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Elvis
Thanksgiving | Thanksgiving with Elvis | Elvis
Thanksgiving Day
Elvis did not celebrate Thanksgiving Day on a regular basis
during his lifetime
While Elvis always spent Christmas Day at home in Memphis,
Elvis often spent Thanksgiving Day working away from
Graceland |
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Thanksgiving with Elvis Presley
Thursday November 22, 2012 |
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In 1957 Elvis spent Thanksgiving watching Pat Boone’s new movie, April
Love, at Loew’s Palace in Memphis. The following year Elvis was in Germany. The army promoted him to private first
class that day and Elvis had Thanksgiving dinner with the family of
girlfriend Elisabeth Stefaniak.
In 1972 Elvis, already legally separated from Priscilla,
spent Thanksgiving in Hawaii with girlfriend
Linda Thompson.
Thanksgiving with Elvis
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Elvis Thanksgiving Fried Chicken
Ingredients:
1/2 teaspoon thyme
1/4 teaspoon oregano
1/4 teaspoon basil
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon dry mustard
1/2 teaspoon paprika
1/4 teaspoon chilli powder
1/2 teaspoon celery seed
1/2 teaspoon coriander
1/2 teaspoon cumin
1/3 teaspoon kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/4 teaspoon ground white pepper
3 cups buttermilk
Mix the dry ingredients together in a large
bowl, then whisk in the buttermilk until it's thoroughly
mixed.
Pour the batter over the chicken and marinate for up to five
days in the refrigerator
Frying Mix: Cornstarch, whole wheat flour & Salt
Dredge the marinated chicken pieces in the dry
Cornstarch/Flour/Salt mixture
Frying: Drop chicken in a large skillet with hot peanut oil
at 375 degrees. Once chicken is a golden brown
finish cooking in a 180 degree oven for 10 minutes |
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Elvis sharing Thanksgiving
Chicken
with Hope Lange on the set of
Wild in the Country 1960 |
1961 Elvis Spent Thanksgiving
filming Kid Galahad |
During the 1960s Elvis was working in
Hollywood on Thanksgiving Day. November 24, 1960, he was
filming Wild in the Country The next year he was working on
Kid Galahad in November. He spent the holiday driving back
to Memphis in 1964, having just finished work on Tickle Me.
1967 Elvis was filming Stay Away, Joe ended the day
before Thanksgiving 1968 Elvis he was in the middle of
filming Little a Little, Love a Little during Thanksgiving
the November holiday
Thanksgiving was an important
day for the Elvis movies. Six of his movies were released nationwide the
day before Thanksgiving to take advantage of the four-day high
school break. Love Me Tender (1956) GI Blues (1960)
Blue Hawaii (1961) Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962) Fun in Acapulco
(1963) and Harum Scarum (1965)
Elvis worked the final two Thanksgiving Days of his life:
November 27, 1975, he flew to Las Vegas on the Lisa Marie to start
a new engagement there, and November 25, 1976, he performed
on stage at the University of Oregon in Eugene
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