Happy Thanksgiving Canadians

[del]

Happy Thanksgiving to all the Canadians on the forum!!!  I am cooking a turkey dinner tomorrow!!  yum!!

[kimcanada]

Happy THanksgiving to you Del!  My family got together tonight so that we all could be there!  I am stuffed with turkey

Peace

Kim

[monrein]

Happy Thanksgiving fellow Canucks.  Like the lazy little spoiled brat I am these days we went out for lunch at one of my favorite restaurants.  Zero tradition followed here, as usually we're at the cottage with friends staying over and I exhaust myself with an all-stops pulled turkey extravaganza.

Today I started with a delicately seasoned Dungeness crab cake (all fresh, never-frozen crab meat, no filler {note to self...check phosphorus in crab})  on a bed of fennel salad and topped with a dollop of fresh tomato salsa with tiny green sprouts.  Next,due to renal restrictions, I chose  a grilled vegetable sandwich on a string baguette spread with a garlic basil olive oil pesto and with goat cheese on the side so I could use it very sparingly.  That came with a salad of baby mesclun greens and corn sprouts and tiny peppery nasturtium petals.  For dessert I decided on ginger cake layered with ginger meringue and topped with a poached caramelized half pear and drizzled with a smoky burnt caramel sauce.

I was really good and passed up wine for binders.  I did finish up with a single shot of black decaf espresso.

Next week we go to the same restaurant again to celebrate my mother-in-law's 90th birthday.  Note to self...take camera and record the plates presented.


HAPPY TURKEY DINNERS, FAMILY GET TOGETHERS, AND GOOD HEALTH TO YOU ALL.

[Joe Paul]

Happy Thanksgiving up there!! Monrein, sounds like there was loads of potassium in that meal? Hoping you are doing OK today!!

[monrein]

Really JP?  Like what?  I tried to be super careful in fact.  One thing is portions are small, and I ate very little of the bread, only about a teaspoon of the goat cheese.  I don't run high potassium but I always figured it's because I'm careful. 

[Joe Paul]

Really JP?  Like what?  I tried to be super careful in fact.  One thing is portions are small, and I ate very little of the bread, only about a teaspoon of the goat cheese.  I don't run high potassium but I always figured it's because I'm careful. 

Tomato and the greens. I was told to watch most green veggies, which hasn't been a problem for me, as I don't like greens, or tomatoes for that matter.

[monrein]

OK right.  Well I'm relieved, I was worrying about the crab.  The salsa was only about a half a teaspoon,if that even, and there was about a cup and a half of very loosely packed greens so I think I'm OK.  It is hard though to manage all the diet stuff.  I never ignore it and eat what I normally would but it's tricky.  Phosphorus is the hardest one for me.  I use small portion size to help.

[Joe Paul]

Sorry if I alarmed you then, it sounds like you did very well overall. Again, Happy Thanksgiving!

[monrein]

No worries JP.  I don't alarm easily but if I need a push that's just fine with me.  I'd rather have you alarm me than have a heart attack.  Thank you.

[pelagia]

Happy belated Thanksgiving all.  I was on a road trip to Philadelphia to pick up my son at a rowing Regatta yesterday.

for 3 oz. Dungeness, cooked, my food nutrition program gives me:

148.8 mg phosphorus
346.8 mg potassium
321.3 mg sodium

for 3 oz. beef, top round, cooked

198.9 mg phosphorus
356.1 mg potassium
51.0 mg sodium

[monrein]

Thanks Linda.  I'm pretty confident I didn't have three ounces but that's quite a bit of salt compared to beef.

[twirl]

Monrein----- where is that atitude photo of that three year old little girl - that look on your face is YOU
                 I want her back

[monrein]

She'll come back Twirl, don't worry.  Right now I'm gunning for religious tolerance on Thanksgiving.  I'll bring that precocious little brat back soon enough.  She apparently was a pill.

[twirl]

we have pilgrims and Indians to remember on Thanksgiving
who do you have
who had the first feast

[monrein]

 

   
Thanksgiving Day 2008 : Thanksgiving Celebration In Canada


Canadian Thanksgiving 2008





In Canada, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday in October. The origin and history of Thanksgiving Day in Canada is different from the American Thanksgiving. Whereas the American tradition talks about remembering Pilgrims and settling in the New World, Canadians give thanks for a successful harvest. The geographical location of Canada is further north as compared to the United States therefore the harvest season falls earlier in Canada.

In Canada Thanksgiving 2008 will be celebrated on second Monday in October - 13th October 2008.

History and Origin of Canadian Thanksgiving

There are three traditions behind Canadian Thanksgiving Day:

1. The farmers in Europe held celebrations at the time of harvesting to give thanks for their good fortune of a bountiful harvest and abundance of food. The farmers would fill a goat's curved horn with fruits and grains. This curved horn was known as a cornucopia or the horn of plenty. It is believed that when the European farmers came to Canada they brought this tradition of Thanksgiving with them.

2. The history of Thanksgiving in Canada is related to Martin Frobisher, who was an English navigator. He made a lot of efforts to find a northern passage to the Orient. Though he did not succeed in his efforts but he was able to establish a settlement in Northern America. In the year 1578, he held a formal ceremony, in what is now known as Newfoundland, to give thanks for surviving the long journey. This is considered the first Canadian Thanksgiving. Martin Frobisher was later knighted and an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in northern Canada was named as ' Frobisher Bay' after him. When other settlers arrived here they continued this ceremony of giving thanks.

3. The third influence occurred in 1621 in what is now the United States. Here the pilgrims, who were the English colonists, celebrated their first harvest in the New World at Plymouth Massachusetts. By the 1750s this celebration of harvest was brought to Nova Scotia by American settlers from the south.

In the 1600s, another navigator Samuel de Champlain crossed the ocean and arrived to Canada. Other French Settlers also came with him and their group held huge feasts of thanks for the harvests. On this event they shared their food with the Native American neighbors and thus involved them in their celebrations. Then they formed ' The Order of Good Cheer' which marked the harvests and other events as well.

After the Seven Year's War ended in 1763, the citizens of Halifax held a special day of Thanksgiving.

During the American Revolution the Americans who remained loyal to England moved to Canada. They brought with themselves the customs and practices of the American Thanksgiving to Canada.

In 1879, the Parliament declared 6th day of November as the day of Thanksgiving and also declared it a national holiday. Over the years different dates were used for celebrating the Thanksgiving Day in Canada but the most popular date was the 3rd Monday of October.

After World War I, both Armistice Day and Thanksgiving Day were celebrated on a common day that was Monday of the week in which fell the 11th day of November. Ten years later, in 1931, both Armistice Day and Thanksgiving Day became separate holidays and Armistice Day was renamed as the 'Remembrance Day'.

Finally, on January 31st, 1957, the Parliament issued a proclamation to fix permanently the 2nd Monday in October as the Thanksgiving Day. The Proclamation goes as...

"A Day of General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed ... to be observed on the 2nd Monday in October…"

[kimcanada]

See monrein

I didn't know half of those facts, I love that fact that you are part of this board!!  Let me rephrase.. I am "Thankful" that you are part of this board

[del]

I didn't know most of these facts either.  Never knew about Frobisher having the first feast in what is now Newfoundland!!!  Always a big deal to have fresh harvest veggies for thanksgiving dinner.  The ones we had for spper tonight was delicious as was the turkey.

[Sluff]

Hope all you Canadians out there are sleeping it off by now. Happy Thanksgiving.