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Favorite Thanksgiving Food
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: goadra on November 19, 2006, 05:52:34 pm ---Not exactly a dish, but a possible turkey stand-in: A veggie friend of mine told me about tofurkey, a meat substitute made from tofu. (I haven’t tried it ’cause I can’t eat soy.) Looks and acts like sliced deli meat. Maybe a few pieces of that on your son’s plate?
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--- Quote from: nakymaton on November 19, 2006, 06:18:24 pm ---Do you have a crock pot you could bring? It would be pretty easy to make a vegetable stew (or maybe something with vegetables and a legume and a grain, like rice & beans or corn & green beans or something, to make the complete protein stand-in, in case your mother-in-law is skeptical about the whole no-meat business). If you had a crock pot, you could just chop the vegetables (or even use frozen ones plus potatoes plus spices -- like cumin + oregano + garlic, something mild but with lots of flavor), plug in the crock pot, and let it sit in some out-of-the-way corner.
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Both excellent ideas, Mel and Barbara! Thanks!
RouxB:
A good sweet potatoe pie-but that's dessert.
Dressing (we don't call it stuffing)-cornbread with sausage, oysters and Lynne's sage.
Have to pass on the white, or any other color, "stuffing".
Ellemeno:
I was so surprised to find that most of us chose stuffing. But of course, it's stuffing with gravy. And with turkey, and a bit of cranberry sauce. All that in each bite.
And here's my secret - I prefer the cylindrical jellied cranberry sauce to real homemade cranberry sauce.
Meryl:
I'm with you, Elle. No problem with the canned cranberry. But I love all versions, 'cept maybe those with too much orange. :)
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on November 20, 2006, 12:04:18 pm ---And here's my secret - I prefer the cylindrical jellied cranberry sauce to real homemade cranberry sauce.
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My mom used to use this. And she'd plunk it in a bowl whole, so you could still see the can seam imprinted on the side!
I have made this really good sauce with cranberries, orange juice and zest, and granny smith apples. You mix them together, maybe with some sugar, and bake until they thicken to a gel-like consistency.
If anybody wants the recipe, let me know!
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