Karen AKA KajiKit wrote:
> Help! It's my first thanksgiving in the USA and I have no idea
> whatsoever about what's required. I'd hoped that we'd be invited to a
> 'proper' thanksgiving someplace else but none of his family came up to
> bat, so I have to do it for us. We bought a 4-1/2 pound fresh turkey
> breast (the smallest they had in the store), some potatoes and a sweet
> potato to roast. What else do we need?

Some kind of green vegetable - broccoli, cabbage, green squash (courgettes),
brussels sprouts, something along those lines.

> What else do I need to buy at the market tonight to make this a
> 'proper' thanksgiving dinner?
>
Rolls. And make a bread dressing which you can bake alongside the turkey in
a bread pan for about 20 minutes. Simplest method is to buy some
pre-seasoned "stuffing crumbs" (Pepperidge Farm makes good ones). The
recipe should be on the bag. But basically saute some diced onion & celery
in plenty of butter; stir in hot chicken stock or broth until the mixture is
moist. Put it in a bread pan and bake it.

Oh, well, you might need to buy a bread pan... I read where your kitchen is
woefully bare of essentials!

> BTW, there are only two of us, so we don't want to overload... we'll
> be eating turkey for at least a week as it is!