Just to lighten the mood up here a little, Thanksgiving is around the corner so to speak, soooo what´s cooking????
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"Cranberries and pecans are baked in the bottom of this cake. Turn the cake over for ooh's and ah's."
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I know that slow cooker mac & cheese is one of the things being cooked, as I am cooking it! WOOHOO!!! Mac & Cheese!! We're skipping the family Thanksgiving at SIL about 4 hrs away as one son is working on Thursday and the other Friday/Saturday night. I'll do Thanksgiving meal on Friday early afternoon instead and celebrate with just us. We'll see them all at Christmas, so that's okay to have to miss Thanksgiving. The Cranberry cake recipe sounds delicious. I'm the only cranberry/nut fan in my family, so I'll just have to imagine how good it must taste.
Cathy We already had Thanksgiving. I always make Cranberry martinis even though I can't drink them myself. I have to enjoy the martini vicariously. They are the best cranberry martinis. Here is the secret recipe:
1 oz Gin (real distilled gin like Tanqueray, not grain alcohol with gin flavouring added) 1 oz Triple Sec or Cointreau 1 oz pure unsweetened cranberry juice (such as Knudson's brand---not "Cranberry Cocktail") 1/4 fresh lime, cut into two slices, squeezed into shaker and drop the slices into the shaker Shake 3 or 4 times over lots of ice. Strain into martini glass. A holiday favourite among family and friends. I make ginger martinis for Christmas.
Dal, no kidding. The chef is superb and the food is always perfectly cooked and presented. I'm really looking forward to dinner. Will let you know how it goes. Lindy the numbers keep changing every day -- today it's down to 10 from a high of 14 -- I never know, so just cook lots of grub and hope for the best....Turkey and Ham Cornbread and bread stuffing Sweet potato puff mashers and gravy (of course) green beans with onions and bacon cranberries.... pie, cream puffs, trifle Think i've forgotten something, but menu is upstairs.Turkey and Ham Boiled potatoes and gravy
Homemade stuffing
Baked fresh yams with pecans, marshmallows and brown sugar (normal is candied yams)
Scalloped corn
Condiments (pickles, olives, cranberry jell, cottage cheese, etc)
Lime jello w/cream cheese and pineapple
Homemade Pumpkin pie
Homemade Dutch apple pie
I am sure I forgot some stuff, but this is about all.
YUMMY! I'm starving!
Mark, Me and the kids... so thats 4, plus the kids "parents" the other gramma, and 3 guests.. not sure yet where our daughter and her guy are eating, probably with his family.. drat
Menu:
Turkey, regular stuffing inside, oyster stuffing outside
mashed potatoes and gravy
green beans, peas, sweet potatoes
relish tray
deviled eggs
salad, croutons, dressing
bread bowl with dill dip
cheese board
cranberry sauce
pies : apple, pumpkin, dutch apple, and mincemeat
blueberry bread
rolls
jello, ice cream
cider, milk, coffee, lemonade
we'll eat bufet style. Dining table is way too small... tv trays, kids table, etc..
We're having Thanksgiving this year, for the first time. It will be me and hubby, my parents, my stepchildren, and possibly one of their significant others, so just 6-7 of us. Unfortunately my sister and her husband can't make it from Ohio, but they'll be home for Christmas.
Here's our menu. Since hubby will be doing all the cooking and cleaning and preparing, except for me assembling a few things, we decided to do some stuff the easy way (candied yams from a can).
Appetizers
Cheddar and garlic-herb cheese spread with crackers
Vegetables with bleu cheese dip
Cocktail Wieners with dipping mustard
Shrimp with cocktail sauce
Main Course
Roasted turkey breast with gravy
Herbed bread stuffing
Cranberry sauce
Candied yams
Smashed potatoes
Garlic sauteed zucchini (with breadcrumbs, fattening but oh so good)
Steamed corn
Rolls
Tossed salad
Desserts
Mom's Apple Pie with Vanilla Ice Cream
Mom's Cherry Cheesecake Cupcakes
But I think my favorite thing will be our "table decorations" that we bought today...
Our centerpiece (abt 7" tall) is a milk chocolate turkey decorated with dark and white chocolate:
And at each place setting, a dark chocolate maple leaf decorated with tinted chocolate:
YUM! Oh, how beautiful that looks! I can tell you are all ready for the holiday. I on the other hand, am not! I will get my butt in gear tomorrow. I did go shopping tonight for most of the food items I need.
We will have -
Appetizers: Clam Dip and Cape Cod Chips (has to be Cape Cod! LOL) and Flat Bread with Hummus
Soup: Pumpkin Soup served in baked Acorn Squash "bowls"
Main Course: Old fashioned roasted turkey with sage-bread stuffing/dressing - cooked both inside and outside of the bird
Gravy
Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Sweet Potatoe/Cranberry Casserole
Herbed green beans/peas in a mushroom cream sauce
Homemade Biscuits, Cornbread, Pumpkin Bread, Banana Bread
Cranberry Sauce
Dessert: Boston Cream Pie, Pumpkin Cheesecake Roll, Apple Crisp with Vanilla Ice Cream
Here is my menu: < ="-" ="text/; =utf-8">< name="ProgId" ="Word.">< name="Generator" ="Microsoft Word 12">< name="Originator" ="Microsoft Word 12"><> Appetizers Stuffed Celery Olives Deviled Eggs Hot Artichoke Dip,
Crackers Baked Brie in phyllo dough Tomato-Ricotta
Salata Salad Turkey, Stuffing
& Gravy Mashed Potatoes Sweet Potatoes and
Apples Creamed Onions String Bean
Casserole (with Ritz crackers and velveeta cheese) Pumpkin Pie Pecan Pie Cheesecake Yum! wantobe, I "wantobe" at your house! We are going to my moms (we alternate years with hubby's parents and my mom) in Carlsbad on Thurs. It will be a buffet style dinner in her retirement com dining room. Then since my daughter has to work Friday we will have my inlaws over the weekend for another TG dinner. We are having
Roast Turkey Cornbread stuffing with apples and pecans homemade cranberries candied yams whipped potato souffle (kind of) gravy Steamed brussel sprouts with butter salt and pepper pop & fresh rolls Pumpkin pie
blueberry no bake cheesecakee
I love to send my in laws home with a load of left overs so they can enjoy it for the next few day....MIL does not cook We're heading to my sister's house for Thanksgiving day (7 hr drive) right after we go to church in the morning. I believe the menu this year is ham, mashed potatoes, stuffing, corn, green beans, and various pies for dessert. I can't wait to see them!
Mmm! Sounds delish as Rachel Ray would say!:)Yeah me too! I can tell because we are saying mmm! I guess we taste it already.:)
[QUOTE=Gimpy-a-gogo]We already had Thanksgiving. I always make Cranberry martinis even though I can't drink them myself. I have to enjoy the martini vicariously. They are the best cranberry martinis. Here is the secret recipe:
1 oz Gin (real distilled gin like Tanqueray, not grain alcohol with gin flavouring added) 1 oz Triple Sec or Cointreau 1 oz pure unsweetened cranberry juice (such as Knudson's brand---not "Cranberry Cocktail") 1/4 fresh lime, cut into two slices, squeezed into shaker and drop the slices into the shaker Shake 3 or 4 times over lots of ice. Strain into martini glass. A holiday favourite among family and friends. I make ginger martinis for Christmas.[/QUOTE] Here's an interesting after-dinner drink: Knew i forgot to add something to my dinner menu! The dinner rolls (homemade) the relish tray and deviled eggs....So is anyone else stunned by the price of turkey? I bought mine yesterday, and it .39 a pound, which is low compared to other meats, but I'm used to turkey being .79 or .89 a pound. And there was organic, free range turkey there, antibiotic free, etc. - that doggone turkey was over .00 a pound and I saw a single turkey which cost !!!! Mine was half that at , but even that seems ridiculous. I remember being able to "earn" my turkey through my other purchases at the grocery store and getting it free!
well I could get a free frozen one for spending 0 at my store but I wanted fresh so I had to pay .50 a lb. for it. It was so difficult to find a 22 lb turkey! They were 12 lbs or over 25 lbs! My wrists and hands are killing me from sorting through all those turkeys yesterday! The Butterball "fresh" turkeys felt frozen to me! The guy was like mame they are NOT frozen- they have NEVER been frozen they just have to be at such and such degrees. But they feel hard I'm telling him- the Shop Rite brand are soft. (of course no 22 lb or close in that brand).
I just like a fresh turkey because frozen ones never seem to completely thaw for me and then I have trouble with the meat near the cavity and the stuffing cooking properly. [QUOTE=Hillhoney]Mine was half that at , but even that seems ridiculous. I remember being able to "earn" my turkey through my other purchases at the grocery store and getting it free! [/QUOTE]
ShopRite (at least in my area) still does that. Hubby cherry-picks the supermarket sales because his job takes him to all of them, but my parents are loyal ShopRite customers (my mother just retired from there) so we're cooking their free turkey breast. Jas, give me the recipe for ginger martinis, please, please.......I love ginger and it would be perfect for Christmas. LindyGimpy had the ginger martinis; I'd like to try the vodka-valium latte.
Um, I think that was me talking about ginger martinis.
We paid for our Thanksgiving turkey. It was one of those biodynamically farmed ones. BF went and got it. If I had gone to get it I would have paid about half that for a fresh, non-medicated free range bird, but what can I say? Of the two of us, I'm the more "frugal" one. That turkey was good, though. Ginger martinis: Put 2 cups water, 1 cup sugar, 2 cups thinly sliced fresh ginger (peels on. I cut slices with the mandolin), and the zest of one lemon (in long strips made with a peeler. Avoid the white part) in a saucepan and boil for about 15 minutes. Strain and refrigerate. Over a lot of ice in a martini shaker put 2 ounce vodka and 1/2 to 1 ounce ginger syrup. Experiment to taste. Shake and strain into a martini glass and ganish with a lemon twist. I'm in California, and we got out Butterball for .49 a lb. with a .00 purchase. Easy to spend 25.00 for other stuff. So we got a 22lb. turkey so everyone could take home leftovers. My two daughters, one son-in-law, Father-in-Law, 3yr. old granddaughter, who loves turkey, and my new grandson. And my husband and I, of course. This is the first year my 18 yr. old granddaughter won't be with us. She moved to San Francisco in Sept. and I miss her sooo much!
Anyway...out menu: Roasted Turkey
Plain stuffing
Stuffing w/ walnuts and mushrooms
Mashed potatoes / Gravy
Green beans / Corn
Pineapple-Cherry Frozen Salad
Olives
Crescent rolls
For dessert: Pumpkin pie with whipped cream
Chocolate pie (Special request)
Cherry pie
I'm going to try to make the frozen salad and the Pumpkin Pie. My husband will probably make the crust for me. He makes great homemade crust and my hands don't work so well.
In case I don't get back on...HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL!!! We are so broke we were going to sleep in and do TV dinners. Today, one of our vendors brought in turkeys for our small division of 4. Perfect size for me and the hubbie, and high quality fresh organic ones. I have just about everything else, but broke down and bought a pumpkin and a mince meat pie for .00 each at Walmart. I had sworn I wouldn't cook on Thursday, and now we will. A blessing. Cathy, I'm so glad you get to have a traditional Thanksgiving! That was very kind of the vendor to do that. When we had our business, we gave our guys each a turkey for Thanksgiving. They all really appreciated it and it was a way to thank them for their hard work. Of course they were union employees and made more money than we did!
Hope you and yours have a very Happy Thanksgiving!
Hugs, Nini Bump
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