Thanksgiving 2018

[nonelvis]

Logging this for my own reference as much as anything else:

• Cherry tomatoes stuffed with avocado. I filled these with a piping bag and plead the Fifth about whether any of the remaining filling was piped directly into my mouth.


• Red-sauce glazed spatchcocked turkey. (Note for self: cooking a 10lb. bird at 450° for 30 minutes and 325° for 1.5 hours worked fine.)


• Vegetarian main: deep-dish quiche with leeks, mushrooms, and spinach


• Cranberry-tangerine conserve


• Mixed greens, including collards and this ornamental but perfectly edible kale from the CSA, and some Russian Red kale I picked up at the store. Cooked with a lot of vegetable broth, miso, onions, and garlic.


• Mashed potatoes and caramelized onions, all from the CSA. I cooked down three pounds of onions and still have a bag left over, so I'm pretty sure I'm getting my money's worth from the late fall share.


• Cornbread dressing


• Gluten-free biscuits, plus two of our guests brought GF rolls


• Banana-honey-cardamom ice cream. Notes for next time: try to find a stronger-flavored certified GF-honey; either use more than 10 cardamom pods or find a better way to steep them in warm cream (hmm, wonder if I can use alcohol and essentially make cardamom extract); thaw bananas twice as long as Alton says they need to be thawed, or chop them up, then freeze and thaw.


• The spouse made a black-bottom pecan pie, and our guests also brought GF trifle and mini apple, blueberry, and pumpkin pies.

Tonight: uh ... maybe turkey pot pie with mashed potato crust. The remaining turkey parts (a drumstick, two thighs, and two wings) are booked for gumbo on Sunday, HOORAY. I also need to make turkey stock from the carcass and process the 6lbs. of CSA apples into sauce so they stop taking up room in the fridge, but more important, provide plenty of applesauce for latkes. PRIORITIES.

Comments

[garpu]

Nom.

"I filled these with a piping bag and plead the Fifth about whether any of the remaining filling was piped directly into my mouth."

I do the same when making deviled eggs. It's a perfect deviled egg delivery device!

[nonelvis]

If the deities hadn't wanted us to pipe delicious fillings directly into our mouths, they wouldn't have invented piping bags, probably.

[garpu]

Agreed. Piping bags are designed to squeeze things directly onto a surface. Our mouths are surfaces. Thus, piping bags can be used to squeeze things directly into our mouths.

[arcanetrivia]

Honey isn't gluten free?

[nonelvis]

It is, but it can theoretically be processed in facilities that also process gluten-containing foods, which could potentially lead to accidental cross-contamination. So out of over-caution for my friend with celiac, I try to only use ingredients at Thanksgiving I know for sure don't contain gluten, even if the food itself (milk, cheese, honey, etc.) is one that is naturally gluten-free.

[pearwaldorf]

*makes sad grabby hand motions*

I had a perfectly wonderful Thanksgiving, but I still want to eat all of these!

[nonelvis]

Hey, anytime you're in town for Thanksgiving, you're welcome to drop by!