Thanksgiving Food - Not your mother’s recipes
The turkey went from freezer to refrigerator last Thursday in an effort to make sure it is thawed for cooking. Here’s the calculations:
28 pound bird X 4 hours per pound for thawing = 112 hours for thawing which makes a bit over 4.5 days. Here’s reality: It always takes longer! OK, so the turkey is thawing. If you do not have your turkey thawing yet, you better get with it; nobody likes a cold bird for Thanksgiving. Now I have to get the list together for the rest of the food. I’ll be using that for my post today. And of course I’ll be including the recipes most of which are old favorites.
- 1 navel orange
- 1 lemon
- 1 lime
sugar- fresh cranberries
- Grand Marnier - the alcohol cooks out and leaves a great taste
For Cornbread Dressing:
Real Southern Cornbread -
- cornmeal
- all-purpose flour
- salt
- baking powder
- sugar (we use non-refined, organic)
- eggs
- unsalted butter (we use non-dairy, unsalted margarine)
- buttermilk
- Southern-Style Corn Bread, see above
- white bread - I always have this around
- unsalted butter
- 2 medium onions
- 2 medium celery ribs
- chicken (turkey) stock or canned low-sodium broth
- large eggs
- flat-leaf parsley
- fresh sage
- minced thyme
- salt
- fresh pepper
Roasted Mini Pumpkins - this is a favorite and we don’t consider it Thanksgiving unless we have these. Forget the turkey, it’s all about these:
- 12 mini pumpkins - need three more
- cinnamon
- fresh nutmeg
- allspice
- unsalted butter
- pure maple syrup
- salt
- fresh pepper
Not Your Mother’s Green Bean Casserole - I’m doubling
- 2 pounds fresh green beans
- 16 ounces mushrooms
- unsalted butter
- fresh garlic
- Kosher salt
- fresh pepper
- flour
- chicken stock
- dry sherry
- 1.5 cups 1/2 & 1/2
- 1 slice good whole grain bread ((I’ll use my regular white bread))
- 1 can French fried onions
We can’t forget dessert can we?
Southern Pecan Pie (right off the bottle of Karo, although I don’t use Karo anymore because of the HFCS)
- eggs
-
Karo Light or Dark CornPure Cane Syrup - sugar
- corn oil margarine
- vanilla
- salt
- pecans
- 1 - 9 inch unbaked pastry shell
- 1 - 30 ounce can of solid-packed pumpkin (or 2-15 ounce cans of solid-packed pumpkin)
- pumpkin pie spice
- salt
- eggs
- 2 - 12 ounce cans evaporated milk
- 2 pie crusts
yummm….my mouth is starting to water. you are getting me excited for thursday now. yay!
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I know you guys are not anti-butter, so why do you opt for margarine in the cornbread?
it all sounds incredibly amazing!
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Ann - yes, mouth-watering.
Chef - Actually, I am so much the real-butter-and-only-real-butter as a person can be, but CowBoy is very allergic to dairy. And so when there is a menu that has lots of butter/milk stuff I cut where I can. I will actually be using the Smart Balance Organic when possible. He does seem to be outgrowing some of his reactions, but he has trouble with the absorption as well as the fact that he looks like a leper when he gets too much. He drinks Rice milk and when we have ice cream he gets Rice Dream Ice Cream. I just substitute here and there and it often changes from one day to the next. I cook with as much butter as I think each day’s diet can handle.
Misty - I can’t wait to dig in. I begin the preps this evening.
Looks like Thankgiving here will be a bust. Si is barfing, Scary’s stomach hurts, and I have a sore throat. Is that how you spell throat? I do not want to go to Tupelo and stay in a hotel while sick. But then, I really don’t want to be sick.
Hope you guys have a great Thanksgiving.
Holley - you know we got this new big table, load up that big one of your’s on P’s truck and will set it up next to ours and lock the barfers up in the bathroom and eat this huge bird - I really don’t want to eat turkey for the next year. 28 pounds! The den has hide-a-bed and lots of room for sleeping bags and inflatable mattresses. We could quarantine a bedroom for sickies.
Dang, girl, get better.
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