SportKite1 wrote:
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> For those who celebrate Thanksgiving - what do you plan to make this year?
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> Ellen

Thanksgiving is my most traditional holiday meal.
It's the only time of year I make a turkey and I do
*have* to have turkey for Tday even though I'm not
a huge turkey fan. Also, I almost always have a
fairly traditional bread stuffing and mashed potatoes
and gravy. I always make peas - that's my own particular
tradition as they are my favorite green veggie. I
don't care about sweet potatoes but others usually
want them so we always have them in some form from
plain old candied sweet potatoes to sweet potato
casserole. This year my aunt is making the sweet
potato casserole. Cranberries are also not a favorite
of mine but I'll eat them and everyone else usually
wants them so again I let my aunt or someone else
bring a cranberry dish of some sort. Pumpkin pie is
de rigueur. We can have other kinds of pie in addition
to the pumpkin but there must be pumpkin and it must
be made from the Libby's recipe and there must be an
abundance of real whipped cream to smother it with.
This year I may add lemon meringue pie as I was watching
America's text kitchen yesterday when I was home sick
and they showed how to make a perfect lemon meringue.
I'm dying to try their method and see how it comes out,
besides which, lemon meringue is one of my very favorite
pies.

So, for the stuffing this year I'm going to try a new
recipe. I usually make a corn and sausage stuffing but
this year I have a similar recipe using dried cherries
and sausage in the bread stuffing.

Going to keep it relatively simple this year - no appetizer
or first course (I usually make my orange-pomegranate
compote as a first course - another of my personal traditions).

And then I will serve the pear wine I bought in Vermont
last month from North River Winery.

And I can't forget Gram's dinner rolls. This is a family
recipe that everyone in our family makes for holiday
meals. It's a crescent roll made of a soft, slightly
sweet dough. (Actually, I already made them and froze
them as I had some fresh yeast I had to use up before
it got moldy. Well, that's one chore out of the way
already.)

Turkey
Cherry-Sausage Stuffing
Mashed Potatoes
Gravy
Peas
Sweet Potato Casserole
Cranberry Somethingorother
Gram's Dinner Rolls
North River Pear Wine
Pumpkin Pie
Lemon Meringue Pie

Kate

--
Kate Connally
“If I were as old as I feel, I’d be dead already.”
Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back,
Until you bite their heads off.”
What if the hokey pokey really *is* what it's all about?