Always a harrowing experience because we'd stall eating it for so long it'd get cold.
Looked and tasted like snot at that point.
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Looked and tasted like snot at that point.
I think if I was faced with eating it or starving, I'd chose starvation
My dad probably just told me to stop being a pussy lol
Hope you liked Chilli.
Same other than I like oysters, even from a can. You’re the first person I’ve “met” outside of my family with this tradition.
I'm pretty blessed. All of my adult children (5) still come back for Christmas eve and day. We do a prime rib (found a good one for 12.99LB this year) for Christmas Eve and then hang out. Still open presents on christmas day.
It will end soon but till then I'll enjoy every moment...and then be thankful when they all go back to their homes in the end. LOL
It will end soon but till then I'll enjoy every moment...and then be thankful when they all go back to their homes in the end. LOL
My mom tried oyster stew on Christmas Eve. When no one besides her and my dad would eat it, she gave up. She then switched up to clam chowder and that was a big hit.
She used to also put those shitty giblets in gravy and stuffing at Thanksgiving. She and my dad ate it, the rest of us just picked that shit out.
My other grandma when she was living, would always host and make oyster stew (from a can), chilli and then we'd have ham and turkey sandwiches to go with
Growing up, Christmas Eve was a whatever you want to eat for dinner, nothing special. Christmas day was spent opening presents in the AM, then driving to a relatives house (it rotated) to spend the rest of the day listening to my aunties and uncles bitch and moan about how disappointed us kids were that we didn't get EVERYTHING we asked for, followed by my dad and his brothers going outside to "partake" in smoking pine trees to ease the pain of it all.
I sometimes wish I didn't work for the government so I could keep that tradition going...the "trees"
I sometimes wish I didn't work for the government so I could keep that tradition going...the "trees"
I can only tell you about his sister Abbie ...... she was interesting and memorable !!>.....!!!......//!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Turkey giblets should have an FDA warning on them. I've tried cooking them and feeding them to the barn cats ....NOPE!!!! I think maybe eventually the raccoons ate them, after of course, they had sauteed in the local bacteria and fungus.
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Recipe - Oyster Stew
1 Teaspoon - Worcestershire Sauce
1/4 Cup - Butter
1 Pint - Fresh Oysters
2 Cups - Fresh Milk
1/2 Cup - Light Cream
1 Teaspoon - Salt
Dash - Pepper
Dash - Paprika
Pinch - Cayenne Pepper (crushed red pepper)
Pan #1
Melt butter in small saucepan.
Add oysters.
Cook and stir over low heat just until the edges of the oysters curl.
Pan #2
In another saucepan, heat milk and cream (do NOT curdle the milk).
Once this begins to steam, stir in the salt, pepper, paprika and oysters.
Season to preference (I like to add extra cayenne pepper & paprika in mine).
Makes four (4) servings - 1 cup each.
For about 10 years or slightly longer, my wife and I sang with the Voices of Omaha performing Handel's Messiah at the Holland Performing Art Center. It is a great experience. They have a full Baroque Orchestra and 4 professional opera singers to sing the solos. The music is however what sets the stage for me emotively and experientially for the Christmas period.
As always the tradition of performing the Messiah is that it is done for free, with donations given to the poor in the cities it is performed in. The very first performance of the piece, in Dublin, resulted in the freeing of 150 individuals from debtors prison.
Handel isn't just a genius composer, whose music essentially lives in vivid colors in your head as you hear it; he is a lyricist whose words are a historical record of biblical prophecy of 2000 years.
IF you truly love music, just to hear the entirety, is to make tears wantonly pass the mental dams you might attempt to construct. It is simply as though God himself had written this piece.
As always the tradition of performing the Messiah is that it is done for free, with donations given to the poor in the cities it is performed in. The very first performance of the piece, in Dublin, resulted in the freeing of 150 individuals from debtors prison.
Handel isn't just a genius composer, whose music essentially lives in vivid colors in your head as you hear it; he is a lyricist whose words are a historical record of biblical prophecy of 2000 years.
IF you truly love music, just to hear the entirety, is to make tears wantonly pass the mental dams you might attempt to construct. It is simply as though God himself had written this piece.
If you're ever in the greater Nawlins area again and want some FANTASTIC char grilled oysters, there's only one place to go:
This is the place the locals go and don't bother sharing with drunken (or sober) tourists or Bama fans. One of my best friends is from Metarie, and we go there everytime we're remotely in the area together. He lives in Biloxi now, but we've detoured to hit Drago's en route to an LSU football game, and just flat out driven over from Biloxi just to stuff our gullets on their char grilled oysters. 5* LHR recommended grub.
OP makes a lulz thread about gross traditions, then tPBers jump in with real nostalgic traditions, & OP comes back with the most sentimental & meaningful post of all because we're all actually a bunch of softies under our sarcastic shells.
I love this place.
Unfathomably based @ThankGODforWVB
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