my house is clean and I don't want to start cooking and mess

[Rukh O'Rorke]

everything up! It always looks like the kitchen hasn't been cleaned in a month after thansgiving cooking!!

Have all the foods in the fridge, resisting the tempation to see if a chinese or thai restaurant is open.....

[billisonboard]

Tasty and easy clean-up.

[Rukh O'Rorke]

Not suitable for the vegan, gluten free crowd.

[Rukh O'Rorke]

my house is not clean, but dinner was delicious!

[tskeeter]

Open the door and drag out the fire hose!

[Rukh O'Rorke]

Nov 25, 2022 3:49:58 GMT -5 tskeeter said:

Open the door and drag out the fire hose!

[debthaven]

Rukh O'Rorke I know your DD doesn't live at home anymore, but I'm not sure about your son. 

I don't cook very often these days but when I do, I make a lot, and I freeze it. Could you do that? That way you could still have a home-cooked vegan meal without having to cook or clean up the kitchen. 

If you do it once a week and freeze half, in a month you'll have 4 home-cooked meals in the freezer which will probably do you for 2 nights each (depending on if your DS still lives with you). 

Just a thought. :-)

[Rukh O'Rorke]

Nov 25, 2022 20:46:11 GMT -5 debthaven said:

Rukh O'Rorke I know your DD doesn't live at home anymore, but I'm not sure about your son. 

I don't cook very often these days but when I do, I make a lot, and I freeze it. Could you do that? That way you could still have a home-cooked vegan meal without having to cook or clean up the kitchen. 

If you do it once a week and freeze half, in a month you'll have 4 home-cooked meals in the freezer which will probably do you for 2 nights each (depending on if your DS still lives with you). 

Just a thought. :-)

thanks for ideas. I was just referencing the thansgiving feast, which I love and dread every year! Not a problem usually, if I don't want to make a mess I'll have microwave popcorn and hot cocoa for dinner. For thxgiving, I always try to pare down, but always want everything for dinner.


And boom! just realized I forgot to cook the sweet potatoes!!! And didn't even set out the cranberry sauce I made!!!

LOL, always something on thanksgiving.

Am half way cleaned up now....waiting for the dishwasher to finish and then will have about 1/2 a load to put in.

Going to get some cranberry sauce......yummy!

[Tennesseer]

Nov 25, 2022 20:51:06 GMT -5 Rukh O'Rorke said:

Nov 25, 2022 20:46:11 GMT -5 debthaven said:

Rukh O'Rorke I know your DD doesn't live at home anymore, but I'm not sure about your son. 

I don't cook very often these days but when I do, I make a lot, and I freeze it. Could you do that? That way you could still have a home-cooked vegan meal without having to cook or clean up the kitchen. 

If you do it once a week and freeze half, in a month you'll have 4 home-cooked meals in the freezer which will probably do you for 2 nights each (depending on if your DS still lives with you). 

Just a thought. :-)

thanks for ideas. I was just referencing the thansgiving feast, which I love and dread every year! Not a problem usually, if I don't want to make a mess I'll have microwave popcorn and hot cocoa for dinner. For thxgiving, I always try to pare down, but always want everything for dinner.


And boom! just realized I forgot to cook the sweet potatoes!!! And didn't even set out the cranberry sauce I made!!!

LOL, always something on thanksgiving.

Am half way cleaned up now....waiting for the dishwasher to finish and then will have about 1/2 a load to put in.

Going to get some cranberry sauce......yummy!

Instead of a big turkey, and as long as you are not entertaining / feeding a horde of people, why not cook Cornish game hens. Each teen or adult get their own individual game hen. Kids (if there mightvsplit a hen).

[Rukh O'Rorke]

Nov 25, 2022 23:05:36 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Nov 25, 2022 20:51:06 GMT -5 Rukh O'Rorke said:

thanks for ideas. I was just referencing the thansgiving feast, which I love and dread every year! Not a problem usually, if I don't want to make a mess I'll have microwave popcorn and hot cocoa for dinner. For thxgiving, I always try to pare down, but always want everything for dinner.


And boom! just realized I forgot to cook the sweet potatoes!!! And didn't even set out the cranberry sauce I made!!!

LOL, always something on thanksgiving.

Am half way cleaned up now....waiting for the dishwasher to finish and then will have about 1/2 a load to put in.

Going to get some cranberry sauce......yummy!

Instead of a big turkey, and as long as you are not entertaining / feeding a horde of people, why not cook Cornish game hens. Each teen or adult get their own individual game hen. Kids (if there mightvsplit a hen).

we did a combo of grilled tofu and some vegan loaf for protein. 

[happyhoix]

The older I get the harder it is to do the whole house cleaning/cooking thing.

I had all DH’s family for THanksgiving, sixteen people. It was wonderful having them, and everyone who came brought something to add to the feast, but it was still a lot of work.

I told DH next holiday we’re hosting at a restaurant….

[thyme4change]

I cleaned my kitchen 5 times on Thanksgiving. We hadn’t fully cleaned from Wednesday night dinner. We had breakfast. We had lunch. We prepped the meat. I made cake. I made squash. And then, we wrapped all that up to take to my sister’s, and left some dirty cooking pans to deal with later. I was so burned out and we didn’t even host!

[Rukh O'Rorke]

Nov 26, 2022 12:19:19 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

I cleaned my kitchen 5 times on Thanksgiving. We hadn’t fully cleaned from Wednesday night dinner. We had breakfast. We had lunch. We prepped the meat. I made cake. I made squash. And then, we wrapped all that up to take to my sister’s, and left some dirty cooking pans to deal with later. I was so burned out and we didn’t even host!

sometimes cooking, packing, and going elsewhere to eat, help them cleanup after dinner, then come home to the mess you made, is much more exhausting than hosting.

[seriousthistime]

I had a simplified version of Thanksgiving at my house.  We had more than enough to eat.  

Boneless turkey breast roast (delicious, moist)
Stuffing (polenta based, with sausage, cranberries, and leeks)
Mashed potatoes
Creamed corn
Green bean casserole
Cranberry sauce
Gravy

and DDIL made pumpkin pie and apple-cranberry crisp.  I whipped some cream to go along with the desserts. 

I assembled the stuffing and made the cranberry sauce the day before, the green bean casserole the morning of, dumped the ingredients for creamed corn in the crock pot a few hours before dinner, mashed the potatoes and kept them warm in another crock pot, and managed to have the kitchen all cleaned up before I put the turkey in the oven. 

So now I have leftovers.  I'm thinking of using the leftover mashed potatoes and the creamed corn, plus some mini potatoes and the remaining leeks, to make a potato soup/chowder. The rest is good for a dish or two of leftovers, and the rest will go into the freezer. 

All that leftover cranberry sauce, though!  What will I do with that? I guess I'll keep a little in the fridge and freeze the rest.  And I see there are recipes that use cranberry sauce as an ingredient. 

[chiver78]

you could use some in a cranberry aioli for turkey sandwiches, and I think at least the canned stuff freezes decently.