Grateful Thanksgiving
In the United States, the Thanksgiving feast, was introduced to thank God and the Native Americans for the bountiful harvest.
Thanksgiving's origins date from the XVIIth century, when the puritan Pilgrims who emigrated from Great Britain to America died because of their lack of knowledge in agriculture.
Squanto, a Native American offered to the survivors food and taught them how grow corn, trapping and fishing.
To celebrate their first harvest, they spent three days in prayers and celebrations.
The Pilgrims invited the Native Americans to share their meal, which sealed their friendship. They ate turkeys for the occasion.
Thanksgiving was not held every year and not always at the end of November.
From multicultural, the celebration quickly became a religious holiday and the pilgrims forgot their friendship with the Native Americans.
When Franklin Roosevelt was President of the USA, the Congress declared Thanksgiving "Legal holiday". The Thanksgiving Day was established on the 4th Thursday of November...
Thanksgiving did not have the same meaning in Canada, where the first Thanksgiving was made by an English explorer thanking God for having survived to his journey.
Canadian Thanksgiving is celebrated at the same time as the European harvest celebrations, and since the years 1950's, this day is intended to thank God for the bountiful harvest.
The most famous Thanksgiving menu is the turkey stuffed with chestnuts, the cranberry sauce; the turkey is usually accompanied by sweet potatoes or sweet potato pie.
The dessert is usually a pumpkin pie. Symbols of Thanksgiving are cornucopias filled with flowers and fruit; Wheat, corn, pumpkin.
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Thanksgiving Potato Recipe Idea: Carrot Stoemp
A Belgian Recipe
1/2 kilo steamed or boiled and mashed "Bintje" potatoes (potatoes usually used for fries)
300 grs steamed or boiled and mashed carrots
1 egg yolk
1 sauteed onion
50 grs butter
Salt, pepper and nutmeg
Instructions:
Mix the mashed potatoes and carrots with the onion
Add the egg yolk
Season with salt, pepper and nutmeg
Serve warm
Tip:
Add lemon juice to reveal carrots aroma.
Stoemp is a traditional Belgian winter meal.
You can vary the taste by adding sausage, bacon, or replacing the carrots by spinach or endive or another vegetable.
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The Canadian Thanksgiving Traditions
In Canada family gathering for twenty-four hours of enjoyment and fellowship is easier than in many other countries of the world.Indeed, the official Thanksgiving Day in Canada is on a Monday but Canadians commonly use the full weekend to celebrate this feast.
After the main meal, it is a tradition to kick back and relax while watching the featured "Thanksgiving Day Classic" football competition.
In addition to the activities inside the house or the family meal, the Thanksgiving weekend is usually the opportunity to to enjoy a last big outdoor event.
Either watching or participating to the numerous Thanksgiving Day parades that are such an entire part of the holiday will get one out of the home and into the end of the summer air.
The Thanksgiving three-day weekend is also traditional for taking that last outside getaway before the arrival of the long and cold winter.
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The Vegetarian Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving...that time of year when families gather together around the dinner table for the big ol' traditional dinner of mashed potatoes, stuffing, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, and of course, the always traditional turkey roasted to perfection.Oh, you're maybe a vegetarian?
There is a great way for you to have a vegetarian Thanksgiving by choosing the option of replacing the traditional dead bird on the table by...
Tofturkey!
This is the first and the best option available on the market. It is a sort of food made from soy products like tofu and this great meat alternative has grown in popularity.
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prosperity66 wrote...
in reply to JaguarJulie We don't have it here but when I learned about this holiday, I wished that besides Christmas, we would have such a great opportunity to gather the family and eat a traditional meal.
Posted June 19, 2009
JaguarJulie wrote...
Thanksgiving was always such a special holiday for our family -- grandma would make all of our favorites and fill her house with relatives. Oh that Thanksgiving was monthly!
Posted June 19, 2009
Interesting Thanksgiving Links
- Thanksgiving Celebrations By The Early Colonists
- It is a basic opinion that during the 17th century, exactly in the year 1621, the English settlers and the Wampanoag Indians gathered and shared a marvelous autumn harvest feast to celebrate the bounteousness from the plentiful earth....
- The Celebration of Thanksgiving in the United States of America - Associated Content
- The Celebration of Thanksgiving in the United States of America
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