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Venison and trout
steamed onions
steamed red sweet potatoes
broccoli, carrots, green beans, steamed then in tahini sauce.
cold duck

Doggone it Max! You always tell what we're having for dinner, but you never tell how to get there...

Here at Chez Robinson, both sides of our joined family are planning to arrive in just a few hours to share a mutual meal. We'd thought that our new daughter would have joined us by now; instead, the rest of the family is putting together dinner and letting me stay off my feet. It should be interesting, the combined dishes of my South Arkansas family traditions with those of my Yankee husband. I've been informed that both dressing and stuffing are going to be represented.

The oddest part for me is the fact that this is the first Thanksgiving dinner I haven't had a hand in fixing since I was a little girl.

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Max, Max, What's with the "stuffing" I know you are a southern boy, It's dressing! Look at our "Southern Poll" on all things Thanksgiving!!

Kat, Enjoy your rest today... fot once all you have to do is eat! Maybe you will go in labor after all the feasting...surrounded by all of those near and dear to you!

Happy Thanksgiving All!!

Here at the Che' Ark-Stu, we're playing holiday host to the whole family for the first time. The parents & brother are coming in from the hills of Mtn. View; sister & soon-to-be-brother-in-law coming from East Arkansas. Wouldn't be surprised to see others show up. No in-laws, though; they've gone to the ATL.

On The Menu:

- 1 herb marinated turkey breast & 1 honey-glazed half ham
- The starches (mashed yukon golds, sweet potato casserole)
- Grandma's cornbread & chicken dressing -- a meal in itself
- A cranberry reduction sauce, courtesy Alton Brown (jellied cranberry sauce will probably appear as well)
- Green Bean casserole
- Mac & Cheese (for myself, mostly)
- Pearl Onions in White Gravy (for my wife, mostly)
- Copious amounts of deviled eggs & a cheese tray to keep the moochers at bay
- Pie, of the pumpkin & pecan varieties
- Beer, Wine, Soda & Sweet Tea

Traditional? Probably. Boring? Probably. Tasty? Damn right!

But around here the guys do the cooking. So, I'm off to the kitchen.

Happy Thanksgiving All!!

"Dressing" . . . "Stuffing" is not a North/South differentiation, Nanc.

I defy anyone to call New England Oyster Dressing "Southern." I even made my own "Southern" variation using cornbread and called it "Damn Yankee Dressing" because the texture of a cornbread dressing is better.

What I see as a disappearing Thanksgiving side is the good ol' Giblet Gravy. I realize none of the ladies in my family like the giblets or the "fattening" gravy, but let us old guys have our arteries-choking delicacy once a year!