Turkey Day

[LV426]

Turkey Day is around the corner. Hip Hip Horay for the 4 day weekend!

So what is going to be on or you wish was going to be on your Turkey Day Menu?

I'm actually going fancy free range turkey this year.

[Okamiotoko]

Turkey Day is around the corner. Hip Hip Horay for the 4 day weekend!

So what is going to be on or you wish was going to be on your Turkey Day Menu?

I'm actually going fancy free range turkey this year.

Four day? I have a 12 day weekend :P .
Anyways, menu includes:
Turkey
Mashed Potatoes
Stuffing
Corn
Rum cake (sooo good).

[WareW-Believer]

Durkey day feast includes lunch and dinner.

Turkey (duh)
Mashed sweet potatoes
Green beans with bacon
Cowboy stew
Chili
Many salads

This list is at least 4 times longer than what I have, but I just eat the stuff, I don't really need to know what's in it or what it's called, it just tasted good. Everything home made by the way. Including the turkey which comes from a cousin's farm.

[GhostBat]

I'm going out to eat at a restaurant, and I have no clue if they even have turkey. :p

[West]

Stuffing is my favorite.

[marasamizuka]

I have a 5-day weekend, woot!
My menu is going to be:

Turkey
Mash Potatoes
Spinach Dip
Gravy
Cherry and Apple Pie
Cranberry Sauce
and lots of yumminess, most of it home- :drool: made

[Tiamot]

Well My grandmother (with my help, of course) usually serves the traditional stuff like turkey, stuffing, mashed potatos, cranberries, some sort of veggie like carrots or beans, cottage cheese, apple pie, and pumpkin pie.

I, however have a restricted diet (for medical reasons, no I'm not diabetic.) So I can't eat most of what she's making, except for the fresh veggies. *weeps* I can't even eat the pies! *wails*

I'll be making my own turkey, or at least just a half-breast with all organic ingredients so that it fits my dietary specifications. I'll also have to make my own organic dessert and will have to forgo the stuffing!

[LV426]

I actually get 2 Turkey Days. My work is throwing a Turkey Day feast for us today. It's kind of a potluck thing except that the company buys 2 large birds and a huge MOUNTAIN of mashed potatoes.

I baked an apple pie. It's a new recipe so we'll see how it goes. It sure smelled yummy baking last night.

[Morgrim]

...I got some very astonished looks from several US exchange students on the weekend when I asked them "what on Earth is Turkey Day for?" :o

[NeonLightChild]

I, however have a restricted diet (for medical reasons, no I'm not diabetic.) So I can't eat most of what she's making, except for the fresh veggies. *weeps* I can't even eat the pies! *wails*
It's ok, the things we're making aren't quite the usual either...my family is healthifying a lot of the staples because we're watching our cholesterol levels, using more whole wheat flour and no Crisco in the pie filling, low-fat Bisquick in the punkin muffins, Smart Balance instead of butter or margarine...OK, so it's not exactly your situation, I'm sure we'll both make the best of it!

[LV426]

Apple PIE!

Ok so I did this new recipe for apple pie and I was worried it might not be good but apparently it was so good that there wasn't a scrap left of it in the pie pan at work.

West wanted me to share the recipe so here it is.


Preheat oven to 400*F

5 Granny Smith Apples
1 cup sugar
2 tbs cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp salt
2 tbs lemon juice
2 tbs flour

2 piecrusts (I make my own but pilsbury piecrusts in the dairy case are quite good as well)

2 tbs butter sliced into 6 pieces
Peel and slice the apples in thin even pieces.

Combine dry ingredients in a bowl and stir thouroughly.
Add lemon juice and continue to stir or whisk together until the coating is evenly mixed.

Toss in apples and coat apples completely in spices.

Place one piecrust in a 9 inch pie pan and press down evenly to make sure there are go gaps or bubbles in the dough. Poke holes in the bottom of the pie crust with a fork to release steam and prevent bubbling.


Layer apples in the pie pan evenly, about half of your apples. Place three slices of the butter randomly on top of the apples. toss in remaining apples and any of the spices and sugar coating that is remaining. Place three more slices of the butter on top.

Take your other pie crust dough and place on top and then using the back end of a butter knife, press down the edges evenly, trimming any excess dough and pressing the edges of the piecrust down about 1/8 of an inch below the edge of the pie pan.

Make 2 -1 inch slices in the top of the pie crust dough. Brush the top lightly with water and sprinkle just a bit of sugar across the top.

Place in the oven and bake for about 40-45 min or until apples are fork tender and the crust is a golden brown.

[GhostBat]

Just reading the recipe has me hungry.

[Xavious]

Lets see...

Turkey
Chicken
Ham
Potato Pudding
Pumpkin Pie
Pumpkin Bread
Mashed Potatoes

And a bunch of other stuff I can't remember but that there is what I'm paying the most attention to :P

[LV426]

One of my co-workers, one who is famous for the amount of crap he eats, created his own appetizers. Now this man eats things like cans of vienna sausages for breakfast and devours bags of Microwavable porkrinds and thinks it's a good diet.

Anyway, his appetizer was triscuits, a can of bacon cheddar cheese, and cheetos puffs.

He put the cheese on a triscuit, a mountain of cheese I might add, and then placed a cheetos puff sticking out of the top of the cheese mountain. He actually ate 12 of these concoctions.

[Gilenea]

Here's my menu!

Chicken (My family doesn't DO conformity. :p)
Green beans
Broccoli, rice and cheese casserole
Cornbrean stuffing
Gravy
Sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top
"Green Goo Stuff" (It's got lime Jell-O and Marshmallows in it with fruit pieces... It's yummy.)
Cranberry sauce
Apple pie

We just finished eating (we eat "dinner," which is technically "lunch" everywhere else except the South), and I'm about to explode.

Gil

[Tiamot]

It's ok, the things we're making aren't quite the usual either...my family is healthifying a lot of the staples because we're watching our cholesterol levels, using more whole wheat flour and no Crisco in the pie filling, low-fat Bisquick in the punkin muffins, Smart Balance instead of butter or margarine...OK, so it's not exactly your situation, I'm sure we'll both make the best of it!

*holds up cross and hisses* Wheat flour, begone! Hehahaha. That's just the thing I can't have, well wheat for one.

In spite of spending all day yesterday (and well into the night!) helping granny out and making apple and pumpking pies (that I sooo wanted to lick...) and THEN having to come home and make my own turkey and seperate food so that I could eat too, it all turned out ok. The pies went over big!

[NeonLightChild]

Weee good!

I have a relative (not by blood though) who is allergic to wheat products. I feel sorry for her sometimes but she and her hubby have found ways to make things work.

LV, that's almost the exact same recipe that my family's used for years. It is good!

[sai-fujiwara]

what was my menu

Sour crought

Turkey

potatoes with gravy

PIES! thousands and thousands of pies.

... not a great selection actually...

[GhostBat]

I went to a really nice restaurant by the ocean that was having a Thanksgiving dinner special. It had:

Turkey
Mashed potatoes and gravy
Cranberry sauce
Candied yams
Cornbread stuffing

&

Spiced pumpkin triffle

Mmmmmm mmmmm.