[Sca-cooks] cooking holiday choke that Muse!

[Kathleen A. Roberts]

--On Monday, November 24, 2003 10:14 PM -0500 Kirsten Houseknecht 
<kirsten at fabricdragon.com> wrote:

 then we make the gravy.....
> we will be trying the "thicken thin not starch" from atkins instead of
> flour.

gee... when i was growing up, gravy for us was always just the degreased 
pan drippings... no  flour, butter, cornstarch... nada, zip, zilch...


> first Atkins Thanksgiving for us... (plus the whole reason we went on
> Atkins was hubby got diagnosed diabetic)

not that hard... tho we do not adhere to atkins on holidays.   both of us 
grew up with food at holidays being a major ritual.   we pick and choose. 
he can have dessert or those d*&n sweet potatoes with marshmallow.  (full 
body shudder).

made some homemade mincemeat without any citron or sugar.  just meat, 
raisins, apples, figs, red wine, grated orange/lemon peel and spices. 
amazing how sweet it got without any sugar or honey or such.

cailte
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