[Sca-cooks] Report on Thanksgiving experiments...OP

[Dianne & Greg Stucki]

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From: "Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius" <adamantius.magister at verizon.net>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Report on Thanksgiving experiments...OP



> Over the past few years this has become too much for my Mom to handle 
> (she's now 87 and it's been a difficult year for her), but we'd  gather at 
> her house and I'd bring a turkey (I live close enough so  it's still hot 
> when I arrive), plus the Official Mashed Potatoes,  accept no substitutes, 
> and the requisite gravy that pretty much shows  up when you cook the 
> turkey, as well as the creamed onions I dare not  show up without 
> (apparently my brother has declared no one else in  the family is allowed 
> to make them... I'd better teach him to make  them before I die). <shrug>

I did the usual turkey, with my beloved cornbread stuffing, 
cranberry/clementine relish, rolls, sweet potatoes, etc..

And as per usual, I managed to cook the turkey upside down, which doesnt 
look so pretty, but oh that breast meat is tender! And I discovered that I 
can NOT make real mashed potatoes. Followed the recipe to the letter, and 
they were just nasty. YUCK. I have no clue what I did wrong!

Pumpkin pie made with neufchatel cheese and a bottom layer of 
walnuts/butter/brown sugar...mmmmm...

Laurensa