where's all the thanksgiving recipes!? post what you're making this year!

Smoked Butterball turkey
Mirliton stuffed with shrimp dressing
Oyster dressing
Green bean casserole
Homemade dinner rolls

Haven't settled on a dessert yet.

This is a huge change from my prior T-Day menu when I would have 20-25 people show up. I would start cooking stuff on Tuesday to be ready for T-Day and the menu included:

Chicken/andouille/okra gumbo with rice
Baked Mac & Cheese
Giblet gravy
Cornbread dressing
Sweet potato casserole with pecans and marshmallows
Fried Turkey-----3
Mashed Potatoes
Several pies----pecan, apple, pumpkin
Homemade herb/cheese loaves of bread
Assorted sodas, wine, cocktails-----Bloody Mary's flowed freely

I'd do all the cooking for the party and by Thursday night I was pretty spent after the long day and final clean-up.


This year is going to be a snap.

The wife loves Thanksgiving cooking, so I have been relegated to desserts only. The usual sweet potatoes in a small crock pot and this blueberry cheesecake like thing that I like about as much as any desert ever.

gumbo

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can you share the recipe for that?

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Cream Cheese 1.5 bricks
Sweetened condensed milk 2/3 can
Blueberries - up to you. This was just over one cup
Pie crust - I actually used puff pastry for this one and it was great
2 eggs
Vanilla extract - 1 teaspoon
Cinnamon - pinch
Orange zest to your liking

The recipe I followed had you mix the blueberries in honey, but I skipped that.
I rolled the pastry as flat as I could get it. Placed in the buttered dish. Mix the other ingredient well and pour over the pastry. Bake at 340* for 40 minutes. Turn off oven and crack door for another 15 or so but watch it to make sure it's not getting too firm. Let cool then chill.

can i stop by your house?

Scalloped Sweet Potatoes and Fruit



1 Tbs butter or margarine
3 tart apples, cut into 1/2" pieces
2 Tbs packed light brown sugar
2 lbs sweet potatoes, cut into 3/4" pieces
1/2 cup dried sweet cherries or golden raisins
1 1/2 Tbs unbleached or all-purpose flour
1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
1 cup fat-free reduced-sodium chicken broth
1/4 cup finely chopped pecans

Preheat the oven to 350°F. Coat a 13" x 9" baking dish with nonstick spray.

Melt the butter or margarine in a medium nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add the apples. Cook, stirring, for 1 to 2 minutes, or until they release some of their juices. Add the brown sugar. Cook for 2 minutes, or until the apples are partially softened.

Place the apples, sweet potatoes, and cherries or raisins in the prepared baking dish.

Place the flour and cinnamon in a small bowl. Gradually whisk in 1/4 cup of the broth until the flour dissolves. Whisk in the remaining 3/4 cup broth. Pour into the baking dish. Cover loosely with foil.

Bake for 1 hour, or until the potatoes are tender when pierced with a fork. Remove the foil and sprinkle with the pecans. Bake, uncovered, for 10 to 12 minutes, or until the pecans are toasted and all the broth is evaporated.

Source: The New Classics Cookbook

Glazed ham
Broccoli rice casserole
Pork dressing
Zipper cream peas with chow chow
Deviled eggs
Rolls

Buttermilk pie (if I don't screw it up)

Plenty of wine and eggnog

2 fried turkeys (will fry a bone in turkey breast Friday for sammich's and stuff)
cornbread dressing with andouille and sage pork breakfast sausage
candied yams with pecans
Bloody Mary's to start the day cooking, proceed to an assortment of cabs, zins and merlot

others will chip in with vegs, whipped taters w/gravy, , homemade bread

pecan pie and cherry pie, someone will a bring a surprise desert into the mix

Cheers

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Fresh Green Beans with Almonds, Red Peppers, and Truffle Oil

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Tell your wife to text me that recipe please