For the first time EVER...I have a house, and hence, my family is coming to my house for Thanksgiving! This feels like serious pressure to cook the perfect meal. Most of the family are coming from out of town, so I can't really make "assignments" and farm out all the cooking.
So...talk to me all you wonderful women.
How do I pull it off? What are your favorite all time Thanksgiving recipes?
My current plan (feel free to dissect and comment on)
Turkey - simple. In a roasting pan (hence, freeing up the oven for other tasks)
Super Target has a special this week...if you buy the roasting pan and a butterball turkey (on sale at $.88/lb) you $15 gift card back. Also, I found a coupon for $2 off a butterball turkey.
so, I figure I can score both the roasting pan AND the turkey for about $22!
Cooking plan for the turkey? in a roasting bag, in the roaster, rub butter on the skin and salt and pepper, probably fill the "cavity" with onions, celery and sage.
Mashed Potatoes - enlist family to peel on the day of. Whip using my kitchenaid. Mix in some decadence with whipping cream, butter, and some fresh nutmeg
Stuffing - Mrs. Cubbisons. Turkey sausage. Onions, celery, Chicken Stock. Basic and easy. Make the day of.
Sweet Potatoes - I have a killer recipe for a sweet potato souffle. basically mashed sweet potatoes, sweet and condensed milk, butter, eggs, topped with a mix of pecans and coconut. YUM! Make the day before.
Corn Casserole - this is for my southern sister in law. Basically Jiffy corn muffin mix, sour cream, 1 can of creamed corn, 1 can of regular corn, melted butter and an egg. Baked. yummy and certainly not good for the waist! Make the day of, can cook with the stuffing.
Rolls - my brother is going to make (day of, in between the stuffing and corn casserole?)
Pies - my other brother is going to make (they will bring...not make in my tiny kitchen)
Am I missing something important? Do I need to serve a vegetable? What kind of cranberry sauce do you like? The canned kind? or fresh? What about salad? green or jello? or neither? Appetizers? Beverages?
Do tell....
Share your favorite Thanksgiving Recipes....
Thanks!
Julie
do you have a relish tray? olives are a must at ours. And i have a great cranberry relish recipe. i'll post it when I have two hands available.
ReplyDeleteI've been relegated to Thanksgiving pie lady for so long that I am clueless (literally couldn't do it) about how to cook a turkey. We like green bean casserole at our thanksgiving and we make the rolls shaped like turkeys. Roll the dough out and cut into wedges (like croissants). Put each one in a greased muffin tin with the point sticking out like the head. Stick the back end up and clip the "tail" 3 or 4 times to make feathers. Very cute and kids love them. Also we have the kids gather before dinner and make candy turkeys which we then use as table centerpieces and let them eat later in the day. One last thing, for me homemade stuffing is a must. I grew up on my grandma's stuffing and the boxed stuff, no matter what brand, is not the same. If anyone is brave enough to try that recipe let me know and I'll get it from my mom. Like I said I'm the pie lady and I don't have the stuffing recipe. Speaking of pies, I always try at least one new pie recipe a year, so if you have a great one please post it.
ReplyDeleteI'm rolls this year tanya, I'm totally doing the turkey thing. that is awesome!
ReplyDeleteI think I need a visual for the turkey rolls, That's my job this year as well. How do you get hot rolls to the table when you live an hour away? We are a jello family, I love cranberry jello, but the gang is all for pretzel jello, which is like having dessert with your meal! It truly is an all day eating fest. We start the morning with turkey apples, the 3 candy corns in the dish to say what we are thankful for, then there is relish trays, cracker trays, and then in the evening the real fun begins with "pie and pinata". We go to the church gym and play ball, everyone brings a pie or brownies since she doesn't like pie and we have a pinata for the little kids. Our fav treat to share at pie and pinata is wingers sticky fingers. equal parts franks red hot sauce, and brown sugar, and a couple TBS of honey. cook together to thicken. Serve on costco breaded chicken tenders. its a pleaser
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