Hello all,
Friends of ours who moved to Australia from the US are having a Thanksgiving BBQ, I was thinking it would be nice to bring something that is traditionally served on thanksgiving.
I was wondering if you guys had any suggestions?
It's almost summer here, it will be in the park, I wouldn't mind getting a game of American football going but I think only our friends husband and I (Go the Redskins) understand (me very badly) the rules.
I don't have any equipment for baseball.....cricket being the countries stick and ball game.
Is there anything else you guys do on thanksgiving?
Eat turkey and take a nap really.
We usually have turkey with stuffing, and mashed potatoes, and a pumpkin pie and whatnot; sweet potatoes, some people like cranberries, but I don't care about them.
Oh; popcorn was invented by the native americans, and they served it at the first thanksgiving.
Now we eat it at movies though.
Cool popcorn is quick and easy...
It sounds like Boxing Day, you eat Christmas leftovers and put the cricket on TV and go to sleep.
I don't think people know about popcorn though; it's not really a tradition or anything.
Bummer about the popcorn not being a part of the tradition I thought I was going to look hip and cool ;-)
Mrs 8th Dwarf is going to cook something spectacular as usual... So I will have to piggyback off her success. :-)
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Green bean casserole is traditional around here. Easy to make, too. I much prefer it with thin-sliced green beans.
Cool, that does look easy.
I don't think we have anything like the french fried onions. I am guessing they are onion rings.
There might be some in our local supermarket for some unexplainable reason onion rings aren't popular in Australia and we love to dip stuff in batter and fry it.
Oh yeah pumpkin pie ftw! My mother in law is American and when I first heard of this desert I was skeptical but it rocks.
Cool, that does look easy.
I don't think we have anything like the french fried onions. I am guessing they are onion rings.
There might be some in our local supermarket for some unexplainable reason onion rings aren't popular in Australia and we love to dip stuff in batter and fry it.
I found a little on the topic.
If you can make real onion rings, I guarantee the yanks will love it. Even people who don't like green beans will usually scarf it down.
Oh yeah pumpkin pie ftw! My mother in law is American and when I first heard of this desert I was skeptical but it rocks.
This, too. Pumpkin pie, with a little whipped cream. It's awesome.
Cool, that does look easy.
I don't think we have anything like the french fried onions. I am guessing they are onion rings.
There might be some in our local supermarket for some unexplainable reason onion rings aren't popular in Australia and we love to dip stuff in batter and fry it.
I found a little on the topic.
If you can make real onion rings, I guarantee the yanks will love it. Even people who don't like green beans will usually scarf it down.
I just looked at the link ...... so they are freeze dried fried onions? I can get those by the bucket load from the Asian grocery store about a block away Super easy....
Yummm pumpkin pie, my cousin made it once at christmas, I don't have enough time or skill to pull that one off.
Many thanks.
Hey! If you can get canned pumpkin, it's very easy, too. This recipe is straight off the can, and a staple of Thanksgiving meals in the US and Canada. Not hard at all.
Just give it time to cool. Best served at room temp or slightly chilled.
The Green bean casserole has been made and are cooling down - we are leaving in about 20mins.
Helaman - I am not sure if Kangaroo would be Kosher. We like to try new cooking new stuff.
Green bean casserole is traditional around here. Easy to make, too. I much prefer it with thin-sliced green beans.
The green bean casserole went really well thanks for the recipe HRE.
I am so full of turkey, pumpkin pie, and pecan slice I could explode.
We had a lot of fun sitting in the sun drinking beer and talking. It reminds me of boxing day.
hi there, 8th Dwarf
how are you? good to see your still around these boards.
( I got nothing to say on topic, sorry)
I never imagined that people ate kangaroo. I don't like red meat at all but that is mostly a matter of taste. However, something about eating a kangaroo would bother me, I think.The Green bean casserole has been made and are cooling down - we are leaving in about 20mins.
Helaman - I am not sure if Kangaroo would be Kosher. We like to try new cooking new stuff.
Well, there are some strange people that are squeamish about eating horse meat and donkeys...
Myself I could not stand the thought of eating a cat and probably chimpanzee and dolphin.
Aeglos - Hello :-) Work and life have not been co-operative enough for me to spend the amount of time I would like on the boards. I do post here and there and I do have a read now and then.
Bill - Kangaroos are not endangered animals eating kangaroo is far more enviromentaly friendly than sheep and cattle. Hooved animals rip up Australias very thin soil causing massive ammounts of erosion and with the erosion comes the dust storms. Kangaroos have padded feet and do not cause erosion. Because a lot of forrest has been cleared for sheep and cattle this has created the ideal conditions for the big Kangaroos they will hit plague numbers during the wet times and then when the droughts come they die painfully of starvation in their hundreds of thousands. Farmers either have to let them starve or ruduce their numbers so there is less competion for food and water.
Eating kangaroo is like eating deer it's flavour is strong and the meat is very lean. If over cooked it is a bit tough and it is very easy to over cook. Kangaroo and Rosemary sausages are a good first dish. Interestingly stir fry and Thai style cooking are best ways to eat kangaroo.
I think the aversion to eating Kangaroo is a combination of the Bambi factor and that the staple meat source for people of European origins is sheep and cattle. Anything different is strange. My great grandfathers ancestors only had the animals native to Australia to eat and to them cows and sheep were weird.
Green bean casserole is traditional around here. Easy to make, too. I much prefer it with thin-sliced green beans.The green bean casserole went really well thanks for the recipe HRE.
I am so full of turkey, pumpkin pie, and pecan slice I could explode.
We had a lot of fun sitting in the sun drinking beer and talking. It reminds me of boxing day.
Fantastic!
Now I wanna try kangaroo.
Kobold feasting on oversized jumping mouse?
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Australia's geography is very diverse. North Queensland and the north of the Northern Territory are tropical rainforest, you can find animals like tree kangaroos.
A little further south and west you have the Kimberlies a wild "untouched " mountain/subtropical Forrest region. In the northern territory as you head south you have the great wetlands of Kakadu. Moving East you have the swampy/forest country around the gulf of Carpenteria. Then you hit the Great Dividing Range that runs from the top to the bottom of the country like the Rockeys or the Andies but far more ancient and worn down by time so much so that they are a third of the height.
As you move down the coast it is still rainforest and a lot of this has been replaced by sugar cane, tropical fruit and dairy. Across the range heading west you have the cattle country it's hot and dry unless it is wet season and the it is often under water. The ferther west you go it gets more arid but it is still viable.
That's just the top 3rd....
I once Australia described like this ... If its not in a drought, it's on fire, if its not not burning, it's flooded, if its not underwater, it's in drought.
Add in all our deadly beasties and you get the best place to live on earth! Am I right 8th Dwarf? :D
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Hello all,
Friends of ours who moved to Australia from the US are having a Thanksgiving BBQ, I was thinking it would be nice to bring something that is traditionally served on thanksgiving.
I was wondering if you guys had any suggestions?
It's almost summer here, it will be in the park, I wouldn't mind getting a game of American football going but I think only our friends husband and I (Go the Redskins) understand (me very badly) the rules.
I don't have any equipment for baseball.....cricket being the countries stick and ball game.
Is there anything else you guys do on thanksgiving?
Heresy...
Likely mow the lawn...again...thinking I should get a goat to eat grass instead.
I tried goats. I've got a 3/4 acre block... They did nothing but piss the neighbours off :) they taste good though.
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Here's an example of typical Queensland weather (queenslander here)
Over the weekend, specifically, on Sunday.
We had a huge thunder and lightning storm in the morning, finished up around 11.
Then, by 12, everything was hot and bothery and dry.
Then in the afternoon, starting at like 4pm, we had a huge storm, thunder lightning and golfball sized hail.
All in one day!