Tag Archives: Thanksgiving

Don’t forget the $66 side dish.

Retailer Neiman Marcus has unveiled a $66 (plus $15.50 shipping) side dish of frozen collard greens.  That’s right, folks..for the low, low price of $81.50, you can have some frozen greens delivered frozen to your door.  Can you say, “More money than sense” here?  COLLARD GREENS.  ALMOST $100 FOR COLLARD GREENS. My entire Thanksgiving meal […]

I refuse to get stressed out this holiday season.

You know what?  I am so over being stressed out from November to January.  The minute (and usually before) the Halloween decorations come down, retailers begin bombarding us with holiday advertising.  Before I’ve even bought a turkey for Thanksgiving, stores have Christmas decorations up. The pressure is on…holiday flyers arriving weekly in the mail.  TV […]

Thanksgiving With A Side Of Pork Fried Rice.

I come from a family of cooks.  Serious, Bon Appetit reading, spices you’ve never heard of using, take no prisoners, start cooking a week before Thanksgiving cooks.  And then there’s me.  My first solo turkey was in 1993 in Charleston, SC.  I cooked the giblets in the turkey and had to throw the whole thing […]