For those of you who live in the I wish you a Happy Thanksgiving

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River

I need to go back to work to get some rest.

All these potato dishes, noodles, rolls, desserts, things I won't touch...urgh

I am looking forward to my friends' deep fried Cajun turkey though.

The dogs are enjoying some cheesecake - damn Aldi heavy cream won't whip into a solid form. The Prairie Farms set up quickly in the mixing bowl. The Aldi, I beat it until the mixer nearly overheated, my arm was sore, and it still didn't firm up. No danger of butter there!

If you want a good no-bake cheesecake, it's simple to do - 2 blocks (8 oz.) of cream cheese, softened, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, 1 tablespoon vanilla, 1 cup Splenda, and 16 oz. of heavy cream. Mix it and beat it until it begins stiffen and chill overnight. For a crust, I use 2 cups almond meal mixed with a stick of melted butter. Shape into the pan, and bake at 350F for 8 minutes, chill ahead of time of adding the filling.

Not enough sugar.

Splenda is Sugar, well sort of.

River

Heavy Cream not setting reminds of a time when someone else had a similar problem at a MoM. It was a real good laugh. As I recall, the excuse for that failure was a non cooled bowl.

OneBallBoi (imported) wrote: Fri Nov 29, 2013 2:34 pm Heavy Cream not setting reminds of a time when someone else had a similar problem at a MoM. It was a real good laugh. As I recall, the excuse for that failure was a non cooled bowl.

River is good at making butter.

And Splenda worked great for the cranberry sauce - it went over quite well. Some of us just have to lay off the sugar (carbs in general). Nevertheless, I suspect I ate enough today to feed me for a week otherwise. But then one gets to spend a day with family. I am grateful for many things today and most days.

Thanksgiving is the enemy to diabetics. That and family guilt "have you tried my corn soufflé", "do you like my stuffing", "more mashed potatoes" people I am diabetic. Oh it is only one day and you have to try my pie. I will be thankful if both feet are healthy and pink in the morning.

Well, we celebrated with a turkey, -and jaoze (dumplings?) with turkey inside rather than pork. Feichang hao!

(That's very good.) and lotsa stuff that probably didn't appear on most America tables today. But. We are so grateful for having a Thanksgiving, with much to be thankful for, and so many folks to be thankful with. Not too much Splenda evident, but it was a truly fine American day. (It's a good sign when the neighbor asks, "when do you have Thanksgiving in China?" Everywhere should watch and learn; Thanksgiving is maybe the best American lesson to the world! Nobody else has it.

I ignored my Diabetes today and ate like there was no tomorrow, not only the turkey but the dressing which we cleaned the bowl as it was fantastic, the mashed potatoes and gravy the dinner rolls, the pumpkin pie with real whipped cream.

I did take my blood sugar a couple hours after I ate, it was high but not as high as I expected, 189 - not bad for everything I ate - I expected it to be about 300 - tomorrow back on the diet eating the things I should.

River

Mine was 70.

I had a couple tablespoons of oyster/turkey stuffing, that was it, besides copious amounts of Cajun seasoned deep fried turkey.

The boys demolished the cheesecake. I left it outside on the truck's bed cover. It was quite firm by then.