To You Charming Gardeners
Save for my spouse’s football games on TV, this Thanksgiving holiday is very quiet here. Our family celebrated together this past weekend because my youngest works in manufacturing at a facility which can’t shut down for holidays. They’re at work now as are millions of others who continue tend to our needs, forfeiting time with friends and family for us.
Someone sent me this graphic for which I have no originating attribution:
Thank you to the workforce whose labor has ensured our holiday feasting is amply endowed with this growing season’s finest.
Thank you especially to the undocumented workers who are worried about the incoming administration and what may happen to them and their families. Without these hard-working folks we would have a fraction of the produce and meats on our tables today.
Thank you to our neighbors Canada and Mexico, who likewise are concerned about what is to come, who have ensured our country’s economic growth through trade with the U.S. Some of the produce we’ve eaten this week wasn’t picked in the U.S. but imported from both Canada and Mexico.
It’s not easy to give thanks now. It’s tough to look past the pain of loss and the fear of what’s to come. But there may never be a better time to give thanks than right now, because we don’t know what lies ahead. Let’s do it while we can.
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” ― Marcel Proust
Thank you to you, our readers and donors who are the charming gardeners of this site. You help motivate us to slog on when it gets tough.
Best to you and yours this holiday. May we all find joy when we need it to keep us going in the year ahead.
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Thank you, Marcy and Rayne, for the bright shining beam of light in the darkness that is EmptyWheel. Hope you may both stand down for the day.
Thanks to the people who grow and process our food, and to all our friends and family (born or found)!
Thank you all. Appreciate everything you do here.
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I am happy to be spending today with good friends and fellow gardeners. One of the pies I will be taking is made with kabocha squash from my garden. Respect to the men and women whose work fills our tables, builds our infrastructure, keeps us healthy and every other aspect of daily life.
If you would like to try a kabocha squash pie here’s the recipe. It would be fine in a regular crust and I just made a basic graham cracker crust for this go around. I didn’t like the one they used. It’s even good without any crust.
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/411-kabocha-squash-pie?unlocked_article_code=1.dU4.Hd5-.8blOhaFaFnRP&smid=share-url
Thanks for that. I’ve made a crustless pumpkin pie using butternut squash. I’ll have to try it with kabocha which will probably be on sale this next week after the holiday. (This is the same recipe my son knows by heart and has used to impress girlfriends. LOL)
IMPOSSIBLE PUMPKIN PIE
INGREDIENTS:
1 cup canned pumpkin (not pumpkin pie mix)
1/2 cup Bisquick mix**
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup evaporated milk (not sweetened condensed milk)
1 tablespoon butter or margarine, softened
1 1/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
Whipped topping, if desired
INSTRUCTIONS:
Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease 9-inch pie plate.
Stir all ingredients except whipped topping until blended. Pour into pie plate.
Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until knife inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 30 minutes. Refrigerate about 3 hours or until chilled. Serve with whipped topping. Store covered in refrigerator.
Makes 6 servings
** Substitute Jiffy Baking Mix or other similar baking mix. Fat-free variations of mix not recommended.
Can substitute 1/2 cup self-rising flour but add 1 tablespoon of melted butter or neutral vegetable oil
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Heck, I still have cooked squash from last weekend, I could throw one of these together RTFN. And I won’t have my kids’ dogs under foot while I do it. Heh.
A very Happy Thanksgiving to all!
Last night while putting together a pumpkin pie, I realized I had sweetened condensed, not evaporated milk. Did you know that half and half is a substitute? I do now. It worked. (Happened to have half and half as a coffee creamer for guests.) Way off topic, evaporated milk works great in slow cookers for recipes that call for milk. Especially mac n cheese.
Thanks for this, and for all the gardeners.
Special shoutout and thanks to both EW and Nicole Sandler — it’s been hard for me to have enough EW time at my Big Screen, and so Nicole’s Fridays with EW have been an absolute godsend, keeping me in touch.
Also grateful for “Ball of Thread” and LOLGOP, and I hope to get through it by year’s end.
Happy Thanksgiving to all, from the place where the right-wing learned its chops… Germany.
Not too many folks here celebrate thanksgiving, while they likely didn’t arrive in Wampanoag land, and were greeted by a native speaking english, because he’d already been to London. You know, “Yo people of the funny hats, welcome, is Big Ben still running?”
Over the decades in San Francisco, turkey day was often celebrated by a before dawn boat ride out to Alcatraz, for the native anti-thanksgiving ceremony. I will never forget the honor of being asked to join the AIM drum.
Because of the time difference, my first site on the laptop many mornings is often emptywheel, for which i am very grateful here in Bremen. Vielen Dank an Marcy & Team.
PS. i saw jesus, and she was black.
It’s a good day to celebrate Danketag, wherever you are!
Happy Thanksgiving, Rayne, and to the entire Emptywheel crew.
Expressing my enormous thanks to you, Rayne, to EW, to the infrastructure and astute commenters that make this site the prize it is. Thanks also for the behind the scenes maintenance that we commenters never see, but that keep the site safe and functioning. Grateful to LOLGOP and the Ball of Thread enterprise as well; and a cheery shoutout to Nicole Sandler, whose Friday EW show is Leg 3 of the 3-legged stool (site, BOThread, Nicole Sandler) that serves as a kind of True North in my online universe (to mix a few metaphors). Humble thanks and best wishes to everyone, look forward to allying with you in whatever comes our way in at least the next couple of years.
I have so much to be grateful for, but in this space, I want to single out Marcy, Rayne and the rest of this wonderful community. Your stellar reporting, media criticism and the intelligent comments from all of you buoy my spirits more than I can say. A simple meal here today, with ingredients all coming from our little farm here on Lake Superior’s southern shore: Roast chicken, roasted root veggies, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie. Much love to you all.
just watch them floats .. nothing to see here .. move along .. move along
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgr0v5rdnkzo
Zelensky, those Ukraine girls really knock me out!
Zman, sry we gotta send you down the river, and yea it’s a strange way to be delivered.
But we got our own troubles over here and cannot fight our way out of a paper bag.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziWTZUztvFo
HAPPY THANKSGIVING
Particularly to the contributors and curators of Emptywheel
Marcy, Rayne, Peterr, Ed,Qinn
and all the members of the community.
I have plenty of reasons to be thankful to all of you.