Comments | altivo: Turkey day in September

altivo

Turkey day in September

Sep 04, 2006 21:22

Realizing that between the rain and all Gary's away from home performances, we've hardly barbecued at all this year, so on Friday I pulled a ten pound turkey out of the freezer to thaw. Figured we'd roast it on the grill today. The weekend was beautiful, but of course today had to be thunderstorms and wind, so that killed the idea of grilling the ( Read more... )

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pioneer11 September 5 2006, 17:41:48 UTC

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday ( ... )

altivo September 5 2006, 17:52:33 UTC

Oh, we agree. There's starvation in America, alas, though not very visible. You have to look at Indian reservations and real poverty areas to find it. Sometimes it's only a result of poor education and not realizing what resources are available (and therefore, a lack of social workers which has grown more acute under decades of conservative budget cutting) but it's still there. Nonetheless, you're right, there isn't much of it compared to other countries ( ... )

pioneer11 September 6 2006, 18:05:24 UTC

Ironically, many of those Depression Recipes are probably
more filling, and better for you, than our current
Drive Through goodies or prefab foods.

altivo September 6 2006, 18:22:45 UTC

Some have an awful lot of fat in them, but on the whole, you're right about that. My folks didn't have a lot of money, considering that they were raising five kids on one salary, so I ate a lot of that stuff in the 50s. We grew up on stuff that the other kids in school would have refused to eat, like beans cooked with the ham bone to get everything out of it that was possible.

Some people turn against "poverty food" that they had to eat, but I'm one of those who gets nostalgic about it and loves it. Navy bean soup? Yum. Spanish rice? Gimme! My mom was a genius with the pressure cooker and could make the stringiest piece of meat turn melt-in-your-mouth tender.

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