The parade, the giant balloon floats, the football games, the tryptophan.
But most importantly, what wine should I serve? I've given up on the happy coincidence of Beaulolais Nouveau and the pilgrim forebearers showing up at the same time of year.
Posted by tizzie at November 22, 2004 08:41 AMI'd go for an Alsatian Gewurztraminer. Or a dry-ish Riesling.
Posted by: Vidiot on November 22, 2004 11:29 AMWe're really getting killed by the comment spammers again. No turkey for them!
Posted by: tizzie on November 22, 2004 12:54 PMBefore dinner: a nice oaky chardonnay, plus cocktails for the aristocrats (anything with "collins" in the name ought to be good) and beers for the guys watching football in the basement.
Soup/salad course: a different white, something crispier - a pinot grigio maybe?
Main course: Turkey used to demand white, and Vidiot's recommendations are excellent - keep it pretty dry, though, fopr effective palate cleansing (you want them to aste your food, not clot their mouths with the wine). Nowadays, though, the rules of meat=red, fish/poultry=white have gone the way of the yeti, so I might try a lightish fruity red, say a pinot noir? or even a rose' (not Reunite).
Dessert: champagne goes with everything!
Postdessert leftover picking: I might try a nice sweet dessert wine, like a Spatlese.
Posted by: Fes on November 22, 2004 03:09 PMI finally got my mom off of her White Infidel kick and onto Shiraz. We had some at our psuedo-Thanksgiving a few weeks back and it worked pretty well. Then again, we're simpletons.
Posted by: ufez on November 22, 2004 03:46 PMI'll be at work turkey day from 2 to midnight. Feel free to bring any and all wines over to my cubicle, so long as they are made with the benefit of grapes (read: no Night Train).
Posted by: adam on November 23, 2004 08:43 AMVidiot, I can't believe that you don't like brussel sprouts. That's downright peculiar.
Posted by: tizzie on November 23, 2004 10:02 AMAdam, poor you! Do they at least give you triple-overtime, comp time, or foot massages?
Posted by: tizzie on November 23, 2004 10:05 AMI've never been a big fan of the white. We'll go with a Pinot Noir, as Senator Fes suggested. If it's to be white, I like the Sancerre. Or however you spell it.
What I'm really saying is, drink beer.
Posted by: kaf, who has had too much coffee on November 23, 2004 10:39 AMDamn. The story wasn't nearly as interesting as the headline:
"Lynne Cheney Tops National Christmas Tree"
Posted by: tizzie on November 23, 2004 01:13 PMFootball being mentioned in this thread would say wine? Yet after seeing this, some vine would be vetter.
I'll be watching turkey at the Cowboy game, my beloved team. If you hear someone on the TV shouting GO! Cowgirls! -that may be me.
Have a Happy Turkey day all.
PS, why does the html command for strike not work?
We drank Champagne.
We had three awesome guests for Thanksgiving. Well, four, if you count the human, LOL. My dear friend Len joined David and I for dinner, but we also have three foster dogs who were going to be put to death because the shelter was closing for the 4-day weekend. So these three got a reprieve when we said we'd keep 'em.
They are so sweet, honestly. One little rat terrier with a MAJOR underbite, a little ginger colored mutt we call Evander Holyfield because someone took a bite out of her ear, and a little black mutt with pretty cocker-spaniel eyes who has spent the entire day stuck to me like glue. I had to cook an huge Thanksgiving dinner with these three clinging to my ankles.
Anyway, the food was f000king awesome if I do say so myself. Roasting a ham on a Weber grill in a snowstorm is not only possible, it's fantastic!
I'm thankful for you lot, ya monkeys.
Posted by: tizzie on November 25, 2004 10:16 PMTizzie, you are an example in dark times.
Final booze tally:
1 bottle Fleur de Carneros Pinot Noir
1 bottle Sancerre something
1 bottle Valley of the Moon Pinot Blanc
1 bottle Six Grapes Port
German farrmhouse liquer for digestive purposes after dinner
Heineken, Old Peculier, Anchor Steam Christmas Ale, Munich Hofbrau to taste.
And yet, no hangover today. Go figure.
Happy Thanksgiving, all.
HEY! Stop reading. Nothing funny down here, okay?
Posted by: yhbc on November 26, 2004 11:50 PMCrash, we're part of an "underground railroad" (for lack of a better term) that's organized on the internet. When these little ones have no more time left in a kill shelter, a volunteer gets them out and takes them to the vet to be spayed or neutered, and then a series of people like us take them from point A to point B until they reach a destination where someone has a home for them (permanent or foster.)
Most of the time we just give them a ride - say from Louisville KY to Columbus OH - or we keep them for a few days until there are people who can give them another ride.
It's just nice to be able to help - rewarding when you know you saved a really sweet dog who is going to have a good life now. Plus I get to spoil 'em rotten while they're here (this morning they each got a cheese omelette for breakfast) And at 2 this afternoon, they move on to the next chapter in their new life!
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