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Wow. And what did you do in your spare time today, Yooly?
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Ain’t no spare time during the holidays! I go until I collapse in a heap of exhaustion. 😵💫😴1
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curl up and have a GREAT Thanksgiving... you and all our friends "down south"!2
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I was being facetious, Yooly! Can't believe what you accomplished in a day.1
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lauriekallis wrote: »I was being facetious, Yooly! Can't believe what you accomplished in a day.
Oh I know Laurie! I can’t believe I did all this every holiday season and hold down a demanding full time job with miserable commute. It’s all about making memories, no?2 -
Today I am receiving a volunteer delivered Thanksgiving meal that is coming from a local church and delivered to me by a younger tenant in my senior apartment complex. She is also delivering one for the neighbor who I play Scrabble with on a weekly basis. We plan to eat it together as a shared meal.
Afterwards, she is going to go back to watching the football game in her apartment, and I am going to start on the door decoration for the Christmas season. I have a unique plan for it, turning wire coat hangers into a frame for a 'wind-chime' effect using heirloom Christmas ornaments collected during the past 60 years. I'm only going to use the flat ones and will be careful to fully secure them so nothing goes amiss with them as the door is opened and shut and people walk past in the hallway.
I am grateful for the volunteer lady bringing in a meal for me today. It will most likely be off plan ... but there is no plan to follow on Thanksgiving Day beyond not over-stuffing myself.
Happy Thanksgiving all USA folks who celebrate if today.5 -
I didn't realize that today was Thanksgiving for you folks in the USA - I thought it was on the weekend. Duh.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!2 -
And just in case it wasn't clear earlier: Happy 🦃Thanksgiving 🦃 y'all!😘2
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Nsk, I hope you and your friend shared a lovely meal. How lovely of your neighbor to deliver Thanksgiving dinner for both of you! Thanksgiving is just one of those days when I just don’t worry about logging. Nothing on the list of traditional foods is low calorie!
We can all do better tomorrow. At least you don’t have a fridge full of leftovers!3 -
There ARE benefits to getting the food delivered, right? MAYBE!
Hope you all had a great time!
In the oven... attempt #2 of pumpkin delight! This one is with less eggs (because I only had two left), same amount of custard/corn starch powder, less almond milk, less sucralose, an overabundance of greek yogurt (I absentmindedly dumped in twice as much as I was planning to because I was on the phone
) baked it at a lower temperature (closer to 325 than 350) for a much longer time... haven't checked it out yet! 2 -
While I admire your adventuresome kitchen experiments PAV, aren’t you consuming LOTS of 🥧 pies? The serving size of the crustless pie recipe is 1/8 of the pie! Even with creative substitutes your pie making pace is impressive. I’m not adventurous with baking because it’s a chemistry exercise with little wiggle room. And I’m not willing to eat the failures.
Hubby had two chunks of pie today, son had 0 (not a fan of sweets), I also had 0 because I was too full from dinner. Maybe tomorrow if hubby doesn’t finish it off. I hear it’s good though. 😁.
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I went and ate with my mom, sons, my ex-husband and my mom's friend. (Yes, my ex and I are still friends.) It was just fine, but Mom as usual got all worked up about doing the meal, and inevitably muffed some things up. I think I'll do my own next year, as I prefer.
Now to worry about the Christmas presents.3 -
aren’t you consuming LOTS of 🥧 pies? The serving size of the crustless pie recipe is 1/8 of the pie! Even with creative substitutes your pie making pace is impressive. And I’m not willing to eat the failures.
Hey: you havez to be willingz to eat your own dogfood... hence I only make dog-food with human grade ingredients (but I digress!)
It would have to be truly unsaveable and not worth the calories to be turfed! Over two days I am at almost 6000 Calories to maintain. Both pies together (because of substitutions) add up to about 1/4 that. And I'm using them as meals too!
What's this service size stuff? Isn't the serving size of a pie... a pie and a bit?!?!?! 
This one is actually not bad. Trying to figure it out a bit as I "straighten it out" in the plate. Do you know how much I overshot the sucralose yesterday? I used 1/5th today and it is STILL quite sweet! As an homage to Laurie I sprinkled 24g of granulated sugar on top and some extra cinnamon!
Onwards... needed more egg I think for sure. Actually I'm going to zip down to buy some eggs. Not sure if I have more cans of pumpkin around... wondering if things are turning ORANGE inside! 1 -
Ah - if the pie is a meal then OK! I do admire the experimentation. I’m not brave or patient enough to do that. It’s either good or bad as is. Minor tweaks maybe but no big overhauls of recipes for baking. Definitely can’t do the sucralose or stevia because of the weird after taste. And weird stomach issues. Like Alexandra’s mom, I’d muff things up so badly no one would be happy.
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So still in the "Thanksgiving mindset", today I plan to cook a casserole I saw a YouTuber make that looked like something fitting for anytime winter squash and cauliflower are available ... It's basically a combination of cauliflower florets and dollops of winter squash that have been steamed to half cooked, layered in a casserole dish with a little bit of white sauce (butter, flour, salt, pepper, milk) spread over the top and then a bit of shredded cheese on top of that and baked until browned on top. Hope it comes out tasty as it's one of those dishes that can be a side or a main meal.
My Thanksgiving meal yesterday was real good. I don't have a microwave but my neighbor does. As it arrived around breakfast or brunch time I kept it chilled in the fridge and we ate at early dinner time. And, it was all 'real' food ... 1/2 cup each of mashed potato, squash, stuffing, 3-4 ounces of turkey breast with a bit of gravy, a dinner roll with a pat of butter and a piece of apple crumb cake with a dollop of whipped topping. ... When I entered it into the food diary it came in at just over 1000 calories. It was a good tasting meal. However, I was hungry enough to have a light snack before I could fall asleep last night. ...
@PAV8888 ... Pumpkin Delight ... sounds interesting. Hope you master the recipe to your liking so you will have it all written down for anytime later you want to make me. I like pumpkin chiffon type mixtures , pumpkin and rice risotto-type porridges cooked on milk, and with a few raisins tossed in for the sweetness they provide.3 -
I'm venturing out for the ingredients soon. I'm not wanting the sugar, PAV. That half is just to see what the real recipe should be like. I'll probably have a bit and give it to my cousin. I don't currently have any pure stevia which is what I would like to try...but I do have some maple syrup...so that will sweeten the test side of today's experiment. I'm also thinking this will be a meal option for me. A brunch kind of thing
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I made the cauliflower and squash in bechamel sauce casserole yesterday and absolutely loved it. I hope it tastes as good reheated as it did new out of the oven.3
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Nsk - how could that casserole not be good today! Sometimes the reheated version is even better the next day.
We had thanksgiving leftovers today and I swear it was all better today.2 -
The cauli idea sounds like it would be awesome second day food! Will have to look up pumpkin chiffon haven't had time to experiment extra. didn't even get the extra eggs yet
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@PAV8888 AllRecipes has a pumpkin chiffon pie recipe that is pretty good. It uses sugar, eggs and evaporated milk and is usually put into a graham cracker crust. Probably more calories, sugar, fat than you are trying to come up with. However, I have made it and put it into pudding cups instead of serving it as a pie so that I could cut the calories for the graham cracker crust off my servings. Good luck in your quest for a light calorie pumpkin pie that you will create! It will be a 'family secret' and worth the effort.3
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Spent the holiday back where I used to live with family. Had a wonderful time. Thanksgiving dinner was not great. The restaurant we normally go to for their buffet really changed things up and not for the better. So that sucked. But it was nice spending time with my family.
Got home yesterday and spent today getting some stuff done for my next trip. Just a few days before I leave for Disney! Really looking forward to the food there!2 -
Hey @nsk1951 .... project is on pause due to time constraints but... it is joining the chocolate brownie made with strange ingredients quest! Most successful I think (tastewise) used japanese purple yams (and yogurt)!!! LEAST successful brownie I think had pumpkin though I think the zucchini one was the worst and one of the very few that I've outright turfed! The pumpkin came out nice enough and, tbh, without the cooking I did use to mix in pumpkin and greek yogurt and a bit of chocolate and sucralose as a "desert" at times... so it is not as if pumpkin never hit the menu. Nah if the calorie count goes up... then it fails a major point. I mean for me the idea is to entertain while cutting down the calories! 2
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Gym this morning. Did some extra penitent weight reps.
I made a double batch of biscochito cookie dough and popped it in the freezer for baking in a few weeks. Biscochitos are a delicious New Mexican cookie made with lard. Dusted with cinnamon sugar. And no you can’t substitute the lard because it won’t be the same!! Made up and froze the almond spritz cookie dough yesterday. Just waiting for a day under 75 degrees to crank up the oven. I’ll be giving most away so they don’t tempt me.
Athijade - I’ve also been disappointed in favorite restaurants lately. I expected price increases but the poor quality and lack of decent service is surprising. Menus have shrunk. Some places won’t substitute anything- like more green veggies rather than mashed potatoes.3 -
I find that a lot of things are excusable including price increases though I question the level of some of the ones I see. But things like not giving you what you want/ask for/expect on top? Much less so. And reason enough FOR ME to drop/substitute with other available options.
TBH same applies to 30% default tip options. Which I am starting to implement.
TBH #2: Yes, during lockdowns without price increases it did make sense to me for tips to increase as people were struggling with reduced custom and correspondingly income. At this stage we have increased prices (which automatically means higher tips).
And just as a perspective 18% from 15% is a 20% tip increase/inflation. 15% to 20% tip increase is 33.33% inflation.
Not 6% or 8% or even 10%. On top of the natural increase because of the increase in price.
This doesn't even count the fact that my local subway now defaults to 20% tip and inquiries seem to indicate that the workers are not exactly seeing most of it. Or the many additional places that are putting out tip jars.
And to see how fast these things embed, as I am writing this I am considering that I would consider myself chintzy if I didn't hit the 20% button.3 -
On the struggle bus this morning for sure. I just have no drive when it comes to doing anything but preparing for this trip. Having trouble focusing on what I am supposed to be doing. Plus, I am tired today. No clue why. Been sleeping well. But I would love to go back to bed at the moment.
Still have some packing to do and I have to get a table that I brought from Indiana out of the back of the car. The amount of clothes I packed is insane. I will be gone 10 days! Just super excited to get back to my happy place and to forget all about the rest of the world for a bit.
Don't expect to hear much from me while I am gone.I will be too busy having fun, riding rides, and eating all the awesome food. Especially the seasonal offerings!3 -
Over the past couple of days I have worked on creating door decoration for the Christmas season. I didn't want to buy a wreath or anything else and simply use stuff I had on hand; which meant I had to find a way to hang it/them over the door without needing to buy an over-the-door hook.
Were I still in my own home, I would simply hang those same wreaths I've had for years on the two sides of the outside door, stick a whole bunch of juniper and cedar branches into the urns set on each side of the front door and decorate them. I left all that stuff behind when I moved to my apartment ... and there is no outside door to decorate. And I do want to decorate ... it cheers me up whenever I enter and exit ... Thus my new creation.
Side one is a green 'pine' garland wrapped around a metal clothes hanger that is shaped to encircle the door knocker on the face of the door. It has a stand of tiny glass beads chain with some bells on them loosely wrapped around the pine garland, a spray decoration at the top to cover the wrapped hook, a huge Christmas themed ribbon at the neck of the hook and a few flat Christmas ornaments strung here and there. I think it came out beautiful.
The other side is a wire card holder that will hang on an angle and it has flat Christmas ornaments hanging off the bars to hold the cards. There is also a string of those beads with bells. As cards arrive they will add to the door decor, and anytime the door is opened I will here jingly bells that will remind me of one of my favorite Christmas songs.
Both of these door decorations will be attached to a couple of stands of thin green ribbon that will hang over the door and attach them to one another. No door hooks needed ... however I do have to find one or two flat topped thumbtacks ... or hope that packing tape will do the job of holding those door decorations in place. This morning I will go through the stuff in the storage room and hope to find what I need.2 -
Do send photos Nsk! We might get some decor inspiration.
We’re working on cutting down the holiday decorations but hubby is loathe to part with anything sentimental - to him.3 -
Wow! You guys are... shaming me! I reminded dad today that his new "conquests" will be expecting Christmas cards and small gifts for Christmas For myself I will start looking soon for the Christmas colored party hat I was using as a substitute tree on the kitchen table--which I think was taken down after a year and a half in July or so! ROFLOL Maybe get a hat for dad's place too?!?!?!?! 1
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Hey dad’s ladies might appreciate these although I know you’re a pseudo-grinch at heart.
For us crafty folk this is an easy project that takes little time or effort. All you need are some good free standing pine cones, miniature pompoms and a glue gun.
If the pinecone is wonky you can clip off errant pieces. You can do green or white paint if you like. I keep mine simple - cone and pompoms, no paint, no bases. You can use glue but it takes longer,
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I need to get the tree out and do the decorating. Yesterday I slept a lot of the day. I suspect it was the recent excitement catching up with me.4
