OK, I’ve just started cooking. Can’t really do anything until the stock is done.
But I did make some Trader Joe’s cinnamon buns, and I did eat one. So officially the Day of the Feast has begun.
Slacker! I made 2 loaves of bread and 2 pies last night. I started cooking stuffing at about 11 AM today. Just taking a break now til the sweet potatoes are done so I can set them up for baking en casserole later.
Actually I mixed up the dough for two other loaves of bread but just as I was about to transfer it from the bowl where it had risen to the board for kneading, the bowl fell upside down onto the floor. It did this all by itself, mind you. Just jumped off the counter onto the floor. My husband wasn’t home at the time or I’d have found a way for it to be his fault, not mine. Four hours of work wasted.
Made the cranberry sauce 2 days ago-- it should be nice and firm for dinner.
Just set the oven to 350. Turkey goes in in about 12 minutes.
Here in NorCal it’s a beautiful day. I got my exercise in early, having a few really fun people over around 2:30 and I think we’ll set up table outside! What’s not to love about that??
Here’s what I served at Casa de Monkey:
Rotisserie Turkey (brined overnight)
Turkey Dressing (my Granny’s recipe, that I finally nailed this year)
Sour Cream Mashed Potatoes
Turkey Gravy
Pomegranate Cranberry Sauce with Walnuts
Jiffy Corn Casserole
Cracker Barrel Hash Brown Casserole
Green Bean Casserole
Squash Casserole
Roasted Winter Vegetables
Creamed Peas
Sister Schubert Parkerhouse Rolls
Cheese Ball with Crackers
Pecan Pie
Chocolate Bourbon Pie
Pumpkin Pie
Eclair Cake (this was the breakout hit dessert)
Sliced Apples with Caramel
We had a house full - 10 adults + 2 drop bys that didn’t stay for dinner, and 3 kids
As stuffed as I am from our dinner, this sounds good. Tell us about it!
It’s still his fault, but I don’t see why you couldn’t scrape the bread dought out; picked off the cat hair and insect parts and baked it anyway. What are you, some kind of a wimp?
::d&r::
Eclair Cake
1 box graham crackers
2 large boxes of instant vanilla pudding
16 oz Cool Whip (2 small containers - I used the French Vanilla flavor 'cause that’s all they had left at the store!)
2 1/4 cup milk
1 container chocolate frosting (or make your own)
Place a layer of graham crackers in a 9x13 pan. You will have to break and piece to cover the bottom.
Mix the milk and pudding, then fold in the Cool Whip until well combined. Dollop 1/3 of the mixture onto the layer of grahams and spread out.
Place another layer of grahams, and another 1/3 of the pudding, then finish with another layer of grahams and the rest of the pudding.
Remove the lid and foil from the frosting and microwave in 30 second intervals until it’s pour-able. Pour over the layer of pudding and spread to cover to the edges.
Place in the fridge until the frosting sets, then cover and refrigerate overnight before serving. I made mine on Tuesday afternoon for Thursday. It was fantastic!
Well, another successful Thanksgiving dinner. Mostly. I over-roasted the Brussels sprouts. But the turkey was tender and juicy, and I finally used my electric carving knife on actual food. Mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, green bean casserole (which the SO made), and baked sweet potatoes. Way too full for dessert, and I didn’t get round to making the whipped cream. I crashed early. I got up in the wee hours to urinate (that’s why they call them the wee hours) and noticed the SO had had a slice of pumpkin pie. This morning I saw that she’s made the whipped cream.
I slept for more than ten hours.
We went to a friend’s house. For appetizers she had salami, three kinds of cheese, marinated mushrooms and empanadas along with some very nice wine. For the main course she had turkey, sausage stuffing, green bean casserole, cranberry sauce, mashed potates and gravy and a salad. For dessert we had sweet potato pie that my husband made, blueberry tart, chocolate chip cookies and apple pie.
She’s a great friend and a terrific cook. The only problem was that traffic back home was awful and her darling bulldog is getting old and grouchy so we didn’t get to see him again because she was afraid he would snap at us.
I like the way you think. If he had come in the door just one minute sooner, I would definitely have blamed him for it for startling me or something.
And I seriously considered trying to salvage the dough by picking out the dirt and the broken bits of glass, for about a half a minute. However, one of the people who was going to be eating it was my almost 3-year-old granddaughter, and no way does she get anything but the very best. Also her mom and dad, since if they got sick from insect parts and broken glass, I wouldn’t get any more grandchildren. Also since my husband did come in when he did, he saw what had happened, and he would have refused to eat the bread and would have told everybody what I had done.
Turkey stock should be done in about 30 minutes.
Homemade turkey soup. Yum!
Okay, that’s what would have kept me from doing it, too. Only I’d have sliced the floor part off, because there’s enough pet hair on my kitchen floor that it would take longer to pick it all out than to make new bread. And I use metal mixing bowls, because I broke all my glass/ceramic ones long ago.
Anyway…
My brother, who I like a WHOLE lot better now than I did when I was between the ages of eight and seventeen, made Thanksgiving dinner at his house, so I hardly had to do a thing! He made turkey and stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, Harvard beets, glazed carrots, and whole-wheat and white rolls. I brought sweet potatoes with apples, cucumber salad, pies (apple, cherry, and pumpkin), and my older daughter baked pumpkin bread. I also made a Quorn roast so no one would feel bad that I, as the only vegetarian, would starve. My brother also made special vegetarian versions of the stuffing and gravy, which was incredibly sweet of him.
I’m STILL full, and we’ll be eating pie for the next three days.