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Happy Thanksgiving
To all my fellow Canadian GCers...
Have a Happy Thanksgiving and a great long weekend!!! |
Since I love to learn new things, can someone tell me what Canadian Thanksgiving is all about?? What are some of the traditions???
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Due to the fact that my husband is Canadian and I am American, we celebrate both
Thankgiving is held the 2nd Monday in October. Pretty much the end of the harvest. We have the big old dinner and everything! Same as the US one. Except they don't have the 2 football games and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade! :D |
Is it the same menu and everything???
**Sigmagrrl heads off to look up Canadian Thanksgiving online** |
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Yup but I schooled these Canadians. I added homemade mac n cheese and collard greens to our Thanksgiving dinner! :D
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Happy Canadian Thanksgiving :)
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Happy Thanksgiving To All Of OUR Canadian Brothers and Sisters North of Us!:cool:
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as opposed to our Canadian brothers and sisters south of us ;)
hehe, i'm just joking with you!! I wish I was canadian or that this weekend was Thanksgiving for us Americans... mmm turkey, stuffing, mashed taters, corn, rolls.. i'm getting hungry! |
Sorry, slight hijack...
I think I'm from one of the only families that never served mashed potatoes for Thanksgiving! I cannot imagine adding that to the menu! /hijack over! |
We don't have mashed potatoes with our dinner. We don't have yams either (and certainly not with marshmellows...no offense but what's that about?)
Our traditional dinner usually includes: Turkey Roast Potatoes Carrots Green Beans Cauliflower Broccoli Brussle Sprouts (most times all my mum is the only one who eats them) Cranberry Sauce Gravy Stuffing And a Finnish dish (which I can't spell...so I won't try). It's basically a carrot and turnip caserole...trust me it excellent. For dessert we usually have: Pumpkin Pie and another tradition Finnish dish (again can't spell it), but it's basically a Cranberry mousse. It contains Semolina, cranberries, sugar and milk and it's all whipped up and served with whipped cream. Yummm! |
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That sounds like a wonderful feast. Happy Thanksgiving, neighbors. |
LOL - I thought you meant Sukkoth or the Feast of Tabernacles!
Happy Thanksgiving to our Canadian friends AND our Jewish friends! |
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I'm officially NOT speaking to you!! LOL YAMS WITH 'SHMELLOWS IS THE BESTEST!!!!!!!!!!! OMG!!! A POX UPON YE!! :p :D |
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Sigmagrrl, please educate me about this yams with marshmellow dish...I have never heard of it and I am curious! :) |
http://www.geocities.com/ouravonlea/...nksgiving.html
Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving Day on the second Monday of October and Americans set aside the fourth Thursday of November. The only reason for this is because of the seasonal differences between the two countries. The harvest in Canada happens earlier in the year. That is not the only difference between the two celebrations... http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/cpsc-ccsp...a/action_e.cfm Read this...apparently Canadians *DID* celebrate Thanksgiving in November for a while.... hmmmm, interesting! |
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I think I'll pass. Yams are fine on their own. |
Happy Thanksgiving to our neighbors of the North!
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HAPPY THANKGIVING EVERYONE!
My family had pretty typical fare... well... for being half italian. Dinner was usually at Grandmas and consisted of the following: First course (skipped when Grandma didn't feel like it): Antipasto (umm... bread sticks, cheese, olives, proshuto (sp?)... etc) Second course: Lasanga or Gnocchi or some other pasta or fish soup (mmmmmm.... fish soup!) Meatballs, or beef cooked in tomato sauce Bread Third course: POTATOES: (baked, mashed or both) VEGGIES: (varies - pick about 4 of the following corn, brusselspouts, turnip, carrots, beans, bell peppers, mushrooms, peas, articoke (though that was rare), cold veggies) TURKEY (with stuffing and gravy) MEAT (because Turkey wasn't enough!): Pick at least TWO of the following - steak, roast beef, chicken, cornish hen, ham (ham was very common), veal, pork, rabbit, duck Fourth course: SALAD! - greens, oil, vinger, and salt. It's good when Grandma doesn't over do it with the salt... Also making appearence certain years: Cheese, Fruit, Veggie Platters Fifth course: DESSERT!!! CHEESE CAKE - not like the ones you buy. Very fluffy! Served with canned cherries on top. Also making appearances certain years (most of in addition to the cheesecake, though sometimes instead of) CHOCOLATE! NUGET! (sp?) PIE CAKE (other cake) ICE CREAM Afterwards: Coffee... and dishes... lots of dishes... Aww ... man... I'm so depressed right now, because I'm not at my Grandma's for this Thanksgiving... i'm at my boyfriends parents house. Writing all this out is making me hungry! |
Y'all can revoke my Soul Card/Black Card/Southern Card:
I do NOT do yams with marshmallows (I hate yams!) and I do NOT do sweet potatoes in any way, shape or form! :eek: Yuk! Ewwwwww! My grandmother actually asked me: "are you sure you are Black?" (Uhhh yeah last time I checked). And then "are you SURE you are related to us?" (I do resemble her!) Sigh...here is my card! :D Sigmagrrl, my husband (white and VERY Canadian) knew what a hamhock was...now my mother in law was a different story. Now my husband makes better collard greens than I do! Quote:
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Get some cans of yams with pineapple juice at the grocery store. The best brand is Bruce's Candied Yams. Warm them in a pot. Then transfer them to a deep baking dish. Combine it with a small amt of butter, some maple syrup, some brown sugar, pineapple chunks, and some of the leftover juice from the can. Mash, but still leave it a little chunky (think mashed potatoes, smooth, but not). Cover entire top of yams with mini marshmallows and bake until the marshmallows on top are brown and melty (sort of like a 'smore)...Serve hot! YUMMY! |
yumm...all this yam talk is making me hungry.
also consider apple pie, pecan pie for desert and zuchini with green chile as one of the vegetables. my mom makes a mean casserole. |
MMMM this thread is making me sooooo hungry as well. Happy Thanksgiving Canadians!!!!
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Now I'm hungry! :(
:: jumps in car, drives north :: Happy Thanksgiving to all you Canadian folks! :) |
omg kappaloo how do you eat all of that!! i would explode - but it sounds delicious :)
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Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!
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oh, and the fifth course is usually an hour after the fourth, so we have time to "make some room" (umm... though, I tend to eat all of the pasta portion, and then go really small on the rest) |
Today is actually Thanksgiving, but I had my dinner yesterday.
I was so stuffed! I'm still feeling stuffed. But it was excellent. I hope everyone enjoyed their dinners or will be enjoying them today. |
I think most people tend to eat on the Sunday. I think it's nice because then we have Monday for relaxation. :)
Dinner and my boyfriend's parents was good. I had butternut squash (?? Or what ever that type of squash is) soup! It was sooo tasty! I hope you have an excellent day Lady Pi Phi! (and everyone else too!) |
All this Thanksgiving talk has me starting my Turkey Day planning!! I LOVE THIS TIME OF YEAR!!
45 DAYS UNTIL U.S. THANKSGIVING!!! |
YAY! It's thanksgiving again!
What's everyone upto? |
Okay, now I understand what that other thread was all about. I was like, "Why is this person posting about Thanksgiving plans a month and a half before Thanksgiving???"
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Our dinner always consists of..
Turkey sage & onion stufffing sausage stuffing cranberries gravy roast potatoes carrots brussel sprouts my future inlaws do almsot the same meal but we also have those finnish turnips and mashed potatoes |
Yams? Down South we call 'em Sweet Taters!
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HAHAHAHAHA OMG my great grandma use to call me sweet tater......i use to cringe when i heard that..... Everytime we would go to a family reunion in Tennessee i would hear that....now i mi ss it.
I am like sigmagirl ...i love this time of yr .....the countdown is on! Though i love sweet potato and yams....i actually bought at albertsons yesterday a sweet potato pie! yummmmmm! sweet potatoes and marshmellows are great..... a little brown sugar, butter and marshmellows browned in the oven...yum! Being that our family is heavy in our southern traditions ( a lot of my realatives down south and well so cal..hehe had t through that in) our thanksgiving and chrismtas meal......YUM just thinking of it consist of: big ole' turkey glazed ham gotta have mash potatoes ( i feel bad for the one who doesnt have them) and of course white gravy ( though we have brown too for those who complain) 2 types of relish ( the straight out of the can type and the homemade canberry relish stuffing 2 types" Sage and sausage and regular cornbread stuffing ( even though my fixation on cooking shows lately i am trying to exp with that this yr) green bean casserole with heavy durkee onions brocholi cassserole rolls gotta have a bowl of olives my mom makes this pistaschio whp cream fluff stuff ( yum!) pumpkin pie and pumpkin cheese cake pecan pie |
Happy Thanksgiving!!!
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