omg omg omg TURKEY AND STUFFING
Nov. 11th, 2004 12:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauralhThanksgiving as I practice it combines two of my favorite activities: cooking, and eating stupidly obscene amounts of delicious foods.
There is one problem, however. I don't like pumpkin pie. Now let me 'splain. Where I grew up, the squash family was not exactly a common option in one's culinary options. Weird sausages, yes. Watermelon, yes. Flour and fat-based soups, yes. But I never saw a pumpkin in person till I left home. Why? I don't know, maybe it has something to do with the fact that the leaves change in January back home. Anyway, I never tried pumpkin pie till I was like 22 or something, and well I thought it was weird and unpalatable. Everyone else trying it said it was good, so either they were white-lying, or it's an acquired taste.
I haven't had TG at home since, well, 1994, frankly. I tended to alternate traditional dinners with non-traditional dinners, but last year I went to a potluck and this year I'm trying to host one. I actually think eating the roast flesh of a large bird should be done as often as possible - in the Thanksgiving sense ofpig-dinner-party. But till then I'm just going to indulge with this one.
(Don't even try to mention Christmas to me. NOT EVERYONE WORSHIPS SANTA.)
There is one problem, however. I don't like pumpkin pie. Now let me 'splain. Where I grew up, the squash family was not exactly a common option in one's culinary options. Weird sausages, yes. Watermelon, yes. Flour and fat-based soups, yes. But I never saw a pumpkin in person till I left home. Why? I don't know, maybe it has something to do with the fact that the leaves change in January back home. Anyway, I never tried pumpkin pie till I was like 22 or something, and well I thought it was weird and unpalatable. Everyone else trying it said it was good, so either they were white-lying, or it's an acquired taste.
I haven't had TG at home since, well, 1994, frankly. I tended to alternate traditional dinners with non-traditional dinners, but last year I went to a potluck and this year I'm trying to host one. I actually think eating the roast flesh of a large bird should be done as often as possible - in the Thanksgiving sense of
(Don't even try to mention Christmas to me. NOT EVERYONE WORSHIPS SANTA.)
