1 morcilla or 7 oz black pudding.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\nPREPARATION<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Soak salted meat with cold water for several hours<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a large pot: place meat, skin side down, with the beef bone. Chicken and trotter on top. Add garlic bulb, bay leaves and peppercorns and cover with water. Bring to a simmer, skimming off scum that rises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Drain chickpeas, add to pot, cover and simmer on the lowest possible heat for 1 1\/2 hours. Halfway through, add onion stuck with the cloves. No other vegetables go in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Second casserole: quartered cabbage, all vegetables and all sausages. If the black pudding has a plastic skin, remove it. Add water to cover all ingredients and a little salt and bring to a simmer. Cover and cook until potatoes are ready.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Drain vegetables and sausages and slice the sausages. Arrange the vegetables decoratively on a platter and put the sausage slices on top. This can be served before the meat or alongside it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Remove the meats from the main pot, collecting the chickpeas together. Remove the marrow from the bone and slice it into the chickpeas. Slice all the meats. Arrange the meats and chickpeas on a platter, moistening them with a little broth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That said, having grown up In New England, I\u2019m still partial to the Pilgrims and the Wampanoags in 1621. As with other feasts held earlier, the dinner seems to have involved venison (Massasoit, chief of the Wampanoags and his men (all 90 of them) brought 5 deer) and a number of birds. The Pilgrims also had managed to bring in some birds, and there was a good deal of fish, as well as lobsters and mussels and some local fruits \u2013 grapes and plums, and corn. Whether there were any turkey cooked at the dinner is unknown \u2013 it wasn\u2019t recorded, but there were many turkey in the area and a number of birds were shot and cleaned and cooked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Finally, there is this blessing, from John Adams, which was carved into the mantel in the state dining room in the White House in 1945:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLet us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips and shows itself in deeds.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In any case, to all, Have a Happy and Grateful Thanksgiving\u2026 Time to make an extra effort to say thanks to God above for everything. G.K. Chesterton noted that no matter what, we all have one reason to say thank you, as he said, each one of us is a great \u201cmight not have been.\u201d But we are, we are here,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And say a prayer for all the deployed today, and all those at sea, and thank God we were born in this amazing country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Arrias is no longer with us to do the celebrating today. He was a shipmate in uniform and in the publishing game and his memory is kept alive at Socotra House, but is recalled with fondness. We have a copy of his collected works on life in modern America on display on the conference table […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32032,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32029\/revisions\/32032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Arrias is no longer with us to do the celebrating today. He was a shipmate in uniform and in the publishing game and his memory is kept alive at Socotra House, but is recalled with fondness. We have a copy of his collected works on life in modern America on display on the conference table near the TAHE box with the blinking lights. If you dig around on the subject of Thanksgiving you will eventually find that the first one celebrated in what was to become the United States was celebrated in Virginia in 1608 when some Polish glass blowers, some British farmers and some Powhatan Indians (who were actually Algonquians) held a celebratory dinner after the harvest of 1608. That celebration was, apparently, the idea of the glass blowers who, being Lutheran, had fled persecution in Poland and ended up in Virginia.