here we go..a totally off or on topic thread.

any thanksgiving plans? favorite recipes to share?

any topics you want to carry over from other threads?

i know i want to give sue a and ask her how is bob?

melody, i got my eyelashes caught in eyelasher curler once. i should have known better than use one. i have thick curled lashes already. no one told to not have mascara on first. OUCH. they grew back pretty fast. i lost the corner ones.

billye, how did the meat turn out? i have layered cassolet recipe that uses different meat.

We can all share! Thanks for this thread.

I haven't done the meat yet. I'm still navigating thru the camera pill thingy. Today also was a dental appt. Walking on the crutches is entirely exhausting and today was a dilly!

Hoping I can get the meat this week-end and try it all. I have one of those big clay pot casserole dishes that you put in the oven. I'm going to stack meat and vegetables in it, add a can of vegetable broth and some tomatoes and cook it all this weekend. This is something I think I can do. If I guide my husband thru it, I think he will be able to do it. I'll peel potatoes, an carrots to go in it with maybe some celery too. I can't add salt or spices, can't eat them, but the canned vegetable broth should do it for us. He likes plain things and I can't eat them so it balances out.

Sue, Please let us know aboutBob. I edited this because I just read about Bob. That's why this thread is so important. We can keep up with people. Hope you are managing all right. Hugs too.

love to all,
Billye

Billye:

Did you see my post to you (on the weight loss thread), about Meals on Wheels in Texas??


And to any of you who live in or near NYC, tomorrow night is the Neuropathy meeting at the CBS Building in NYC. I shall post about it when I get home. There will be a speaker there who will talk about physical therapy, and occupational therapy, and other information also.

Melody

The holiday has become a sort-of multi-day affair? Partly because the last two years I was either in a walker or a wheel chair...maybe. But, the PLANNING part has become more essential than when I was working 60+ hour weeks. I get/pick up bits of what I need days before. Last week the 'turkey' . I have frozen veggies in that huge freezer, but for the Holiday I like FRESH, with a stock of chicken broth and heaps of butter. I mean If one is going to OD on food, it should be absolutely hedonistic, NO? I have infusions Tuesday and Wednesday so, that leaves me Monday to SHOP, and start to cut and prep, put in baggies all the cut-up stuff to heat and cook on next Thursday. Not to mention Cranberries? Whole berry sauce...no frills, just heaps of concentrated Vit C [Mrs D? I am right in this?] to go with all the 'other stuffs'. I don't know about you all, but we never, ever make it to dessert! All that L-tryptophane is more than any soul could ask for, thanks! I have gotten very selfish over the years, I like the way I 'DO' it all, and I like the leftovers...I don't have to really cook for over a week afterwards...Really doing a turkey is nothing to be feared, and yes, I have had some cooking nightmares...maybe not told here, but.....Just avoid heavy lifting and pace yourself and you should come out 'whole'?

OK BILLYE? What all about this Camera PILL THINGIE???????? Yummy? - j

Keeping Thanksgiving low-key, if we do a formal gathering at all. This is my first Thanksgiving in Sioux Falls. My in-laws live here, but all my family is in Denver.

The reason we might not do a dinner at all is that my father-in-law just started treatments for stage 3 bladder cancer, and we don't know how well he's gonna feel. My mother-in-law is having complications from her recent knee replacement and is gonna have her hands full taking care of her hubby. And my hubby never figured out how to cook anything more complicated than scrambled eggs.

If my husband and I do end up staying home, I will probably have him buy a turkey breast and roast it in my rostisserie. I would likely make a crustless pumpkin pie sweetened with Splenda. Only other things would be some mashed potatoes, and maybe I'd allow myself a few bites of cranberry sauce....real simple, and not an excessive challenge for my digestion or glucose levels.

Simple can be quite tasty, actually. And very little "turkey burnout" after the holiday.

fanfaire

My family is all in Michigan and me on Long Island--there was a new man in my life, so I thought we might spend it togetherbut, I think not. I'm too old to deal with a man with "Inconsiderate" as his middle name and I told him that up front, gonna lay it all on the line this time around! Ain't messin with me no more! So now, I don't know what I will do. The holdiays are hard when your family is so far away.

I usually visit them in early December, but this year, I have a new grandbaby coming in April, so I am delaying my vacation until then. I have to see a new baby.

Hope you all have a great Thanksgiving.