I’m so glad that Polish Thanksgiving in the land of six involves things like Polish sausages, ham, pierogies, saurkraut and kielbasa. There’s usually some other stuff, but by and large we have a ton of good old Polish cooked pork.
Only problem this year is what to feed my non-pork eating male.
As I said, a little runniness is normal. If it’s too runny for your taste, maybe you could reheat it with a little gelatin?
I’m glad you like the taste.
Huh. I sent it last night after work. I will try again right now.
Sure.
1 cup milk
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 tsp salt
3 tb butter
1 ts nutmeg
2 cups mashed, cooked sweet potatoes
2 eggs, separated
Scald the milk. Beat the egg yolks and sweet potatoes together until fluffy. Be sure the sweet potatoes are thoroughly cooked. Beat together the salt, sugar, butter, nutmeg, milk, and potato-egg mixture thoroughly. Whip the egg whites until stiff. Fold them in carefully. Bake in a 350[sup]o[/sup] oven for 50-60 minutes.
The orange sauce is
1/3 cup sugar
3 Tb cornstarch
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup orange juice - low pulp works best
1/4 cup Grand Marnier
1 tsp grated orange rind
Combine the sugar, salt and cornstarch over medium heat. Whisk in juice and Grand Marnier. Bring to a boil, cook about a minute to thicken. Keep stirring it.
Remove it from heat, and stir in the grated orange peel. Serve hot.
I have considered trying the sauce with cranberry juice, but I can’t find a cranberry liqueur to correspond.
Regards,
Shodan
Auntie em–this one arrived. The brownie recipe looks yummy! I already have all the ingredients except for the bittersweet choclate, and I can pick that up when I buy the wine at Trader Joe’s after work.
Lovely. Hope it doesn’t come out runny. 
Don’t get me wrong on this, I like turkey a lot, but why the near-religious devotion to turkey on Thanksgiving?
Especially for a small gathering, I’d like to think outside the giblet bag and have roast beef as the main course. I also happen to live on the Right Coast, in the land of fresh seafood, so something like baked sea bass would be nice, too.
Any turkey I make is never completely eaten after a week, and I think that’s a waste.
People are probably devoted to large, roasted turkey on Thanksgiving because not many people eat turkey outside of the holiday season. When we used to raise them, we had turkey for every “special” day, from birthdays to holidays to “today feels special let’s have turkey.” But now that I’m forced to rely on the grocery store for all my poultry needs, turkey is too expensive per pound, and cooking it up for dinner is just too much work.
I don’t know, I think it’s nice to have something a little special for the holidays, and if you don’t eat turkey the rest of the year, then it can be special. I eat beef all the time, on the other hand. Of course, two years ago I said “screw it” and had a Mexican Feast–fajitas, enchiladas, nachos with homemade tortilla chips, etc etc. That was fun too.
Oh, I know, I know. Hopefully next Thanksgiving, I’ll be able to eat “regular” food. That’s my goal, anyway.
gobear,
Gotta go with DtC on this one.
Sugar?
You’re supposed to be making cornbread, not cake. 
Yes! Except while you are making the cornbread batter (from scratch and with no sugar) , you heat the cast iron skillet in the oven. Then before you pour the batter in the skillet you put any excess oil from the skillet into the batter. Lot’s of sizzling going on and crusty, yummy cornbread.
Which then goes into making dressing not stuffing 
When it is cooked in the pan it is dressing and when it is cooked in the bird it is stuffing. At least from my neck of the woods.
You’ve got to have the requisite sweet potato dish on Thanksgiving. I mean, come on, it’s even the right color for a fall meal! My daughter does a super souffle but they are even good just baked, split and buttered. Or baked, sliced, covered with brown sugar-cinnamon-butter topping and baked again.
And another vote for lots and lots of gravy made with the drippings in the turkey roasting pan. I actually think everyone should get their own gravy boat…kind of like a water glass! Ha!
Another Thanksgiving rule is: Thou shalt not diet on this day!
What Pepperlandgirl said, plus it’s the tryptophan. What would Thanksgiving be without a roomful of people holding their bloated bellies and falling asleep while the Lions game echoes through the house?
My soulmate!
Lib, since this board is about fighting ignorance, we might as well dispense with the tryptophan myth right now.
Eating turkey does not make you sleepy. Turkey does contain tryptophan, true. And tryptophan causes drowsiness, also true. But only when it is a) not from a protein source, and b) taken on an empty stomach. So where does the drowsiness come from? Largely from overindulgence.
Or maybe from watching the Detroit Lions. Thanks for setting the record straight. I stand corrected.
No problem. This misconception being batted around as fact is starting to really bug me. I’m happy I could shed some light on it.
Thank you.
The closest I can think of on the cranberry liqueur would be Chambord… blackberry. But it may be sweet enough to offset the tart in the cranberry.
We had a huge Thanksgiving lunch at work today and I have been so stuffed I’ve been in “I never wanna eat again (hah!) mode” all afternoon, but reading the rest of this thread has me hungry all over again.
Could y’all just imagine a Doper Thanksgiving feast? All the culinary delights we’d have at the table? The camaraderie? The sparkling conversation?
The food fight afterwards?
The mad rush for the door when it comes time to clean up…
Then don’t look at the November issue of Southern Living - they’re trying to stage a comeback.
And my cornbread dressing contains turkey giblets, so there!
Demon possessed church ladies are trying to stage a comeback? :eek:
My cornbread dressing contains chunks of chicken and is super moist. So There! 