nonelvis | Thanksgiving 2020 (Reply)

We normally have three friends over to share dinner with us. This year, of course, that didn't happen, which was pretty depressing, but also didn't stop me from cooking enough food for five people. (Actually, that's not entirely true: there was enough capon for five, even though only three of us are meat-eaters; leftovers have been split into chicken salad and Sunday's gumbo.)

Anyway, the menu, just for my own records, if nothing else:

Just enough chopped liver on buttered toast for two, since our picky cats won't eat giblets, WTF

Capon roasted with the gochujang glaze from this recipe

Mashed potatoes with caramelized onions (and two bags of caramelized onions frozen for future deliciousness, go me)

Roasted brussels sprouts with cotija and this roasted jalapeño vinaigrette (some minor mods here, like all orange juice so I didn't have to slice up a lime for such a small amount of juice; parsley instead of cilantro to accommodate my spouse's defective cilantro gene; and a touch of simple syrup instead of agave nectar)

The usual cranberry-tangerine conserve

Pecan pie

The sprouts and vinaigrette in particular are a real keeper of a recipe. We have some of both left over, so I think I'm going to roast some carrot chunks and toss them in on the grounds that pretty much anything will taste good with the vinaigrette.

Anyway, I hope you all had a good holiday, or at least as good of one as it's possible to have in this benighted year. May we all have a better one next year.