I always seem to ask this question at holiday times--since I love food TOO much! But since Thanksgiving's soon upon us, I'm just wondering what'll be cooking on your stoves, and what are your family's Turkey Day traditions.
I only have time to make a pumpkin cheesecake this year--I might whip up a couple of cheese dips, maybe a sundried tomatoe and garlic spread. I'm just too busy this year to do much cooking. ::) But we'll have mom's cherry pie, which just can't be beat, the Turkey, mom's fruit salad which is the best ever. My Sis-in-law's making some homemade rolls, and bringing the requisite green beans. Of course there'll be mashed taters, and stuffing. No pumpkin pie it sounds like. I guess my pumpkin cheesecake'll take the place of that. BTW...this cheesecake's (//http://://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/108770) a definite winner. It always gets rave reviews, and it's a nice change from the standard pumpkin pie.
So...what's a cooking in your neck of the woods?
Happy Thanksgiving everybody! 8)
I'll have ta get back to ya on that, cause we are dining with Chet and the Wax Lady and Fam and I wont know until we get there. If we get there in time...
Turkey, spiral ham, mashed taters, yams, peas, crannbury sauce, rolls, gravy, pumpkin and apple pie and mulled cider. All but the pies cooked by the thanksgiving Nazi :o :o :o (me) GIT OVER HERE AND SIT DOWN RIGHT NOW BEFORE ANYTHING GETS COLD :D :D :D :D
I have to be a little different, I like rabbit and dumplings, mashed spuds, this years ocra, green beans and of course corn on the cob. With black loose tea hot and strong.
We're having prime rib instead of turkey. Yumm !!!
Turkey makes you sleepy and my guests will be in the middle of deer hunting. You snooze you lose :D
Also roast potatoes and squash and green beans and a frozen apple pie.
Happy eating, everyone ;D
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. 8)
Well first, you can't expect them folks from frozen Canuckistan to respond - their T-Day ain't the same as ours.
That said - dry turkey (thanks to my sis-in-law), and the usual, traditional, ho-hum, boring, put-ya-to-sleep Thanksgiving food. My mother-in-law whips the mashed tatars until they are glue. At least my wife and I get to bring the stuffing and the hors'd'oeuvres (danG appetizers!) so that part won't be so bad - we're making the cornbread today for tomorrow's stuffing. Little fresh sage, sausage, some dried cranberries, fennel, mmm tasty.
Two medium sized turkeys, one traditional and one deep-fried. Squash soup, mashed taters, My sister in law's famous sweet poptato soufle' with the crunchy melted brown sugar top we fight over. good gravy, vino and several pies.
Going back to my great grandfather's day- when asked if he'd care for any pie, he'd respond," I only like 5 kinds of pie!"
If the lady of the house rose to the bait with, " Ooh, what are those?"
He'd say, "Hot pie, cold pie, open-faced, closed-face, and criss-cross!"
Ludwig men throughout the country tell this story at Thanksgiving and every other family gettogether.
Happy Thanksgiving to the Forum. I'm thankful I found all ya'all. :)
Quote from: woodmills1 on November 23, 2005, 07:08:57 AM
the thanksgiving Nazi :o :o :o (me) GIT OVER HERE AND SIT DOWN RIGHT NOW BEFORE ANYTHING GETS COLD :D :D :D :D
When I'm cooking, that's me too! Gotta corral the kiddos about 15 minutes before things hit the table to have anything remotely warm. ;D
Quote from: sprucebunny on November 23, 2005, 08:21:19 AM
We're having prime rib instead of turkey. Yumm !!!
................and a frozen apple pie.
Prime rib here too (but on Sat. when some of the kids and grandkids can come - nurses have to work Turkey day) but not going to serve them "frozen apple pie" - cept that may help keep the hunters awake (just not as good as cooking their eggs in Joy liquid dish soap :) ). More seriously, our tradition, in place of hors'd'oeuvres, we have the dessert before the big meal. Much more enjoyable when not full, IMO. :)
Prime rib here. 8) I love it and it has become a tradiion here. Turkey is good but a big bird gets old fast. Of course we have all of the sides too, mashed potatoes, stuffing, veggies, pies, watermelon and pies. ;D
Farmerdoug
We are taking a 23lb turkey that we grew and frying her.
Will
I prefer to look at the wild turkeys in the yard and have venison saurbrataen with potato dumplings, spatzel and red cabbage. Our gun deer season is over thanksgiving and nature provides deer ;D
This year I am suckered into Turkey Cranberrys (from the marsh behind the house) squash stuffen and taters
max
I'm waiting to hear if Kirk had the heart to put "thanksgiving" on the menu ???
;D :D
Furby your killing me :D :D :D :D :D
We got invited to some freinds for Thanksgiving dinner so at least one Goose is spared :D
"Christmas" still a go ???
Quote from: Furby on November 23, 2005, 10:53:13 PM
"Christmas" still a go ???
Just think, only a month and you get to do it all over again. :D :D :D :D
I am going to cook a nice deer roast and get some taters and carrottes mashed up together some greens in there too , a bottle of honey wine and enjoie the new snow thats supose to come down ... And a blueberrie pie for the desert .
Joan ... I do think that thawing out the pie would work better ;) I know it would for me ;D ;)
:D :D :D :D :D :D
Apple pie popsicles :D MmmmMmm ;D
Well, I've had a read through, and I'd be going to Max Sawdust's house... Yummm...
We don't have T-day here, but we do a roast Christmas day with Andrew's parents, which is seriously yummy. I just found out I"m cooking this year, and I'm real happy about that, coz Andy's mum isn't so well and I was really worried about troubling her.
I'm making Roast Lamb Shanks in Tomato and onion, baked really slow and roast mixed veg. I take all the roasting veg, taties, sweet taties, pumpkin, carrot, onion, and zucchini, and cube them to about 1/2 in cubes, then mix them in the baking tray, drizzle oil, salt, pepper, capsicum and crushed macadamia nuts over it and roast slow along with the shankies. yummy...
Also Russian Vinaigrette (Beetroot salad) and a nice green salad with a really special dressing...
Andy's mum's made traditional Christmas pudding, with sixpences in it and all! But I think I'll also do a raspberry parfait/gelati type thing, just for fun.
I am salivating now.
asy :D
They all are spoiling me rotten this year- Joe is doing the turkey, Mike stepped up to the plate (literally), and decided he'd do a pot roast from the recent beef- I made the Olive Garden Zuppa Toscana- Mike already got a (store-bought) pie- works OK for me.. and so I think I will do the regular cranberry thing, stuffing on the side, a Mexican corn recipe I just tried- frozen corn from this summer, taco or burrito seasoning sprinkled on, a little salsa, and cheese on top. They will look at me funny, but..
Ooh, gravy- have to call Joe up and see what his plans are with that.
I think I may try to do the green bean casserole too. Never tried that before, but God knows we had a bumper crop of them this year.
Now if I put Jerusalem artichokes out too, they will *really* look at me funny. Just dug some but I think I'll save em for another day.
Mike will let us know if deer tenderloin will be on the menu- it isn't yet.. lw
We're all getting together at the parent's for our traditional turkey, taters, giblet gravy, stuffing, corn, and cranberry sauce in the shape of a tin can ;) I made this pie out of the hickory nuts from the field using a pecan pie recipie to go along with the apple, pumpkin, and mincemeat pies ;D
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I ate one of the best pecan pies today that I've ever had in my life. The wife claimed it was burned, but it was just right. The nuts were toasty and the filling was almost candied.
Had an egg custard pie too. I've still got some of that left. Wow! I love those things. it reminds me of eating in the Morrison's cafeteria when I was little.
The regular fare was good too. Had a good turkey, mashed potatoes, jellied cranberry sauce, corn bread stuffing and a bunch of Ice Tea.
I'm stuffed and still eating. ;D
Sounds like everyone is fat and happy. My leftover pasta was o.k. filled the hole :D Guess what, another month you get to do it all over again
Hey man! I live in the South. We never stop. :D :D
Quote from: ohsoloco on November 24, 2005, 04:54:11 PM
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That pie looks AMAZING! How'd it turn out?
I'm stuffed to the gills, and already thinking about Christmas food! ;D
Well, my twin grandboys, born premature at 27½ weeks last June 27, are still to fragile to be going out of their home. So we had Thanksgiving at my son's house this year. My daughter was to bake the pies, but she and her husband came down with colds. Donna baked a 15 pound turkey, made giblet gravy, stuffing and a "Root" Vegetable dish (onions, turnips, carrots, parsnips, baking potatoes, Sweet potatoes all baked together) and freshly made cranberry sauce. Then she made Pumpkin Pie, Cherry Pie and Mincemeat Pie. We loaded it into the vehicle and headed for my son's home. The temp was +18° and the sun was right in my eyes. I was tooling along at 65 mph at 2:00pm when through the glare I saw eight skinny legs. Two DanG deer standing in my lane. I hit the brakes fairly hard and swerved to the left a bit and was lucky that they scooted back to the side of the road instead of my way. All the food shifted a bit in the back but nothing spilled. We got to my son's about 2:30pm and had some wine and stuffed mushrooms, cheese and crackers for appetizers. Then we settled into a fine meal with all the stuff Donna made plus a greenbean casserole and rolls. It was a good time and now I'm STUFFED! 8)
We actually had our dinner last Saturday cause that is when all of the families can get together on stump jumpers side. My side doesn't get together.
We had half of my 46 1/2 pound turkey (Home grown), ham, mashed potaotes, gravy, stuffing, rolls, olives, pickles, cranberry sauce from a can, cake and some kind of dessert with heath bars and caramel and other ingred they were good (my sister-in-law made it) there was more but I can't remember all of it and we all had a good time and stuffed ourselves.
Charlie
As I was reading your tale, I was sure the outcome was going to be different, but sure glad the food just 'shifted' and you missed those 'poor' dear deer.
Have to tell about my time, in HS and on a 'new' date. Picked the girl up with all the food 'stuff' for a good picnic (potato salad, chicken, baked beans, jello, pie, etc.) in the back seat of my 'fresh outta the body shop' 52 Mainline Ford. She was learnin to drive so I let her drive but didn't know she had no experience with a stick shift. She turned left on a gravel road, let the clutch out too fast, spun the tires, froze with the wheels turned left and the accelerator down to the floor. Complete panic. Did a 180 and dropped the front end into a 6' deep ditch. All that food ended up between the back seat and the dash board. Her screamin and cryin, and both of us covered with potato salad and beans and such. Did a complete number on the new front end job that the body shop just finished (I previously encountered a tree accidentally :) ).
Glad your day went well. Sounded like a great meal.
Let's see, we had the proverbial bird, pumpkin pie, dressing, mashed tato's, gravy, corn, and fresh rolls, and then ate again on the leftovers with two of our grand granddaughters and their folks. Great day, and I'm still stuffed. Saturday, the other daughter and our other two more grand granddaughters are coming for a standing rib roast. Our son's cannot be with us this time.
PS And SHE wouldn't go out with ME anymore ::) ??? Go figure. ???
Quote from: Mrs._Stump_Jumper on November 24, 2005, 11:59:04 PM
We had half of my 46 1/2 pound turkey (Home grown),
:o Was the turkey fed on anything other than Stumpjumper Maple Syrup? ;)
Here it will be the same as normal
WAY TO MUCH OF EVERY THING
iain
Paschale, thanks for the good words :)
Well, let's see, that was the third attempt at a pie crust ::) and if you consider I don't own a rolling pin (something I never think about buying until I need one) I think the crust was DanG good. The pie turned out much like Tom described his wife's pecan pie. I baked it for as long as the recipie said to, but the knife still wasn't coming out clean when inserted into the middle, so it got baked at least 15 or 20 minutes longer than called for. It was pretty good as desert, but it was done baking at 2pm and we ate it for desert around 6pm. Now, the piece I had later that night after it spent a while in the fridge was excellent ;) There were a few holes in the crust I had to punch in it b/c when I baked the pie shell it was puffing up on me, so some of the filling got in between the crust and the pie dish, and that stuff was like a nice caramel candy ;D
I am finishing off the last of grandmas pumpkin pies and reading this yummy thread and I have to say that Stumpjumpers turkey is /was huge ! In my hometown newspaper this week it tells about my neighbor who raised 2 turkeys for the president of the usa this year whom we all seen on tv giving pardons too last week. I couldnt believe it and how he fed those turkeys a top secret feed and had to play special music for them and they reached about 37 pounds each and that is kind of sickly compared to that michigan turkey . I still cant believe my neighbor never told anyone what he was up to .He jogs by the sawmill everyday and I wave at him but I am going to drop my tools now and salute him because he made my town famous just like when the gold trucks were coming through mayberry. Drove the 2 turkeys in a mini van to washington dc where said goodbye to his pets who met the leader of the free world and then will be flown first class to disney land in california where they will retire . Well I am out of pumpkin pie !
Paschale - I tried your pumpkin cheesecake recipe and from the responses I got I would agree that it was a definite winner!
Thanks.
Quote from: estiers on November 28, 2005, 11:40:18 AM
Paschale - I tried your pumpkin cheesecake recipe and from the responses I got I would agree that it was a definite winner!
Thanks.
Hey Teri,
Glad it worked out for ya. My stove was being tempermental, and I wasn't able to make mine, so I'm glad somebody enjoyed that on Thanksgiving. ;)