(OT) Your Thanksgiving Feast - What is it?

[gregweller]

Here's our menu:

Tangerine and maple glazed carrots
Collard greens
Cornbread Stuffing with jalapenos
Squash puree
Cider and mustard glazed turkey
Orange/cranberry relish
Pumpkin Pie

Wines:
Schmitt Sohne Riesling Auslese 1999
McDowell Viognier 1999
Some kind of Port for dessert

And probably a wee dram of Balvenie Single Barrel Scotch that my wife (bless her heart--she's what I'm really thankful for on Thanksgiving) got me for yule a couple of years ago and that I've been rationing ever since.

 

[jgbrowning]

Re: watcha eatin'?

I let all the tofu turkey coments pass but the "vegan" turkey made my stomache churn and not in a good way either. I'm a carnavore. for thanksgiving SOMETHING has to die to feed me.(preferably a 20+lb. turkey) or what are you giving thanks for?

the extra years*?


Actually i've been informed, by powers on high, that my thanksgiving menu has been added to. i'll now have....

port wine mushroom baked brie in a pastry.
russian black rye bread with deven double cream butter
as well as all the other stuff above.

joe b.
*yes, yes.. one wonders how i can say "extra years" in the same post i say "deven double cream butter"

 

[Trevalon Moonleirion]

i'm still not sure what my girlfriend and her mother eat at their family's holiday gatherings since they're both vegetarians...I'll have to ask.

What I'm having tomorrow on the otherhand...
Turkey
Stuffin
Mashed potatoes
gravy
corn
sweet potato caserole ( i think that's what my aunt calls it)
cranberry sauce
pumpkin pie

I can't wait for the turkey and pie...mmmm... pie...

 

[Alzrius]

Being stuck in Japan, Im going to have the same thing I have every day: a small bento of rice and chicken (thats lunch, I dont get up early enough for breakfast), and then at night, a crappy burger with some chips. I do sample the local cuisine, I just eat the above most often to help save expenses.

 

[gregweller]

Just in case some people haven't finalized their menus and want a really yummy, different sweet potato recipe:

Sweet Potato Balls

Peel and boil some sweet potatoes until just slightly underdone (you'll be baking the balls, so you want them slightly underdone, and they're easier to work with that way). Mash the potatoes and season with maple syrup and pumpkin pie spice to taste.

Take a scoop of the sweet potatoes and form a ball around a jumbo (the really big ones) marshmallow. Roll the finished balls in crushed graham cracker crumbs. Bake in a 350 oven until lightly browned. The texture on these is so cool--the outside is slightly crunchy and when you cut into them this molten white marshmallow oozes out. One variation I've seen uses orange juice instead of maple syrup and I know one person who actually bakes the balls inside hollowed-out orange halves.

 

[blackshirt5]

I had a lot of turkey, some sweet corn, and probably well over a pound of mashed potatos(made with some sour cream. My Uncle Butchy makes da best mashed potatos I've ever had!). I then proceeded to sit in the recliner, looking for all the world like an immensely obese cat(I only weigh 175 pounds though) reading through the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd HArry Potter Books.

God Bless America, where I can Gorge, LAy, and Read.