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Post by Granny Smith on Nov 20, 2013 20:08:15 GMT -5
So, what are your plans for Thanksgiving dinner? I've only decided on two things, so far - bacon-wrapped turkey breast filets and cornbread dressing. What are you having?
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Post by Valerie on Nov 20, 2013 20:25:34 GMT -5
Well, we found out last night that Becky and Brandon will be coming, so.... We'll be having turkey, roasted sticky-chicken style, i.e., rubbed with a spicy dry rub with onions in the middle. We'll also have bread stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, sweet potatoes with marshmallows, and some veggies. The collards are looking fantastic in the garden, so I think they'll be included. To round out our wonderful carb-fest, we'll also have some sort of rolls, and some dessert.  And probably some olives for me and Brandon. |
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Post by eyeofthestorm on Nov 21, 2013 6:33:18 GMT -5
We are going our most untraditional ever. We will be having fried rice. DH doesn't particularly like turkey, but he "suffers" through it each year. So this year, we compromised on fried rice (which we all love) with turkey in it. We got a free turkey at a supermarket special, and I roasted it on Tuesday, picked the carcass, froze most of the meat, and made stock from the bones.
I haven't decided on dessert. I'd like to pull off something no one here expects... we'll see.
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Post by Valerie on Nov 21, 2013 7:31:17 GMT -5
When I was young I always wanted to make a baked Alaska. It looked so pretty in my mom's BC Cookbook! Our climate is not conducive to doing fancy things with meringue, though. We're doing good to even get it to stick to a pie and that takes having the A/C wide open. |
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Post by michelle on Nov 21, 2013 7:40:23 GMT -5
We'll head to my mom's on Thanksgiving. I'm bringing candied sweet potatoes and apples. I think that I'm going to tell them it's my last year for making it. I know everyone loves it, but it's a pain to make and I'm tired of making it. Not sure what else will get served for dinner.
We'll have Thanksgiving with my dad and grandmother the Saturday after. My dad's bringing the turkey and stuffing, my grandmother's bringing rolls, my sister is bringing potatoes and a desert and we'll provide everything else.
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Post by gayla50 on Nov 25, 2013 17:40:50 GMT -5
we have 35 family dear nephew bringing his Lady friend she met us all once at Easter he was my sisters son his folks went through a bad patch and we kept for almost 6 years he moved back when living there got hard and my sister had some problems he closer to my kids he's brother number 7 he called they are leaving her house tomorrow they should be here in the afternoon his oldest sister sitting in my family room she hold my grandson she and I are close she only five years younger that me my step brother daughter in the kitchen with 3 of my dil making some lemonade she and her husband are home for the holiday then he go to Ohio on business and she stay with us she got two kids a tottler and 12 year old he up with Mike and the tribe we got about a group of about 8 of them .... my sil dd has a little one a few hours older than grandson DB and Sil and DSIL were very busy that night my Sil came in a bit a go asked if there was something she could buy-I said I am going to the store later she said said you wont take money Sam cam settle with you DD and Sil want to go to the store with me DD tries but she hates the store even when she was little she beg John to keep her dont make her go with Mama she hates it so EM and I will go with them they leave and we get what we need such is life
happy and safe holiday everyone
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Post by upnorthlady2 on Nov 26, 2013 11:30:30 GMT -5
My husband hates turkey (he used to work for a turkey processing plant, but that's all I will say), so we are having roast beef and ham for the meat eaters at our table(probably the same processing issues, but......). I'm vegetarian, so I will be having a vegetable pie with a lattice crust for dinner. (It's a recipe from Beatrice Ojakangas Great Scandinavian Baking Book, p. 285). We'll also have mashed potatoes and gravy and baked stuffing and lots of other veggies, plus apple pie and pumpkin pie.
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Post by Cyngbaeld on Nov 26, 2013 21:24:03 GMT -5
I'll probably spend most of the day whacking mesquite and doing chores. Don't know what we'll eat. Food of some sort.
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Post by eyeofthestorm on Nov 28, 2013 8:30:34 GMT -5
I haven't decided on dessert. I'd like to pull off something no one here expects... we'll see. This didn't work. I talk too much, so everyone knows since I've been yakking while trying to figure it out. I have some cream cheese, made by a friend who has an A2/A2 cow (long story short: my boys don't have an allergic reaction to this cow's milk). I'm making a cheese cake with a ginger snap crust. This is a rare, unheard of treat (well, unheard of until I spent the last two days figuring it out aloud). I expect there will be great silence during dessert tonight. |
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Post by Cyngbaeld on Nov 28, 2013 8:54:09 GMT -5
I've decided that turkey pot pie sounds good. My turkey doesn't have any processing issues. Just have to rummage around in the boxes of jars and find some.
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Post by meemo on Nov 28, 2013 20:43:48 GMT -5
We had the usual and it was good. The girls spent the night last night so we had a good time cooking all day. It just amazes me that they,'ve grown up enough to be a lot of help. With a bare minimum of instructions both of them can put a dish together.
We had turkey,dressing,gravy,m.taters, sweet taters, corn casserole, squash casserole and green beans with bacon. Pumpkin and pecan pie and a cheesecake dessert. It was good and I'm too full. Hope y'all s was good too.
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Post by Cyngbaeld on Nov 28, 2013 21:35:42 GMT -5
I made a pot of turkey soup. Didn't get around to making crust for pie. I just ate a couple bowls of soup and gave Bethany one too. She didn't eat hers but I discovered the empty raisin jar in her bedroom just a bit ago. Last I saw it, there was a pt of raisins in it. Reckon it kinda spoiled her appetite.
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Post by michelle on Dec 2, 2013 7:40:38 GMT -5
Sandra, how was the desert?
Peggy, that's great about the grands being able to help.
Kim, I sure hope raisins are something that Bethany can eat without any problems.
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Post by eyeofthestorm on Dec 3, 2013 6:52:35 GMT -5
Sandra, how was the desert? Well, it wasn't awful, but I was kind of upset with myself. When I was making the batter for the cake, I noted it was pretty thin. Like, way thin. But then I thought maybe it's because the cream cheese was homemade. After I got the cake in the oven, I went to make ranch dressing (my friend made me some cultured buttermilk, too). I couldn't find the buttermilk ANYWHERE. I called my husband in, and we were searching the fridge (I mean, how big is the fridge?) and the freezer... and we found the OTHER container of... cream cheese. So my cheese cake wasn't cheese cake. It was a custard made with cream cheese and cultured buttermilk baked over a gingersnap crust. We ate it with ground cherry preserves. It wasn't bad, it just was not what I had been expecting to put in my mouth, kwim? And we had no ranch dressing If you're wondering - the buttermilk was not thin in the container - it really looked as thick as the cream cheese had, I had to scoop it out... I guess it just kept culturing in the fridge to get that thick. But it didn't bake up like cream cheese, that's for sure. |
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Post by michelle on Dec 3, 2013 8:55:33 GMT -5
That's kinda funny
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And probably some olives for me and Brandon. 
