So, who’s cooking your Thanksgiving feast?
I’m lucky that I will be spared making the dinner but I am going to a fabulous cook’s house where I know we’ll dine in style and with yummy food.
I only have to bring broccoli au gratin, an apple pie which husband will make, and mashed turnips as I love them but the host et al doesn’t so I’ll bring my own turnips.
They’ll have guests ranging in age from 3 to 87 – and it should be a wonderful time.
When I was little, Thanksgiving was all about turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy – I think that was all I’d eat.
The older I get the more I lust for veggies and they now have an equal importance on my plate, but – they have to be fancied up with something…thin slices of toasted almonds, or cheese sauce, or sautéed garlic or cranberries and bacon or lemon and honey or all of the above though I’ve never made a veggie with so many accents, I bet it would be good…Just make my veggies interesting --anything other than a plain old bare naked veggie will do.
Maybe the best part of our Thanksgiving tradition is, at the very moment the last plate has been carried into the kitchen, on goes the Christmas carols!!!
posted by mary bishop | 7:59 AM
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My mom is doing a real "thanksgiving" for the first time in a while. her husband is feeling the need" so to speak, and so invited us all down. I believe the invite was "why don't you invite, J and M and S and whatever car S is driving this week for thanksgiving."
The sad part is, that while S DOES have a new car as of last week, (sigh) I will probably have a new one as well.
At any rate there's gonna be turkey, and taters, and *2* kinds of green beans (R only likes canned, the rest of us like regular :) so it will be canned with cream of mushroomsoup, and it will be regular w/butter garlic and toasted almonds) and there will be sausage stuffing, and who knows what else. Though mom has said something about Yorkshire pudding and corn bread. MMMM carbs. LOL
we are heading to my Grandmothers.
there will be all sorts of food. 2 turkeys (one cooked normal and one deep fried) mashed potatoes, carrots cooked in oj and brown sugar, mac and cheese, pineapple souffle, green beans, turnips, and then there are appetizers beforehand, veggie tray, shrimp cocktail, cheese and crackers, chips and pretzels and olives and pickles.
there is something for everyone and our dinner also ranges in ages from just under 2 (my daugter) to 81 yrs old (my grandmother).
then of course there is dessert -last year i brought dessert but im not this year my cousins wife is going to be baking lots of pies. at least one pumpkin, one apple, and one other. and then others will bring things and my grandma may make something also.
my hubby is making stuffing.
So we run the gamut of everything.
I cant wait! I LOVE the TURKEY!
We had Thanksgiving last month, of course (which always falls on / around my birthday).
Usually I head to Montreal and share the festivities with my family. But we could not get down there this year, so we had a little TG ourselves.
We did not make much, as all that stuff goes to waste for 2 people.
But you are right - I love all the "other stuff"... my favourite is the mashed carrots and turnips (with a little butter).
Oh yeah.
I remember vividly, as a kid, protesting that being put on my plate... and then being laughed at when I asked for seconds...
I hope you have a great TG...
What a wonderful time you'll have!
If the weather permits we will go to the big parade and stand in Times Square. Maybe catch some chinese food on the way back to the train station.
I plan on making a special dinner, it will be on Friday if we go to the city, if not it will be on the true holiday. I'm going to try out some new recipes, along with making tofu turkey. we'll see.
Ilanna, I love both kinds of green beans yummy. You're getting a new car? Teriffic!!
Oh Mom's cooking sounds wonderful. I'm getting hungry.
Minij, let me know how the fried turkey came out...it intrigues me and I'd love to make it some time, but on Tday I go traditional.
Hey nobody's mentioned sweet potatoes yet!
JDJ - my mom used to make the mashed turnips and carrots and she came from Quebec.
I remember now that you guys do your Tday earlier than in the states. Hey no reason you can't have two Tdays.
PG - that's on my life's to do list. What's the name of the hotel Marriott? that over looks the parade route? I want to stay there, go out the night before to watch the balloons being blown up, watch the parade and eat somewhere fabulous.
Maybe it'll happen.
I will be cooking with a little help from my sister-in-law.
Last year I thought it would be nice to go to someone elses' home for the holiday, it just wasn't the same at all and I wasn't expecting it to be but I was not crazy about the food. Dressing is my favorite part of the meal and hers was gross with nuts and rice in it, blech! Now her desserts were delicious, I will give her that.
How do you make broccoli au gratin?
sorry i forgot that one someone usually makes a sweet potato casserole with marshmallows. i dont like sweet potatoes so i forgot about it.
My mom's doing the cookin'. AND she is combining it with her birthday, so I can imagine the double feast!!! She hosts Thanksgiving every year, but usually only my brother's family shows up. This time we're expecting a couple of extra guests because of her birthday, but most people can't make it anyway. Well, there'll be more left for us. She cooks turkey very differently, because she stuffs it with apples, pineapple, dried apricots and dates, which are in turn stuffed with nuts. We don't usually eat the other "traditional" Thanksgiving foods, just because the family isn't used to them, although I do love the sweet potatoes, and pumpking pie, and cranberry sauce. But I'm sure we'll have plenty of food without it. I'll post an update when I actually find out my mother's plans!
Dasha, steam your broccoli until it's fork tender but not mushy. Drain.
Put 3 TB butter in pan, when melted add 3 TB milk...cook till it's bubbly and then add about hmmmm a cup of milk and maybe another 1/4 cup of milk...it's hard because I do it by eye.
Then I add lots of cheddar cheese, grated or sliced and a big glob of Velveeta because that just seems to add something and make the sauce creamy and rich.
Stir until thickened.
I always add salt pepper and a couple of pinches of fresh grated nutmeg too.
Put broccoli in buttered casserole. Pour cheese sauce on top.
In frying pan a put a couple of TBs of butter which I melt. Then I throw in Panko crumbs and regular bread crumbs and stir it all up.
On top of the casserole I dump on the buttered bread crumbs and then you heat it up 350 degrees until top is brown and cheese is bubbling.
Minij...I love sweet potato casserole but I also love them just baked...yum.
Irina, do check back with your menu - I love hearing about other people's favorite Tday foods and traditions.
Thanks Mary, I'm definitley gonna make that broccoli dish, yummers ;)
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