Best & Worst of Thanksgiving dinner
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Comments (35)Augghhh! Shaun, I gave that egg separator to my brother and brother-in-law. They SAID they liked it .... Like the others, it's way too hard to choose the best -- I, too, received my first KA mixer, Japanese knife, and microplane as gifts, but I'll skip them as already having been named. I think I'll have to say the BHP -- i.e., the Big Honking Pan, the 14 inch straight sided (crucial) Calphalon sauteuse. I got one for my mom after she loved cooking in the one my friends gave me. Neither of us can remember how we got along without it. Ditto my big soup skimmer. Another really clever kitchen-related gift I got once from my cousin was a really nice dustpan and whiskbroom set from some artisan somewhere. My favorite kind of gift; something you really do need and use, but a much fancier version than you'd ever buy for yourself. And last night I once again blessed my mom for giving me the little dumpling press as I made dozens of Chinese dumplings really fast -- and do Harry & David pears count? -- and I haven't even started with the cookbooks from my brother-in-law -- rats, I knew I couldn't choose just one. Worst gift -- I've never gotten anything I hated, but, like Arabella, we keep a kosher home, so the lovely enormous package of pork sausage from a Vietnamese guest was sort of a problem for us....See MoreFamily Thanksgiving Dinner for Twelve
Comments (42)A repost. I will be using my grandmother's Theodore Haviland NY "Pink Spray" china. The menu is: Turkey and oyster dressing (9x13 pan) with giblet gravy English Peas Sweet potato casserole (no marshmallows) Fresh berry cranberry sauce Rolls Five cup salad Pumpkin pie with whipped cream I will probably have to add canned green beans and canned corn for the youngest two grandchildren. This a request from them. No extra seasoning and no frozen or fresh allowed, LOL. Seasoned, injected, wet brine, or dry brine not wanted. Also no grilled, smoked, or fried turkey. The grilled, smoked, and fried is okay in the summer, but not for Thanksgiving or Christmas. Anything with added salt is not wanted at anytime. My husband is very sensitive to salt and does not like it (I don't like that much salt either). Yes, it will be cooked in a covered roaster to 165* and allowed to rest. It will be carved before getting to the table. The mess will be in the garage frig before anyone gets here and saved for turkey stock. I am not knocking anyone else's way of doing their bird (unlike someone on here), but this is the way we like it. We have lots of juicy turkey. Plenty for leftovers and enough to freeze for all the other turkey dishes we like....See MoreThanksgiving dinner?
Comments (6)Arcy, if your DIL is truly southern, she ought to be used to it by now. According to some people who reside in the rest of the country, all we eat is roadkill, fried chicken and biscuits and gravy. Everyone is a raging racist and a bible thumper. And they KNOW this because they talked to some people from the south once, passed through it a couple times on their way to somewhere else, AND they watched EVERY EPISODE OF THE DUKES OF HAZARD. Lol. I was just poking fun about the southern thing. The south has some of the best food anywhere! (TeeHee, I wouldn't expect the canned possum to turn up anywhere too far north or west though :) )...See MoreThanksgiving Dinner #2
Comments (10)Our first dinner we had at Denny's Restaurant on the day. It was good enough. But I missed my own home made cranberry sauce and an all time favorite, candied sweet potatoes. So I labored over making my cranberry sauce Thursday evening. On Friday, I stirred up some chicken gravy from a package and also a box of stuffing mix that I doctored up with celery, onions, parsley and seasonings. Bought all the stuff to do this on way home from Denny's including 4 large chicken breasts which I fancied up a little with seasonings etc. On Saturday afternoon I roasted the breasts, made the candied sweet potatoes and heated up the stuffing, gravy, added a side of broccoli. We sat down to this meal that I had accomplished in bits and pieces over 3 days. It was delicious.....but wait! When we cleared the table and were putting leftovers in the fridge....Damn! There still in the fridge was the cranberry sauce, untouched! The main reason for going through all this. How could I have forgotten the cranberry sauce!!! It will be the first thing out of the fridge when we repeat the meal of leftovers for lunch today!...See Morelindac92
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