turkey and ham and potatoes, oh my!

[serene]

Tentative t-day menu:

[Edit: The bolded items are things I added. The remainder are my mom's standard T-day stuff.]

Relish tray
Devilled eggs
Cheese-and-fruit appetizer (probably brie with walnuts and dried cranberries)
Turkey and stuffing with giblet gravy
Veg version of stuffing
Ham (with mom's sweet gravy)
Mashed potatoes
Corn
Baked winter squash
Cranberry sauce (whole berry and jellied)
Mama Stamberg's cranberry relish
Bread
Salad
Some sort of green vegetable
Pies (pumpkin, sweet-potato, and fruit of some kind)
Coffee, tea, sparkling cider, bottled water, hot mulled cider

Comments

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Mama Stamberg's cranberry relish

Yay! I've been bringing this to enough Thanksgiving dinners that my friends call it the Scary Pink Stuff.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

So far, I am the onliest one I know who likes it. Et tu, now. Yay.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Epirical Thanksgiving-table testing reveals that about a third of my friends love it, a third loathe it - and the remaining third are too scared by the ingredients to try it. (-:

The key seems to be "likes horseradish, and doesn't object to startling food contrasts."

[geminigirl]

Now you've got me thinking about what my family makes...Thanksgiving has to also include my Auntie's Cheesy Potatoes and broccoli, and sometimes "thousand calorie cauliflower."

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Ooh. Recipes?

[geminigirl]

The broccoli usually just gets steamed. The cauliflower-take an entire head, trim it and steam it. When it's almost done, melt an entire stick of butter or margarine (or more, depending on the size of your cauliflower head,) and mix in seasoned breadcrumbs. Put the cauliflower into an oven-safe serving dish, apply the coating to the top and sides, and broil for a really short time until it's starting to brown.

I thought I had the potato recipe in an e-mail from my mother, but I don't seem to. I'll try and get the actual recipe from her or one of my aunts.

[joyce.livejournal.com]

It's not precisely a green vegetable, but it's not Thanksgiving without green bean casserole. :)

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Sure it's a green vegetable! :-)

(I think the stuff's okay, but I don't actually know anyone who really likes it a lot, so I probably won't make it.)

[joyce.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay. Maybe the reverence I have for the stuff is because I grew up down here below the Mason Dixon line. :)

[ptigris.livejournal.com]

*raises her hand shyly* I love green bean casserole!

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Well, if you'll be at T-day, I'll make a batch special for you, and then since it's got cream of mushroom soup in it, I'll eat a bunch just because it's there. :-)

[ptigris.livejournal.com]

I'll have to take a rain check dahlink. I'll be in the Sierra Nevadas eatin din wit da fam and I might even get a chance to do a bit of spelunking (did I ever tell you I love Calaveras County?)

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Fun! Hope you'll post about it.

[dbubley.livejournal.com]

I LOVE the greenbean casserole, but the mushroom soup comes with lactose. Mushroom soup and Durkee (now French's) onions in a casserole are a reason by themselves to give thanks. However, I don't find it essential for Thanksgiving. Then again, I don't find turkey essential, either.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

One of these days, I have to make you the casserole sans lactose.

[artemii.livejournal.com]

i think kale braised in, say, olive oil or vinaigrette, with sesame seeds and some other stuff (maybe something fruity?) added, would be nice with some of this other stuff.

but then, i'm the freak who loves kale raw in salads, so you should probably just ignore me. ;)

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I love kale. Great idea!

[ptigris.livejournal.com]

OMG I just thought of the BEST app for your TDay!

Take a wheel of brie
Sprinkle copious amounts of brown sugar on top
Top with pecans.

Bake for 15 minutes at 200 or until brie is tender and melty good.

Serve with crackers.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Oooh, YUMMA. Thanks!

[intenselaura.livejournal.com]

I've just decided that one of these years, I'm going to experience US Thanksgiving. Probably not this year, though.

Cabbage rolls are often part of my family's T-day dinners. Sometimes meat sticks (http://foodgeeks.com/recipes/recipe/17588,ukrainian_meat_sticks.phtml) (close enough to my family's recipe), too, but they're more of a Christmas thing.

[firecat]

Mmmmm


My folks have always done green beans (w/o the casserole part) for the green veggie. Not asking you to do that tho' because I'll have 'em Thursday.