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Favorite recipe from a grandma

  1. Chocolate cream pie
  2. Fried bluegill
  3. Soda bread and cabbage soup
  4. Sour Beef and Dumplings
  5. Cole slaw with apple slivers
  6. Coconut cream pie
  7. Lumberjack Macaroni
  8. Cornbread
  9. Cinnamon Rolls
  10. Chocolate Chip cookies

I already posted the chocolate cream pie from my maternal grandmother. The cookie recipe is from the grandmother of some school friends, who did light housekeeping for my parents and is the one who got me interested in baking.

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Thanksgiving Day menu

  1. Oven-roasted turkey with thyme, sage and fennel basting sauce
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Thanksgiving Day menu

  1. Oven-roasted turkey with thyme, sage and fennel basting sauce
  2. Broasted brussel sprouts
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Thanksgiving Day menu

  1. Oven-roasted turkey with thyme, sage and fennel basting sauce
  2. Broasted brussel sprouts
  3. Mashed potatoes
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Thanksgiving Day menu

  1. Oven-roasted turkey with thyme, sage and fennel basting sauce
  2. Broasted brussel sprouts
  3. Mashed potatoes’
  4. Two loaves of challah bread, with seeds on top
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Thanksgiving Day menu

  1. Oven-roasted turkey with thyme, sage and fennel basting sauce
  2. Broasted brussel sprouts
  3. Mashed potatoes
  4. Two loaves of challah bread, with seeds on top
  5. Cornbread stuffing/dressing

My fiancée served me this for Thanksgiving this year, and it’s good enough to make me throw rocks at my mother’s sage and onion dressing.

-“BB”-

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Thanksgiving Day menu

  1. Oven-roasted turkey with thyme, sage and fennel basting sauce
  2. Broasted brussel sprouts
  3. Mashed potatoes
  4. Two loaves of challah bread, with seeds on top
  5. Cornbread stuffing/dressing
  6. Chocolate bourbon pecan pie

A last-minute invitation to our dinner, friends of the hosts, brought this from Lauretta Jean’s in Portland.

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Thanksgiving Day menu

  1. Oven-roasted turkey with thyme, sage and fennel basting sauce
  2. Broasted brussel sprouts
  3. Mashed potatoes
  4. Two loaves of challah bread, with seeds on top
  5. Cornbread stuffing/dressing
  6. Chocolate bourbon pecan pie
  7. Relish tray

Rarely found nowadays, but popular in the past. Nothing to do with what you might put on hamburgers or hot dogs. Generally, a relish tray would consist of celery, gherkins, and olives, with other raw items (e.g. radishes, carrots, broccoli florets) as desired. We always had one on the table at Thanksgiving.

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Thanksgiving Day menu

  1. Oven-roasted turkey with thyme, sage and fennel basting sauce
  2. Broasted brussel sprouts
  3. Mashed potatoes
  4. Two loaves of challah bread, with seeds on top
  5. Cornbread stuffing/dressing
  6. Chocolate bourbon pecan pie
  7. Relish tray
  8. Candied yams with caramelized marshmallow crust

Not this year but years ago, this was a staple at my grandparents’ house every Thanksgiving.

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Thanksgiving Day menu

  1. Oven-roasted turkey with thyme, sage and fennel basting sauce
  2. Broasted brussel sprouts
  3. Mashed potatoes
  4. Two loaves of challah bread, with seeds on top
  5. Cornbread stuffing/dressing
  6. Chocolate bourbon pecan pie
  7. Relish tray
  8. Candied yams with caramelized marshmallow crust
  9. Gravy for #3
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Which also had to contain cooked and diced giblets from #1 above

-“BB”-

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Thanksgiving Day menu

  1. Oven-roasted turkey with thyme, sage and fennel basting sauce
  2. Broasted brussel sprouts
  3. Mashed potatoes
  4. Two loaves of challah bread, with seeds on top
  5. Cornbread stuffing/dressing
  6. Chocolate bourbon pecan pie
  7. Relish tray
  8. Candied yams with caramelized marshmallow crust
  9. Gravy for #3
  10. Peas

Gotta have a vegetable of some sort.

Next:

Cocktail garnishes

  1. Olive (martini)
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Cocktail garnishes

  1. Olive (martini)
  2. Lime wheel (Vodka tonic)
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Cocktail garnishes

  1. Olive (martini)
  2. Lime wheel (Vodka tonic)
  3. Mint sprig (Mint Julep)
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Cocktail garnishes

  1. Olive (martini)
  2. Lime wheel (Vodka tonic)
  3. Mint sprig (Mint Julep)
  4. Maraschino cherry (Manhattan)
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Cocktail garnishes

  1. Olive (martini)
  2. Lime wheel (Vodka tonic)
  3. Mint sprig (Mint Julep)
  4. Maraschino cherry (Manhattan)
  5. Pickled asparagus spear (Bloody Mary)
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Cocktail garnishes

  1. Olive (martini)
  2. Lime wheel (Vodka tonic)
  3. Mint sprig (Mint Julep)
  4. Maraschino cherry (Manhattan)
  5. Pickled asparagus spear (Bloody Mary)
  6. Coffee beans (Sambuca con mosca)

-“BB”-

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Cocktail garnishes

  1. Olive (martini)
  2. Lime wheel (Vodka tonic)
  3. Mint sprig (Mint Julep)
  4. Maraschino cherry (Manhattan)
  5. Pickled asparagus spear (Bloody Mary)
  6. Coffee beans (Sambuca con mosca)
  7. Cut pineapple, cherry, and paper umbrella (Pina Colada)
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Cocktail garnishes

  1. Olive (martini)
  2. Lime wheel (Vodka tonic)
  3. Mint sprig (Mint Julep)
  4. Maraschino cherry (Manhattan)
  5. Pickled asparagus spear (Bloody Mary)
  6. Coffee beans (Sambuca con mosca)
  7. Cut pineapple, cherry, and paper umbrella (Pina Colada)
  8. Pickled onion (the Gibson)
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Cocktail garnishes

  1. Olive (martini)
  2. Lime wheel (Vodka tonic)
  3. Mint sprig (Mint Julep)
  4. Maraschino cherry (Manhattan)
  5. Pickled asparagus spear (Bloody Mary)
  6. Coffee beans (Sambuca con mosca)
  7. Cut pineapple, cherry, and paper umbrella (Pina Colada)
  8. Cucumber (Screaming Viking)

-“BB”-