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by Rachel Brodsky

We know. Money is tight. Very tight. But people are starving in San Francisco. Not just the homeless, but people you might even know. People close to you. Your friends and family and neighbors. Seriously.

In an city saturated with aggressively rustic food, these hors d'oeuvres are a refreshingly couture treat for any Thanksgiving spread. (We should point out that this is a dish SFist has praised in the past.) Plucked from Martha Stewart's Entertaining (also known as Entertaining: A Case Study in Hysteria and Paranoia), this recipe for snow peas stuffed with soft cheese is a simple and not-too-filling preface to a carb-heavy dinner.

The truth of the matter is, you can drink almost anything with turkey dinner -- most full-bodied, earthy, or well-balanced red wines, and many German, or Rhône-style whites will do the trick just fine. So many diverse flavors mean that many wines are bound to taste good with at least something you have on your plate.

Thanksgiving is just around the corner. (Can you feel the collective nervousness of the turkeys? That's the feeling of flavor!) And until next Thursday, SFist will post recipes we would love for you to use, if the mood should strike, for your Thanksgiving feast. What's more, some of the recipes will be brought to you by local chefs of note! Hopefully.

Yeah. This is a day late. Digesting solid food was a fresh and exciting experience for us, so most of our Thanksgiving was busy doing that. Anyway.

Stuffing the way it's mean to be, in its purest form, sans walnuts or raisins. Learn it, love it.

In lieu of getting drunk on unoaked Chardonnays, watching a football match or sorts, or binge eating on meat and pasty carbs, you can check out the Indigenous Peoples Annual Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz Island tomorrow morning. To quote the organizers: "Join us in this day to give thanks for the Creator's gifts, renew our commitment to protect Mother Earth, honor the many heroes of our struggles, celebrate Indigenous Peoples' survival and build solidarity among all Peoples. Tobacco and prayers will be offered to the fire for the Earth and coming generations, and for All Our Relations." Your guess is as good as our as to what will take place. But we do know that Morning Star Gali, Lakota Harden, and Bill Means will emcee the early morning fun. All Nations drum troupe and traditional Aztec and Pomo Dancers will also perform. Everyone is welcome.

RIP, little fellas.

For those of you with a decent chunk of change and a basting phobia, CHOW has compiled their list of top SF restaurants in which to celebrate Thanksgiving. Their top choice, Ducca, has an "Italian take on the holiday" featuring a "three-course meal, which includes turkey involtino and caramelized Brussels sprouts." A few other places of note are AME Restaurant ("lots of fresh fish from the sashimi bar"), Luce - InterContinental San Francisco Hotel (lobster with butternut squash and chestnuts with vin jaune), and the reasonably-priced Home ("serving a basic three-course prix fixe menu, with choice of turkey, ham, or veggie entree, and pumpkin pie, pecan pie, or sorbet for dessert.) Do you know of a decent Thanksgiving dinner with an appropriately pasty-textured menu? Let readers know about it in the comments.

Looking fresh-faced wrapped in a classic Burberry scarf, former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin gave an interview yesterday that can only be described as a pitiful attempt to get back on the Daily Show. In a 2008 news story on KTUU channel 2 in Anchorage, Palin is interviewed at a turkey farm while a man drains the blood from dead turkeys in the background.

-- A Vallejo husband and father, Kevin Owens, 41, went though with a murder/suicide pact (with himself, we guess) on Friday night. He shot and killed his wife, Stacey Owens, 38; wounded his two-year-old daughter; and then turned the gun on himself (right after "a big Thanksgiving dinner at their home Thursday night.") This happened on the 300 block of Carousel Drive. Owens' 10-year-old son managed to escape the bloodbath, run to a neighbor's,...

In Los Angeles, LAist most definitely celebrated Thanksgiving like no other. After all, one has to keep up all the energy to keep on walking the line at the Writers Strike and fighting the unfortunate return of the wildfires in Malibu, which single handedly destroyed over fifty homes within the first 24 hours. National outlets may be covering the fires, but CNN also found it is easier to buy a gun than fruit and veggies in South Central. On the entertainment front, the Red Hot Chili Peppers are suing Showtime over the show titled Californication and Rami Kashou of Project Runway chatted with LAist about his Palestinian heritage and, of course, designing beauty.

Welcome back, little piggies, from your night of binge eating and sipping. (That is, if you were fortunate enough to do so.) Why not get up, out, and about tonight to work off that meal, hangover with the following:

Black Friday, the Friday after Thanksgiving, the day where big retail shoppers traditionally break even for the year! Traditionally considered the biggest shopping day of the year! Is it retail therapy? ....Or is it kowtowing to the gods of capitalism and binding the workers who long to be free?

Blah blah blah soup kitchens blah blah fun-runs blah holiday schedules. All that stuff's fascinating, of course, but here's what we really want to know: Muni, where can we find all the hottest Xmas shopping deals? Aside from Dress Barn, of course. Fear not, shoppers, for Muni's assembled a guide to holiday buying, starting on the day after Thanksgiving and extending to late December. Thanks to the MTA, you are now fully prepared to buy gifts, no matter which Xmas you celebrate: the real one, the Jewish one, or the black one.

Care to avoid be ridiculed by your Thanksgiving hosts following your departure after din din? Good. Then pay attention. (For those of you who have T-Day hosts who regularly gulp Chuck Shaw or Yellowtail, ew, feel free to ignore this post. You're screwed anyway.)

The Third Annual Thanksgiving Dodgeball Game is kicking off at 9 p.m. at Dolores Park, Thanksgiving Day. While it's probably best that you go after your food's been well digested, there's nothing like getting pummeled with balls to help you work off those turkey pounds. Just make sure to bring your own balls (literally and figuratively, we suppose) as whoever is running this thing has told us that they won't be supplying the, uh,...

-- The Life of Reilly: He starred in Hello, Dolly, won a Tony and an Emmy, a Broadway director, and had one hell of a mother, but Charles Nelson Rilley will always be remembered for his Match Game PM innuendos and Brett Sommers trashing. His one-man show was filmed (thank God) for posterity just before he died, and you have the privilege of seeing a star of such magnitude tonight at 7:30 p.m. and 9:15 at the Lumiere Theatre.

Be careful if you're having Thanksgiving dinner near the coast tomorrow. Because if you plan on strolling down the beach afterwards to walk off that dark meat sitting in the pit of your stomach -- does anyone really prefer white meat? why? -- you might get swept to sea. Unusually high swells could reach up to eight feet over the holiday weekend according to the Nation Weather Service. What's more, "swimmers and [well, for...

So are we!

This is the story behind the best egg nog--and the best egg nog traditions to accompany it.

Every year at Thanksgiving, you're bound to forget one or two critical items. A shallot, cooking twine, mushrooms, Ketel One -- something will slip your mind and you run the risk of having your Thanksgiving dinner collapse in on itself. And then you've ruined everything. Everything! But who can we prevent such yellow wallpapered hysteria? This is where you come in: do you know of any grocery stores that stay open late on Thanksgiving...

Lindy in the Park this Thursday

Intimated by Martha Stewart? Of course you are. But Apartment Therapy has a nice round up of Thanksgiving Table settings they found on Flickr. These are worth browsing for some last minute inspiration.

Later this month you will start to see something droll, orthodontically-estranged, and charmingly inbred on the street of San Francisco: British-like double decker buses. San Francisco will be trying out the 14-foot-tall buses along the busy streets of Geary and Mission to see how the riding public feels about them. Will you be a top rider or a bottom?

Want to know why there's no Thanksgiving card from grandma in your mailbox today? Because it's Veterans Day. (Or because she's dead, Timmy.) While Bush pretended to be sad about it in Texas today -- "Not on my watch," chump? Bite it. Hard -- we thought of a recent veteran who died over the weekend, Mr. Norman Mailer. (He was a cook during WWII. How awesome is that? Well, we think it is.)

So, the horrible ordeal of Halloween has passed us by, and we escaped more or less unmolested except for Kenny the fire-juggling clown; but SOME PEOPLE just will not let it drop.

For all those Decemberists fans out there waiting patiently for Thanksgiving weekend (a four-night run in San Francisco) to happen here's some bad and then even worse news. First, the bad: Decemberists' tour is canceled. Over. Done. Second, the worse news: now you have to find some other excuse why you don't want to spend time with your crazy family. We're thinking that this just sucks all around. What else was were we going to do that weekend besides shop?