So...whats for dinner?
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illimae, I love cookbooks and happily leaf through them like a novel! Your thrift store cookbook looks like a wonderful find. Tomorrow, my husband and I are traveling an hour to my hometown, where we'll have dinner with friends that have become family. I'm just bringing a lemon angel pie (meringue crust, lemon filling, whipped cream topping). Besides being grateful for making it through a lumpectomy and radiation in one piece, I'm grateful for having “met" all of you. Wishing you all a happy Thanksgiving! ❤️
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Illimae, I, too, am always on the lookout for used cookbooks. Probably 75% of them are thrift store 25 cent items, garage sale "5 for a $1" or library give away items. I don't know why, but the cookbooks out here seem to be mostly unwanted.
I'm trying a pie crust out of one of the old cookbooks (an officers wives club cookbook from Camp Lejeune) that I got at a garage sale.
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Illimae, what a great find! How much fun to go thru all the handwritten recipes. Recipe cards came from Current. I still have some of those, ready to write out recipes.
Love the wildlife photos.
Dinner tonight is Day-before-Thanksgiving ritual: delivery pizza.
Trying to downsize Thanksgiving meal this year. Too many people dealing with illness this year. Scaling down, placing emphasis on family Trying a roasted turkey breast instead of the typical 22-25 lb bird.
Hoping you all enjoy tomorrow. May there be good food and great friends/family.
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Dodgersgirl - I recognized the recipe cards too! I went and looked at mine - here are some more from that collection, Lol
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illimae....that BEAR....wow. I am speechless. You dont sound like you are panicking....I would!
No cooking tonight for me, so nothing to report. Tomorrow will cook a couple of side dishes to bring to the neighbours. Cranberry relish, cranberry sauce, sweet potato casserole with marshmallows and broccoli casserole...nothing exciting. My parents are visiting from Europe and it will be their first Thanksgiving....they will flip out with the sweet potato casserole with marshmallows...I will try to post a pic of my mom's face when she sees that!
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Sandy, I encountered the same issue when I was looking for my maternal grandmother's parents. They came through Ellis Island and with a little bit of luck, I found them. I knew they where they had come from and that they had met coming over on the same boat.
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Yup Eric. I agree. But we ate shortly after noon so my food is almost settled.
Dinner at my BFF's was traditional but of course every family does things a little different. I wasn't raised in the South, but it must be tradition here because both my BFF and my next door neighbor both put finely chopped hard boiled eggs in their dressing (stuffing). Today was BFF's traditional crumbled combination of homemade biscuits and cornbread. But of course there had to be two pans because BFF's daughter is vegetarian - no eggs & no chicken broth. Turkey for the non-vegetarians. The oldest uncle made green beans with hunks of hog jowl. This family has a tradition of fresh cut up fruit - no juice, no jello. Mashed AND sweet potatoes. I took yeast rolls and multigrain sweet rolls. Everyone wanted the multigrain. My Dad would have eaten a dozen yeast rolls. And homemade pecan/chocolate pie.
I'm grateful for all of you and the recipes and meals you share every day. And the pieces of your lives. Thanks.
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At the Fireside Inn, started with shrimp cocktail and "cranberry brie bites" (little pastry shells filled with brie atop cranberry coulis). One friend had the prime rib, but the rest of us had the trad turkey dinner: turkey (duh), gravy, stuffing, mashed white and sweet potatoes, and cranberry sauce. Of course, I took most of mine home--how can it be Thanksgiving w/o leftover turkey the next day? Dessert was pecan pie with whipped cream. At home, a couple of cookies about 2 hrs. ago.
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Simple Thanksgiving for us this year. DH is recovering from diverticulitis that began on Sunday morning, 11/11. A nice restaurant near the Cancer Support Community office was offering a free buffet to Cancer Survivors, with the basics (exactly what DH needed). Mashed potatoes, dressing, roast turkey, roast ham, gravy, cranberry/orange sauce (really good!) buttered corn, green beans, rolls & butter + pies (pumpkin, apple & cherry). Good basic food, although I skipped both vegs & he only had green beans. Missed my roasted brussels, carrots & sweet potatoes. DH liked his apple pie & my pumpkin pie + ample amounts of Reddi Whip (We always had this at family gatherings of old - Anyone remember squirting it directly into their mouth?) was delish. Unfortunately, no leftovers.
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When DS2 decided to fry our turkey this year (they were gifted with a turkey fryer from DDIL2’s parents) he wasn’t planning on doing it in 2 degree wind chill. But that they did, after building a hilarious makeshift barrier all around the fryer to prevent the wind from continually blowing out the flames. Documentation below.
I was happy to observe from the kitchen window, and deliver some apps to keep them energized to get through the process. There’s good reason people fry turkeys in the South! Unfortunately, the meat thermometer didn’t work, so by the time we found another one that did, the bird was a tad overdone. So we might need to try it again next year for a more perfect result. DH ended up looking like he had been skiing atop Killington all day, sporting a very red chapped face after his extended effort tending to the fryer. The better news is that my oven was totally free for all the sides to be cooked and/or warmed.
It was a sumptuous meal with much appreciation for being together sharing life’s joys and challenges. By the end of the evening, the turkey carcass was busy simmering amid the veggies for bone broth. I bet some of you are doing this way more quickly in your Instant Pots! Enjoy the weekend, everyone.
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I must remind you Lacey, that you TOO have an instant pot lol!
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Enjoyed your photos, Lacey. Thanks for sharing. We had a fried turkey, too, at niece Robin's family Thanksgiving dinner. John, her dh, cooked it. Robin cooked a smoked turkey on her charcoal grill. Oddly (to me) they both cooked their birds on Wednesday night, sliced the meat and stored it in broth for warming up on Thanksgiving day. Er, afternoon. DH's sister (mother of Robin) started the tradition years ago of serving dinner at 4 pm.
Not a turkey fan in any event, I took one small piece of each turkey and was under-wowed. There were three dressings or stuffings, whatever your vocabulary preference. One described as traditional. Looked like bread, celery and onions to me. Since the onion pieces were clearly visible, I skipped it. The second was a bread dressing with sausage. Looked good and tasted good. Third was an oyster dressing cooked according to "grandma's recipe" in a cookbook, grandma being dh's sister. Truth be known, dh and I realize that this oyster dressing is nothing like New Orleans oyster dressing but we've kept our mouths shut these many years. This year's dressing, assembled by nephew Justin, a delightful college student at Butler, turned out soupy. Needless to say, I skipped it.
Oysters release a lot of moisture and I think I heard Justin say he put extra oysters into the dressing.
Other foods were mashed potatoes, sweet potato dish topped with mashmallows and served in a traditional bowl now passed on to Robin, green beans with massive amounts of bacon, cranberry relish, delicious salad with mixture of greens including romaine. I took a spoonful of most dishes and had a platterful. Green beans, sausage dressing and green salad tasted good.
Dessert buffet was variety of pies with real whipped cream, a trifle made with pumpkin bread pieces and little red seeds (can't think of name) and whipped cream. Great-niece Alexis made the trifle using a recipe in a magazine. It was pretty and tasted good. She even baked the pumpkin bread. There was a plate of my home-made pralines which were largely ignored.
A nephew brought a variety of wines. I welcomed him with a hug! We arrived about noon and left at 8:30 to go back to the motel. The occasion was pleasant enough and there's always the reassuring thought, Another year before Thanksgiving comes again. It was fun visiting with Robin's four children, two of whom are in college, one in the Naval Academy.
Now we are at a nephew's house south of Chicago and will go to two ice hockey games today, one practice session for Catalina, aged six, and a later tournament game for Monty 5th who is nine.
From here we will go to Holland, MI, to visit dh's cousin and his wife, whom we enjoy very much.
Eventually we will go home, where I am happiest!
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Hello, all -
Sorry I've been absent for quite a while. Belated best wishes to Minus; so glad to hear your sister's celebration was truly that. Hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgivings.
I had my FINAL Herceptin/Perjeta infusion on Monday, and surgery to have my port removed on Tuesday! So had much to be grateful for this year.
Cookingwise, I made Irish brown (soda) bread last week, and pulled Irish stew from the freezer to go with it. We had a quiet dinner of pan seared flat iron steaks with ultra crispy roasted potatoes on Thursday, and did "Friendsgiving" on Friday afternoon at a girlfriend's house. The other participants are not really into cooking, so I brought my usual: spatchcocked turkey, gravy, cranberry/apple sauce with orange zest, and 2 kinds of bread dressing - one with sausage, sage and celery, the other with sherry-soaked prunes, apples and chestnuts. The latter was also supposed to have sausage as well and would have been better with it, but I was trying to accommodate those who object.
We now have wonderful leftovers that should last a few days. Including excellent pumpkin and apple pies ordered from our neighborhood bakery.
After nearly a week of terrible air quality, we finally got a couple of days of steady rain and it is bright and clear again. We got a break yesterday afternoon which allowed us to take a walk, and should be able to do so again today.
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Getting the port removed...that's good news Magari. Sharon (wife) hated the port almost as much as the post mastectomy drains and was thrilled when *that THING* was gone.
I'm guessing the rains there helped both the fire containment as well as the air quality. Now, hopefully the rains will be slow and gentle so as to not cause flash flooding and landslides. It is good that the fires are contained. That was nasty. Day after day of that level of work in those conditions, is hard on their health. Hopefully they can get some recovery time before they are needed again....somewhere in my stuff is "the T-shirt". :-)
Lacey, I fried our turkey. Fortunately it was in the 60F degree range, with no wind, when I did mine. It turned out pretty well at 3-1/4 minutes per pound and, like you said, it keeps the oven open for all the other stuff. I made good use of the extra oven, but only needed the 4 "burners" on the inside stove. All of us were pleased with the vegan foods (along with the turkey and turkey gravy) we prepared--especially DD, who is experimenting with vegan eating. I put the recipes in my notebook and I gave her copies for when she doesn't have to share a kitchen (and the storage space) with three other girls.As for more recent cooking, I canned the broth from the turkey carcass. There are 13 twelve ounce jars cooling on the counter which will get added to the 36 jars of broth from the carcasses I'd stored in the freezer. This should almost be enough for the next year.
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Good to hear you make broth, eric. I do, too, and live from it during rough gut days. Does yours usually gel?
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Leftover something-other-than-turkey tonight, for the first time in days. My one Thanksgiving entree spawned three more meals: Friday lunch, Sat. dinner, and a turkey sandwich on sourdough (with leftover gravy & cranberry sauce). Friday night we went out to Artango, an Argentinian steakhouse in Lincoln Square. We started with grilled langoustines and turkey empanadas with chimichurri sauce. Main course was a "sharing flight" of steaks: sirloin, NY strip and cap-of-ribeye. No dessert--we were too stuffed. So tonight I had the leftovers.
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This year, for each dish, I made quite a bit less than normal so that I wouldn't end up eating leftovers forever. After slicing up the turkey, I freeze it, so I don't really count that as I can wait awhile before "those leftovers".
I did make a 2nd batch of both the sourdough dinner rolls and garlic mashed potatoes so that DD could take some back to her apartment.
The broth does jell up...until I can it..then it doesn't do that anymore. I'm guessing the 20 minutes at 245F degrees "ruins" the gelatin.
I started making broths and other things when my dad was diagnosed with heart failure (at age 90) and put on a low salt-low fat diet. Suitable convenience foods were impossible to find, so I'd make and can stuff for them. After they both died, I stopped making the "other stuff", but continued making and canning the broth.
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HaHa! Yes, Nance, I do remember that I have an Instant Pot! I briefly thought about unearthing it from the basement in its unopened box, but it was late on T-giv night, and I doubted my tired brain’s capacity to decipher the directions at that hour. On Friday, at our next door neighbor’s, I spotted hers and got her brief tutorial. So this week would be a good time to give it some love. My neighbor regularly uses hers to cook dry chick peas for her delicious hummus.
Carole, you have had quite the Thanksgiving excursion! I admire your traveling energy. And I’m horrified that your pralines were not immediately cleared off the plate on Thanksgiving! I hope your trip home goes (went?) smoothly and that you are enjoying your favorite place.
Magari, I’m happy for you to move past that port wearing phase of your treatment! And what a generous friend you are to provide such a sumptuous (and diet preference accommodating) spread to the non-cookers at the Friendsgiving! I do hope that your air stays clear now that the fire is contained. Friends we were with last night reported that their SF son was unable to access a mask when that air quality was so bad. What a horror on so many levels.
Off food topic.....Yesterday, DH and I went to Volante Farms, where our DDIL2 was showing and selling her adorable dog bone-themed holiday wreaths. The owner is DS2’s good friend and offered for her to do a “pop up” display during his annual family visit to Santa day, held in their greenhouse. So basically, she was the only “crafter” there, and while it would be a stretch for folks to buy a “dog bone wreath” at a Santa visit day, (a definite impulse buy) some people did! Not sure if DDIL2 felt her sales effort was a success, but she certainly got an eyeful of current parenting (and lack thereof) efforts, with so many young families attending.
Then last evening we met for dinner with our long time lake neighbors who also live in the Boston area. We went to Legal Seafood, where I was grossly unimpressed with their greasy version of calimari, but quite happy with my entree of artic char, kale salad with lemon dressing, and jalepenapolenta. DH and I split a key lime pie for dessert.
Tonight I get to have whatever I want for dinner after pilates class as DH is invited to a business talk downtown. Yay!
Am also deciding what to do with my bone broth, which, by the way, did not jell. I froze and brought a pint of it to DDIL2 since she is drinking it these days. Question, since it is nutrient rich, can I add a pint to my soups for extra nutritional benefits, or just use the entire few quarts at once when making soup? Not sure why I am so ignorant about this. Thanks for your advice!
And, Eric, you got that much broth from one carcass?? Impressive! It sounds like your family is definitely making solid headway into vegan life. I’d bet many of DD’s college peers are doing the same. I was really impressed with all the delucious vegetarian and vegan options at Olin College’s cafe when I had lunch there recently.
Have a good week everyone!
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Ha ha Lacey, I feel it is my civic duty to remind you of the instant pot until you at LEAST take it out of the box!
We were fortunate enough to dodge the bulk of the blizzard snow and ended up with only about an inch. The winds were and are cold and vicious however. Soup is appealing (as long as it's not turkey.) Minestrone it is for a meatless meal, which is also appealing. A side of salad and garlic bread will be plenty.
Our thanksgiving and after thanksgiving dinners were traditional. Desserts at DSIL's were pumpkin, blackberry and blueberry pies, a pumpkin roll with a cream cheese filling (the best), gingerbread (mine), some GF cookies, something called brownie brittle and pumpkin bread. Like Carole's pralines, my gingerbread was largely ignored. Saturday, DDIL pitched in with our scaled back dinner so it was rather painless. The spatchcocked turkey was perfect, DDIL made the stuffing (my least favorite thing) and the gravy and mashed the potatoes and browned the carrots that I had cooked sous vide. They also brought appetizers so I got off pretty easy and as a result, wasn't drop dead tired by the end of the day for a change. I did make a smaller gingerbread for us and an apple cranberry slab pie. The turkey carcass is now residing in the freezer awaiting a (distant) future performance as soup no doubt. There is just enough turkey left for pot pies later in the week.
I bought a couple of Christmas presents on line today and did some research on some others that I'm considering. I seem to be short on inspiration this year influenced no doubt, by my general lack of enthusiasm about the holiday. We had planned to go south for Christmas but when we decided to sell our house this spring, we opted to stay here and try to get things in order. With this insane weather who knows if we'd be able to travel anyway.
Speaking of which, safe travels Carole!
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Lacey, by all means add all or some to your soup!
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Leftover orecchiete alla Barese (sausage & pine nuts) tonight. As piping hot as I can get it w/o overcooking. Will be ravenous after I get home from rehearsal.
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I use the leftover turkey for sandwiches for hubby to take to work.
Cooking a steak and using up the leftovers from Thanksgiving.
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Dinner tonight will be a casserole of turkey, dressing and gravy with sides of the leftover cranberry sauces and green beans. Missing romaine lettuce for green salads!
Granddaughters are back in college, have almost finished the leftovers from their week long visit so back to needing ideas every night-- one night soon will be fish but I have an early evening meeting tomorrow night and will need something simple.
Sandy, the Chicago weather is being featured on our evening news as I write--stay safe!
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DH and I postponed Thanksgiving until Saturday, so yesterday was leftovers. Tonight was turkey soup using the bits and broth not frozen or set aside for turkey ala king tomorrow. DH also mentioned something about a turkey pot pie soon, that’s exciting, I love pot pies!
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For Thanksgiving, bagels with lox, tomato slices, capers, red onions, cream cheese, lettuce and 2 eggs over easy. With a coke, iced coffee and water. We don't like to cook and went out to eat. We are a bunch of weirdos. The lox and oysters being the exception to being vegetarian, added as of 6 years ago.
Today my daughter, grandson and I went to the Children's' Museum and had grilled cheese sandwiches.
Tonight store bought mac and cheese. I am a pig.
Happy Thanksgiving to all!
I really need to add some vegetables.
This New England weather seems to have really increased my appetite, and I can't stop eating.
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Bagel, cream cheese and lox with heirloom tomato, red onion, homegrown (windowsill) scallions, dill and capers for breakfast. Could finish only half. Lots of tea with raw honey, as I'm trying to fend off laryngitis--rehearsals thru Wed., show opens Thurs. night and I don't want to lose my voice. Doc put me on prednisone--20 mg. to start, 10 for each day through the end of the run on Sun. (If my voice improves by Sat., that might be my last pill). Had the leftover orecchiette with sausage & broccolini tonight. Lots of garlic--hope that helps immunity.
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I love pot pies too, but nobody else in my family seems to be interested. We have a great restaurant locally that we go to for good steaks and they have introduced a chicken pot pie recently. I haven't tried it yet but that may be my solution to having it without making it at home.
We are officially out of turkey and other leftovers. We had Thanksgiving at our friend's home and did bring home food - some things that they made and some that we made and brought over. My BFF from California is coming from Dec. 4-11 and I will do the T-Giv meal over again with a turkey breast I bought on sale and froze. I made a double batch of cranberry sauce and froze that too. Some old-timers on this thread remember my BFF - you all offered prayers and support when she had a mammo re-call right after her dad passed away unexpectedly. That meant the world to both of us and thankfully all was ok with her. I actually called her imaging center before she went in - unbeknownst to her - and asked that they be very gentle with her in light of her circumstance. She is also single and went alone, had recently gone through a bad break-up, and had just had her house robbed. Eeesh! I was concerned enough to be pushy, lol! Fortunately, the imaging center director understood that I called out of love for my friend, and was supportive of my request!
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There needs to be some room left in the jars, so only about 9 ounces of turkey broth go into each jar. This works out nicely as I tend to need broth in 1 cup increments. I let the stock reduce until it tastes "right". This time I had to reduce it by 1/3 instead of the usual 1/2....I guess this was a more "tasty boned" turkey..
Chi....keeping fingers crossed for your voice.
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Shake and Bake chicken.
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