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By Luanne Austin | ||
Ever try having a different Thanksgiving meal? Ever since I was a little kid, sitting around Grandma Still’s dining room table, my Thanksgiving meals have been the same: turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and turnips, green bean casserole, cranberry sauce, celery stuffed with cream cheese, carrot sticks, pumpkin and mincemeat pies. Every Thanksgiving was the same. After Mom got us four kids all dressed up, we went to Grandma’s house. On Long Island, that wasn’t exactly over the river and through the woods. More like over the railroad tracks and through the traffic. Grandma’s was a back-door house, so our arrival was into the kitchen, where things were bubbling on the stove. Her red and black tile floor was shining, the metal cabinets squeaky white and the sun brightened it all through the bay windows. While Mom and Grandma tended to the bubbling things, we kids watched the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on TV. Sometimes we knew people who were marching in the parade, so we stayed glued to the set to see them. About a half-hour before dinner, my Aunt Clara and Uncle Bob arrived with my cousin, Joann. Aunt Clara always cooked the turkey at her house, a few blocks away. The reason given was that it saved Grandma the work of lifting the huge bird in and out of the oven. Knowing Aunt Clara, a strong-willed German who never lost any of her accent, she probably wanted to make sure that bird was cooked right. It was always perfect and delicious. At dinnertime, the "youngsters" had to sit at a card table set up in the next room. We hated that. It was a rite-of-passage when we got old enough (12 or 13) to sit with the big people at the elegantly-set table in the dining room. Grandma had a lace tablecloth, fine china, silverware and crystal that she used only once a year. At other times when we visited, I loved to sneak open the drawer of the sideboard that held the silver. The drawer was lined with a velvet-like fabric and it all smelled musty-rich. Thinking back, Grandma must have treasured her dining room set, with its china cabinet, sideboard, large table and padded chairs. She and my grandfather had bought the house right before the Great Depression, so it was probably many years before they could afford good furniture. Although my grandmother always called it turnip, the orange in the mashed potatoes is actually rutabaga. I discovered that when I began cooking my own Thanksgiving meal. How did that tradition start? I don’t know. But I insist on keeping it, even though that rutabaga is hard as a locust post and I still haven’t come up with an easy way to cut it. Maybe if I stayed in the kitchen instead of watching the parade, I would have learned a great secret. In recent years, I’ve been whacking it with the really sharp meat cleaver, like splitting firewood, making loud karate sounds with each strike. We eat my family’s traditional meal rather than the husband’s because after marrying we always had Thanksgiving with my grandmother and mother, along with my siblings. As Jehovah’s Witnesses, it was the only holiday Grandma and Mom observed, and they thoroughly enjoyed it. So my kids grew up with the same meal as me. One year I decided to make a completely different Thanksgiving, one I found in a Better Homes & Gardens magazine, with cornbread stuffing and asparagus and peas or something. Everyone hated it and told me to never ever change the menu again. The only adjustment I’ve made is the stuffing, which I learned to make from the husband’s grandmother. She taught me to simmer the giblets with the onion and celery for an hour, then take out the giblets and add butter, letting it liquefy with the broth. When the giblets cool, dice them tiny and add them back in. Then mix all that with the stuffing mix (I use Pepperidge Farm herb-seasoned crumbs) and stuff the bird. Mmmm. Living so far away in Virginia, after Grandma’s house was sold I got only a few items. But what I do have is from Thanksgiving. I’ve got the lead crystal dish in which she served the raw vegetables, the crystal wine glasses and the lace tablecloth. With the kids grown up now, and family scattered all over the world, the faces at the Thanksgiving table change from year to year, but the meal never does. And somehow, in a world that’s vastly different than the one I grew up in, that is comforting. |
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Traditional Meal Provides Backbone of Thanksgiving!
by Atlantis inhttp://www.dnronline.com/skyline_details.php?aid=1634&sub=rural
traditional meal provides backbone of thanksgiving
posted 2005-11-18
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Jehovah told man to kill, court hears!
by Atlantis inhttp://www.dailypost.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3660186&thesection=localnews&thesubsection=&thesecondsubsection= local news email story print story .
jehovah told man to kill, court hears.
by abigail caspari in rotorua .
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Pagan Popcorn!
by Atlantis inif jws consider birthdays, christmas, and so forth pagan because of their origins, then perhaps jws shoud stop eating popcorn!.
popcorn history.
http://www.ht-express.com/howto-history-popcorn.htm popcorn was essential to 16th century aztec indian ceremonies, which bernardino de sahagun writes, and also a number of young women danced, having so vowed, a popcorn dance.
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lazyslob:
You are so right lazyslob! My brother who was a regular pioneer at the time, ended up in the backroom with 2 elders just because he wore a certain jacket that (they) disapproved of! It was a cordaroy jacket, and they felt that it was to faddish! But that was back in the 60s.
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Pagan Popcorn!
by Atlantis inif jws consider birthdays, christmas, and so forth pagan because of their origins, then perhaps jws shoud stop eating popcorn!.
popcorn history.
http://www.ht-express.com/howto-history-popcorn.htm popcorn was essential to 16th century aztec indian ceremonies, which bernardino de sahagun writes, and also a number of young women danced, having so vowed, a popcorn dance.
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Juni:
Hi juni! I posted it only to show how unreasonable some of the JW doctrines and teachings are. Note-worthy of nothing more than a good laugh! Just like the popcorn history. With Thanksgiving and Christmas coming up, the JWs will be out in force wanting to hold special service days to counter-attack these celebrations. But when they hold (special) service days, they are in-effect (celebrating) that particular day also themselves! They just don't see it that way.
Cheers!
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Pagan Popcorn!
by Atlantis inif jws consider birthdays, christmas, and so forth pagan because of their origins, then perhaps jws shoud stop eating popcorn!.
popcorn history.
http://www.ht-express.com/howto-history-popcorn.htm popcorn was essential to 16th century aztec indian ceremonies, which bernardino de sahagun writes, and also a number of young women danced, having so vowed, a popcorn dance.
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If JWs consider birthdays, Christmas, and so forth pagan because of their origins, then perhaps JWs shoud STOP eating popcorn!
Popcorn History
http://www.ht-express.com/howto-history-popcorn.htm Popcorn was essential to 16th century Aztec Indian ceremonies, which Bernardino de Sahagun writes, “And also a number of young women danced, having so vowed, a popcorn dance. As thick as tassels of maize were their popcorn garlands. And these they placed upon (the girls’) heads.” The Aztec Indians used popcorn as a decoration for ceremonial headdresses, necklaces, and ornaments on statues of their gods, including Tlaloc, the god of rain and fertility.
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Serena's latest fashion faux pas......sheesh
by orbison11 insorry all, i couldnt cut and paste, but this should get you there... gotta see this 'little' number:).
orbi
http://channels.aolsvc.aol.ca/life/article.adp?id=20051104130509990004
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Serena Williams
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French wine and blood
by Kenneson inthe following article has caused quite a tizzy on a jehovah's witness board that i frequent.
it is entitled "french wine may contain cow's blood.
" kind of reminds me of the days of lecithin.
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http://anesthesiologyinfo.com/articles/02032002.php Blood Substitute Hemopure Approved for Use in Human Patients
(Originally posted 28 May 2001 on About Anesthesiology)
Hemopure, a blood substitute product from Biopure Corporation, has recently been approved for marketing and use in adult patients in South Africa. The product has the specific indication of acute anemia related to surgery. This is the first blood substitute to be approved in any country for general use.
Hemopure is a product that is made from highly purified bovine blood and only claims to provide a form of hemoglobin to assist in the delivery of oxygen to end organs and tissues. It does not substitute otherwise for blood - meaning that it may not improve hemodynamics in many cases. In addition, it differs from blood in that it has a shorter circulation time (only one or two days).
Hemopure does not require refrigeration, so it can be kept readily available for use in the operating room. In addition, the company claims that there is no risk for infection with this product. The manufacturing process removes or inactivates viruses, including HIV and hepatitis C.
In addition, some have been concerned because this is a product that comes from cows; the recent highlights on bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) has brought this issue to the forefront. However, the company states that this is not an issue or risk with this product, again because of the purification process.
Hemopure has been found to be acceptable for use for Jehovah's Witnesses, a group of patients that refuse the transfusion of human blood products for religious reasons. Other clinical applications remain to be determined as the product becomes available and further studies are done.
The product should be available in South Africa beginning in early 2002. The company plans to file for approval in Europe and the United States prior to the product's release in South Africa. They base their regulatory filings on over twenty clinical studies conducted in many countries.
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Thirsty after field service!
by Atlantis init sure is hot!
i think i'll have a couple of brewsky's after a hot day in field service!
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Charles Taze Russell & His Secret Mission To S. California That Killed Him
by West70 inthe last 5 months of charles taze russell's life was quite hectic, and according to reports in the watch tower magazine, russell's health was declining throughout.
in september, 1916, russell went on a convention train tour which lasted nearly the entire month.
this train tour included stops in several southern california locations around the 8th through the 12th.
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Stev:
Any questions that you may have about the letter should be directed to VM44, because he knows a lot more about the letter than I do. He posted it some time ago and I recorded it on a diskette. When Leolaia had made the request for it, I went to my old diskette to find it, and had not realized that VM44 had already provided a link for it. His link is in [larger] size than the old copy that I have and easier to see. VM44 would be the authority to ask concerning the letter!
Cheers!
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Charles Taze Russell & His Secret Mission To S. California That Killed Him
by West70 inthe last 5 months of charles taze russell's life was quite hectic, and according to reports in the watch tower magazine, russell's health was declining throughout.
in september, 1916, russell went on a convention train tour which lasted nearly the entire month.
this train tour included stops in several southern california locations around the 8th through the 12th.
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VM44
Thanks for the link! Your link is more clear than the copy I have anyway!