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Who Cooks Thanksgiving Dinner for You?
Friday, November 11, 2005

By Christina VanGinkel

I have made and served Thanksgiving dinner for years, in counting, about twenty of the twenty-four that my husband and I have been together. The four that I did not make included one where I woke up ill and I do not even recall what my husband and children did that year, and three that were spent at my sisters, my mothers, and my husband's grandmothers respectively. I was all geared up to cook this year's meal at my home when my daughter suggested yesterday that she cook this year, at her house. She has a brand new stove that she just bought a couple of weeks back, along with a new fridge just begging to be filled with the fixings of an enormous holiday meal. I never even hesitated with my answer, and quickly gave a resounding 'sure'! Both her husband and my husband, (her father), spend the day hunting, as do both her brothers, so the meal will be served late in the day.

She went on to ask if I would want to come down to her home, about twenty minutes away, early that morning to help her prepare the meal from the ground up. I again not only said yes, I was quietly pleased that she asked. This is after all what a holiday such as Thanksgiving is about in this modern day world that we live in, spending time together as a family, sharing traditions, and just 'being' a family.

We then went on to the subject of the meal itself. She asked me what plans I had as far as the meal, as it has been customary the last few years for me to cook both a ham and a turkey, along with all of the traditional fixings of a Thanksgiving meal. I replied that I had actually planned to cook just a turkey this year; though quite a large one as far as those I have cooked in past years. At twenty pounds, it was already purchased and waiting for the big day in my deep freeze, so I told her that she would not have to buy one, and that I would come down with it all thawed and ready to pop into her oven that morning. The rest of the meal's ingredients we would shop together for, when she arrived home a few days before Thanksgiving. I would help her prepare anything she wanted me too, otherwise I would keep my grandson occupied while she whipped the meal together. For those of you who do not always read my writings here, though I am the mother, it is my daughter who loves to cook and is good at it, unlike me, her mother, who after nearly a quarter of a century in the kitchen making meals for her family, is still no at ease doing so.

If a younger person asks to take over the holiday meal, even if it is just for the one time, I say sit back, relax, and let them have their turn in the kitchen! We all had to start somewhere.

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