On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 13:01:36 -0500, Karen AKA KajiKit
> scribbled some thoughts:
>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? In Australia turkey is a
>christmas dish, but I've never been the one to do the cooking - my
>uncle or my mother has! How do I roast the beast without ruining it?
>
>What else do I need to buy at the market tonight to make this a
>'proper' thanksgiving dinner?
>
>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!
I was gonna say that if you had the whole bird, you could
stuff it. Screw what the modern notion of not stuffing it
as you might get food poisoning. That comes from not
cooking it sufficiently. I'm 40 years old and while I've
been on my own since 27, my mom no longer needed help on the
farm since she moved to a smaller place, for those 12 +
years that I remember (9-21?) we never got sick. Though
truth be told she ever fearing that if you don't cook pork
chops till they are dry like cardboard, you'll get
worms/trichinella, cooked the bird rather nicely with the
stuffing in the bird.
That aside:
Main entree:
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** Turkey (or breast)
Side dishes:
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** Mashed potatoes with gravy made from the bird/Sweet
Potaoes w/ raisins and Marshmallows
** Green beans/Green bean cassserole (with cream of mushroom
soup sprinkled on top with fried onion rings, ory a
different version).
** Cranberry sauce/jelly
** corn
Desert:
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** Pumpkin pie
Basically, any foods which would be harvested from the
garden at the time of the pilgrims, that or comfort foods:
Root dishes (potatoes, carrot, beets, radishes).
My sister-in-law finds a comfort food during Thanksgiving in
the form of macaroni and cheese, it just doesn't seem the
same without it. her husband and myself, find the same with
cranberry sauce/jelly.
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