Pulaski

Your profile to the left of the thread doesn't indicate where (which country) you are in, nor where the "there" is that your friend lives. If he's in the US he has access to the onion seasoning, and if he is somewhere else I have no idea where?

tuxedocat

UK

Pulaski

I noted two gaps in geographic information, so I still am not certain which UK applies to, but given the context I might assume that you're in the US, and he's in the UK. (?)

Mrs Danvers

Nope, due to going to work, being British, not having any family here. If I was at home I'd make something like a nice biryani. Send the kids off to American ex husband for Thanksgiving. Will probably end up eating some kind of health care Thanksgiving institutional type food that looks and tastes like it was engineered by Kraft.

Boyfriend is second generation Sicilian so there ends up being some kind of pasta thing with most holidays.

I like prime rib roasts at Christmas.

Speedwell

There are two biryani places so close to my front door that I'm not sure if I'm smelling my curry or theirs. Two. Welcome to Houston.

mandpete

We usually go to the cinema and then have a roast beef and Yorkshire pudding dinner, turkey once a year at Christmas is enough. Son has just told us he wont be coming home so there will only be three of us this year. Managed to get a reservation at an Italian restaurant and then off to watch Hunger Games.

Andy_UK

Just visited my local festival store and they have legs of lamb.......$70 each, I love lamb but not $70

AilsWallace

Anyone (else)just not doing the whole TG thing?

Yorkieabroad

I always bitched and moaned about the price of lamb here. When we were kids, Tuesday night was always a half shoulder of lamb cos it was cheap and it did a couple of meals. It was always one of my favorite meals. When we came here, I was aghast at the price of lamb by comparison. I figured we were in cattle country (well, not really, but close enough!) and got on with life, lambless.

A while ago, I forked out for some lamb chops when we were having folk over, and they went down really well...as they should have, being more per pound than the priciest steak in the store. The kids loved them, then literally a week later, I noticed what I thought was a special on the lamb roasts...they seemed to have about halved in price. But the price stayed down, and now we have lamb maybe not every week, but probably every other week, alternating with a pot roast. Last weeks small, part boned leg of lamb was about 4lb, cost a touch under $30 and did our family of 5 one roast dinner, one curry, and a lunch for me. Still bugs me that it's more expensive than I remember, but that was 40+ years ago, so it may have changed in the UK now, too now what I need the butchers to be able to do is a decent bone in half shoulder with the nice flat flappy bit.....yum!

Speedwell

Where. Where are you finding affordable lamb roast in Houston. Do we even have sheep here?

Speedwell

Yeah, we did a 26-pound turkey last year, his first ever in the USA, because I love leftovers, but my husband is not particularly fond of doing with precooked turkey what can be done better with a nice fresh chicken breast, despises traditional American onion/celery/sage/thyme/toasted bread stuffing, doesn't care for cranberry sauce on anything, and would happily ignore the existence of yams. We were thinking of getting a nice turkey crown anyway and making a British style stuffing, but all the turkey is "enhanced" with "broth" and he thinks it tastes like rubber. Guess that does it for that.

I was trying to take him out to a churrascaria but he's a frugal country Ulsterman and really, really, just wants a good steak and chips. So that is what we will have.

Nutek

How about Twerky?

civilservant

I'm about to have my first 'taste' of thanksgiving at my mother in laws. I hope the turkey is big enough to stick my head in when the Yams start flying

Yorkieabroad

HEB at Fry/99.The finger chops are around $16ish per lb but the boneless leg joints are around $7. Haven't yet trained them to leave me a leg on the bone...that's a work in progress...
Costco usually have some, it is slightly more, but quality/consistency probably justifies it.

SultanOfSwing

No, that would be boring.