HAPPY THANKSGIVING
I’m not sure if Thanksgiving Day is the same in your culture as it is in mine, but I wish you all a blessed, safe & happy day.
Thanks for being a good neighbor.
Thanks ever so much for the kind thought, Ate so much I beleive New waders will be in the future…LOL
Yes, Happy Holiday and thanks Canada, i remember you well and fondly ! Stage, mind if i ask what a typical NS giving thanks day meal consisted of at your place ? I ask because a not too distant ancestor hailed from Halifax.
Cheers,
MontanaMoose
Happy Thanksgiving, y’all.
Ed
Pretty Much the same…
Turkey as big as you can get, gravy, mashed Potatoes,Turnip,squash,carrots,Sweet potatoes roasted!!!my fav, Carrots
and the crem de le crem
Pumpkin/carrot cake with cream cheese frosting and pumpkin pie
Jesh I am hungry allover again LOL
Happy Thanksgiving Day Canada!
Happy Thanksgiving to all of Canada!
Stage1 - It’s a little after 3.00AM here and I’m not supposed to be thinking of food, but now I can’t get the thought of turkey with all the trimmings out of my head. THANKS! LOL!!
Best regards to all our Canadian neighbors, Dave S. (fishdog54)
Oh crap forgot the apple Cranberrie stuffing…
Here is a ? Why does the US and Canada celebrate Thanksgiving on differnt days… I am thinking it is due to the Harvest times for each country
Thanks Stage…well we do all that except i can’t like turnips but the rest is fine and have roasted plenty of sweet taters here too. Ok, the Pumpkin/carrot cake. That’s a new
one here. Wifey wants to bake one but asks for a recipe?
Cheers,
MontanaMoose
Our Thanksgiving was based on European Harvest Feasts/Celebrations and brought to Canada by Explorer Martin Frobisher who was thankful to have made it to Newfoundland alive…
Copied this tidbit from a web source, this will surprise a few of y’all he he
" Americans did not invent Thanksgiving. It began in Canada. Frobisher’s celebration in 1578 was 43 years before the pilgrims gave thanks in 1621 for the bounty that ended a year of hardships and death. Abraham Lincoln established the date for the US as the last Thursday in November. In 1941, US Congress set the National Holiday as the fourth Thursday in November.
Frobisher and early colonists, giving thanks for safe passage, as well as pilgrim celebrations in the US that began the traditions of turkeys, pumpkin pies, and the gathering of family and friends.
DuFf
Stage1 and Montana Moose,
Thought I would jump in here with a recipe for a Pumkin Carrot Cake. I am interested in seeing how it compares to Stage1’s recipe.
Larry —sagefisher—
Pumpkin Carrot Cake
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup milk
1 1/2 teaspoons lemon juice
3 large eggs
1 1/4 cups LIBBY’S? 100% Pure Pumpkin
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 (8-ounce) can crushed pineapple, drained
1 cup grated carrots (about 3 medium)
1 cup sweetened flaked coconut
1 cup chopped, toasted nuts, divided use
Cream Cheese Frosting (recipe follows)
Preheat oven to 350?F (175?C).
Place nuts on a cookie tray and place in oven for 6 to 7 minutes
Grease two 9-inch-round baking pans.
Combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt in small bowl. Combine milk and lemon juice in liquid measuring cup (mixture will appear curdled).
Beat eggs, pumpkin, granulated sugar, brown sugar, oil, pineapple, carrots and milk mixture in large mixer bowl; mix well. Gradually add flour mixture; beat until combined. Stir in coconut and 3/4 cup nuts. Pour into prepared baking pans.
Bake for 30 to 35 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans for 15 minutes. Remove to wire racks to cool completely.
Frost between layers, on sides and top of cake with Cream Cheese Frosting. Garnish with remaining nuts. Store in refrigerator.
For Cream Cheese Frosting: Combine 11 ounces softened cream cheese, 1/3 cup softened butter and 3 1/2 cups sifted powdered sugar in large mixer bowl until fluffy. Add 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, 2 teaspoons orange juice and 1 teaspoon grated orange peel; beat until combined.
DuffinBoy,
I will raise my glass in toast to the Canadians during our American celebration of Thanksgiving! Thanks for the history lesson.
sagefisher,
Thanks for sharing the recipe. Now I just have to convince someone who knows their way around an oven to make it for me. Can you make it in a toaster oven? LOL!!!
Best regards, Dave S.
Thanks Larry, i’ll run that recipe by the one that knows her way around the oven !
George