You should volunteer to work during Christmas break. Make a stand for "separation of Church and State."
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Thanksgiving to all.
This holiday is so much better than Christmas. Being thankful, just because. No made-up birthday for a deity, no running around spending money. Just eat and fellowship and watch football.
'Murica!
I love them both equally. I like spending money buying things for people I love and seeing their joy. On both Christmas and Thanksgiving, I eat and have fellowship and watch football.
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I'm with OAM... I like them both, but when we get into Christmas, it's a lot of rigamarole when you get all the presents and everything involved that I'd rather avoid that. Other than presents, I see them pretty equally... Get family / friends / etc together, enjoy each others' company, eat some good food, etc.
It doesn't help that I'm basically impossible to buy presents for, because I buy everything I need, and I want very little beyond that.
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We don't do a lot with gifts at Christmas - a couple inexpensive items that are about the thought
now my brother's house on the other hand - Whoa, Nellie! I just sit back and drink while that goes on and on. I gift each of them a gift card.
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I buy presents for people year-round, when I see something they'd like. I don't wait for a holiday or a birthday.
It's so odd to me that the masses have a calendar to dictate such actions. Why have special days when any day can be special?
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You should volunteer to work during Christmas break. Make a stand for "separation of Church and State."
I'd be all alone in a very big building.
Plus it makes up for all the times I go in an hour early and stay 2 hours late. We teachers get a lot of time off, but if you want to add up our hours of work, that time goes *poof*, I assure you.
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I buy presents for people year-round, when I see something they'd like. I don't wait for a holiday or a birthday.
It's so odd to me that the masses have a calendar to dictate such actions. Why have special days when any day can be special?
I also buy gifts for folks year around when I see something. It's just that about September, I simply hold those gifts for the calendar.
It's much more odd to me that we have a national cheeseburger day or a week for some group of folks.
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Giving fewer gifts for 2 months because...reasons. Yeah, I don't get it. And that's okay.
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yup, most things I don't understand
folks do things for reasons
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Giving fewer gifts for 2 months because...reasons. Yeah, I don't get it. And that's okay.
If you really thought it was okay, you wouldn't keep bringing it up.
On the Thanksgiving thread, you're absolutely incapable of being tolerant of others.
Which surprises nobody.
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It's a conversation. You seem to prefer one-sided ones where the other party doesn't keep bringing stuff up.
I thought that's how conversations work.
Wrong again.
Sigh.
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It's a conversation. You seem to prefer one-sided ones where the other party doesn't keep bringing stuff up.
I thought that's how conversations work.
Wrong again.
Sigh.
You deliberately turned a thread about Thanksgiving into a thread bashing Christmas for your own bigoted reasons.
YOU did that. It didn't have to happen, but YOU did that.
It's not a conversation, it's a positive thread where every other person is finding ways to wish each other a "Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving," and you had to interject your lame opinion on Christmas. Unsolicited, unwarranted, unwanted.
Acting like anyone else had anything to do with that, makes you Wrong Again. As Always. Same as it ever was.
Sigh.
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Anyway, wishing a true and sincere Happy Thanksgiving to all.
Kids are finally back from various activities and work (my son had his first day working at Cane's chicken!), and now we're gonna watch Planes, Trains & Automobiles and eat pizza, as is our tradition.
A Happy Thanksgiving to all, and best of luck to all of your teams this weekend-- except for Gigem. Sorry bud.
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HEY GUYS, I PREFER VETERAN'S DAY OVER EASTER!!!! Same as it ever was!!!! :29:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIDN-kSLwZg
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HEY GUYS, I PREFER VETERAN'S DAY OVER EASTER!!!! Same as it ever was!!!! :29:
An excellent comment for the Veteran's Day thread.
It's over there ------------->
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I'm thankful that Fro can get past the Pilgrims and Indians, and enjoy Thanksgiving.
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Yep. It's imperfect, but less of a bastardization as that other holiday we shall not name. But yeah, they should have never let them disembark. Light them up with flaming arrows until the ships stopped appearing.
There's a lot of 'shouldda, wouldda, coulddas' in history. That one was a biggie.