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While I contemplate whether to spend this evening writing fic, beta'ing fic, or both, I might as well log the Thanksgiving menu:

• Grilled turkey -- an 8.75-pounder this year, since there were only three carnivores at the table, but I think I need to go a touch larger to have sufficient leftovers for turkey salad *and* gumbo. (The Sunday night gumbo is compulsory.)


• Cranberry-orange-apricot sauce


• Cornbread dressing


• Kohlrabi rémoulade


• Potato-parsnip latkes, since it's Thanksgivukkah this year. One of the best batches I've ever made, possibly due to the chickpea flour used to make them celiac-friendly. Served with sour cream and homemade applesauce.


• Mixed greens braised in tamari


• Vegan entrée brought by my friend J: polenta-lentil cakes with an amazing coconut milk-mushroom sauce


• Pecan pie


• Chocolate-hazelnut cake with chocolate-honey ganache (also celiac-friendly!)


• Coconut sorbet


• Milk chocolate pecan turtles J got from a wonderful restaurant in Harvard Square

Four desserts for five people sounds reasonable, yes? I thought so, anyway.

Hope those of you who observe Thanksgiving and/or Hanukkah are having as nice a holiday weekend as I am.