Thanksgiving: What Did We Forget This Time?



The Suneson Family Thanksgiving Table Set For Three


It is around 2:30 Thanksgiving Day, we three are about to sit down for the Thanksgiving feast - but before we tuck in, the question: What did we forget?  Look closely at the photo. The answer as to what you think is missing or what you feel should be on the table will depend upon family tradition, as well as how philosophical one tends in their life perspective.  Your answers can be wide ranging from sentimental to silly.

For starters a list of what was on the Suneson Family Thanksgiving Table:

• 9 lb Turkey with rosemary from the herb garden placed under the skin and baked and basted for 2:20 at 325 degrees
• Cranberry relish with a touch of orange citrus
• Mashed potatoes
• Baked Sweet Potatoes mixed with apple slices and seasoned with cinnamon
• Asparagus touched with garlic butter
• Cornmeal Yeast Rolls
• Bread and seasoned celery stuffing (prepared in the oven - not stuffed in the bird)
• "Red Stuff", a concoction of cranberry juice and seven up (Cook Family Tradition)
• Gewurztraminer Wine
• Two Pies (Not shown). 1 Pecan (Sue makes a fine pecan pie) and 1 Pumpkin.

What would you add to the feast?

What about a fourth table setting for Inga?  Nice of you to think of her, but Inga made plans to ride up to Portland, Oregon with her good friend Alex for thanksgiving with Alex's family.  Oregon is too far to come for just Thanksgiving, but she will be home on December 11th for Christmas Break.

What about an extra place setting for Elijah?  No, you are thinking of the Seder Supper for the Jewish Passover Holiday.

Those Myer-Briggs personality types of the SJ persuasion are thinking, definitely need a flowery center piece.  Good call; actually we were thinking of cutting the zinnias for the table, but we did forget that touch (not being SJ's ourselves).

Some insist that it isn't a proper Thanksgiving unless you can see the concentric circles imprinted from the can onto the base of the cranberry sauce cylinder. 

Some would say you need a bowl of pitted black olives so you can put the olives on the tips of your fingers (when Mom isn't looking) and insert them into your mouth - the ultimate finger food.  Yes, you are getting closer in you answer.

The Cook family spread from New York, Minnesota, Texas, Arizona and out to Washington are all screaming, "You forgot the Tomato Aspic!!!"  Indeed we did.  Sue threatened to make the traditional tomato jello with bodies of celery and black olives, I would have eaten it because it was in my wedding vows and I knew what I signed up for, but Grant was a flat negatory on that item.  Somehow in all the shopping the tomato aspic never got made.  Eaten or not, it will always be remembered.  Maybe not in a good way, but remembered none-the-less.  There is no such thing as bad publicity.

Cheers.  Wish we could have shared the table with all of family and friends for which we are indeed mighty thankful.

There's nothing as fun as preparing for Thanksgiving with your bare hands

Turkey, Sweet Potatoes and Dressing are all on schedule
Seeing is Believing

Grant offers a Toast of Thankfulness -
Now put away the camera