My boyfriend pulled out one time. Our son is 36.

Pink salad hit our Thanksgiving table sometime in the 70's and never left. It was sugar free strawberry jello, sugar free whipped topping, cottage cheese and pineapple. My grandmother, mother and aunt loved it. As an adult, I and my children would take a spoonful each year and then wonder WHY? No one really liked it.…

The VERY biggest mistake you can make this year when hosting (or attending) a Thanksgiving dinner - going unvaccinated for the flu.

I don’t like the sweet potato casseroles topped with nuts, for some reason. I really like ONE bite of the marshmallow topped sweet potato casserole, which isn’t enough for me to want to make a whole dish of it. We just skip it altogether.

So, hey, did you hear that Kimberly Guffofoili (whatever, who?) couldn’t afford a new dress for That Other Daughter of Trump’s wedding so she had to fashion a dress from her old Elvira Halloween costume?

I think most people who are interested in food (like on The Takeout) know about Kewpie.

We are a Kewpie and Blue Plate family, but I like Hellmanns and Duke’s too.

Cornbread dressing is almost always cooked on the side - not stuffed inside the bird, where it can get greasy and mushy. If you’re stuffing the bird, sturdier types of bread should be used.

Plan your menu so that you can make a lot of the dishes in advance. Buy items you don’t want to spend the time making. Food is about joy. Don’t cuss your way through a dish you don’t like to make. For cornbread dressing, make the cornbread the day before. Not sweet cornbread. Sweet cornbread is for eating along with…

I’ll never understand why anyone orders scallops at a restaurant. They are so dead easy to cook at home. 

I like Disney too (as an attraction, not a lifestyle or fashion brand) and hate Vegas. Only now Disney is ridiculously expensive and I’d rather fly to London or Paris for a long weekend than throw that much money at a theme park.

HA! That’s terrifying! Pickled shrimp is a Southern thing. You lightly boil (poach) extra large shrimp in seasoned water. Peel (leave tails) and then layer them in a large jar with sliced white onion, bay leaves, lemon slices, whole peppercorns and capers. Then you pour over a cooled brine of apple cider vinegar,…

The only thing I buy instead of make these days is desserts. I used to bake. Then my kids grew up, moved far away, and I left my job so there was nowhere for the leftover baked goods to go. Now I leave the baking of desserts to the professionals. I’ve ordered two pies from a local bakery (support local when you can).

I prefer to bring the acid with a nice big salad (maybe some dried cranberries in there) and vinaigrette.

The only thing I like at Aldi are the produce and other staples you’d buy somewhere else. They are significantly cheaper even though (at our st0re) the selection isn’t always stellar. What I DO NOT like are their store brands. Yuck. Everything I’ve tried has been a dud. 

Most times you can find a customer leaving who will give you a quarter or let you use their cart. I’ve also asked the cashier if she’d loan me one with the promise I’d give it back once I lock the cart back up. 

Am I the only one who find these disgusting? 

Oh no, he wants to be accepted in that circle. But he doesn’t want to give up the victim status. Now, you can absolutely have a foot in each world; you just can’t do that and forget to advocate those who were left behind.

I watched the movie because of the lead actors. OH MY the scene chewing. Over the top. There were so many themes to explore and instead you get - as you put it - “Oscar grabs” instead of insight. I haven’t read the book. It never appealed to me. My grandparents were very poor farming folks, so I’ve got stories of my…

I give my adult kids a choice: deviled eggs OR pickled shrimp. I’m not doing both. Whatever they don’t pick gets served at Christmas instead.