Seahawks (2-9) vs. Cooking (Thanksgiving Dinner)

This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook by preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks' opponent.

Every Thanksgiving we have been forced to watch whatever crappy game is on TV. Well this year, that crappy game is our game. Sorry rest of the country, it’s time to meet Brian Russell, and give thanks that he is not on your team.

With the NFL putting Dallas at the kiddy table this year, we’ll be skipping out on chicken-fried steak or ribs, and instead just make Thanksgiving dinner.

Well, almost, we are leaving the turkey to someone else. After all, meat is murder.

Also new this year, our parents are out of the country. So we’ll be making dinner for our brother and a friend who is looking to abandon his family for the Hawks game.

Our menu includes: corn, ginger green beans, garlic mashed potatoes, cornbread chicken apple sausage dressing, ground sausage "stuffing," and Seattlest Rachael’s cheese and potato dish.

The ground sausage stuffing isn’t the standard meat, vegetables, and soggy bread crap that can ruin any meal. It’s more of a loaf of ground sausage with celery, thyme, and onions that is cooked inside the bird. We’re going to try and cook it outside of a turkey, and we’ll see what we get.

We wanted to make Cranberry Jell-O, but wouldn’t you know we can’t find it anywhere. So instead we’ll be stealing the best Thanksgiving dish we’ve had this year, Roxy’s cranberry cider: cranberry juice, champagne, and brandy.

It’s the only Thanksgiving-themed drink we can think of. We would love to spend the day cooking/watching football while drinking on some Thanksgiving beer, but that Mayflower sailed out of port weeks ago.

We love a good winter/holiday ale, in fact nothing calms the nerves while searching for a parking spot Downtown, however, they go up on the shelves well before people can put up Christmas merchandise too early.