"Nexis" > wrote in news:_q8qd.99567$SW3.42330@fed1read01:

> Well due to the scattering of family and friends all over on
> Thanksgiving, we decided to have the big bird dinner yesterday instead
> so that we could enjoy it with said family and friends. All in all, it
> was a delightful day and a wonderful meal! I have to say, I do wish I'd
> have gotten one more breast so there would have been more leftovers! All
> told, including kids and myself, there were 15 people. Here's what was
> on the menu: Spinach onion dip in a bread bowl
> Pate with green onions and olives
> Assorted crudités and dip
> Assorted crackers and cheeses
> Assorted olives
>
> Roast Turkey with sage butter
> Sage Dressing
> Rich Turkey gravy
> Smashed Taters
> Trader Joe's Cranberry sauce (a favorite of ours!)
> Asparagus with rosemary and pine nuts
> Cream & Sugar sweet corn (from my Aunt Margaret)
> Assorted sparkling juices: Cranberry, French Berry Lemonade, Sicilian
> Orange, Blood Orange, Wildberry, and Raspberry.
> Hot Cinnamon Sunset tea
>
> Pies: Pumpkin, Chocolate Cream, Lattice-Top Cherry, and Black Bottom
> Coconut Cream. Also, there was a dessert my friend brought that had a
> pecan based crust, a cream cheese layer, a vanilla custard layer and a
> chocolate custard layer, topped with whipped cream and shaved chocolate.
> Her family calls it custard pie.
>
> Coffee: Blue Mountain, Peppermint, and Chocolate Velvet
> Peppermint Cocoa
>
> I have a small-ish 50 yr old Thermador oven, so there was no way to do
> both a Turkey (16.5lb) and the additional breast so I borrowed my mom's
> roaster. I made my grandma's sage butter and slipped it under the skin,
> then all over the surface of the skin too. I roasted the whole bird
> unstuffed and put the dressing and the breast in the roaster. Wow, it
> was moist! And I daresay it was the best dressing I ever made.
> I found a blood orange avocado oil that I sautéed the asparagus in along
> with rosemary and pine nuts.
> The day before, I baked the pies (well just the crust for the chocolate
> and coconut cream) and made stock from roasted turkey wings & necks
> (along with onions, celery, shallots, a couple carrots, and peppercorns,
> made the toasted coconut ganache for the black bottom part of the
> coconut cream pie, and made the pate. Wednesday night my mom and I made
> dough for wheat rolls,white rolls, cloverleaf rolls, and crescent rolls,
> so I baked those the day before too. That freed up the oven yesterday
> and all I had to do was make the dressing, prepare the bird and breast,
> and make the sides, which meant I was able to spend more time with my
> guests...which was really nice.
>
> I hope, however you spent the last couple days, you enjoyed life.
>
> kimberly

Sounds like you had a lovely day and a very lovely meal!

--
Wayne in Phoenix

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