Pre-Thanksgiving Eats




The night before Thanksgiving when we had about a dozen family members at the house Oliver made us all fish sandwiches out of snook he caught back in August while working at Everglades National Park. One more time and it will be locked in as a tradition. Last year, he made pre-Thanksgiving fish sandwiches out of catfish he caught in the Missouri River. We all remember those as being the best fish sandwiches we ever had. We also all agreed that the snook sandwiches this year were even better than last year’s catfish.

The summer fish supply was a bit depleted, though, so to ensure we had more food than 12 people could possibly eat, he supplemented the meal with venison burgers from a deer that he harvested. The burgers were topped with cheese that Ann made from a cow she milked herself at The Mother Farm, www.themotherfarm.org. The choice between the burgers and fish sandwiches was too difficult, so I had both.

Although it wasn’t apparent in the previous post or the first part of this one, I do have two sons. Henry
is halfway through law school in Chicago and also traveled back to COMO for Thanksgiving. Henry works a lot – sometimes up to 40 hours a week, at a law office in downtown Chicago, while going to law school full-time. Aside from that, he mostly just lifts weights. Although that is a proper way I would have my son spending his time, it did nothing for putting a meal on the table in front of me this week, so Oliver gets the lion’s share of my word count in this blog.


Henry is a ghost online anyway. These may be the only pictures that exist of him on the Internet, outside of my social media sites.  

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