Thanksgiving Menu Thread 2009

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nomellons		#121	[-]
Posts: 3049 (11/19/09 8:16 AM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts	I finalized my menu last night. Appetizers: Mini spanikopita crudites baked brie with raspberry/chipotle sauce cheese tray Dinner: Clear gazpacho Roast turkey with sausage, apple, cranberry stuffing Grilled turkey Mashed potatoes Pralined sweet potatoes Roasted squash and parsnips with crisp sage and chestnuts Rutabaga Green beans almondine Cranberry chutney Canned cranberry jelly (my husband loves it) salted parker house rolls Dessert: Pumpkin Pie Pecan Pie Deep Dish brown sugar apple pie Triple Chocolate raspberry almond tart
nobodysfool		#122	[-]
Posts: 1036 (11/19/09 8:16 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	after emailing back and forth with my dad and his wife it looks like this is our menu for the day. Turkey Gravy Ham - being brought (sis's kid is a "picky eater" and doesn't like turkey) Stuffing - i don't stuff the bird, so i'll make this the night before and finish while the turkey rests Corn - fresh, put-up corn! :) Mashed potatos - basic Sweet potatos - don't know what recipie this will be, as i'm not making it Rolls and butter - made wed night green beans almondine- fresh green beans yum Cranberry sauce - i think they're just getting the canned sauce Apple pie - getting from wegmans Pumpkin Pie - getting from a bakery Vanilla Ice Cream - I'll make this over the weekend. Whipped Cream - I'll make this Wed night. relish tray- pickles, olives, veggies cheese and crackers and grapes. wine, cider, sodas, coffee, tea i think that's it. :) MOMH- please explain creamed onions.....?
Cleofuss		#123	[-]
Posts: 3524 (11/19/09 8:17 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Last year I bought my first locally raised free range organic bird. Best. Turkey. Ever! (Several guests said that too.)
EmmaPeel		#124	[-]
Posts: 3771 (11/19/09 8:17 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	My mother used to buy a bird from Whole Foods - kind of the same thing SmrtAss. We always thought it was kind of unremarkable. I like all the side dishes...and I like ham...way more than turkey. Cornbread dressing - yum!
Meanpeoplesuck1		#125	[-]
Posts: 5106 (11/19/09 8:20 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	I miss cornbread dressing. We have Thanksgiving with the In Laws and they make stuffing.
nobodysfool		#126	[-]
Posts: 1038 (11/19/09 8:22 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	ok, for all the canned cranberry sauce eaters...... when you take it out of the can, do you slice it or chop it up?
nomellons		#127	[-]
Posts: 3050 (11/19/09 8:23 AM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Slice
Mom HOLIO		#128	[-]
Posts: 881 (11/19/09 8:24 AM) Registered Adult Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Stacey, the creamed onions are just pearl onions in a cream sauce. They are delish. They now have frozen pearl onions already peeled. I was going to try these this year. Peeling the fresh ones is a pain.
Meanpeoplesuck1		#129	[-]
Posts: 5107 (11/19/09 8:25 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Definitely slice.
EmmaPeel		#130	[-]
Posts: 3772 (11/19/09 8:27 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Anyone here like oyster dressing/stuffing? Not my thing, although I love seafood. If I could pick the menu/if I were cooking I'd want Ham Roast Chicken Cornbread dressing Green Beans Mashed rutabaga Glazed carrots Mashed potato dressing with sausage Au gratin potatoes Some kind of roll Apple pie Pecan pie
nobodysfool		#131	[-]
Posts: 1039 (11/19/09 8:27 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	ok, that sounds kinda yummy. I've always loved pearl onions. I used to flik the peas out of the way and just eat the onions when i was young...lol I'm a slicer, too. :)
EmmaPeel		#132	[-]
Posts: 3773 (11/19/09 8:29 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Mom HOLIO wrote: Stacey, the creamed onions are just pearl onions in a cream sauce. They are delish. They now have frozen pearl onions already peeled. I was going to try these this year. Peeling the fresh ones is a pain. That's my mother's favorite veggie dish of all time! She loves pearl onions in a cream sauce.
nursie		#133	[-]
Posts: 667 (11/19/09 8:32 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	cranberry can sauce: slice. my mother even has a special dish to contain it. am i the only person that has never even had stuffing/dressing that is not made with cornbread? i dunno, wouldn't it be gummy made with bread?
nobodysfool		#134	[-]
Posts: 1041 (11/19/09 8:36 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	i've never had cornbread stuffing. or oyster stuffing. Actually, i've never had an oyster in any form.
nomellons		#135	[-]
Posts: 3051 (11/19/09 8:38 AM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Stuffing with bread is all I've ever eaten. I once had an oyster cornbread stuffing -- ACKKKKKKK. I'll buy the bread tomorrow and cut it in cubes to dry out. I get two loaves of stuffing bread, one wheat loaf, one white loaf and one rye.
Mom HOLIO		#136	[-]
Posts: 883 (11/19/09 8:39 AM) Registered Adult Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Nursie, cornbread dressing is a southern thing. My mother's family is from the northeast and we only had bread dressing growing up. My MIL made cornbread dressing. I'm not that crazy about it so we did a compromise and mixed both. My family loves my dressing, me not so much. I like Stove Top better.
EmmaPeel		#137	[-]
Posts: 3774 (11/19/09 8:43 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	I think there's a lot of northern/southern differences at Thanksgiving. Cornbread dressing is pretty southern...chunks of cooked cornbread mixed with pieces of stale bread mixed with cellery and onions cooked in butter, all combined with raw egg and sage salt/pepper placed in a casserole to cook. That's the basic version. I've never had "proper stuffing" in my life...not any non-cornbread stuffing that went inside the bird. And we do a lot of pecan pie....we never ate pumpking pie growing up, but maybe that's because none of us liked it, either. How do you make the stuffing that goes in the bird?
nursie		#138	[-]
Posts: 668 (11/19/09 9:03 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	we never had mashed potatos at thanksgiving either..it was always rice and gravy. i'm not sure why, i guess my family didn't like mashed potatos. an oyster at thanksgiving...i can see the ewwww faces all over my family right now
Mom HOLIO		#139	[-]
Posts: 884 (11/19/09 9:06 AM) Registered Adult Reply Quote More Recent Posts	The stuffing that goes in the bird is the same as dressing. People tend not to stuff birds anymore as any stuffing left in the bird is a potential source of botulism. I haven't stuffed a bird in 30 years. I just put the stuffing in a pan and squirt some of the drippings from the turkey at the last minute. I put an onion, celery and spices in the bird before I cook it to give the flavor to the bird that the stuffing would have given it.
TravelRachel		#140	[-]
Posts: 3070 (11/19/09 9:42 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	lilnubber wrote: Wow, turkey is so cheap this year. I got mine for .38 cents a pound. I'm not even having Thanksgiving (going to my sister's), but we always want our own turkey dinner the weekend after Thanksgiving. If you are in the north east, Price Chopper is advertising frozen turkeys this week for .29 cents a pound. That's cheap.

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