Second Thanksgiving
Nov. 25th, 2023 06:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerThanksgiving Travelog #13
Camp Hill, PA - Sat, 25 Nov 2023. 9pm.
This evening we had Second Thanksgiving. As I explained a few days ago— on first Thanksgiving— it's how my inlaws and their close friends celebrate major holidays. They both like to cook and entertain, so they take turns... on consecutive days for each! Though this time the days weren't quite consecutive; we had Friday off in between them. Why a day off? I think it's because for the family friends today was actually their Third Thanksgiving. As their kids have grown and started families of their own, they have even more holiday dinners to attend now. 😅
Tonight's gathering was smaller than Thursdays. The family friends came over by themselves. Their kids and grandkids were off on other things already. With Hawk and I and her brother as the other guests (all three of us have been staying at the house this weekend) we were a comfortable total of 7.
Dinner didn't seem huge, in the sense that bowls and platters didn't cover the table, but it was more than enough for the 7 of us. The main dishes were two kinds of meat: braised short ribs and smoked short ribs. Notice there was no turkey. Hawk doesn't care for it, nor do her brother or dad, I think. So we had an all-beef Second Thanksgiving. Ironically, though, Hawk didn't eat any of the meat tonight. "I've opted to eat a plant-based meal tonight," she noted. "That means vegetarian," she explained with a chuckle for the many gray-hairs at the table.
Her brother beat me to the obvious chiding rejoinder. "If you think about it at a high enough level," he quipped, "All meat is plant-based food."
"That's right," I joined in. "The cow has already gathered up all the plants for you, saving you effort, and turned them into taaasty beef!"
Humor aside, skipping the meat dishes is a choice she made during this one meal for health reasons. Traveling this past week has made it harder to stick to a healthy diet, and the fact it's an eating-oriented holiday makes it even tougher.
Camp Hill, PA - Sat, 25 Nov 2023. 9pm.
This evening we had Second Thanksgiving. As I explained a few days ago— on first Thanksgiving— it's how my inlaws and their close friends celebrate major holidays. They both like to cook and entertain, so they take turns... on consecutive days for each! Though this time the days weren't quite consecutive; we had Friday off in between them. Why a day off? I think it's because for the family friends today was actually their Third Thanksgiving. As their kids have grown and started families of their own, they have even more holiday dinners to attend now. 😅
Tonight's gathering was smaller than Thursdays. The family friends came over by themselves. Their kids and grandkids were off on other things already. With Hawk and I and her brother as the other guests (all three of us have been staying at the house this weekend) we were a comfortable total of 7.
Dinner didn't seem huge, in the sense that bowls and platters didn't cover the table, but it was more than enough for the 7 of us. The main dishes were two kinds of meat: braised short ribs and smoked short ribs. Notice there was no turkey. Hawk doesn't care for it, nor do her brother or dad, I think. So we had an all-beef Second Thanksgiving. Ironically, though, Hawk didn't eat any of the meat tonight. "I've opted to eat a plant-based meal tonight," she noted. "That means vegetarian," she explained with a chuckle for the many gray-hairs at the table.
Her brother beat me to the obvious chiding rejoinder. "If you think about it at a high enough level," he quipped, "All meat is plant-based food."
"That's right," I joined in. "The cow has already gathered up all the plants for you, saving you effort, and turned them into taaasty beef!"
Humor aside, skipping the meat dishes is a choice she made during this one meal for health reasons. Traveling this past week has made it harder to stick to a healthy diet, and the fact it's an eating-oriented holiday makes it even tougher.
