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November 20, 2008
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October 20, 2009
Pumpkin Pie Blizzard at Dairy Queen
J.C. ReidOn a recent drive through central Texas in search of unknown barbecue finds, my friend and newbie food explorer Alison chimed in from the back seat as we drove through the small town of Smithville, Texas. "Hey, did you guys see that Dairy Queen sign back there? It said 'Pumpkin Pie B ... More >>
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November 18, 2009
Turducken Lovin'
America has harbored an infatuation with the Turducken since John Madden mentioned it in a Thanksgiving Day broadcast several years back. The mere idea of a turkey stuffed with a duck stuffed with a chicken brings carnivores to their knees, thanking God, Charlton Heston, and their lucky stars ... More >>
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November 18, 2009
Vegetarian Thanksgiving
Photo by Major Clanger There will be no Tofurky on this year's table.Eating Our Words isn't a vegetarian (or -- perish the thought -- a vegan), but we have a lot of friends who are. And for those folks, Thanksgiving can be a nightmare of avoiding the main show (that dried out or deep-fried ... More >>
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November 19, 2009
Is It Still Thanksgiving Without the Turkey?
Turkeys hate us, too.Yesterday, we offered up a selection of meatless options for Thanksgiving and those vegetarians in your life. Truth be told, we're perfectly happy not having turkey -- or any meat at all, for that matter -- at Thanksgiving. We've eaten plenty of delicious Thanksgiving ... More >>
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November 20, 2009
This Week In Deliciousness
Here's something to be thankful for this Thanksgiving: you only have to fist a turkey once a year. Welcome back to the weekly round-up here at Eating Our Words, where we're now voting Republican, because they're the only ones fascist enough to pass this "Everyone Must Now Put Grape-Nuts in T ... More >>
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November 23, 2009
Eating Out on Thanksgiving Day? What's Open
Not everyone in the city celebrates Thanksgiving, and that should come as no surprise given our increasingly diverse tapestry of residents (something for which Eating Our Words is thankful). And not everyone who celebrates Thanksgiving does so with a big family dinner at home. For these folk ... More >>
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November 23, 2009
Thanksgiving Nightmares
Ah, Thanksgiving. A time for pumpkin pie, good cheer, sweaters...and loved ones swilling booze and going at it. Yes, Thanksgiving family tension -- if not outright violence -- is a tradition as time-honored as postprandial football. Inspired by this recent article in the New York Times, we as ... More >>
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November 25, 2009
I Wanna Be Your Dog (Or Cat): Thanksgiving Edition
We all know the story of the first Thanksgiving -- the Penguins traveling to the New World in the rickety Mayday; Squinty the Indian teaching the clueless newcomers how to grow potatoes (the Penguins had left Ireland because of a famine); George Washington marrying Pocahantas on Plymouth Mount.These ... More >>
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November 25, 2009
Wine of the Week: Sally Swiss of Whole Foods Market
Thanksgiving is a time of celebration. Who are we kidding? It's a time for long grocery lines, crazed holiday drivers, and indigestion. With the help of Sally Swiss of Whole Foods on Kirby, at least buying the wine can be easy. Swiss has been with Whole Foods for 16 years, and three of thos ... More >>
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October 12, 2010
Cooking Through Alton: Creamy Garlic Mashed Potatoes
We're trying recipes by Food Network icon Alton Brown that might work for Thanksgiving. If they're good, you'll have a complete guide for the big meal. If they're clunkers, we'll provide you with alternate recipes that are tried and true. Creamy Garlic Mashed Potatoes The dish: Mashed potat ... More >>
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October 26, 2010
Cooking Through Alton: Chipotle Smashed Sweet Potatoes
We're trying recipes by Food Network icon Alton Brown that might work for Thanksgiving. If they're good, you'll have a complete guide for the big meal. If they're clunkers, we'll provide you with alternate recipes that are tried and true. Chipotle Smashed Sweet Potatoes The dish: This recip ... More >>
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November 3, 2010
Cooking Through Alton: Cranberry Sauce
The dish: If you're looking to step up the typical canned cranberry sauce this Thanksgiving, Alton Brown offers this nice, simple version of the classic. Made with fresh cranberries, honey, and orange and cranberry juice, this sauce is destined to be dumped over accompanying dishes. The d ... More >>
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November 4, 2010
Top 5 Worst Thanksgiving Day Dishes
You know them all too well. Year after year, these dishes seem to find their way to the Thanksgiving table. Why must we be subjected to these horrible creations? 5. Instant Mashed Potatoes Are our lives so busy that we must cut corners on this most sacred Thanksgiving dish? I say no. Instant ... More >>
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November 9, 2010
The 10 Worse Things About Family Thanksgivings
Congrats!! You're stuck next to Tea Party Dude!!It's coming, people: Thanksgiving. There's nothing you can do about it. You will not be allowed to sit around alone at home. If you're lucky, you'll be with friends or with a nice, fun, easy-going bunch of relatives. But not everyone's that lu ... More >>
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November 11, 2010
15 Things You Should Know About Thanksgiving
Think you know everything there is to know about that most American of holidays, Thanksgiving? There's more to Turkey Day than just school plays with buckle-shoed and buckle-hatted kids, pilgrim. Check out our list of 15 things that everyone should know about Thanksgiving (but don't try to serve you ... More >>
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November 18, 2010
What Are Our Crazy Old Relatives Bringing to Thanksgiving? A Handy Chart
Photo illustration by John GrayA previous investigation. Click for larger view. We've already shown you what your lazier relatives are going to bring to the family Thanksgiving table, but what about the family's "senior eccentrics"? Don't be shy, now, we've all got 'em: the family members who ... More >>
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November 22, 2010
What Time Is Thanksgiving Dinner?
Photo by photineThanksgiving dinner is ready and waiting...That's the question for you, readers. Are you the family who eats your meal at 11 a.m., leaving plenty of time for napping and football game watching afterward? Or are you the family who has a traditional dinner at 6 p.m., after a day ... More >>
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November 22, 2010
What Are Houston Chefs Cooking This Thanksgiving?
Photo by Carbon NYCThanksgiving: A day to gather with your loved ones and give thanks? Or a day to display your culinary prowess to friends and family? Increasingly, the emphasis has been on the latter in the past few years, as people try to dress up the traditional Thanksgiving spread and im ... More >>
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November 23, 2010
5 Houston Alternatives to a Traditional Thanksgiving Dinner
A cold Thanksgiving day calls for hot pot, the ultimate communal meal.Sometimes you don't want to eat a traditional Thanksgiving dinner. Sometimes you destroy the turkey and all of your side dishes turn out to taste like broiled roadkill. And sometimes you just want to start a new tradition o ... More >>
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November 23, 2010
Dining Out on Thanksgiving? Here's What's Open
May your Thanksgiving feature freakishly large pumpkins and terrifyingly huge turkeys to eat with your enormous silverware.Not everyone in the city celebrates Thanksgiving, and that should come as no surprise given our increasingly diverse tapestry of residents (something for which Eating Our ... More >>
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November 24, 2010
Top 5 Flying Saucer Pies
Photo courtesy of out_of_rhythmThe pies at Flying Saucer are creeping up in price, and dare I say a little overrated in the taste department. But tradition is tradition. What's a Thanksgiving without waiting in line for one of their tasty treats? Here are the top five worth waiting for...and no, ... More >>
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November 25, 2010
Food in Film: The 5 Greatest Pie Scenes for Thanksgiving
Last year for Thanksgiving, we treated you to the top 5 overeating scenes from the movies (in honor of all the face-stuffing so many of us are doing today). This Thanksgiving, we're celebrating another indulgence: pie. Bonus: No footage of Mr. Creosote to ruin your appetite. You're welcome! 5. "Th ... More >>
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November 25, 2010
Vintage Thanksgiving Postcards: A Feast for the Eyes
While searching for a photo of a Thanksgiving feast on Flickr, we stumbled across this treasure trove of old-fashioned Thanksgiving postcards from days of yore -- Creative Commons licensed and all! -- from Flickr user riptheskull. (It's not the most festive of handles, but there you have it.) ... More >>
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November 25, 2010
Where To Drink on Thanksgiving
Petrol StationIf you're anything like us, you've just about had your fill of family by now. Head to one of these fine local watering holes tonight to catch up with friends that are in town for the holidays, blow off familial steam that's been building over the last couple of days or just wash ... More >>
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November 26, 2010
NFL & College Football - Weekend's Best Bets (SEC Guy Podcast Gold)
Who doesn't love college football? Right?I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday, and got to spend some quality time with their families. Me, my family is scattered all over the country, so when it came time to find some Thanksgiving dinner after my show yesterday, fortunately ... More >>
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November 30, 2010
Unidentified Male, 34, Bayou Body Count No. 281
Deadly Thanksgiving, but no charges filedA Thanksgiving get-together turned deadly on the west side and a Harris County grand jury will decide if the shooter acted in self-defense. The incident happened about 2 a.m. Thanksgiving morning in the 12800 block of Westleigh. The identity of the d ... More >>
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November 30, 2010
Ingredient of the Week: Dumpling Squash
What is it? When I first spotted one, I thought it was just another gourd. Sitting there among the decorative, hollow beauties in the supermarket the week of Thanksgiving, these small, pumpkin-esque squashes looked no more edible than their cousins. But aside from making a homey centerpiece f ... More >>
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December 1, 2010
The Five Most Plentiful Leftovers Rotting In Your Fridge Right Now
Photo by edcrowleNo no, wait... maybe don't open those.Now, calm down. The Houston Press and Eating Our Words are by no means claiming to have any kind of psychic insight into the contents of your refrigerator, and if we did, we'd tell you to go ahead and throw away that throbbing gray mass t ... More >>
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December 3, 2010
Shiftwork Bites: Thanksgiving Edition
Holidays frequently suck for shiftworkers. You either spend the entire day doing nothing but sleeping and working, or else spend half of it working and the other half of it running around like a madman, trying to scrape some semblance of cheer out of your growing exhaustion. This Thanksgivi ... More >>
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February 25, 2011
Shiftwork Bites: Paneer
The realities of Shiftwork Bites cooking - little space, little equipment, one burner - dictate what I can and cannot reasonably prepare at work. A lot of my meals tend to be one-pot affairs, as this makes setup and cleanup much easier, and doesn't stretch me too thin. I am still at work, rem ... More >>
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November 10, 2011
The 5 Best Local Beers to Bring to Thanksgiving Dinner
A bite of banana in every beer.Just in time for Christmas, Buffalo Bayou Brewing hopes to release its first beer to the public: an 11 percent gingerbread Imperial stout that would be the toast of any Christmas dinner. For Thanksgiving, however, there are plenty of locally brewed beers that w ... More >>
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November 16, 2011
Thanksgiving Day Dining and Takeout Options: Because Washing Dishes Sucks
madfishestheblog.comTurkey Day doesn't have to be terrifying. Recently we read an article on "Facebook Depression," which is essentially a feeling of general malaise attributed to the constant comparison of one's own turbulent, unexciting existence to the seemingly glamorous and worry-free li ... More >>
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November 17, 2011
10 Thanksgiving Wines (That We Actually Drink)
Photos by Jeremy Parzen.Dolcetto can deliver character without overwhelming the palate or breaking the bank.Yes, folks, it's that predictable time of year when everyone posts their Thanksgiving wine recommendations. Among the literally hundreds of blogs and feeds that I follow, one of my favo ... More >>
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November 18, 2011
Upcoming Events: Lend a Helping Hand on Thanksgiving
"Serving" can take on many meanings at Thanksgiving.Thanksgiving is what? It's next week? Wait, are you serious? If you, like me, are terrible at planning (or knowing what week of the month it currently is), turn to Lauren Marmaduke's excellent guide to dining out on Thanksgiving Day or orde ... More >>
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November 18, 2011
This Week in Deliciousness
I'm a little hesitant because it's half IPA. I'm very enthusiastic, however, because it's two things just crammed right the crap together. I love a good mish mash.Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where we promise never to have a talking anthropomorphic food item as ... More >>
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November 22, 2011
12 Odd, Racy Thanksgiving Pin-Ups Of Scantily Clad Women (Semi-NSFW)
Sexy turkey timeIs Thanksgiving the un-sexiest holiday ever? Maybe. Unless the possibility of drunken sex with your tipsy divorced aunt or uncle trips your trigger, of course. But America -- back when it really was America -- was not going to be dictated to by prudes trying to keep the hawtn ... More >>
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November 22, 2011
Batman & Robin: Turkey & Gravy Tips
DevianArtTurkey & Gravy, Thanksgiving's dynamic duo; one can exist without the other, but then you just end up with a guy in tights. That can't be good. Gravy is one thing, but really good gravy seems to be the ungettable get for many. It needs not be. Cue the Batman & Robin theme song -- le ... More >>
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November 22, 2011
Where to See Some Live Music on Thanksgiving (and the Wednesday before)
Mommy, after dinner can we please go see Frankie G Da Mex? PLEASE!!!We all need a place to mellow out after a day of dealing with family. Don't get us wrong, we love our families. It's just that, getting together with the extended crew can take a toll and relaxing with some live, local music ... More >>
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November 22, 2011
Comment of the Day: To Hell with the Bird
Here on Eating Our Words, the commenters absolutely make the blog, and our Comment of the Day honors the best of the bunch. Every day, we read you guys and pick the commenter, or commenters, who made us laugh, cry, salivate over something delicious, or think about things in a new way. In re ... More >>
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November 23, 2011
Thanksgiving Lullabies
You've finished your Thanksgiving feast and endured a few hours of awkward conversation with the extended family you never see and now it's finally time for a holiday hibernation. You deserve it, it's the third most important part of Thanksgiving, after overeating and overdrinking. No one r ... More >>
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November 23, 2011
Do This, Not That: Thanksgiving Do's and Don't's for the Holiday Guest
Being something of a professional Thanksgiving guest -- we live too far away to host any family get-togethers, and frequently travel during the holidays -- I have seen some heinous holiday behavior over the years. You would think being a good guest, especially as an adult, would be second n ... More >>
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November 23, 2011
Mosh Potatoes: Thanksgiving Recipes From Metal Musicians
If there is one thing virtually all of us agree on when it comes to Thanksgiving, it is that we like to eat and we often do more of it on that particular day than we should. Apparently, heavy metal musicians are no different. In between blood-soaked shows filled with music that will melt your ... More >>
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November 23, 2011
Thankgiving Recipes from Metal Musicians Courtesy of Mosh Potatoes
We all love to eat at Thanksgiving and, apparently, that includes some of the loudest and angriest sounding bands on the planet. If Mosh Potatoes: Recipes, Anecdotes and Mayhem from the Heavyweights of Heavy Metal is any indication, there are a bunch of culinary experts in the world of metal ... More >>
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November 23, 2011
Tasting Notes: This Week in Wine Blogs (Thanksgiving Edition)
Photo by Jeremy Parzen.The contemporary marshmallow is a uniquely American phenomenon and often leaves wine geeks scratching their heads for a pairing.Wine Skinny: We're sorry to report that the Houston wine blogging scene has entirely ignored Thanksgiving (except for us). But Robyn Tinsley, ... More >>
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November 23, 2011
Ingredient of the Week: Butter
Photo from Bridget CamdenEverything tastes better with butter.Ah, Thanksgiving. Hands down the best holiday of the year. Four days off, football, usually the beginning of cooler weather, no gift-giving frenzy -- just good, old-fashioned gluttony. And what ingredient better to be gluttonous ... More >>
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November 24, 2011
ICYMI: The 10 Worst Things You Will Face At Your Family Thanksgiving
It's not all rosesDon't get us wrong -- we love Thanksgiving. Being with family and friends, eating great food, watching football -- it's hard to beat. But it does come with some trials and tribulations. We put together a list last year of what to look out for. Not all of these happen every ... More >>
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November 24, 2011
The 10 Best Food-Centric TV Episodes on Netflix, For Your Post-Thanksgiving Food Coma
The Cosby family color-coordinated their Thanksgiving Day outfits. And you're wearing yoga pants. Good job.Before I had cable, I invested in Netflix's streaming video service. It continues to be the best $7 I spend each month, despite the service's recent, public misadventures. And anyway, Ne ... More >>
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November 25, 2011
The Ultimate Leftover Turkey Sandwiches
Photo by kthreadOne part turkey, three parts heaven.Every year, by the time we're ready to sit down and enjoy the Thanksgiving meal, I've already done multiple completely necessary taste tests of nearly everything in the kitchen and I have left no room for the bird we've been slaving over for ... More >>
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November 29, 2011
Ingredient of the Week: Leftover Turkey
Photo by John Suh"Gobble, gobble."The week after Thanksgiving is often riddled with cooks across America scratching their heads at what to do with all the leftover turkey. Not to worry. Here at Eating Our Words, we offer not one, not two, but three things to do with that leftover turkey, no ... More >>
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