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Chicken w/ stuffing, mashed potatoes w/gravy, grainy cranberry walnut bread, corn, broccoli w/ cream sauce & cheese. Dessert is white/chocolate cake w/ custard filling. I don't like the traditional foods at all.
Thanksgiving will be DH and I at home. Roasted duck, raw brussel sprout salad and gruyere mashed potatoes. Probably throw in some inexpensive sparkling wine, and still unsure about a dessert item.
Since we're displaced from the happy, sharing part of the family (my side), we're having:
Butternut squash soup
Beef roast with carrots and onions
Cauliflower fauxtatoes with beef gravy
Green bean casserole
Steamed vegetables
Dessert:
Sweet potato pie
We'll be sharing with my MIL & FIL, who tell us mournfully every year that <insert holiday here> is just another day to them, and you know it really doesn't matter to us what we eat, etc. Gee, thanks.
I'm going to make it easy on myself this year because family is not going to come in until the Christmas holidays, so it's going to be just me and my twenty-somethings children, who won't be joining me until later in the evening. So, I'll put just a turkey breast in the crockpot in the morning, make both a praline pumpkin, and a chocolate pie for dessert, potatoes au gratin, a bottle of Biltmore white wine, and The Pioneer woman's cranberry sauce, which I started making last year. You use baked fresh cranberries, orange marmalade, and toasted pecans - really good, not too sweet, not too tart. While the Turkey slow cooks, I'll light some candles, listen to classic "geezer" rock, and work on my Christmas crafts/gifts. And be thankful.
We're not big turkey eaters, so we always have something else on the menu. This year we're have the following:
roast beef
gravy made from the roast drippings
ahi poke and/or sashimi
rice
mashed potatoes
Hawaiian sweet rolls
fresh pico de gallo with corn tortillas
string beans
a salad loaded with organic goodies
pumpkin pie (cannot find any sweet potato pies)
malasadas
Main:
Turkey
Ham
Mashed potatoes
Dressing
Sweet potato casserole
Peas
Green beans
Rolls
2 types of salads
Gravy
Dessert:
Pumpkin Pie
Brownies
Wine, soda, liquor, juices
Just curious.. I've never served so many! How many pounds of potatoes, peas, green beans do you do? I always get the meat portion more or less right, but make too much of the side dishes. (Probably because I prefer the sides and am totally self-absorbed .)
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