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Sounds great and I know what you mean, but please describe the rue (or roux) and how you make it. Some might have difficulty finding it online.
One can google how to make a roux, lots of step by step pics online, or, google how to make gravy. Lots of recipes and videos.
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I can not make gravy to save my life. My last attempt at gravy was horrible. Thank goodness I had a back up jar of gravy to use because we would have been gravyless that year otherwise. Everything else I make turns out really well.
I make homemade mashed potatoes, mac & cheese and stuffing/dressing. I also bake crescent rolls (not homemade).
Asparagus and green beans are the veggies. I'll serve canned cranberry sauce.
Nothing I make is that hard to make, it's more a matter of there being so many different dishes and timing it all so that everything is hot when served.
try making your own cranberry sauce. I did and oh my so good.
I also like to make my own gravy, but do keep jarred gravy on hand
My sibling would do thanksgiving on a Wednesday and would invite me. I would go but would eat just a bit.
I would confuse her gravy with the mashed potatoes - just a thick gob of water and flour basically. She was not a good cook.
Her turkey - not cooked long enough. So I would just get a small piece and then throw it out.
gravy is easy. make sure you have enough liquid in the bottom of the roasting pan. sometimes the turkey packaging will tell you how much water to put in the bottom. Water mixes with the fat from the turkey. That's your base. And people have to leave you alone while you do this!!
Remove turkey to the side and any chunky stuff in your base. Keep the liquid in the roasting pan. Make a rue....1 to 1 1/2 cups...just so you have enough. Bring the liquid to a boil on the stovetop and slowly add the rue.....stir continually with a whisk....keeps it from sticking to the pan as well as keeps it smooth and brings it to the proper consistency. Once my consistency is good, I add Kitchen Boquet, little by little. Adds color and a bit of salt and flavor. Keep tasting as you go. Once you reach 'flavor' it's done. Strain to a small warming pot. voila. 15-20 mins top and worth it
Try it sometime.
Thank you! I will give this a try and have my backup jar of gravy on hand in the event of a disaster.
try making your own cranberry sauce. I did and oh my so good.
I also like to make my own gravy, but do keep jarred gravy on hand
My sibling would do thanksgiving on a Wednesday and would invite me. I would go but would eat just a bit.
I would confuse her gravy with the mashed potatoes - just a thick gob of water and flour basically. She was not a good cook.
Her turkey - not cooked long enough. So I would just get a small piece and then throw it out.
My husband and kids won't eat cranberry sauce, otherwise I would try to make my own. I do enjoy having the canned sauce, though. If some of it goes to waste that's o.k.
I would never presume to tell someone what to cook in their own home for Thanksgiving. Even if I was a vegan or something, I would just eat whatever was animal-free, and bring some vegan thing to contribute that I could eat if there were insufficient things I was able to eat. Thank heavens I'm not vegan! Not that there's anything wrong with that! (Seinfeld reference).
I do have one friend who is so picky it's hard to cook for her. I ask if there's anything she won't eat/doesn't like, and she says no. So I cooked pork tenderloin, oops she doesn't like pork! I cooked roasted brussel sprouts and butternut squash, oops she doesn't like brussel sprouts. We have sundaes for dessert, oops she doesn't want to spoil her diet that she forgot to tell us she was on. I think I'm going to have to invite them for Thanksgiving, I'm sort of dreading it. In the past when I've gone out of my way and made dishes that she requested , she eats about 3 bites of it and I'm stuck with a big bowl of leftover whatever it was. I'm a pretty good cook, but if it's not just the way she likes it, she pushes it around her plate like a 4 year old hiding peas under the napkin.
true - even though I didn't like my siblings cooking - I would still go and eat what I could.
I would take drinks - water, soft drinks, wine, tea - things like that. A dessert that I would make sure was something she had not already baked.
Maybe containers for her to keep on hand for leftovers, foil, etc - kitchen stuff that she would have used up.
Is Thanksgiving a bigger event for you in the US than Christmas?
We of course do not have Thanksgiving so already the focus here is on the Christmas lunch, with all the similar potential dramas.
There is a bit of a push here to celebrate Halloween more but not to find a similar event to Thanksgiving. We find Christmas more than enough to deal with.
I agree with you, but we did have to issue a ban on green bean casserole when about 5 years ago we had 3 different people bring one.
oh I love green bean casserole. We were not allowed to bring it to the Wednesday thanksgiving meal at the siblings. Her son hated that and tomatoes. So not allowed in the house if he would be there
Is Thanksgiving a bigger event for you in the US than Christmas?
We of course do not have Thanksgiving so already the focus here is on the Christmas lunch, with all the similar potential dramas.
There is a bit of a push here to celebrate Halloween more but not to find a similar event to Thanksgiving. We find Christmas more than enough to deal with.
I wouldn't call Thanksgiving bigger than Christmas. My kids are working on Thanksgiving but most businesses are closed on Christmas and they will not be working on Christmas.
Thanksgiving is the kick off of the holiday season. In our house that means watching football and holiday specials on T.V. and enjoying a nice dinner together in our formal dining room which only gets used for holiday meals. It's a day to give thanks for all of the many blessings in our lives.
oh I love green bean casserole. We were not allowed to bring it to the Wednesday thanksgiving meal at the siblings. Her son hated that and tomatoes. So not allowed in the house if he would be there
Most of my holidays and birthdays lately I've spent alone at Dennies it's no big deal.
I've turned down out side family invites, If I'm not actually part of the family it's just not right.
Celebrations are a private family affair IMO. like a third wheel.
I've done it in the past, but I felt like I was inhibiting the situation.
Besides, no one in this world ever did feasts like my mother did. and those are fondly remembered.
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