Missed all the festivities, wife has Covid, She got it 1 week after phizer booster, I am clear. We both had Moderna first 2 rounds. I went for moderna booster. I hope your day was great! Missing turkey and dressing, but not the rutabagas so much.
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And you and yours as well. Sorry to hear about your wife.
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Hope your wife recovers quickly with no lasting effects… and you avoid it, too!
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So far I am fine, wife has more quarantine left. Nothing to serious but ups and downs, Thanks!
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Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
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Hope all is well soon.
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Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours as well, and best wishes for a speedy recovery to the better half!
And I don’t know that I’ve ever heard rutabagas particularly associated with Thanksgiving.
That makes two of us must be a regional thing.
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Good thing she is fully vaccinated. That should mean a mild case. Still, you two shouldn’t spend too much time together. There’s plenty of time for togetherness at Christmas. Hang in ther @Barkydog and Mrs Barky.
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… or–possibly–an ethnic thing.
My mother–whose father was English and whose mother was German–always served Mashed Rutabagas* at Thanksgiving, and I really grew to like them. Occasionally, I still make them today. Mom also served Creamed White Onions at Thanksgiving, and I also loved that dish.
I’m not sure whether those Mashed Rutabagas and Creamed Onions were an English “thing” or a German tradition, but I’m pretty sure that her parents’ countries of origin had something to do with serving those dishes.
*Some trivia: In The UK, Rutabagas are known as “Swedes”.
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Yeah, my MIL always cooked sauerkraut with pork chops in it for my FIL. I think he brought that tradition from Germany when he moved here in the early 1950s.
You may be right I never thought of ethnic.
The rutabagas were a favorite of wifeys father, he was Scottish, That worked out well as her mom did not like mashed potatoes.
I made mashed acorn squash a few days ago with butter and brown sugar. I microwaved the halved and cored squash for 15 minutes, scooped it out, mashed it then added the butter and brown sugar. Way good and very easy.
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Best wishes to you both.
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