What's for Dinner, Thanksgiving, Thurs., Nov. 23, 2023

[NJCher]

I've already celebrated Thanksgiving, so I'm outside gardening, enjoying one of the only leafblower-free days I can get!

Hope you are enjoying family, friends, and good food.

[FirstLight]

1. faking it since we both have Covid...

we got a rottiserie chicken, got the fixins, gonna just make some cornbread muffins and call it a day...

[twodogsbarking]

2. Turkey, mashed sweet potatoes, stuffing, gravy. Just the two of us and two dogs snacking.

[Cairycat]

3. Turkey breast

stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, roast vegetables and homemade (well the filling anyway) apple pie. Both our sons are here, but there's still lots of leftovers.

[Drum]

4. Two of us...

Happy Hour:
Chardonnay , some Gorgonzola with apple and smoked trout.

Main Event:
Roasting an herbed pork loin, making a roast garlic gravy to go with.
A little stewed apple and sweet onion also
Stir frying shiitake mushrooms and bok choy
Jasmine rice
Gnarly Head Cabernet Sauvignon.

Later:
Blueberry pie.

[Yonnie3]

5. Leftovers since we feasted yesterday

Turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, and gravy. Also green beans.

For dessert sweet potato casserole

My turkey stock has been strained and is now cooking to reduce. I'll freeze it and make a brown rice and turkey dish several times. Comfort food in my house.

[Emile]

6. Leftover ham and turkey on homemade bread

sandwich. Coconut cream pie for dessert.

[rsdsharp]

7. Two turkey breasts, a ten pound spiral sliced ham,

dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy (Heinz — I can’t make gravy), mashed butternut squash and pears, green beans sautéed in bacon grease, with onions, mushrooms and bacon, cranberry pear chutney, rolls, chocolate pie, pecan pie and ginger pumpkin pie with ginger snap pecan streusel.

Seven people, one dog. Burp.

[mike_c]

8. sous vide turkey breast...

....a casserole of sweet potatoes, apples, and walnuts ( savory, not sweet), collard greens, tomato-cucumber salad, cranberry relish, and fresh dinner rolls. No desserts.

The turkey breast has about an hour to go in the water bath, then I'll baste it with compound butter and pop it into a hot oven to crisp up the skin. It's just the two of us, so this is already over the top for our appetites.

[MissMillie]

9. Pretty traditional

turkey
stuffing
mashed potatoes and gravy
maple braised sweet potatoes
green bean casserole
cranberry sauce
crescent rolls


pecan pie and buckeyes for dessert


The pecan pie was horrible. I made it. I used the recipe in my Cook's Country cook book which called for maple syrup instead of corn syrup. While I'm prepared for pecan pie to be sweet, this was over-the-top sweet.

[elleng]

10. Almost went to Daughter's in-laws, but

my landlord/neighbor asked if I would join them (or they could bring me dinner,) so they did bring me turkey/stuffing/wild rice/mac'n' cheese, cranberry 'salad,' which I'm about to finish. Apple pie's waiting!

[chowmama]

11. The classic, if somewhat abbreviated

A small turkey, roasted with stuffing. Candied sweet potatoes. Gravy. Cranberry sauce (whole berry). DH always wants some kind of 'whomp' roll, so I made crescents. (That's the tube kind you 'whomp' open. Or at least you used to - now they want you to press a spoon on it and it never works. I always end up using a knife.)

And pumpkin pie for dessert. I called up to DH to let him know I was closing off the kitchen so Fast Eddie didn't try to play sous chef while I messed with crust dough. DH pretended to be hurt, calling down "Ok, you don't want to talk to me. That's all right, I'm fine, I'll just sit up here by myself and watch tv." I called back "Well, we could always just skip the pie".

Dead silence. Followed by "Don't even joke about that".

I swear, someday I'll really strip the dinner down and just serve stuffing and pie. He'd be fine with that. Lots less dishes, too.

[NJCher]

15. I swear

someday I'll really strip the dinner down

If you do this, you HAVE to post about it. I think it would be hilarious!

[Retrograde]

12. Rib roast, with

mashed potatoes and German sweet and sour red cabbage. We celebrate Thanksgiving as our semi-official anniversary, since we started going together on the holiday way back when.

Saturday we'll have a big dinner with friends, complete with turkey, corn bread stuffing, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, and whatever the other people bring.

[Grasswire2]

13. what do you think of this turkey recipe seen on twitter?

"The Turkey breast I made in the slow cooker is the best I’ve ever made. I made a bed of chopped onions, garlic cloves, lemon and orange slices, poured a full can of beer over them. Basted the turkey in mayo, grey poupon, sage and rosemary. Slow cooked six hours lid closed."

I can't imagine what the dominant flavor would be.

[NJCher]

16. interesting

I heard a story on our local public radio today which was about a guy who does turkeys here (Brooklyn, I think) by boiling them. He is from North Korea, I think, but not sure. Anyway, he won't even use American turkeys. They have to be from North Korea or wherever he's from.

That would be somewhat comparable to this.

His point is that roasting a turkey dries it out. I know whenever the RG and I did a turkey (rare, we almost always would have lamb), he would insist on having several steaming pans of water in the oven, along with the turkey, plus constantly basting it.

[Marthe48]

14. I had dinner with my daughter and her family

And her friend and their kids. My grandson smoked a turkey. I learned that his Dad has an app on his phone that gives him updates on the smoker status. Amazing what technology does. My son-in-law was flying from Dallas, and walked in the door right as we were setting the serving dishes out. My daughter also slow-cooked a turkey breast in the crock pot. We had mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green beans, stuffing, gluten-free stuffing, deviled eggs, cranberry relish, some appetizers, and pumpkin roll, Oreo cheesecake, pecan pie, and apple pie. Some of the kids have allergies. I made a pan of water rolls and a pan of milk rolls. My son-in-law made me an old-fashioned, which was pretty darned good

Quite a carby meal, but oh so good.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

17. Turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing.

I had dinner with three friends. The married couple made the main meal, the person I drove with to their house made a salad (he's sort of famous for his salads) and I supplied the bubbly.

I ate with them last year also, same division of food, salad, and bubbly. To be honest, I'm not that fond of the meal they produce, and I may want to do my best to opt out in the future. I can either find other friends to eat with, or simply fix my own meal. Which is fine.

I like cooking turkey, used to do it regularly, as in at least 4 or 5 times a year when my boys were growing up. Heck, there were times they'd come home from school in the middle of the week to a turkey dinner. Turkey is not hard to fix, just somewhat time consuming.

Oh, and don't do it in one of those flimsy aluminum pans. Buy a heavy duty roasting pan with a rack. Trust me, the bird will bake up far better in it. I got one some time in the 90s when for some reason none of my local stores had those aluminum pans a couple of days before Thanksgiving. Best thing that every happened to my turkey baking.