Thanksgiving

[yendi]

Much food was made. And for once, the ingredients we ran out of (milk and sugar) were things that could be found at variety stores (since MA has an insane and awful law requiring grocery stores to be closed today).

As chef, I stood in the kitchen for about twelve hours, but it was worth it.

Stuff that was made:

A 21-pound turkey. Not quite as big as last year's thankfully, but still sizable. Meat came out tender, and the sage, onion, and carrots we used as aromatics helped. As chef, I got to snag the wings, which is all that really mattered to me. :-)

Cornbread stuffing. 'song found this gluten-free slow cooker one, and it was both easy and yummy.

Green beans with onions. This was damned easy to make, and had the extra benefit of being something we could make ahead of time and then zap in the microwave.

Cinnamon-roasted sweet potatoes. slipjig got the privilege of dealing with the heated oil elements of this one, which we do every year, even though it drives us a little nuts (and always requires three of us; I peeled, shadesong cut, andslipjig made wonderful cheese-stuffed mushrooms, as well as a butternut squash risotto. Both were consumed quickly and with enthusiasm.

As always, guests brought tons of food, including potato stuffing, fudge, hummus, broccoli, and other stuff. No one starved. :-)

And as always, there was The Princess Bride, and laughter, and good conversations.

I am thankful, as always, for friends, family, and tons of food.

Today, there's leftover food, and a few errands to run, and cocooning from being around too many people. And avoiding the malls. :-)

Comments

[galdrin.livejournal.com]

Cornbread stuffing ... surely a southern thing.

[yendi]

Could be, but also a gluten-free thing, which was more important for us And I don't believe one can ever go wrong with cornbread.

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

How mant things are better with cheese? Probably not cereal, but lots of other stuff!

What are your Princess Bride screenings like? How does everyone behave (or misbehave)?

Also avoiding the malls,
chris_walsh

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

My cousin has a theory that there is no food that cannot be improved with the addition of either cheese or peanut butter.

There are some things that could be improved by either, but all foods go with at least one of those.

[yendi]

Add bacon to the list, and I'll agree with that statement.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Is there a food that can be improved by bacon that cannot be improved by either peanut butter or cheese?

[zarhooie.livejournal.com]

Chocolate chip cookies with bacon are better for someone who is allergic to nuts, and CCC Do Not Go Well With Cheese.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I think that the notion requires the assumption of no peanut alergy, lactose intolerance, veganism, and so forth.

Otherwise, we could simply dismiss bacon on the fact that there exist vegetarians, people who keep kosher, and people who keep hallal.

[zarhooie.livejournal.com]

Could you be a vegetarian who keeps both Kosher and Hallal? *ponders*

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Kashrut is a superset of Hallal -- if you're keeping kosher, you're inherently keeping hallal.

A vegetarian is MOST of the way to keeping kosher, but there are a few rules in kashrut that wouldn't be subsumed in a vegetarian diet, especially if you keep one of the crazy versions of kashrut like chalav yisroel.

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

I always maintained it's bacon or chocolate.

[yendi]

They're chaotic (often too much so), with lots of quoting along with the movie.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Did I ever mention my cousin's wedding? For the day after the wedding, they rented a movie theater in town, and did a private screening of PRINCESS BRIDE. It was one of those old movie palaces which had a stage in front of the screen, so we all Rocky Horror'ed it, with acting out all of the parts. Some of the more effective bits were when Buttercup throws The Man In The Black Mask down the hill, realizes he's Wesley, and throws herself after him -- my sister and I rolled all the way down the sloped aisle of the theater from the back to the stage -- and the wrestling match between the Man In The Mask and Fezzik -- the brother of my new cousin-in-law was six foot three and near four hundred pounds, and had a three-year-old son. The three-year-old was dressed as Wesley, and hung onto his dad's neck.

We had a BLAST.

[nurrynur.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting the link to the stuffing. It was fantastic!

[antsswarm.livejournal.com]

Wish I'd been there!