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Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Meryl on November 24, 2009, 11:18:18 pm --- Ann Marie and I are cooking for friends (John Gallagher is coming!) and I can't wait to chow down on all the good homemade stuff. 8)
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That sounds like a wonderful feast and terrific company! I'd love a report of your dinner!
Meryl:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on November 29, 2009, 10:14:20 am ---That sounds like a wonderful feast and terrific company! I'd love a report of your dinner!
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What a meal! 8 people altogether; interestingly, no couples, 4 men, 4 women. Around 5:00, we started with shrimp with cocktail sauce and veggies with spinach dip. The main meal was a beautiful brined kosher turkey, sausage and cornmeal stuffing, mashed potatoes with lots of butter, pan gravy, Brussels sprouts baked with fontina cheese, butternut squash lasagna, cranberry relish with orange zest, cranberry sauce made from whole berries and walnuts, pearl onions in balsamic vinegar, cranberry-pecan rolls, wheat rolls and buttermilk biscuits.
Dessert was a beautiful walnut cake with maple butter cream frosting from Cupcake Cafe, compliments of John Gallagher (we belatedly celebrated the birthday of my friend Bev), apple pie, pumpkin pie, ice cream and whipped cream. John also made the most of the walnuts adorning the fruity centerpiece. ;D We also shared a bottle of Veuve Cliquot champagne and lots of other good drinkies.
Ann Marie and I cleaned most of it up after dinner, then spent Friday "laying like loxes", enjoying the clean apartment and the fridge full of leftovers. We both were nursing sore backs and muscles from all the cooking and cleaning! :P
Sason:
That sounds like a wonderful meal, Meryl!
But I can't help wondering about a few details.....
--- Quote from: Meryl on November 29, 2009, 01:25:46 pm ---What a meal! 8 people altogether; interestingly, no couples, 4 men, 4 women. Around 5:00, we started with shrimp with cocktail sauce and veggies with spinach dip. The main meal was a beautiful brined kosher turkey, sausage and cornmeal stuffing, mashed potatoes with lots of butter, pan gravy, Brussels sprouts baked with fontina cheese, butternut squash lasagna, cranberry relish with orange zest, cranberry sauce made from whole berries and walnuts, pearl onions in balsamic vinegar, cranberry-pecan rolls, wheat rolls and buttermilk biscuits.
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Of course it's nobody's bussiness but yours, but excuse me for asking: why bother with a kosher turkey??
;) :D
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Sason on November 29, 2009, 05:33:50 pm ---
Of course it's nobody's bussiness but yours, but excuse me for asking: why bother with a kosher turkey??
;) :D
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hehe, this year for the first time, I understand your point!
That meal sounds so heavenly, Meryl! I'm sure glad you had help! Did you carve a la Jack or a la Monroe??
Sason:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on December 01, 2009, 11:33:41 am ---hehe, this year for the first time, I understand your point!
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;) ;D
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