Do you observe Thanksgiving?

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

My favorite food for Thanksgiving is sauerkraut, which we always had as part of the traditional Thanksgiving meal. For years after my mother died, we did not celebrate Thanksgiving. This year my wife and I made sauerkraut using my mother’s recipe, which she wrote down along with a bunch of her other great recipes. It was delicious, just like my mother made it. We are going to make it often now.

One personal tradition that my wife taught me over twenty years ago was to not eat any mashed potatoes at Thanksgiving dinner, We both love mashed potatoes, but they are the absolutely worst part of Thanksgiving dinner, even though they are delicious. Everything else tastes so much better, so why eat filling mashed potatoes and limit yourself on the other food?

Could you post your sauerkraut recipe? Or is this one locked in the family vault?

 

[PJSlavner]

Could you post your sauerkraut recipe? Or is this one locked in the family vault?

I am happy to share it. The black ink is my writing; it gives an option for covering if less water is added. We started with covering, but there was too much water, so we uncovered it. Make sure that you keep track of water so that it does not dry out.
I hope that you enjoy it.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

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I am happy to share it. The black ink is my writing; it gives an option for covering if less water is added. We started with covering, but there was too much water, so we uncovered it. Make sure that you keep track of water so that it does not dry out.
I hope that you enjoy it.

Wow, I can actually read that cursive! Your mother was obviously not a doctor

 

[Gradine]

Sorry to say but if mashed potatoes are the worst food at your Thanksgiving dinner than you need to step up your mashed potato game

 

[PJSlavner]

Sorry to say but if mashed potatoes are the worst food at your Thanksgiving dinner than you need to step up your mashed potato game

No, my mother’s mashed potato game could not be any better. That is how much better everything else was and how good a cook my mother was. Like you, a lot of people do not believe me.

 

[PJSlavner]

Wow, I can actually read that cursive! Your mother was obviously not a doctor

Try reading her writing if it is all in cursive. I used to have trouble reading her letters to me, especially when she switched languages in the middle of a sentence.