Use this week to prepare Thanksgiving dishes, pies, home-made rolls: enjoy the holiday with your family.
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Christal
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I just bought the last Christmas present at lunch yesterday; wrapping tomorrow night; out-of-state mailing Friday. I finished the majority of the Thanksgiving food shopping last night. Also, made the cranberry cherry walnut chutney last night and after 30 years discovered that while my husband eats walnuts, pecans, & almost every other kind of nuts by the handful he does not like nuts in food. Of course, I've been putting them in everything! It was a mess last night, no dried cherries at Costco, so I decided to use a quart of the canned Flathead cherries. I dumped 1/2 the jar into the boiling sugar water syrup, added fresh cranberries, then realized they were Costco sized so it was a double recipe ... so I added the last of the jar too. Since they looked so good, I snagged one to nibble on and discovered it still had a pit. Same thing with the next one, so I ended up fishing each cherry out of the hot mix and cutting them open and taking pits out. Probably over 60 cherries one by one. Darling daughter confessed that she might not have pitted all the cherries for me (she thought she'd gotten all the pitted ones into the freezer bags ... oops.) But hubby is happy - he has his un-nutted sauce & I have mine with nuts. I'm making the Curried Sweet Potato soup with Rum Cream tonight - it only gets better each day. We'll warm it up on Thursday and add the Rum Cream just before serving. Then I'll do the pecan & pumpkin pies on Wednesday night and use my new trick from last year. Since I get to bed after midnight or later doing homework since I'm going to college full-time and working full-time too, I discovered if I put the turkey in the oven the night before and let it cook all night that it comes out perfect for a midafternoon dinner instead of late pm dinner. My goal this year since we're in the middle of house building is to simplify Thanksgiving dinner. No green bean casserole, just 3 bean salad. No cheesecake or pumpkin roll, Costco baklava instead! Green salad instead of jello mold.
I, um, bought some big bottles of wine and a giant veggie tray at Costco.... that's my contribution.
Mom is doing dinner and she keeps it pretty streamlined. And she made pies... I offered to buy some for her. So it will be turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, rolls, stove top and some sort of vegetable. I've got the veggie tray and some crackers and jars of olives and pickled stuff.... maybe I'll throw together some sort of cream cheese dip. Oh, and my daughter asked for cheese-celery so I'll do that.
Then I'll do one-pan french toast on Friday and we will do a ham... and I'll make roasted asparagus. We keep it pretty low-key....
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I just bought the last Christmas present at lunch yesterday; wrapping tomorrow night; out-of-state mailing Friday. I finished the majority of the Thanksgiving food shopping last night. Also, made the cranberry cherry walnut chutney last night and after 30 years discovered that while my husband eats walnuts, pecans, & almost every other kind of nuts by the handful he does not like nuts in food. Of course, I've been putting them in everything! It was a mess last night, no dried cherries at Costco, so I decided to use a quart of the canned Flathead cherries. I dumped 1/2 the jar into the boiling sugar water syrup, added fresh cranberries, then realized they were Costco sized so it was a double recipe ... so I added the last of the jar too. Since they looked so good, I snagged one to nibble on and discovered it still had a pit. Same thing with the next one, so I ended up fishing each cherry out of the hot mix and cutting them open and taking pits out. Probably over 60 cherries one by one. Darling daughter confessed that she might not have pitted all the cherries for me (she thought she'd gotten all the pitted ones into the freezer bags ... oops.) But hubby is happy - he has his un-nutted sauce & I have mine with nuts. I'm making the Curried Sweet Potato soup with Rum Cream tonight - it only gets better each day. We'll warm it up on Thursday and add the Rum Cream just before serving. Then I'll do the pecan & pumpkin pies on Wednesday night and use my new trick from last year. Since I get to bed after midnight or later doing homework since I'm going to college full-time and working full-time too, I discovered if I put the turkey in the oven the night before and let it cook all night that it comes out perfect for a midafternoon dinner instead of late pm dinner. My goal this year since we're in the middle of house building is to simplify Thanksgiving dinner. No green bean casserole, just 3 bean salad. No cheesecake or pumpkin roll, Costco baklava instead! Green salad instead of jello mold.
I, um, bought some big bottles of wine and a giant veggie tray at Costco.... that's my contribution.
Mom is doing dinner and she keeps it pretty streamlined. And she made pies... I offered to buy some for her. So it will be turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, rolls, stove top and some sort of vegetable. I've got the veggie tray and some crackers and jars of olives and pickled stuff.... maybe I'll throw together some sort of cream cheese dip. Oh, and my daughter asked for cheese-celery so I'll do that.
Then I'll do one-pan french toast on Friday and we will do a ham... and I'll make roasted asparagus. We keep it pretty low-key....
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