Martha Stewart is 'turkeyed out' and canceled her Thanksgiving dinner (CNN)

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Martha Stewart says you can take your turkey and stuff it.

Stewart appeared on Thursday’s episode of “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” where she revealed she called off hosting a Thanksgiving celebration at her house this year.

“I gave up Thanksgiving. I canceled,” she said. “Nine guests canceled because somebody got sick. So … I called up my chef friend and I said, ‘We’re not doing Thanksgiving.’”

Plus, she’s sick of cooking.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/16/entertainment/martha-stewart-thanksgiving-turkey/index.html

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More because of the sickness of her friends than her cooking, I'd think.

[Attilatheblond]

1. Go small, leave home. I don't blame Martha a bit. It gets old when we get old.

Maybe she and Snoop Dog have better plans

Am cooking a turkey breast in slow cooker the day before. Not dry that way. Gonna dice it up, put it in green enchilada sauce, pack in the the ice chest with some cooked squash, maybe some cornbread (seasoned with diced chili) and tortillas, take it all and my camp stove out for a picnic.

May or may not make a pie. If not. Patty LaBelle cobbler for dessert. If you haven't tried that cobbler, you are missing out!

Done with spending days getting ready for a big meal, cooking it, cleaning up afterwards. Few relatives alive, so no one to share the work with. Fie on tradition. Do what feels best. But TRY THE COBBLER! OMG!

[Srkdqltr]

2. Good for her. Im not cooking either.

I'm tired of it .

[MOMFUDSKI]

3. We used to get together with 2 couples and my

daughter every Holiday. Took turns. Last Thanksgiving I was having terrible sciatica pain and bowed out. This year the pain is even worse and am again OUT. Husband brought a 10-lb turkey home today. It will be he and me and football. I will hump around my kitchen day before making pies, wild rice dish, and stuffing veggies cut up for Thursday. Husband will help. That’s all this 76-yr-old is capable of. I’m good with this.

[Warpy]

5. My favorite Thanksgivings were covered dish affairs with friends

We all decided that Thanksgiving was the holiday we'd use to hide from our nearest and dearest, which gave us something to be truly thankful for.

The dinners were always great.

[Warpy]

4. I would suggest a more intimate dinner with 2 or 3 good friends

She can get a capon, something that takes less time and has 10 times the flavor of turkey.

Roast the veg with the bird and it can't get any easier.

[SWBTATTReg]

6. Ah, more and more people are realizing that running around, acting crazy and stuff for Thanksgiving can be

a drag. We either simply go to a really nice Chinese Buffet here in the area, it's wonderful, and no dirty dishes, no mess in the kitchen, wonderful!

I will cook perhaps one or two meal items, such as my Mom's thanksgiving dressing and gravy (she is gone now), which was wonderful.

Everyone, pls. have a nice holiday over Thanksgiving!

[Old Crank]

7. She is getting up there in years

When I started seeing my current wife my MIL did thanksgiving dinner and another good sized one the next day. After 2 years I was helping with Thanksgiving and doing the next day dinner. Then I was doing both dinners with her helpng for Thanksgiving and finally I had he job full-time. It can be work to do dinner for 5. And she has a chef...