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Today the cornbread dressing with pecans and bacon sounds really good!
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For me, the day of is more about sides, and then turkey to have as leftovers. And well, pie, anytime.:)
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Weird "Thanksgiving" foods
for me, it's strawberry fluff. Which is made out of a container of cottage cheese, cool whip, some drained crushed pineapple and a packet of strawberry jell-o. It only makes the appearance at Thanksgiving. Totally wrong and yet so good. And I am completely making it this year. lol. I need that comfort of my childhood this year. :)
Win a Free Organic D'Artagnan Turkey
Today the cornbread dressing with pecans and bacon sounds really good!
Where Does Your Thanksgiving Loyalty Lie?
For me, the day of is more about sides, and then turkey to have as leftovers. And well, pie, anytime.:)
Win a Free Organic D'Artagnan Turkey
This year....looking forward to the cornbread dressing.
making up lost time - what's for dinner 11/10/09?
Doing fritatta/quiche thing... with potatoes, onion, spinach and cheese in it. Serving a salad and bacon on the side.
Green Tomatoes! What do I do with them all?
Some friends of mine were faced with the same thing, and they made a green tomato mincemeat and green tomato ginger and lemon preserves. They jarred both of them and are giving them out as christmas presents for friends and family. They both turned out great.
Where do you put condiment sauce on your burger.
I dip mine whole as well.
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
Serious Eats and Smitten Kitchen and Pioneer woman. Love all 3
Where do you put condiment sauce on your burger.
for me it's a little bit of mayo on each bun, onions and pickles on the top. Ketchup is put on the plate for dipping.
What's your spice aversion?
Anise/fennel seed and as long as ginger is a background note it's fine, but once i can pick it out, no thanks. tastes like soap to me.
Your Clever SE Name
alm25 is the beginning part of an email address i've had forever. Not sure why i put that down instead of my usual moniker of daesylady.
What's up for dinner tonight? Thursday 10/15
I peeled and cubed a butternut squash, roasted it and then mashed w/ salt, pepper and butter. Also had meatloaf and a green salad.
Serious Cocktails: Women and Whiskey
I'm female and love whiskey. It's my favorite liquor, followed by gin. For me it's Jameson or Redbreast, on the rocks. I would say two of my female friends are whiskey drinkers as well. And I must say, I do get raised
eyebrows and lots of "wows" from guys who find out I like whiskey. lol.
What do turnips go with?
i usually just eat my turnips raw, sliced thin and sprinkled w/ a little salt. I just haven't gotten myself to like them cooked.
Cook the Book: Pumpkin Baking
simple deeply pumpkiny pumpkin bread.
Walk the Wok. Talk the Talk. Dinner Saturday, Oct. 10th.
i just finished putting together a small pot of chili to have. I think I might have to go get buttermilk so we can have cornbread along with it.
Best apples for baking?
I've made an apple pie and crisp recently, and I used Fuji apples. They worked great, keeping their shape very well. I decided to go w/ that since they are sweeter and I can cut back on other sugar as a result.
Kale, kale and more kale
I 2nd MaeMae's suggestion of kale chips... they are so good and addictive.
What's for dinner tonight???
It's been a crappy week here, so I'm going for warm comfort tonight, Tuna Casserole with some sauteed kale to go along with.
Cook the Book: 'Dishing Up Vermont'
just left vermont and back toMissouri...so currently... BBQ.
I'm in the mood to bake a cake..............
i've been craving a pineapple upsidedown cake. thinking i might just have to do it this weekend.
What's for Dinner? 09/03
have pork w/ salsa verde in the slow cooker... will be making brow rice to go along with it.
What's for Dinner? 09/01
Made lasagna with a tomato sauce made from fresh tomatoes from the neighbor's garden.
In Memory of The Silver Palate's Sheila Lukins
i am on my third copy of The New Basics... I got my first one around 1993 or 94 when i was in college... it has been a great go to book for me.
One of my favorites of her recipes is the Carrot Cake found in new Basics... and also, Bobbie's Chicken.
Weird "Thanksgiving" foods
Not sure if I would call it weird.. but we would always have tomato aspic with a little onion, green olive and shrimp peering out from the shimmering, and shivering, mold. Sliced and served with a dollop of homemade lemon mayonnaise.
Sounds gross.. but it's pretty awesome.
Weird "Thanksgiving" foods
My boyfriends mom puts out pitted dates, stuffed with either cream cheese or peanut butter, rolled in sugar. The ones with the cream cheese are mmmm.
She also puts out the olives/pickles. So weird!
Weird "Thanksgiving" foods
@foodie,foodie! - I don't know that I would call deviled eggs a weird food. And seeing as how they get made for every family get together in my family, hardly Thanksgiving food :P. Also they're usually the first things to disappear from the table ...
Weird "Thanksgiving" foods
@KarynMC - that sounds marginally better than a bowl full of eye of frog. ;)
Weird "Thanksgiving" foods
Have got to mention the "deviled eggs!"
Weird "Thanksgiving" foods
@wellred - It's pretty much a weird name for ambrosia. Canned pineapple juice reduced into a sauce and mixed into acini de pepi, mandarin oranges, pineapple chunks and mini marshmallows (unless I am eating it). At the end, you fold in cool whip (unless I am eating it).
Weird "Thanksgiving" foods
My mother always made pimento cheese to eat on soft, white bread while Thanksgiving dinner cooked. She made it with an old fashioned meat grinder attached to the kitchen table. I wouldn't touch the stuff back then, but last thanksgiving, i made a batch according to her recipe and it was a big hit!! No meat grinder though.
Weird "Thanksgiving" foods
@KarynMC - What is frog eye salad??
Our food is on the tame side, but the names for it aren't. Mashed potatoes have been Mashed Steven since I was about twelve (Steven is a family friend), the turkey is always Turkus Maximus, etc.
We did discover one year at Canadian Thanksgiving that my mom's pumpkin bread goes really well with adobo (chicken/pork cooked in soy sauce, vinegar and garlic). Delicious!
Weird "Thanksgiving" foods
I discovered potato salad with turkey dinners when I was working in a large metropolitan hospital and found that my African-American co-workers would bring it as part of a potluck turkey meal. And despite what Mom always said about Thanksgiving meals too much about "starch", i.e., carbohydrates, I thought it was a great addition to the meal. It's cool, the texture a good contrast to the other items, and if I'm doing a really big turkey dinner, as opposed a pared-down one, I've kept it on the family menu.
Weird "Thanksgiving" foods
Nut loaf. My parents became vegetarians when I was very young, so turkey did not show up on our table. Instead, there was 'nut loaf', or as my mum called it, 'nut meat'. Whatever. Essentially, it is like a meatloaf... without meat. Never could cope with the texture, leading to ugly brawls between my dad an myself every Thanksgiving.
Weird "Thanksgiving" foods
Every year, either my mom or my grandma makes the "carrot ring." It's basically shredded carrots, lots of cheddar cheese, butter, and some bread crumbs molded into some sort of ring-shaped baking dish and baked. It's actually amazing, but it's funny when we have new people to dinner. They say, "I'll take some more of that orange stuff." :)
Weird "Thanksgiving" foods
Making the stuffed celery was usually my job; cream cheese, chopped walnuts mixed and stuffed into the celery stalks. Paprika dusted over the top.
Relish trays aren't just a French-Canadian tradition. I grew up in suburban Philly and we always had the pickle/olive/stuffed celery/carrot sticks at major holiday meals. I also remember most "nice" restaurants always served a relish tray before dinner.
Weird "Thanksgiving" foods
We never actually have anything too weird, but when my mother worked on holidays, while she was building seniority in the hospital (thhis took fifteen years, by the way), my father and I would be in charge of the Thanksgiving dinner. Now, I normally, as a child, had the easy stuff - potatoes, bread, cranberry can/sauce. My father always took the turkey...which meant *his* stuffing....which was essentially a little sage with some stuffing thrown in for good measure.
I would always buy a box of Stouffer's Stuffing to have a little, since, although not the best, still better than a mouthful of sage. Now, I love sage, but a little goes a loooooonnnnnggg way, especially when you are stuffing it into the butt of a turkey for hours.
Weird "Thanksgiving" foods
ugh my great-aunt used to make "oyster casserole", sounds good right? except it was canned oysters, hardtack, cream and butter. No seasoning or anything. i think it was a weird holdover from the old boston side of the family.
Weird "Thanksgiving" foods
We always serve potato salad at Thanksgiving... when I celebrated my first Thanksgiving with my Pennsylvania-raised roommate she was shocked when I was making it because she told me potato salad was a Summer only thing. Well, to me Thanksgiving is not Thanksgiving without it...
Where Does Your Thanksgiving Loyalty Lie?
I'm with Ed. Let's eat pie.
Where Does Your Thanksgiving Loyalty Lie?
Do I really have to choose? They're all so good.
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Chipotle Meatballs look good!
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Pumpkin pie brulee
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silver palate cornbread stuffing with apples
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It has to be the perfect mashed potatoes.
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Maple walnut cornbread looks awesome!
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Location: The KC, MO
About: Moved back to KCMO after stints in VT and MN....
Favorite foods: roasted chicken, chocolate, salty stuff, blueberries, asian food, mexican food...ok, i'll stop now :)
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for me, it's strawberry fluff. Which is made out of a container of cottage cheese, cool whip, some drained crushed pineapple and a packet of strawberry jell-o. It only makes the appearance at Thanksgiving. Totally wrong and yet so good. And I am completely making it this year. lol. I need that comfort of my childhood this year. :)