[Sca-cooks] Thanksgiving feasts

[Elaine Koogler]

And I should respond as well....my sweetie is going to be on the road for
the next month and a half, save for Christmas week, so we decided to have
what we've fondly referred to over the years as a "snow weekend"...we
pretend that we're snowed in and we can't get phone calls or anything like
that.  So, despite a couple of invitations for Thanksgiving dinner, we opted
to have a very private Thanksgiving together.  Just so's you guys will
know...he's a better cook than I am, so you can imagine!

We bought a fresh turkey from a local butcher, and cooked it with onions and
celery, with Jim doing his favorite basting thing.

The remainder of the menu:

Cornbread dressing (recipe from the Purefoy Hotel, Talladega, AL)
Giblet Gravey
Bourbon Sweet Potatoes
Brussel Sprouts with Apples and Bacon
Homemade Cranberry relish (apples & oranges)
Watermelon rind pickles, olives stuffed with garlic or almonds
Pickled Carrots
and a Mirassou Pastel Chardonnay...very nice!

For dessert, Jim made a Pumpkin Creme Brulee.

And I'm enjoying the leftovers immensely!!!

Kiri

"Laura C. Minnick" wrote:

> ooh... my turn!
>
> We had two Thanksgivings, which might explain why I am still in robe and
> slippers!
>
> Wednesday I got in the car and drove south, stopping to pick up my kids
> in Eugene. As we pulled into Sutherlin (wee tiny town about an hour
> south of Eugene, in the hills just before you get to the Sexton range)
> we stopped at Papa Murphy's and picked up pizza and root beer. James
> arrived at the house (his dad's place) about 20 minutes after we did. We
> goofed off and ate pizza and played games and watched _Fantasia_ until
> quite late... which might be why James and I didn't wake up until 11 am!
> I had planned to be putting turkey in the oven then! Oh well, we didn't
> have Aunt Myrtle to worry about, so we got it done when it got done, and
> we sat down to eat a little after 8. A fashionable hour, don't you
> think?
>
> We had:
>
> Turkey, with rosemary and sage stuck up under the skin
> *My* dressing (bread, onions, fresh herbs, celery, mushrooms, raisins
> and currants) went      inside the bird
> *James'* dressing (cornbread dressing- aberrant and heretical!) went in
> a casserole dish
> Mashed potatoes
> Double batch of cranberry sauce (made fresh with cranberries- the secret
> is fresh orange         peel!)
> Big platter of veggies and dip to eat while Mr Turkey (not my son!) was
> cooking
> Yams
> James baked fresh rolls!
> My spinach-mushroom tarts didn't work- I think they didn't want to be
> baked and then  dragged 200 miles in the back of a Volvo
> The gravy was a little thin but tasted MAGNIFICENT!
> I'm sure there was something else but I can't remember.
>
> Oh- and pumpkin pie for dessert!
>
> The second dinner- for 14- was Friday at Regina's. I did the Armoured
> Turnips and another batch of pumpkin pies, and reheated the rest of my
> cranberries. Much yummy food there but I was already dead from Thursday
> and cleanup and the drive, and then I had to take James back down (we'd
> left his van in Sutherlin) and I don't want to see I-5 again for
> awhile... unless I'm going to see James, of course!
>
> Ask Regina about Friday!
>
> 'Lainie
> -who is doing her part to rid the Western World of leftovers!
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Elaine Koogler

     "A stroke of the brush does not guarantee Art from the bristles"

                                                     --  Kosh