Saturday, November 26, 2005

Gobble Gobble

So I'm not sure if I've gone into the fact that I pretty much hate all "national" holidays except Thanksgiving.

Christmas: commercialized and cloying
New Year's: cold, crowded, kissing at midnight
Valentine's Day: horrible if you're single, pressure-filled if you're not
4th of July: hot, bugs, traffic
Halloween: Too Much Candy

... and that brings me to Thanksgiving, which is great because (setting aside for a moment the whole Native American genocide aspect) I love the concept of a day set aside just for gratitude. Also, there's nothing to do but eat. Which, as you know, is one of my favorite activities.

I also happen to adore Thanksgiving food. In particular, I love cranberries (in fact, one year I attended the New England Cranberry Festival, and let me tell you, it was memorable). I also love this yam-marshmallow-pineapple concoction, to which I like to refer as food of the gods.
I acknowledge that this particular dish has probably never been featured in Gourmet, but I am not a food snob, so I'll heartily endorse it.

I spent Thanksgiving at home with my family, until I was stuffed and bored enough to come back "to the bean" (as my brother refers to Boston aka Beantown) yesterday afternoon. Since then I have polished off my take-home portion of the remaining yam combo (I ate all of it), the leftover turkey, and this cheese/corn casserole that my mom makes. Similarly gluttonously, I watched most of the second season of the L-word on DVD before succumbing to a night of tryptophan-and-Showtime-TV-enhanced sleep.

And now, it is 1 p.m., and it is time to finish my essay for my writing group (which is overdue), work on some job stuff, and get my ass to the gym. Nothing like a little blogging to kick off some productivity.

Posted by Dori at 12:59 PM

1 Comments

  1. Blogger hucpuc posted at 11:34 PM  
    My status as a founding member of the Grinnell Narcoleptic Obesity Team (GNOT) should indicate my love for eating until I pass out. So it is with some experience that I can impart my family's famous thanksgiving recipe: Apple-Mallow-Yam-Yum. Basically you slice up candied yams and peeled apples, toss with chopped pecans, cinnamon, and sugar, layer in baking pan, dot with margarine and bake at 350 deg. for 40 min, then layer marshmallows on top and broil until toasted. Yum.

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