Thanksgiving

[Rollo Tamasi]

Thursday, November 28th is Thanksgiving here in the United States.
For me, it is the best of all Christian holidays.
Growing up in Boston, Thanksgiving was huge.
Turkey, vegetables, fruits, and pies filled the tables with family.
High School football rivalries and hopefully, a sunny day.

As a Christian, I began to see it as a major holiday.
A time to thank God for all he has given us.
Later, I saw the relation of it to the Sukkot in the Bible.

The Sukkot was the late season harvest, giving God the first fruits and thanking him for all the harvest.


How do we, as Christians, look on Thanksgiving today?

The Pilgrims inviting the Indians, and the feast lasted 3 days.

 

[reba]

Absolutely agree Allen it is my favorite holiday... Even if it means i work on dinner for a few days... I love it....

 

[veryberry]

Did you know that the beginning of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving fall on the same day this year. Supposedly, this will not happen again for the next 79,043 years.

 

[Claudya]

We did already have our thanksgiving here. It's usually in the first sunday of october, but churches have a bit of freedom on what sunday in october they celebrate thanksgiving. It's not really a family holiday here, but rather a special liturgical sunday with the special focus of the sunday service on being thankful and being fruitful ourselves.
I guess the day of giving thanks for the harvest is earlier here because being further north than most of the USA I'm guessing harvest used to be done here earlier than in your country.

In my church we have a beautiful tradition of bringing food donations (like vegetables, fruits, canned food and other nonperishable food, I remember last year someone brought a huge sack of walnuts from her own garden) to the church that are piled up in front of the altar. It really looks as awesome as on those cheesy thanksgiving pictures on the internet. That sack of walnuts standing there unattended after service was quite a temptation for me last year.
The monday after all the food donations plus all the money given into the service collection will be brought to the local food bank.
We could actually do a lot more to support local charities, but that thanksgiving tradition is pretty awesome.

But like I said, it's not as important a holiday here as it is in the USA. Non-christians will probably not celebrate it at all. We don't have a pilgrim fathers legend around it and only few people work agriculture nowadays.

 

[Claudya]

Absolutely agree Allen it is my favorite holiday... Even if it means i work on dinner for a few days... I love it....

That's one thing I'd love to experience some day: a thanksgiving dinner with an American family.
I'm a rather strict vegetarian, so I wouldn't even need turkey, I'd just eat all the pumkin pie.

 

[reba]

Pumpkin , coconut and banana cream...

In the early 50s our family was often blessed with such food 'shower' thanks for the reminder.... Food drives this time of the year happen here also....

 

[Claudya]

Pumpkin , coconut and banana cream...

That sounds so awesome!!
Would you give away the recipes or are they some kind of family secret?

In the early 50s our family was often blessed with such food 'shower' thanks for the reminder.... Food drives this time of the year happen here also....

Yeah it's all a lot about sharing. That's the best and most heart warming part, and the natural consequence, of being thankful: knowing you got so much that you can give away some of what you got and make others happy as well. Your "thankfulness" would be like a lie if you gratefully take, but refuse to give.

 

[reba]

Mind you that is 3 different pies ... if you are serious i dont mind sharing...

 

[Claudya]

Okay, that's a lot of food for you to prepare, alright.
I would probably find recipes for thanksgiving pies on the internet. However, I bet you are a great cook and your recipes are the best ones.
I'm not a totally experienced cook, but I'd love to give it a try. And then I'd have an excuse to invite guests for a debaucherous feast.

 

[reba]

Mix very well in a heavy sauce pan:
1 cup sugar
3/4 cup of flour
1 teaspoon salt
after mixing well add 1 cup of milk and mix again...

Separate 4 eggs having the yokes waiting............. Set the whites aside for some other dish..

Heat 5 cups of milk.. pour the heated milk into the flour and sugar mixture stirring briskly
over a medium heat cook and stir until it reaches a full boil

(full boil is when you cant stir the bubbles out)

This can be the tricky part working quickly:
take a bit of the hot mixture and quickly stir it into the eggs...( A bit... equals a ladle or maybe a 1/2 cup)
Mix the egg mixture and then while whisking pour it back into the post and cook about a minute...

add about 4 tablespoons of butter and 2 teaspoons of vanilla ...stirring again....

That is a base for 2 large cream pies.

To make 1 banana pie thinly slice a banana into a prepared pie shell...and a layer of cream mixture more banana slices more cream always end in cream...

For the coconut i use 2 cups of coconut into the 'cream' that is left. Saving some to toast and sprinkle on top

These are topped with real whipped cream only slightly sweetened...and a touch of vanilla...

Or run down to the local bakery and buy some...

 

[Rollo Tamasi]

In my house, homemade apple pie was the biggie.
No one ever made it as good as my mother (I guess that's a favorite saying).

 

[reba]

 

[TOG]

I live alone, so a whole turkey is a bit big for me. I do plan on having some good food though. My Thanksgiving dinner will probably look something like this.

The TOG​

 

[OhFarouk]

With Canadian Thanksgiving coming up this weekend, I bought my wife a pumpkin-flavored muffin...

 

[reba]

A cheeseburger is the best meal one can have