Cookin again

[BookTenTiger]

I am trying out different pie recipes for Thanksgiving. I'm not a fan of traditional Pumpkin Pie, and I usually make Sweet Potato Pie.

Here's Pumpkin Cheesecake Pie, and Pumpkin Indian Spice Pudding Pie. The Cheesecake Pie is the clear winner.

 

[BookTenTiger]

Also a Walnut Date Pie I made before that, very sweet and chewy and yummy!

 

[Zardnaar]

Breakfast at our favorite. Group has the TV on watching All Blacks vs France.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I got off to a late start on my multi-Turkey cooking projects, so I’m still in process. The birds themselves have been cooked, deboned, and their meat is in the fridge. Tomorrow, I’ll be packing it up for freezing.

But the 3 carcasses are still in my big stock pot, bubbling away. In 30-60 minutes, I’ll start removing the solids and start reducing the liquid over a higher temp.

 

[Zardnaar]

I don't get it shrugs.

 

[prabe]

@Dannyalcatraz Y'all basically skip right to the turkey leftover thing, it looks like?

It's just the two of us, and neither of us particularly like white meat, so whole turkey doesn't really appeal much. Also, we have a tradition of doing non-standard dishes for feast days--this year is beef carbonnade.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Sorta!

Right now, it might just be me & my parents for Christmas. If so, at least one dish is already prepared.

 

[Zardnaar]

Mates 45th birthday.



Steak egg and chips with a off sceeen side salad.



Cookie in very hot skillet with dollop of vanilla ice cream.

Overdid the beer.

 

[Zardnaar]

Cooked a basic caaesar salad last night using whatever I could find. Ran out of cheese, tomato, bread, various frozens etc. Added some spiced rice on the side.

Wife invited me out for coffee.



Usual place two mochas, cheese roll, sausage roll with relish, and passion fruit and white chocolate cheesecake.

This was after a trip to the bakery. They have American donuts there but they can compete with the glorious raspberry cream bun.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I decided to make myself some faux Eggs Benedict for breakfast, using leftovers from the week’s cooking.

The base is toasted, buttered white bread because my ciabatta rolls and French batards had both gotten a little…fuzzy. The next layer is a slice of smoked Gouda. Then comes a layer of diced ham and an over easy egg seasoned with garlic pepper. The whole pile is topped with a modified chicken gravy I made for thanksgiving.

While it obviously didn’t taste the same as a classic Benedict, the flavors still married well and the overall decadence of it was similar. Would definitely do again!