[Sca-cooks] Turkey day odds and ends

[Sue Clemenger]

Dunno....I've seen canned pie cherries (the sour, add-your-own-glop
kind), but not the frozen kind, which would be really nice.  What we
*don't* get around here are the fresh pie cherries--lots of various
sweet ones, but a person is SOL, unless he or she has a friend with a
tree that the birds don't get to!
--Maire (NW Artemisia)
P.S. I betcha your stripey green thing was some sort of winter
squash....

Linda Peterson wrote:
>
> I had already decided to go with cooking the turkey without being stuffed,
> and was entranced with the idea someone mentioned on the list for putting
> the stuffing into a small pumpkin and baking it. Thanks! It came out
> great. The scoops of pumpkin were tasty and satisfied peoples yen for
> orange (I'm not fond of candied yams). It looked lovely.
>
> The bigest problem was finding a pumpkin. I finally found a small green,
> stripey kind of thing, but there were no orange pumpkins anywhere to be
> found. When did they become Halloween only food.
>
> The other strangeness was no cans of sour pie cherries. Lots of gelatinous
> pie filling and topping glop, but no water-packed cherries. We finally
> found some frozen sour (not Bing or sweet) cherries, but nothing else. Is
> this true of the rest of the country?