Thanksgiving feast questions from a Canadian to my American friends...

[Green Ghost]

12 minutes ago, Trotter said:

My uncle would drink paisano wine.

came in a gallon jug and he would drink it to chase down smelts

Trot… I’m your uncle! 😂😂😂😂

fried smelts are the best!

[Ron Rico]

I know this, home made Italian wine (and Portuguese) is 12 to 17 proof. That hooch will **** you up. 

[Trotter]

2 minutes ago, Green Ghost said:

Trot… I’m your uncle! 😂😂😂😂

fried smelts are the best!

That would be great but in a way I hope not - he could have been Larry from the 3 stooges double - especially when he was hammered

[CanadienJetsFan]

18 minutes ago, Ron Rico said:

Ricatta

It’s ricotta, not ricatta 

[Ron Rico]

Just now, CanadienJetsFan said:

It’s ricotta, not ricatta 

Damn you, spell check!!!

[Green Ghost]

@Trotter there’s a wine my grandparents always had, and I stumbled upon it in a liquor store a few years back. I can’t remember the name right now, but I’ll hit you up in a couple weeks with the name of  it. I always grab a few bottles around Christmas time.

It’s only about $8-9 a bottle (has a yellow label) but it reminds me of the homemade wine that they used to make in Brooklyn basements. It’s the exact opposite of that bougie type wine @Sperm Edwards  and @Warfish are talking about. 😉

[Trotter]

Just now, Green Ghost said:

@Trotter there’s a wine my grandparents always had, and I stumbled upon it in a liquor store a few years back. I can’t remember the name right now, but I’ll hit you up in a couple weeks with the name of  it. I always grab a few bottles around Christmas time.

It’s only about $8-9 a bottle (has a yellow label) but it reminds me of the homemade wine that they used to make in Brooklyn basements. It’s the exact opposite of that bougie type wine @Sperm Edwards is talking about. 😉

Let me know

[Joejet]

19 minutes ago, Green Ghost said:

You’re in the Carolinas also, have you had a deep fried Turkey yet? 

Actually years ago when I lived in NY but not here in NC.

[Trotter]

2 minutes ago, Ron Rico said:

Damn you, spell check!!!

Something to try

2/3 Rds ricotta and 1/3 rd mascarpone

adss a little sweetness

thst is what I use in lasagna

[CanadienJetsFan]

Being Italian-Canadian thanksgiving was as the old timers would say,

il giorno du tachino 

turkey day or not, lasagna, meatballs, even a nice wedding day soup ( little pastene and little meatballs) was always served. The bird was the side attraction.

anyway, 

Only until we began Fried turkey did it become something interesting meal-wise.

Grazie America!

Happy thanksgiving to all my American NYJ fans!

[Trotter]

@Beerfish great thread

so much better than the garbage the past week or so

[Green Ghost]

15 minutes ago, Ron Rico said:

I know this, home made Italian wine (and Portuguese) is 12 to 17 proof. That hooch will **** you up. 

My brother in law used to have cases of a Greek wine called Creta shipped over every year, but for some reason he can’t get it anymore.

That sh*t was really good.

[Beerfish]

I make my own wine from pears and raspberries in my yard.  🤓

[Green Ghost]

1 minute ago, Trotter said:

@Beerfish great thread

so much better than the garbage the past week or so

👍 For sure.

[Green Ghost]

Any of you guys do the peaches in wine thing? Soooooo good!

I even have my neighbors doing it, and they’re from Georgia. They thought I was crazy when I first told them about it,

[Beerfish]

2 minutes ago, Trotter said:

@Beerfish great thread

so much better than the garbage the past week or so

Every so often we need something to take our minds off the Jets.  😁

[Ron Rico]

1 minute ago, Green Ghost said:

Any of you guys do the peaches in wine thing? Soooooo good!

Sounds like a Sangria thing

[Adoni Beast]

13 minutes ago, CanadienJetsFan said:

It’s ricotta, not ricatta 

But it’s pronounced “Ri-gutta”

[Green Ghost]

2 minutes ago, Ron Rico said:

Sounds like a Sangria thing

Sorta, but not really?

. You peel and core the peaches (the softer the better) stuff as many as you can into a carafe of red wine. Let it sit for at least a few hours then you stick a fork in and go to town. 
You can get pretty bombed because they’re so tasty you won’t want to stop. When the peaches are gone, then you can drink the wine, which I guess does taste like a sangria by then. 😉

[Joejet]

A lot of wine talk here but as a good boy of German descent I’m pretty much a beer drinker.

[Green Ghost]

12 minutes ago, Adoni Beast said:

But it’s pronounced “Ri-gutta”

My family leaves off the last vowel with a lot of things, and a c is pronounced g. 🙄

Rigutt, galamad, gannol etc. and yet baccala is baccala.

Mozzarella is mootsadell. 🤷‍♂️

[Adoni Beast]

3 minutes ago, Green Ghost said:

My family leaves off the last vowel with a lot of things, and a c is pronounced g. 🙄

Rigutt, galamad, gannol etc.

Yup same here but I can’t bring myself to leave off the vowel for ricotta. It sounds like someone scraped their balls on the tip of a thorn bush.

[Green Ghost]

We need to get @The Crusher @Dcat and @southparkcpa in here…

[Adoni Beast]

23 minutes ago, Green Ghost said:

Any of you guys do the peaches in wine thing? Soooooo good!

I even have my neighbors doing it, and they’re from Georgia. They thought I was crazy when I first told them about it,

[doitny]

44 minutes ago, Green Ghost said:

I’m guessing you go all out on Christmas Eve also with the Seven Fish?

for us its 5 fishes cause none of the new generation goes to crazy for fish. usually Flounder, fried shrimp, galamar, baked clams, Lobster tails. used to make scungilli salad but only a few eat it.

but im with you guys with Thanksgiving. since we eat late maybe 4-5 pm i buy all Italian cold cuts and olives. tomorrow morning i will buy some fresh twist bread and we will pick on that until the turkey.

you remember tripe? i hate it. i remember they use to always make that when i was a kid. i cant remember what holiday it was. maybe Thanksgiving.

[Green Ghost]

1 minute ago, doitny said:

for us its 5 fishes cause none of the new generation goes to crazy for fish. usually Flounder, fried shrimp, galamar, baked clams, Lobster tails. used to make scungilli salad but only a few eat it.

but im with you guys with Thanksgiving. since we eat late maybe 4-5 pm i buy all Italian cold cuts and olives. tomorrow morning i will buy some fresh twist bread and we will pick on that until the turkey.

you remember tripe? i hate it. i remember they use to always make that when i was a kid. i cant remember what holiday it was. maybe Thanksgiving.

Agree. Tripe was a one and done thing with me… 

[The Crusher]

2 minutes ago, Green Ghost said:

We need to get @The Crusher @Dcat and @southparkcpa in here…

My wife isn’t Italian so she Cooks a very traditional thanksgiving compared to my mother and grandmother. We always started with a soup, great grandmother made  a pizza pie to much on while waiting to eat. Usually like a meatball soup. Then they would cook Sunday dinner for the most part. We wouldn’t even eat Turkey typically till sandwiches later in between games. Mom or Grandma sent everyone home  with Turkey, stuffing, veggies and whatever was left. Sometimes first time you saw something was once you got home. Wouldn’t even make the table. Once dessert started and my grandfather started putting whiskey, Annisette, Frangelico in the black coffee memories faded. Haha So fun back then. 

[Paradis]

1 hour ago, Sperm Edwards said:

Men who drink wine are insufferable.

[Trotter]

2 minutes ago, The Crusher said:

My wife isn’t Italian so she Cooks a very traditional thanksgiving compared to my mother and grandmother. We always started with a soup, great grandmother made  a pizza pie to much on while waiting to eat. Usually like a meatball soup. Then they would cook Sunday dinner for the most part. We wouldn’t even eat Turkey typically till sandwiches later in between games. Mom or Grandma sent everyone home  with Turkey, stuffing, veggies and whatever was left. Sometimes first time you saw something was once you got home. Wouldn’t even make the table. Once dessert started and my grandfather started putting whiskey, Annisette, Frangelico in the black coffee memories faded. Haha So fun back then. 

Frangelico - priceless

don’t forget the galiano

[Adoni Beast]

44 minutes ago, Ron Rico said:

I know this, home made Italian wine (and Portuguese) is 12 to 17 proof. That hooch will **** you up. 

Hooch is such an underrated word. 
 

[Green Ghost]

1 minute ago, The Crusher said:

My wife isn’t Italian so she Cooks a very traditional thanksgiving compared to my mother and grandmother. We always started with a soup, great grandmother made  a pizza pie to much on while waiting to eat. Usually like a meatball soup. Then they would cook Sunday dinner for the most part. We wouldn’t even eat Turkey typically till sandwiches later in between games. Mom or Grandma sent everyone home  with Turkey, stuffing, veggies and whatever was left. Sometimes first time you saw something was once you got home. Wouldn’t even make the table. Once dessert started and my grandfather started putting whiskey, Annisette, Frangelico in the black coffee memories faded. Haha So fun back then. 

Sounds like Thanksgiving at my grandparents house also.

We’d get in the car to leave Brooklyn stuffed to the gills, but by the time we got home to Long Island the smell of the Turkey and leftovers in the trunk made us hungry again.

We’d get in the house and start eating again.

[Green Ghost]

5 minutes ago, Trotter said:

Frangelico - priceless

don’t forget the galiano

Love Frangelico, but it’s Anissetta(?) for the win for me. Sambuca works in a pinch. Amaretto is okay, just not my go to.

[JiFtheOracle]

1 hour ago, Sperm Edwards said:

Men who drink wine are insufferable.

This year, in addition to doing the turkey, I'm doing a wine pairing from w/ all the incredible estate bottles we purchased when we visited Paso/Sonoma/Napa during the harvest.  We will be starting w/ a delicious Rose, finding our way to a delightful Pinot w/ the Turkey and then busting out a 40 year old Port w/ dessert. 

 

[Green Ghost]

6 minutes ago, Adoni Beast said:

Hooch is such an underrated word. 
 

That’s what the country boys down here call their moonshine.

[Green Ghost]

1 minute ago, JiF said:

This year, in addition to doing the turkey, I'm doing a wine pairing from w/ all the incredible estate bottles we purchased when we visited Paso/Sonoma/Napa during the harvest.  We will be starting w/ a delicious Rose, finding our way to a delightful Pinot w/ the Turkey and then busting out a 40 year old Port w/ dessert.