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#1084670 - 11/19/08 11:52 PM
Thanksgiving menus
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This year's Thanksgiving is going to be a joint affair, with everyone bringing a part of the meal. As it turns out, the menu is HUGE so this will be a true degustation. Here's the menu as it stands: Pumpkin soup crab appetizer Additional appetizer *yet to be determined Roast turkey deep fried turkey mixed greens w/apples, dried cranberries, spiced peacans & raspberry vinagrette corn timbale scalloped potatos cranberry relish green veggie dish* sweet potato dish* Cranberry-orange cheesecake pumpkin pie carmel apple pie chocolate cheesecake
I don't have plates big enough to put even one bite of everything on! What a glorious dilemma! So what's on your menu?
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#1084678 - 11/20/08 12:12 AM
Re: Thanksgiving menus
Truffle Royale
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My first one so keeping it easy:
Turkey (borrowing my mom's NuWave oven to cook it) Sweet Potato recipe Sauteed squash medley green salad biscuits stuffing cran-apple-walnut jello salad Mashed potatoes
and whatever my BFF brings for dessert
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#1084680 - 11/20/08 12:19 AM
Re: Thanksgiving menus
Dip
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Thanks for the reminder, Dip! I forgot the crescent rolls. Just wrote them on my menu.
Good luck with your first Thanksgiving. It's one of my favorite meals to cook AND eat.
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#1084682 - 11/20/08 12:22 AM
Re: Thanksgiving menus
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I need some ideas for turkey seasonings. I don't want an old boring turkey.
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#1084684 - 11/20/08 12:25 AM
Re: Thanksgiving menus
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Just two, so: Deep Fried Turkey Giblet Gravy (YUM!) Rice Dressing Fresh green beans Homemade French Bread Homemade Apple Pie (But I may have to abandon and go to Wisconsin.....
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#1084686 - 11/20/08 12:26 AM
Re: Thanksgiving menus
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^^^slacker!
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#1084691 - 11/20/08 12:34 AM
Re: Thanksgiving menus
Mrs. Rizzo
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I need some ideas for turkey seasonings. I don't want an old boring turkey. How about doing a boring old turkey, but finding a few different cool gravy recipes to put on the table. I'm sure there's some good ones out there.
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#1084702 - 11/20/08 01:13 AM
Re: Thanksgiving menus
Dip
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I might just skip out on my dad's and and swing by Truff's instead!! Step-mom is making: Cheese and sausage tray Relish tray Turkey... dry, but ok Stove top stuffing (because her 25 and 28 year old kids like it) Yams (will not make mashed potatoes because her kids don't like them) Corn (so my brother and I do not b!tch, so she tells my dad) Some store bought rolls (not like how my mom used to make ) Brussel Sprouts (she likes them, and with vinegar so they stink ) Gravy Cranberry Relish (I crave the stuff from the can, but again she refuses... too tacky. She makes stovetop in lieu of real stuffing, and I am the tackey one??) Some Jello dish (her son's fave) Some Squash dish (her daughter's fave) Ice cream birthday cake for dessert (again, her daughter's fave and to celebrate her, mine and my dad's birthdays which are all in the first week of December) I dread this day.
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#1084704 - 11/20/08 01:27 AM
Re: Thanksgiving menus
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is there any room out by the pool for Texas guests Ms. Truff?
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#1084705 - 11/20/08 01:28 AM
Re: Thanksgiving menus
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I hate turkey. Can't understand why my BFF loves it for both Thanksgiving and again Christmas. Real pilgrims had seafood and we usually have Lobster. But due to the economy we will have Cornish game hens, wild rice, a veg, and Turtle Pumpkin pie. My 17 yr old has never had turkey for Thanksgiving and has no desire to have it. My mom was an awesome cook and my dad a French chef, but I never got into turkey and the whole thing. Just the 3 of us so no big dinner.
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#1084709 - 11/20/08 01:41 AM
Re: Thanksgiving menus
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There will be six of us and we will have:
turkey cooked on the grill stuffing mashed potatoes and gravy scalloped corn squash cherry coke jello salad green bean casserole brandied cranberrys pumpkin pie or pumpkin cheesecake
we have the same thing every year but it works. Although I am thinking about adding oven roasted asparagus this year.
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#1084718 - 11/20/08 02:36 AM
Re: Thanksgiving menus
#Just Jay
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I might just skip out on my dad's and and swing by Truff's instead!! Step-mom is making: Cheese and sausage tray Relish tray Turkey... dry, but ok Stove top stuffing (because her 25 and 28 year old kids like it) Yams (will not make mashed potatoes because her kids don't like them) Corn (so my brother and I do not b!tch, so she tells my dad) Some store bought rolls (not like how my mom used to make ) Brussel Sprouts (she likes them, and with vinegar so they stink ) Gravy Cranberry Relish (I crave the stuff from the can, but again she refuses... too tacky. She makes stovetop in lieu of real stuffing, and I am the tackey one??) Some Jello dish (her son's fave) Some Squash dish (her daughter's fave) Ice cream birthday cake for dessert (again, her daughter's fave and to celebrate her, mine and my dad's birthdays which are all in the first week of December) I dread this day. I feel for ya JJ!
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#1084721 - 11/20/08 02:52 AM
Re: Thanksgiving menus
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Hmmm I am getting some good ideas here, we are taking in 4 airmen going through bootcamp, and it will most likely be their first holiday away from home, so if I pull in ideas from all over the country there should be something for everyone.
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#1084735 - 11/20/08 04:58 AM
Re: Thanksgiving menus
kms
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Just hubby and son this year, but I still do the traditional.
Roasted turkey Stuffing Potato Filling (home grown potatoes) Oyster Filling Gravy Sweet Potatoes (home grown) Fresh made Cranberry Relish Crescent Rolls with homemade jelly Carrots Corn (home grown) Relish Tray With an amazing Pennsylvania Chardonay I just found Pumpkin Pie (home grown) Mixed Berries (for the future DIL) and a nice Dessert Wine then the guys will have cigars and port later in the evening.
Rizz - at a local farm festival a few years back, they were cooking whole chickens from tripods and they were amazing. I've adapted their method of seasoning a bit. Loosen the skin away from the meat of the turkey. Slip chunks of celery, parsley and onion into the cavity made between the skin and meat. Then put a quartered lemon inside the cavity where you would put the stuffing. I also add a little poultry seasoning.
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#1084739 - 11/20/08 05:26 AM
Re: Thanksgiving menus
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After thinking I was off the hook for Thanksgiving, I'm back on now so with less than 2 weeks to pull it together... Turkey injected with sage butter Stuffing and dressing (made with bread I season and dry out in the oven) Green bean casserole, because mama raised me right Mashed potatoes with roasted garlic Gravy Asparagus with almonds and garlic Cranberry sauce with real cranberries Croissants Pumpkin pie and pumpkin cheesecake (made with pumpkins I'm cooking down this weekend) Because the SO's nephew and SIL are picky little [censored] I'll probably have to make boxed mac and cheese and a generic cheese platter (i.e., Kraft cheese slices and Ritz crackers...not that there's anything wrong with that). I'll also be mixing up a batch of spiced pumpkin vodka, which goes swimmingly with spiced rum, a bit of sugar and a heavy splash of half and half, served martini style. Since we're hosting this on Wednesday and I work all day, I'll need to take my "meds" in liquid form.
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#1084744 - 11/20/08 11:22 AM
Re: Thanksgiving menus
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My family will have pizza - on the Saturday following Thanksgiving. Those with inlaws will go to those places on Thanksgiving and those that can will go to my Mom's house for pizza on Saturday. By then everyone seems to be tired of turkey and fixings so we do something totally different. The kids love it!
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#1084746 - 11/20/08 12:12 PM
Re: Thanksgiving menus
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There are only 5 of us, so: mushroom tartlets mini-spinach quiche cocktail franks (because my son must have them! ) Roasted Turkey Sausage Dressing Gravy Mashed Potatoes Brussels Sprouts witth brown butter Maple glazed carrots Cauliflower and broccoli with cheese sauce Sauteed green beans with garlic homemade cranberry sauce homemade pumpkin and apple pies
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#1084765 - 11/20/08 01:03 PM
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Retired DQ
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"tartlet"??????? whatev........
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#1084772 - 11/20/08 01:09 PM
Re: Thanksgiving menus
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My two favorite things are pumpkin pie and can shaped cranberry sauce!
I've had fresh cranberry sauce before; it's good, but there's nothing like slicing off a slab of canned cranberry!
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#1084773 - 11/20/08 01:09 PM
Re: Thanksgiving menus
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tartlet = baby sized tart (here's your tart-cone)
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