Woke up in a panic - is the turkey still in the freezer?!? Canadian Thanksgiving and we’re having The Meal today.
Rushed downstairs - turkey thawing nicely in the fridge, where I put it a few days ago. Whew!
Pumpkin pie in the oven.
Toasting bread for the stuffing.
Happy Thanskgiving, fellow Canucks!
It’s interesting that Canadians and the US folks seem to have the same Thankgiving meal. Is this coincidence?
Remember we got a lot of loyalists in Ontario and New Brunswick, and before that Nova Scotia was sort of the northern most New England province. Lots of similarity in cooking, especially for autumn meals. Pumpkins and squashes are more North American than British, as are turkeys.
Don’t know what the traditionmeal is in Quebec for Thanksgiving (“Action des grâces”).
Different for Christmas, at least for desserts in my family. We’ve never had pumpkin pie at Christmas. More likely puddings or dumplings.
Tom Turkey is now in the oven and the pumpkin pie is done. Just made the cranberry sauce and am taking a break with a nice Risling. Potatoes, corn and roast Brussels sprouts yet to come.
Most of the traditional Thanksgiving dishes became traditional because they’re cheap and easy to prepare for a large number of people. That’s true in Canada and the US alike.
I did! I did! I did forget to thaw the bad ol’ thurkey!
It just now occurred to me to look up Canadian Thanksgiving; Nanaimo Bars sound scrumptious–haven’t heard of them before. Difficult to make? If I bring you some banana pudding, will you have some Nanaimoes laying around? 
Burpo! What way to talk about Nana Imoes.
Oh…nm:)
Sounds yummy!
My Thanksgiving dinners tend to be for small numbers. The main dinner was last night and was non-traditional – roast prime rib with homemade creamy mashed potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, hunter gravy, and mixed veggies, and a couple of bottles of very fine Cabernet.
Tonight leans to the slightly more traditional but is simplicity itself in terms of preparation – an exceptionally good store-made turkey and stuffing pie with cranberries which is only made for Thanksgiving and Christmas, and a very good freshly prepared turkey gravy. I’ve had it before and it’s delish. The pie tastes just like you would expect – like slices of turkey with flavourful stuffing in a pie shell, with cranberries. Last time I wasn’t able to get the magnificent turkey gravy, but this year I’ve got it. In contrast to last night which was labour-intensive and messy, all I have to do is pop the pie in the oven and pop a gravy boat of turkey gravy into the microwave! Also, a Caesar salad and New Zealand Chardonnay to accompany. 
And Mrs P was giggling insanely over YouTube: "Turkeys are hitting the ground like bags of wet concrete!! Oh the humanity!!l
“As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”
Was your dream inspired by the Vinyl Cafe?
Huh. I can’t recall ever having a dream where I forgot something that I had actually remembered in real life. When I have this sort of dream, it’s the day that sneaks up on me. In other words, if I had a dream about not remembering to thaw the turkey, it would be because it was Thanskgiving in the dream, but not in real life.
Dunno if that’s interesting to anyone else but me. But I find it interesting that we can completely forget things we’ve done in real life in our dreams.
I’ve never made them. I think there are mixes available.
More general anxiety!
For Nanaimo bars? Just looked, and indeed there are mixes. They don’t even have to be cooked, and the most exotic ingredient (in North America) is the Bird’s custard powder.
Outside the U.S., the graham crackers are the exotic ingredient. Still easy to make from scratch, imho.
That sounds good! Can I ask at which store did you get this?
Our Thanksgiving dinner was Homemade chicken pot pie and apple crumble at our daughter’s. Very good, and no work for us!
Is your name Dave?
Is your wife’s name Morley?
Do you own a small record store?
Did you go to a local hotel to get the turkey cooked?
Poor Dave. I guess we will never hear that show again since Stuart McLean died.
For us, since it was Sukkos or something, my wife made a Tsimmes: Pot roast of beef with carrots, sweet potatoes and a giant matzoh ball. Delicious. Had the leftovers yesterday and finished it all for lunch today. We will go to our son’s in Boston for US Thanksgiving and then to our daughter’s in Brooklyn for leftovers and turkey soup.
None of the above.
But I just had a nice turkey soup, washed down with some Oyster Bay Sauvignon.