Thanksgiving recipes
 

Got any favorite recipes to share?

What're you cooking this year?

The traditional, non-traditional is Thanksgiving at our house. This year butternut squash and corn tamales (No, I do not make these), stuffed passilla peppers, guac, salsa, pumpkin flan.

Failing that, a glass of champagne and a whole dungeness crab and loads of butter (and napkins)

We're going to Disneyland!

We're going to Scott's Seafood for the second consecutive year.

I'm working.


I will (probably) be making scalloped celery root and new potatoes with shallots, nutmeg and cream for a post-Thanksgiving meal.

I used to cook the whole shebang every year. Stuffing and pies were my favorites to cook. I make a mean pumpkin/creme cheese pie with a pecan topping. Stuffing was always a fun experiment with wild rice, prunes, bread, sherry, water chestnuts (smell like semen too?) and a bunch of other stuff.

4oz. leftover turkey
2 slices challah (egg bread)
1 tsp mayonaise

Assemble. Eat.

Add S&P and lettuce and I'm there!

The day after thanksgiving I don't have the energy to put that much effort into a sandwich.

Lisa, if you're working, what is Chris doing? Does he need a Thanksgiving home? We have 7 at our table (6 of us are LoTters, the other is my mother-in-law) and there's always room for more.

We're having... turducken, roasted root vegetables with rosemary and garlic, green beans with mushroom sauce, butternut squash soup with roasted pepper puree, traditional stuffing, rolls, cranberry sauce, apple pie with salted caramel ice cream, pumpkin cheesecake, mincemeat pie, and some dessert bars (specifics of which I'm not certain, as they're coming with a guest.) All of it homemade, from scratch! (Except, maybe, the turducken? Also coming with a guest.)

Challah! Dude, that would be awesome to have... Where's a good place to get some, GD?

In OC? You're kidding, right?

Best bet is OC Kosher Market in Tustin. That or Benji's Deli on Tustin in Santa Ana.

We're going to my cousins... they're getting turkey from somewhere, I think my mom is bringing most of the sides. Going to have stuffing, cranberry orange relish, cranberry orange pineapple jello mold, green bean casserole and olives. Oh and pie. But I can't stand pumpkin pie so I generally don't care about it.

Repeat the menu for Hanukkah, add mom's turkey with stuffing from the turkey, latkahs and remove olives and pie.

Not being Jewish, I really don't know. But I know I like a good bread :)

By "your'e kidding" I mean, "Good luck finding it," not, "duh, isn't it obvious?" I can't even vouch for OC Kosher market's as I haven't tried it, but it's pretty much the only option.

Turducken is not from scratch, and not a true technical turducken, being instead a "roll" (or loaf, as I prefer to call it.) It is, however, authentically delivered from Louisiana. Sadly the mincemeat pie also will likely consist of pre-fab filling poured into pre-fab crust. Because I didn't know it would take months to prepare the filling and because there is no one I currently love enough to make pie crust for. Unless I change my mind. Which is possible. Damn, now I want to make fresh crust. :mad:

Katella Deli has good challah. There are also Jewish bakeries around. If you're that curious you could call a local Synagogue and ask where they get theirs from.

Probably won't go that far, but I might pop down to Bristol Farms and see if they sell it.

It will still be yummy!

That sounds delicious! We're going to my sis-in-laws house. I've been tasked with bringing an appetizer and will be whipping up a hot artichoke spinach dip.

Have you had a turducken before? I'm curious as to how it turns out.

We will be driving out to my mother's house in the Valley.

Which of course means our annual listening of Alice's Restaurant will easily be accommodated. It just isn't Thanksgiving without Alice's Restaurant!

How many times do you plan on listening to it? ;)

That's disappointing to learn since I don't even know what Alice's Restaurant is. Does this mean I have to start all over?

Just once is enough

That explains a lot.

Looks like I'll be making yams.

Peel, boil, mash yams
take brick of brown sugar from back of pantry and warm in oven until usable
add brown sugar, butter, vanilla extract to yams

mmm yams

I was thinking of trying something different with the yams this year, actually, as I've never done the marshmallows on top thingy, and the canned yams have a simpler recipe. Wonder if that would be as good. Sometimes the fresh yams just aren't sweet enough.

But I love your yams.

It's a song:

Quite popular among those of us that grew up with hippie parents.

It's been quoted here before... But be careful with that, it can lead to L7's.

Youtube has it here.

Did you know he re-recorded it many years later with an additional section? That version is about 23 minutes long if memory serves. When I went to get the song off of iTunes a while back, that is what I ended up with. Thankfully, a wonderful LoTer (whom unfortunately I can't recall) provided me with the original.

And for Southern Californians, KLOS (95.5) usually plays it every year at noon on Thanksgiving.

We had quite the discussion about "tasting Jen's Yams" at breakfast the other day.

Have you tasted Jen's yams?
Oh yes, her yams are yummy....etc etc etc.

We are having a nontraditional Thanksgiving with prime rib, blue bayou potatoes, salad greens with candied pecans,some veggies(undecided), rolls, pumpkin pies, gingerbread and dutch apple pies.

For earlier in the day I'm making baked brie, cheese balls, veggies, dips, smokies for the boy and many asorted breads and chips.

It's looking like fewer people are showing up though. Oh well, I won't complain about those leftovers. Now the boys want a turkey too! I told them they'd have to wait for at least a couple of days for anoth huge meal.

Is there a recipe for inquisitive bears ? :D :cheers:

OMFG...Kevy you have woken me from my comatose state (of late). Bear and I visited a little cabin in our favourite hidden retreat (I'll show you some pics one day) and this loud-ass family of Baden-Powels lobbed with their fleet of RV's and shattered the serenity with "The Song That Must Not Be Named". It made more than my cheese unhappy.

You Named It. You may as well have cut the goddamn cheese.

The only thing worse is "Kum-ba-yah", followed by something about "Gooley-ging-gang". Fvck me.

On second thoughts, "The Song That Must Not Be Named" beats even that.

So go get a stick and whack some sense into yourself (and make sure you don't enjoy it).

Love and hugs,

The Stoat.

But as Mrs. Baby (AKA Susan) is so oft to point out: I enjoy being beaten with a stick, so it wouldn't help. :D

OK..if the stick won't do the trick, I dare you to shove the CD into the car's player and put it on auto-repeat for the entire journey.

If that doesn't cure you of "The Song That Must Not Be Named" then you are either deaf or you have been struck by the Imperius curse. Either way it's bad news dude.

Love and hugs,

The Stoat. 110 days and counting.

We are officially too poor to afford a Turducken.

However... after a visit to the local park, we are now having SparrPidgeGull. :cheers:

Bear...Bear !!!

SparrPidgeGull is my favourite...though I've never worked out how you get the seagull into the pidgeon and then into the sparrow...and likewise I never cease to be amazed that it takes all of my Stoaty strength to carry even one of the SparrPidgeGulls to the table.

Come to think of it, I have never worked out how I manage to move around after eating one of those suckers.

I think it's particularly thoughtful of you to mention SparrPidgeGull to our American friends, as some may be feeling financial hardship...and so a visit to the local park is the perfect answer. It will also help to keep the statuary clean (and you know what a stickler I am for that).

Please de-bone them (the birds that is) first 'cos I hate the way they get stuck between one's teeth.

Love and Hugs,

The Stoat XXX.

So you don't enjoy getting a bone(r) in your mouth?

Totally different direction but I love yams, mashed with lots of butter and a really good cheese (shredded and mixed in). Bake until gooey. Yum!

Lance made some great yams last night. The old-fashioned kind with marshmallows :9

I used a recipe found on Food Network's website - Alton Brown's Best Ever Somethign Something Green Bean Casserole.

It's basically as scratch as it can get, short of growing the veggies/herbs/spices, milking the cows and churning butter. I hope to actually re-write it to reflect what I did to cut down on the time. Because it says 45 minutes, but unless you have two people working on it, that first time takes about an hour and 15-30 minutes. I eventually got mine down to 30. Flat. All while making the usual T-giving day fare. Of course, that happens when you make it three times in a row.

Blue Bayou Potatoes

3 pounds peeled and thin sliced potatoes
1 onion thin sliced
1 Tablespoon butter, for dish
2 cups heavy cream
1 1/4 T salt and pepper
1/4 teaspoon fresh thyme
2 Tablespoon granulated garlic, I use crushed instead
4 oz parmesan cheese

Mix potatoes, onion and jalepeno in butered baking dish. Mix cream,garlic,salt, pepper and thyme. Pour over potatoes and cover. Place in preheated oven and bake for 1 1/2 hours or until tender. Remove cover and top with cheese. Return to oven 10 minutes or until golden.


The chef didn't actually give me an oven temperature he said you can vary it by what you are cooking it with, like a roast or chicken. He said it can range from 325 to 375.

Take: One (1) inquisitive bear...

bold is mine, I really want to make these for Christmas but I don't see jalepeno in the ingredient list and I don't remember tasting it in the potatoes at the BB?

VJM

Sorry, my recipe says 1T jalepeno finely chopped added to the cream.

When I first tried these potatoes at Blue Bayou 10+ years ago I asked for the recipe. At that time I remember the potatoes leaving a tingle on my lips. I asked the chef about them and he said there wasn't a lot added and most people don't notice. I have since taken it out of my recipe, which is why I probably unconsciously left it out. The last few times we went though I did not taste the jalepeno in theirs anymore either.

I frequently add more cream and of course extra cheese. They are marvelous reheated with a little prime rib thrown in or bacon of course!:D

Thanks so much, my family would probably enjoy the pepper bite but I'm fine with somethings in our menu not having any so I'll follow your lead and just leave it out.