BS: Thanksgiving dinner recipe favorites

Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving dinner recipe favorites
From: Mrrzy
Date: 22 Nov 21 - 10:56 AM

Sandies are a kind of cookie. No chocolate, not quite shortbread. Oh, wait, I buy the Keebler brand which does say shortbread. I never noticed.

Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving dinner recipe favorites
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Nov 21 - 10:46 AM

The harvest celebration is ancient and global but Thanksgiving is American.
Our shared dinner with the early welcoming Wampanog is gracious.
But never happened.
Our first settlers were taught how to grow food suitable for the climate.
We weren't an an invading Army in their eyes since we brought women and children.
But they were wrong.
We arrived bringing pandemics to our 10,000 year old cultural Americans.
Today our benfactors are left with a tenth of 1% of their original lands.
Sing our Thanksgiving song
Bless the families with empty chairs this year
Bless each other for surviving all our fears
and bless the rest who had reasons for their tears

Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving dinner recipe favorites
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Nov 21 - 01:23 PM

Pausing in preparations for a small gathering (only 3 of us). Yesterday I boiled the sweet potatoes and seasoned them (I had a little honey I wanted to use it so I added it, usually there is no additional sweetening). I have a batch of yeast rolls rising, one of two I'll make today. This first batch is for gifting to neighbors, along with jars of my pickled okra from this summer. The second batch is for here.

Turkey is in the brine, spatchcocked this year - NOT an easy operation. The next hard part will be flattening this bird and I think I'll bake it in the roaster oven then I don't need to find a pan to fit it and still catch all of the drippings. It'll go right on the rack, and lift out easily.

Pie is coming, per our family tradition. Pumpkin this year with only three people, we usually have an apple pie and a pumpkin pie (the kids favorites). One kid is out of state, one is recuperating from foot surgery and not traveling even this far (an hour's drive).

Part of our Thanksgiving ritual is buttermilk pancakes for breakfast. I made a batch for myself, cooked all of them and put three small packages in the freezer to reheat for future breakfasts.

The sparkling Martinelli cider (the best of this type) is in the fridge chilling, the restaurant take-home containers are out, dusted off, and ready to fill to send home with my guests. I have to choose a movie to stream and get back to work. Will it be Holiday or Hitchcock? They both have their attractions. :)

Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving dinner recipe favorites
From: Thompson
Date: 26 Nov 21 - 04:19 AM

Ah, maybe sandies are like what the French call sablé, a slightly sandy-chewing shortbreadish biscuit.

Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving dinner recipe favorites
From: Neil D
Date: 26 Nov 21 - 09:32 AM

This isn't actually a recipe, juust a suggestion. If you are baking pumpkin pies using the recipe from the Libby's Pumpkin can, use at least double the spices recommended and about 4 times as much ground clove.

Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving dinner recipe favorites
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Nov 21 - 12:53 PM

I always end up with heaping measuring spoons when it comes to a good pumpkin pie (or pumpkin bread). It's like when you cook with vanilla - the recipe amount is only a suggestion and I at least double it.

My spatchcocked turkey is one of the best I've made in years, is up there in the top two of all time, I'd say. And much easier than the suggestions to start the whole bird breast down and turn it partway through baking. The operation of turning a heavy hot greasy bird is always messy and dangerous. This came out evenly cooked in all parts and when it came time to send people home with leftovers it came apart quite easily with just a cut of skin here or there, not the usual struggle to carve it off of the whole carcass. I do need a bigger pan. (I'll measure the ones I have and keep my eyes open at Goodwill, the larger ones turn up fairly regularly. No point in buying new when so many really good ones are donated to the thrift store.)

Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving dinner recipe favorites
From: Mrrzy
Date: 26 Nov 21 - 01:39 PM

Yes, sandies are like sablés, oddly enough, never thought of that!

The sister who made the cherry pie used almond extract instead of marzipan, and it worked a treat!

Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving dinner recipe favorites
From: Thompson
Date: 27 Nov 21 - 12:59 PM

Vanilla… and all spices. I love Delia Smith's recipes, which always work first time, but anything with spices *at least* double them.

Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving dinner recipe favorites
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Nov 21 - 08:40 AM

I made the apple cranberry pecan nut pie and it tastes festive and delicious. The vanilla & sugar rub crust with a teeny drizzle of cranberry juice and using a 1/4 cup of brown sugar in the total filling were my changes

Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving dinner recipe favorites
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Nov 23 - 04:05 PM

Smaller turkey this year, more veggies and breads. There will be five or six of us and two are vegetarian, and I don't like to make non-meat-eaters have to graze around the edges. Roasted vegetables instead of stuffing (because I don't like stuffing), yeast rolls, deviled eggs, homemade cranberry sauce, etc. Mashed potatoes, baked sweet potatoes, and making in quantities so I can send a lot home with people and not be eating a revisited T-giving dinner for every day next week. A friend is bringing a rice and lentil polou that we all like and requested this year.

Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving dinner recipe favorites
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Nov 23 - 04:05 PM

Smaller turkey this year, more veggies and breads. There will be five or six of us and two are vegetarian, and I don't like to make non-meat-eaters have to graze around the edges. Roasted vegetables instead of stuffing (because I don't like stuffing), yeast rolls, deviled eggs, homemade cranberry sauce, etc. Mashed potatoes, baked sweet potatoes, and making in quantities so I can send a lot home with people and not be eating a revisited T-giving dinner for every day next week. A friend is bringing a rice and lentil polou that we all like and requested this year.

Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving dinner recipe favorites
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Nov 23 - 09:51 PM

Don, your pie sounds delicious!

I have the ingredients for several things I can make ahead. One is a rich cranberry bar that calls for things like a cake mix, eggs, butter, and nuts. (The mix is the flour part of the recipe, you don't make the cake then do something with it.) I cut 1" squares and freeze them so they're handy if I have guests over or put together a plate of cookies (I usually make 2 - 3 types of cookies for those gifts to the neighbors).

Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving dinner recipe favorites
From: Mrrzy
Date: 21 Nov 23 - 08:29 AM

My Family In A Nutshell.

I'll add recipes later...

Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving dinner recipe favorites
From: Mrrzy
Date: 21 Nov 23 - 11:28 AM

Mom's mac and cheese. Baked, no crumbs. I can't duplicate it.