I have to agree with annie1992 on this one. A good steak, perfectly cooked (rare), Needs nothing but a bit of salt & pepper. But here is a recipe I found here on the CF Quite a long time ago. Sorry, I don't know who originally posted it, I didn't keep that info. Baked Onions For each medium onion: 1 Tablespoon worchestershire sauce 1 Tablespoon soy sauce (low sodium works fine) 1 Tablespoon butter Tony Cachere's to taste (or use half of a bouillion cube in place of the worchestershire & soy sauces) Peel the onion. Cut off the top. Cut the root end off leaving enough to keep the onion intact. Vertically slice the onion into 8 wedges, but do not slice all the way through. Place onion in an individual ovenproof dish or on large square of foil. Pour the worchestershire sauce and soy sauce over the top of the onion. Lay the piece of butter on the top of the onion. Sprinkle with Tony Cachere's to taste. Cover dish with foil or wrap onion tightly in foil. Bake at 350 degrees for one hour. Fabulous with steaks...and don't forget to dip your steak in the juice! Note: I usually do them in the microwave, Using my microwave's "Fresh Vegetable" setting. They would probably do well wrapped in foil, and cooked on a grill, too. Rusty

Thanks for the suggestions! I clipped both recipes, debated about the Sangria, but for now it just went into the freezer. Unfortunately I still have a couple more bottles in my wine fridge so I can try these ideas. (They came from someone who had cases of it left over after a failed business venture of importing wine. He blamed the failure on Italians being very difficult to work with. But I tend to think the wine that he was trying to import may have had something to do with the failure!) Westelle - Believe me, this wine didn't stand a chance of opening up! Jessy - Oh yeah, sediment city. Lyra - I like your line of thinking!

This recipe from Cindy's Dad is very good and may help you get around the stuffing, potato, gravy thing. It's sorta potatoes and stuffing in one and a very good side with Turkey. Sorry I can't help you with the turkey thing except to maybe suggest you BBQ it. To help make up for the turkey maybe you could do 4 or 5 great veggies as sides. Grilled onions, beets, peppers some baked beans maybe. Baked beans are great with both the following recipe and turkey. I even have a recipe somewhere for grilled whole onions stuffed with baked beans....maybe if you did a total BBQ theme..... Pennsylvania Dutch Potato Filling-Cindy�s Dad 5 Lb Idaho potatoes 1 Cup diced celery 1 -1/2 cup diced onion 3/4 Cup fresh parsley (or dried -parsley flakes) 4 eggs 2 (1 cup) butter or margarine 3 Cup cubed bread 1 -2 cups milk, or enough to -moisten bread cubes Salt, pepper and celery salt Cook potatoes with salt until tender. Saut celery and onions with 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper in 2 tablespoons oil until tender and slightly browned. Push to one side of the pan; add 1/2 stick of the butter and soak parsley in butter, then mix with celery and onions. Drain potatoes; put in large enough container to hold all ingredients. Add the remaining 1-1/2 sticks butter, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon pepper and 1-1/4 teaspoons celery salt. Mix with electric beater. Add eggs and mix thoroughly. Add celery and onion mixture and mix. In the same pan used for the celery and onion mixture, soak bread cubes in enough milk to moisten thoroughly and heat. Add to potatoes and mix. If mixture is too thick, add milk. Add dry bread cubes if too thin. Also use more or less of seasoning to taste. Put in greased baking dish (or dishes), dot top with butter, and bake at 400 for 1 hour until golden brown.

So the gravy involved experimentation, yelling, throwing food out, and frenzied remaking. I had a little pork stock and a good amount of duck stock. I expected someone to bring some turkey drippings, and we had boxed chicken stock for an emergency. I thought it would be fun to make a few kinds of gravy. So I did something that made perfect sense to me. I put about 2 c of AP flour in a saucepan and browned it. It was fun, I got to do that rolling thing where you move the pan to get the contents to roll into a wave and thus mix. Okay, the kitchen got a little smoky but oh well. My idea, you see, was that I'd have a jar of this pre-browned flour on hand for future "instant" gravies and general thickening. Because sometimes you need a sauce thickened right away and don't have time to mix raw flour with a little of the liquid, whisk it smooth, add and cook until the floury taste is gone, and you don't want the texture of a cornstarch thickened sauce. Then I made the gravy for my low cooked deep fried pork cubes. I simply put the pork stock in a small saucepan, added butter and pork fat, then stirred in the pre-browned flour. It worked great: dissolved right away, no clumping, no further cooking of the flour needed, and easy to adjust the degree of thickness by adding a bit more pre-browned flour (let's call this PBF for short) because the thickness responded immediately. That was easy, I thought. Then SWMBO started, not yelling exactly, but loudly expressing her disappointment and astonishment that I had cooked the raw flour, which is Never Ever Done and Unheard Of. DD took a few minutes to comprehend what I had done, then joined in the vocalization of Great Dismay. Protesting, DD proceeded to make the duck stock with my PBF. And immediately claimed it was a disaster. I was busy frying confit duck breasts so I didn't see what she did. I think she may have used the PBF as if it was raw flour, starting the roux by cooking butter and flour. Maybe the PBF quickly became burned - since I didn't do any additional cooking of PBF during the actual gravy making, I am not sure how it would tolerate further cooking. I just don't know. Anyway she said the texture was gritty and the taste was burned, and that all the duck gravy had to be thrown out. Throwing out a pint of duck stock is not something that makes DD happy. She said so. In the end, she started all over with the Normal Sane Roux Method You Dummy and made gravy with the turkey drippings and chicken stock, and it was fine. The pork bites drizzled with gravy turned out to be very popular. So there. And I have a jar of PBF that I need to hide or label as something else, lest SWMBO or DD find it and throw it out.