tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4478201407511428968.post2824293051640576922..comments2024-03-14T20:28:02.006-04:00Comments on An Urban Cottage: ThanksgivingAn Urban Cottagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08666212353075804092noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4478201407511428968.post-62117783734258576902010-11-27T16:00:04.781-05:002010-11-27T16:00:04.781-05:00Hi Steve, what a great post. I love the story of ...Hi Steve, what a great post. I love the story of learning to cook and the difference between you and your siblings. I am the same type of cook as you are and I love to experiment. I'll bet your table was beautiful. I'm a fan of brown transferware but don't own any. My husband and I have such different styles! Anyway, I hope your brunch today as a lovely success, too.Carol@6WilsonBlog.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207359295205754951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4478201407511428968.post-91951537740888595022010-11-27T15:20:56.688-05:002010-11-27T15:20:56.688-05:00Your menu is wonderful and your memories are delig...Your menu is wonderful and your memories are delightful. Thanks for sharing them both with us. I hope you have a wonderful day. Blessings...MaryMary Bergfeldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09234678984137982414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4478201407511428968.post-20665449747399368352010-11-27T05:10:17.422-05:002010-11-27T05:10:17.422-05:00Dear Steve, I just LOVE this post and you, ears an...Dear Steve, I just LOVE this post and you, ears and all.<br />There are Thanksgiving good wishes from me, and Himself, infusing in your Rosemarymosa.Share my Gardenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08817611851604816123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4478201407511428968.post-41022147964009312992010-11-27T03:58:24.445-05:002010-11-27T03:58:24.445-05:00this was such a sweet thanksgiving post! loved you...this was such a sweet thanksgiving post! loved your still life photo. and of course your jailbird pic. <br /><br />hope your dream of culinary school comes true, sooner rather than later.Rev. Tera Littlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04517699506544977468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4478201407511428968.post-57440749321998479942010-11-26T10:08:48.846-05:002010-11-26T10:08:48.846-05:00What a wonderful post. It was so wonderful I read ...What a wonderful post. It was so wonderful I read it twice!! I love the picture of you and your brother as jail birds, too cute. Hope you had a wonderful day.From Beyond My Kitchen Windowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10748389222000989848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4478201407511428968.post-63479034405135825912010-11-24T10:10:25.298-05:002010-11-24T10:10:25.298-05:00Steve - Wonderful post! I love your Mother's ...Steve - Wonderful post! I love your Mother's line of thinking. My mother never enjoyed cooking and never cooked anything very inspired (or fresh for that matter). I do credit her for the fact that I've been thin all my life, though. I pretty much grew up thinking eating was a task! Somehow I turned into a very adventurous cook, though, and I truly enjoy cooking (baking not so much) and eating!<br />I understand what you're saying about trying to do something new. This will be my first completely vegetarian Thanksgiving, as I've always had to make other family members happy. This year they won't be here, so I can make what I want. On the other hand, I'll miss them.<br />Have a wonderful weekend!<br />Karinlife, in small chunkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02406557354681766742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4478201407511428968.post-27506558671354075222010-11-24T08:56:41.465-05:002010-11-24T08:56:41.465-05:00Steve,
What a brilliant mother you have to teach h...Steve,<br />What a brilliant mother you have to teach her sons to cook! I grew up with a mother who used a can of Campbells in everything, and I'm not kidding;) Mine never made me help in the kitchen. I learned to cook from Ina! I follow a recipe to the teaspoon; however! I figure someone went to all that trouble (usually Ina;) to make it perfect, I'm not going to mess with it! Your meal sounds delish, and you table is beautiful- how lucky your family is to share it with you in your beautiful "new" home!<br />You and bro are cuties! Yes, you really shouldn't have mentioned that 'bad boy' thing to Janet...I'm thinking you'll live to regret that:)<br />Wishing you and your family a wonderful Thanksgiving! Have a great weekend also!<br /><br />joanfor the love of a househttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13151787635612708698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4478201407511428968.post-42475993706215054372010-11-24T07:14:02.983-05:002010-11-24T07:14:02.983-05:00Dianne,
I love it all when it's well done but ...Dianne,<br />I love it all when it's well done but I have to say my biggest passion, hands down, is mid-Century abstract expressionism and, more specifically, the students of Hans Hofmann. Many from that New York School used to summer in Provincetown on Cape Cod and you can still personally connect with those people in P'town where their sons and daughters tell stories of Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell and many, many other wonderfully talented artists, albeit not so famous like Peter Busa and Fritz Bultman just to name a few. A good Cy Twombly, de Kooning or Rauschenberg can just about make me cry.<br /><br />What kind of work do you do?<br /><br />You can e-mail me at urbancottageblog@gmail.com if you'd like.<br /><br />SteveAn Urban Cottagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08666212353075804092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4478201407511428968.post-5236765943267115012010-11-24T05:04:47.254-05:002010-11-24T05:04:47.254-05:00That was the cutest picture of you with your ears ...That was the cutest picture of you with your ears all sticking out. Too cute. I think your Southwest Thanksgiving sounds divine! I'd never complain. I like trying new variations on old favorites. I like lots of herbs and spices in my food. <br /><br />I'm all about a vegetarian Thanksgiving...I used to be a strict vegetarian for about 13 years....I still am mostly now. Rarely do I eat meat...and I'd really rather not. <br /><br />But I do have to say the year we had a veggie loaf for Thanksgiving was pretty sad.<br /><br />But I'm actually perfectly happy with a big salad and pumpkin soup and my rice salad for the big dinner. But no one else will go for that. They want broccoli and rice casserole...green bean casserole...if you can't see the vegetable in the dish...then it's really not a vegetable. Who came up with covering vegetables in cream of mushroom soup? Ick.<br /><br />Anyway...I'll be going to a big dinner at a friends with all the traditional fixings. <br /><br />They will never let me cook the meal...last year for Easter I brought Matzo Ball soup and no one would even touch it. Well, except for my Mom...she loves it.Nita Stacyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13833196166679983378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4478201407511428968.post-24540732953270863612010-11-23T22:18:40.619-05:002010-11-23T22:18:40.619-05:00Tell me what you like...still life, abstract, land...Tell me what you like...still life, abstract, landscape, figures? I need to know!Diannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11657813110377917661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4478201407511428968.post-20026814685732401542010-11-23T21:38:28.951-05:002010-11-23T21:38:28.951-05:00Hi again, Dianne.
Knowing that you're an artis...Hi again, Dianne.<br />Knowing that you're an artist, all of your comments mean so much more to me! I LOVE art and would love to see what you do sometime. Maybe you can start an art blog!An Urban Cottagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08666212353075804092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4478201407511428968.post-30567863593241469262010-11-23T21:28:42.702-05:002010-11-23T21:28:42.702-05:00Hi Steve,
I did read your last post reply to my sw...Hi Steve,<br />I did read your last post reply to my swoon. :) Thank you for sharing your wonderful home with us and for the sweet things you said. I am in heaven visiting here. I love old houses. I am an artist living in N.C. After reading this post I have decided the only thing better than being in your home is being at your table. Yum! Enjoy your Thanksgiving.Diannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11657813110377917661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4478201407511428968.post-83857408963723745642010-11-23T21:17:18.752-05:002010-11-23T21:17:18.752-05:00steve, i am absolutely smitten with this post. sm...steve, i am absolutely smitten with this post. smitten i say. <br /><br />you are adorable! and the fact that you are a 'bad boy', well that's like catnip to me.<br /><br />ok on to the menu. sounds fab but you should have stood your bad boy ground on the vegetarian thing. but hey that's how i roll and you know the results of that...<br /><br />i love that you want to go to culinary school too.<br /><br />it looks like i'm the last of the fan club commenting here. i wish you a very happy thaksgiving and i am so grateful that we ever cyber-met. really i am, some days you really make my day.<br /><br />~janetthe gardener's cottagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16447809353998632722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4478201407511428968.post-29558186610809356372010-11-23T20:53:41.745-05:002010-11-23T20:53:41.745-05:00Steve, sounds perfect and so nice to know a little...Steve, sounds perfect and so nice to know a little more about you. I love Ina but also Guy and Jamie and The Wild Chefs - diverse tastes in people and food! Ina is The Goddess around here. <br />Sounds like a perfect, classic menu. I think my invitation was lost in the mail. What time should I arrive? ;0<br /><br />xo TerriWindlosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17014227226507484798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4478201407511428968.post-28359585927002894562010-11-23T18:17:47.798-05:002010-11-23T18:17:47.798-05:00Messing with the menu at Thanksgiving can be a bad...Messing with the menu at Thanksgiving can be a bad business. I never knew you were incarcerated! You and your brother were/are? pretty cute. I didn't know you had a brother either. Does he live near? Your mother was ahead of her time teaching you boys to cook. What happened to your sister though? Have a great Thanksgiving and I wish I was coming after all.Debhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13872411319194316039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4478201407511428968.post-42411854587799636472010-11-23T17:51:40.599-05:002010-11-23T17:51:40.599-05:00Steve,
This is one of my favorite posts that you ...Steve, <br />This is one of my favorite posts that you have done...you were a darling little boy and it was great to learn more about you! I love how you and your brother are so different in respect to cooking...and the fact that you both appreciate what your mother taught you speaks volumes about you. I loved her comment about "in case no one will have you..." :) <br />Your meal(besides the turkey) sounds wonderful. Sometimes traditions just make us feel good -we look forward to them. Your friends sure are lucky - I would love to be a guest in your new gorgeous home! Love the mix on the table too - sometimes I wish we stayed at home for thanksgiving just so I could set the table.<br />Anyway, I hope you and your guests have a wonderful holiday!<br />SarahAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com