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My family always wants the same things at Thanksgiving, no substitutions, so the stuffing is bread cubes, tossed with a mix celery, sage, thyme, and onion sauteed in lots of butter, seasoned with salt and pepper, and then moistened with a bit of stock. There is always lots of stuffing, so some goes in the bird and some in a seperate casserole dish.
Some years I make a second stuffing for variety, but most people won't try it on principle. No changes on Thanksgiving, don't you know.
One year I made a cornbread-sausage-cranberry-pecan stuffing that my Dad really liked. I think if I made an oyster stuffing I would have a full-out mutiny on my hands. 
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Saturday dinner: linguini with clam sauce:
There is lots of extra sauce because my mom was there--she loves clam sauce but hates pasta, so I make lots of sauce for her to eat with bread.
Sunday, baked haddock with roesti potatoes and asparagus.
Monday, pre-Monday night football: spaghetti and meatballs. No pictures for that, hungry football obsessed men ate it all too quickly!
And, despite my carb loading for the dudes, they skipped going to the game and are instead lolling in front of the TV. Losers!
(granted they only had standing rooms seats, but still... 
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The picture is too dark but it tasted good: chicken stew with puff pastry crust.
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I love fritters! My two favorites are salt cod and corn fritters topped with maple syrup.
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Campbell's tomato soup kept me alive in college. My senior year I had no money and used to eat half a can almost every day for dinner with one slice of day old bread. I don't eat it any more, but I still have a fond spot in my heart for it.
I almost never eat canned soup these days, but if it's lunch in a pinch, I fnd that most flavors are enhanced by lots and lots of pepper, and a knob of butter.
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A roast turkey sandwich, made from the leftovers of yesterday's pre-Thanksgiving meal.
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No pictures, my camera batteries died.
Early Thanksgiving dinner with the family for my BIL, home on last leave before deployment:
Brined herbed roast turkey, bread stuffing, mashed potatoes, spinach, butternut squash, cranberry sauce (yes homemade!), green beans, lots of gravy (two kinds: with or without giblets), and pinot noir (belle glos 2003, it was good). Mommom's apple pie.
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OK, I have another one. This is arancini. Oozy, greasy, arancini. Only 600 calories per piece!
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That skate looks delicious. The orrecchiette also. Now I am hungry...
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My grandmother's dining room table had a drawer in it at my uncle's spot. He hated vegetables, so used to slide the drawer open and drop the veggies in when my granmother wasn't looking. He'd come back after she went to bed to dig them out and bury them in the trash, readying the scene for the next day.
When I was four, my older sister snuck out of bed during our nap time and said she was going to bring me back a treat. She came back with a sundae dish piled high with fudge sauce and whipped cream. I took a big bite of the sundae, only to find that there was no ice cream--she had filled the dish with broken spaghetti. Mean sister.
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I wear one of my old husband's t-shirts when cooking. If I wear something nice, it is inevitable that I will spill oil or red wine on it. I wear an apron when I am making something particularly messy. I always wear short sleeves because regular shirts are too long for my arms and the sleeves always unroll and get covered with food. I never wear anything with strings on it after catching a sweatshirt I was wearing on fire after the string dropped into the stove flame.
On Sundays, when I cook with my mother and sister, we all wear iron chef t-shirts, because we think it's funny.
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Yum, applesauce. We just made 20 quarts of it last weekend. I store mine in a stand alone freezer to keep it from discoloring. It does not seem to affect the taste or texture.
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It was cold and rainy last night, so we had Marcella Hazan's chicken with two lemons, mashed potatoes, roasted beets, and broccoli. I made some gravy also, and we had a nice bottle of pinot noir.
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A piece of toasted spinach-feta bread, a few almonds, and an apple. Giant glass of water.
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The family all came over yesterday for all sports, all the time, so dinner was a buffet of antipasto items that could be easily eaten in front of the big TV:
three kinds of fritatta (red onion, sundried tomato, and sausage)
arugula salad with walnuts, parmesean, and lemon
Roasted onion, red peppers, and basil salad
cheese plate
assorted meats and sausages plate
crostini with two toppings (eggplant-tomato and fresh mozzarella, basil, tomato)
lots of different kinds of olives, plus an olive spread for crackers
arancini
and of course, lots of wine!
It was all really good, and tasted even better once we realized the Red Sox were going to win.
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I have a heavy cleaver too, but I really don't use it much. Hacking up chickens, yes. Sometimes attempting to hack frozen pieces of meat apart (not recommended). Hacking bones into smaller pieces for stock...that's about it.
I will confess, however, that I am a little scared of my cleaver.
I am very accident prone, and every time I use it I have visions of hacking one of my fingers off. Or dropping it on my foot blade down resulting in loss of toe. 
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leftovers from last night's dinner: rigatoni in a tomato-basil sauce from the garden (the last of my fresh basil and tomatoes), with garlic chicken sausage and parmesean.
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Dinner last night: tomato mozzarella salad:
and chicken with arugula salad:
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Definitely Parsi dishes!
My other two choices are Amish farm and breakfast.
I am looking forward to this blog.
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I took a picture of last night's dinner but it turned out so ugly that I think I am going to post the result in the other dinner thread! Roast maple turkey, mashed potatoes, roast cauliflower, bread dressing, carrots, and brussel sprouts.
Today, for "linner," grilled salmon with dill-caper sauce, hasselback potatoes, green beans from the farmers market with basil from the garden, and eggplant sticks.
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I am so jealous of your beautiful rosemary plants and herb garden! I have been spending today harvesting my basil plants. I don't think we will have more than a few weeks before we get a night cold snap here. A year-round garden would be nice indeed.
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Pan seared veal rib chop, gorgonzola risotto, and broccoli. It was late and we were hungry, so I did not defat the sauce. Oh well, it still tasted good.
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Roast chicken and bread salad from the zuni cafe cookbook. I made the mistake of pouring the arugula into the warm bread bowl instead of tossing the salad in a cool bowl, so it wilted a bit more than usual, but it still tasted good.
I'm still working on my photo skills, obviously..
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chicken tortellini soup, toasted spinach feta bread, and a diet coke.
Dinner! 2005
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Last night we had chicken parts whacked thin and stuffed with broccoli and cheddar, rolled and crumbed. With the roasted cauliflower from recipe gullet, some seared spinach, and mashed potatoes.