Mom wanted ham, so I got her a couple of thick slices and will heat those up and make gravy. StY and I have lemon pepper chicken, also from the deli--we're scattered this year, so the deli is mostly cooking for us. In a minute I'll move to the kitchen and make garlic mashed with cottage cheese and dill, steam the green beans and heat up the niblets corn and the sweet rolls. We'll have chocolate truffle cake, left over from StY's birthday day before yesterday, with ice cream for dessert.
Tryptophan dreams to all sweet Buffistas!
We had all the traditional stuff, plus buttermilk pie and port. Now nap. Later, crossbows.
I had bacon egg and cheese hot pockets and candy cane hersheys kisses.
My dad has gotten into wine collecting and so he brought several bottles over. There were 5 of us and I think a total of 6 bottles of wine. This included the strawberry kiwi flavored "wine product" that some how made it's way to the house. It's not bad for a wine spritzer type drink, but it didn't go with the Thanksgiving food.
Now we are cleaning up and eating some cheesecake. My brother and FSIL are going to go and pack more for their trip. (a quick plug for their trip -- www.kayakjourneys.com).
Where's my damn House Elf.
Mmm, House as an elf. He could sing snide, snarky non-sense songs and generally not give straight answers to questions all day.
This included the strawberry kiwi flavored "wine product" that some how made it's way to the house. It's not bad for a wine spritzer type drink, but it didn't go with the Thanksgiving food.
Some foodie show on NPR we were listening to on the way over to Dan's aunt's appartment, the wine expert recommended any savory with a hint of sweet but not aged in oak wine to go with Thanksgiving food - to echo the savory-sweet theme of sweet potatoes and cranberry sauce. He recced sparkling Shiraz in particular, as the bubbles would cleanse the palate from all the salt and fat in the food.
Happy Turkey day!
...was it yesterday? Did I miss it already? (I'm in the 24th, but you folks are probably still in the 23rd, right?)
Oops.
Speaking of vegetarians and Moosewood cookbook, this is my first vegetarian thanksgiving and the only meat is the turkey.
Um.
t puzzled
By this standard of vegetarianism, all my family's meals are vegetarian.
Which isn't to take away from the yumminess of your feast, which sounds very yummy indeed, and now I want mushroom pie. But I have to ask - how much meat is there
usually?
Maybe askye meant it's the first time she's celebrating Thanksgiving, as a vegetarian (in other words, there'll be turkey there, but not for her)? I didn't quite follow that, either. I'm thinking some of that wine her dad brought is no longer in the bottle!
I hope everyone has had/is having a nice day. Fay it's still Thursday and 8:15pm on the East Coast, as I'm typing this.
We had a good day at mum's, very quiet, but then the children put on an impromptu, improvisational (endless) play Christopher made up.
Before dinner, mum put out stuffed celery (stuffed with plain cream cheese, and with cream cheese with chives), sweet pickles, other pickled do-dads (I saw cauliflower and onions, but I was too busy with the celery and pickles), and an assortment of olives (some with minced garlic and other fancy stuff).
For dinner, we had turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, green beans, pearl onions, scalloped oysters, squash baked with apples, butter, and brown sugar (acorn squash though, not butternut -- bah, too stringy), and both smooth and whole fruit cranberry sauce. Oh and cornbread, and rolls.
My pumpkin pie was no worse for all the abuse it suffered, if you could ignore the crust edge. Decidedly edible. The chocolate cream pie was quite good. Chris is the only person who opted for the (last minute rescue store bought) apple pie, but then he forgot about it, when Nana put a scoop of ice cream on his plate. The wine was Blackstone's Napa Valley Merlot (much better than their California Merlot). There was also coffee, and tea.
Am tired. Want to tuck the children in very soon. I miss having Thanksgiving with a big crowd, though.
(Edited, because I forgot to mention the cranberry sauce. Can't have that. Edited again, because I forgot more.)
