Thanksgiving Menus

[velvetpie]

Okay, here's my thanksgiving menu:

Turkey (of course!)

Scalloped Potatoes

Fresh Green Beans with Bacon and Apples

Brown Sugar Baby Carrots

Homemade Cloverleaf Rolls

Pickled Beets

Jellied Cranberry Sauce

Cinnamon Pecan Pie

Homemade Cinnamon Ice Cream.

Time to go to sleep ...

zzzzzzzz

 

[BlackShanglan]

Ours is fairly traditional as well:

Turkey

Bread stuffing

Gravy

Mashed white potatoes

Candied sweet potatoes

Steamed green beans

Roasted carrots and parsnips

Cranberry sauce

Apple pie

Walnut tart

Whipped cream


Fairly basic, but then there are only three eating. Given that the SO flies out to Orlando on Saturday, I forsee a great many turkey meals in my future. All the better - I love turkey pot pie.

 

[velvetpie]

Arrgh! I forgot the stuffing ... my hubby loves it and I can't stand it but I made Cornbread Stuffing with Maple Sausage and Walnuts. I'll eat more pie since I don't like stuffing.

Isn't that a good substitute?

 

[Guest]

Ours varies just a bit from the norm.

Turkey

Venison (Dad and brother-in-law both got good-sized bucks)

Smoked fish (what can I say - I'm from Upper Michigan)

Stuffing - homemade and delicious

Mashed Potatoes

Exquisite gravy

Green bean casserole with those little onions

Sweet potatoes - with a ton of brown sugar and marshmallows

Cranberries - whole and in sauce

Jello salad with whipped cream

Homemade rolls

Apple pie and pumpkin pie for dessert - with whipped cream or ice cream

Chocolate birthday cake (daughter's birthday, so we celebrate it along with Thanksgiving)

OK. Now I'm hungry.

 

[Lord DragonsWing]

Velvetpie,

If I wasn't cooking tonight and tomorrow I'd be drooling over your menu. lol
Mine is:

Turkey (fried)
Sweet potato casserole (topped with marshmallows and cinnamon)
jellied cranberry sauce
Grandma's Oyster stuffing
Homemade giblet gravy
The traditional green bean casserole
green salad
Maple pecan pie (maple is in the crust)
Cinnamon, pumpkin pie

Football menu: All men must have this, lol

Chipolte cheese and summer sausage
Velveeta and RoTel cheese dip
Chips and Fritos
Chili cheese dip
Homemade, pickled Okra
Black olives stuffed with cream cheese and walnuts
Ritz crackers
Pimento olives
Broccoli and cauliflower with a ranch dressing

As they say, Are you ready for some FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Have an Excellent Thanksgiving Velvetpie and everyone.
I wish everyone a happy Turkey day and give you all a big hugggggggggggggggg for the years we've all been friends.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Sarah, I am deeply jealous of your venison. I constantly regret coming from a family in which no one hunts. I had no one to teach me.

Shanglan

 

[cloudy]

Sarah, I am deeply jealous of your venison. I constantly regret coming from a family in which no one hunts. I had no one to teach me.

Shanglan

venison is yummy!

 

[Guest]

Sarah, I am deeply jealous of your venison. I constantly regret coming from a family in which no one hunts. I had no one to teach me.

Shanglan

You do have to get past the "Grampa shot Bambi" of course, but it's well worth the effort.

 

[cloudy]

You do have to get past the "Grampa shot Bambi" of course, but it's well worth the effort.

We have packages of ground venison in the freezer labeled "bambi burger"

 

[Guest]

We have packages of ground venison in the freezer labeled "bambi burger"

I miss Thanksgivings in Michigan, really. They have wild turkey, pheasant, smoked venison and fish, all sorts of assorted yummies we can't get in the Midwest.

And Bambi burgers.

 

[Lord DragonsWing]

Sarah, I am deeply jealous of your venison. I constantly regret coming from a family in which no one hunts. I had no one to teach me.

Shanglan

Shanglan,

If you ever want to hunt come to Alabama. My brother-in-law hunts every weekend during the season. There is no guarantee you'll get anything. But you're always welcome to come down and stay if you want to go hunting. I've got a free room that is always open. I don't hunt, the last deer I shot was as a teen. But the offer is open if you ever wish to learn to hunt.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Shanglan,

If you ever want to hunt come to Alabama. My brother-in-law hunts every weekend during the season. There is no guarantee you'll get anything. But you're always welcome to come down and stay if you want to go hunting. I've got a free room that is always open. I don't hunt, the last deer I shot was as a teen. But the offer is open if you ever wish to learn to hunt.

Extremely tempting! Watch out, some fine evening you'll hear hooftaps on the front porch.

Shanglan

 

[Guest]

Hey - my Gram always gets a deer!

She's 92 years old and is about to be written up in the records books.

(Uncles and cousins shoot on her deer tags, OK?)

 

[Lord DragonsWing]

lmao sweetsubsarah,

I'm going to tell my brother-in-law that he is being out gunned by a 92 year old grandma. Maybe he'll get some venison then! lmao

I'll definitely choose a time during a football game tomorrow to kid him about it.

Shangligan, anyone is welcome here. Gun season just started last weekend and bow season has just ended. I keep up with the seasons because I hike alot. I don't hike during hunting season.

But if I were you, I'd go with sweetsubsarah's grandma. I remember as a teen going to Washington County, Alabama and eating homemade biscuits over a wood stove and then getting my first deer. It was a seven pointer and gorgeous. The couple I stayed with was retired. The older folks KNOW how to hunt and fish. They've forgotten more than we know.

 

[Lord DragonsWing]

I'll have to tell you a story of turkey sweetsubsarah. It really was embarrassing when it happened. lol
My ex and I had this land in Louisiana. Fifty acres to be exact. I had a deer stand on the back of the land with a well constructed stand.
I would always walk through the woods. One day I walked around and crossed the stand.
A turkey jumped and I don't know who yelled the loudest. Me or the turkey. It sounded like choppers landing in the pasture. With a 22 rifle I knew I couldn't hit it. I just watched it fly away and smiled knowing the turkey had won. lol
Actually, I never stepped higher in the grass than when that turkey flew out. I was also never embarrassed as much and looked around hoping no one had seen me, even though I was in the middle of the woods on our own land. lmao
So goes the hunt. So goes the turkey winning that round.

 

[cloudy]

I'll have to tell you a story of turkey sweetsubsarah. It really was embarrassing when it happened. lol
My ex and I had this land in Louisiana. Fifty acres to be exact. I had a deer stand on the back of the land with a well constructed stand.
I would always walk through the woods. One day I walked around and crossed the stand.
A turkey jumped and I don't know who yelled the loudest. Me or the turkey. It sounded like choppers landing in the pasture. With a 22 rifle I knew I couldn't hit it. I just watched it fly away and smiled knowing the turkey had won. lol
Actually, I never stepped higher in the grass than when that turkey flew out. I was also never embarrassed as much and looked around hoping no one had seen me, even though I was in the middle of the woods on our own land. lmao
So goes the hunt. So goes the turkey winning that round.

We have HERDS of wild turkeys around here, and they cross the road just as arrogant as you please right up until about the end of October, then you don't see them anymore.

Domesticated turkeys are about as dumb as rocks....wild ones, on the other hand, are wily.

 

[Guest]

LDW and cloudy - you're right, of course. Domesticated turkeys would stare at the sky when raining and drown. Wild turkeys know how to survive.

But properly prepared, basted and lovingly tended - yum.

 

[Lord DragonsWing]

Herds of wild turkey????????? Damn, that's where I need to go. lol
At least they won't scare the shit of me. lmao
When I hiked Cheahea Mtn it was great. Deer in the camp in the early morning hours. Raccoons sniffing around with nothing to find. lol
But herds of wild turkey!!!!!!!!!!!! Wooooooooooooohooooooooooooooo
I need to learn to gobble. lol

 

[Guest]

Herds of wild turkey????????? Damn, that's where I need to go. lol
At least they won't scare the shit of me. lmao
When I hiked Cheahea Mtn it was great. Deer in the camp in the early morning hours. Raccoons sniffing around with nothing to find. lol
But herds of wild turkey!!!!!!!!!!!! Wooooooooooooohooooooooooooooo
I need to learn to gobble. lol

It would certainly make you popular with the ladies.

 

[BlackSnake]

Ours is fairly traditional as well:

Turkey

Bread stuffing

Gravy

Mashed white potatoes

Candied sweet potatoes

Steamed green beans

Roasted carrots and parsnips

Cranberry sauce

Apple pie

Walnut tart

Whipped cream


Fairly basic, but then there are only three eating. Given that the SO flies out to Orlando on Saturday, I forsee a great many turkey meals in my future. All the better - I love turkey pot pie.

Pretty triditional here too..

Turkey

Ham

Sweet Potatoes

Mashed Potatoes

Green bean caserol

Pies up the Y-zoo

Potatoe salad

Salad

Corn bread

Stuffing

Pineapple slices/cherries/orange slices/grapes/banana fruit salad

Whole Kernel Corn

Corn on the cob

Turnip greens

etc...

yep, cakes too

 

[Lord DragonsWing]

It would certainly make you popular with the ladies.

Awwwwwwwwwww, ty sweetsubsarah. I don't worry about popularity. I'm just me. I love the outdoors and history. Being popular? Well, that's over rated. I don't want alot of ladies, just one special lady. Someday she'll show up. Until then, I'll be myself.

 

[Guest]

Awwwwwwwwwww, ty sweetsubsarah. I don't worry about popularity. I'm just me. I love the outdoors and history. Being popular? Well, that's over rated. I don't want alot of ladies, just one special lady. Someday she'll show up. Until then, I'll be myself.

Keep being yourself.

 

[Lord DragonsWing]

Here is the recipe for oyster stuffing that my grandmother used:

Enjoy!!!!!!

1 pound French bread
1 cup butter
2 cups chopped onions
1 tablespoon minced garlic
2 ounces button mushrooms, quartered
3 dozen shucked oysters, juice reserved
1 pound Italian sausage, cooked and diced
4 ounces dried cherries
4 ounces golden raisins
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
2 eggs
1/2 cup cream
1/2 cup milk
2 tablespoons minced parsley leaves
1 tablespoon minced sage
1 teaspoon minced rosemary
1 tablespoon minced thyme

Preheat the oven to 250 degrees F.

Trim the crust off the bread. Slice the bread into 1/2-inch cubes. Spread the bread on a baking sheet and toast for 20 to 30 minutes, or until dry, being careful not to develop any color. Set aside.

Raise the oven temperature to 350 degrees F.

Melt 1 tablespoon of the butter.

Brush a 2-quart casserole or gratin dish with the melted butter and set aside.

In a large saute pan, add 1 tablespoon of the butter and melt.
To the same saute pan, over medium heat, add the remaining 7 ounces butter. Add the onion and the garlic and saute until translucent, about 2 to 3 minutes. Add the mushrooms and continue to saute another 5 minutes. Add the oysters, oyster juice, sausage, dried fruits, and salt and pepper. Cook for 3 minutes and stir until the mixture is well blended. Set aside.

In a large bowl, lightly beat the eggs. Add the cream and milk. Stir until well blended. Add the parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme. Add the reserved oyster mixture and the toasted bread and mix well. Taste and adjust seasoning with salt and pepper. Transfer to the buttered casserole dish and bake for 45 minutes or until done.

This is a southern tradition on the bayou. I hope you all enjoy it.

 

[Kassiana]

Ham baked in a butter-greased pan, containing a large layer of five kinds of potatoes, four kinds of onions, three kinds of apple, one pear, yellow and orange tomatoes, sun-dried tomatoes, drenched in three kinds of honey, White Zinfandel, O3, roasted garlic, and a blend of spices for each layer of vegetables and fruit.

And, of course, pumpkin pie for afterward. It only took us three hours to prepare the ham, and it should take at least three hours to cook it.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Blacksnake, that fruit salad has my mouth watering. I think that next Thanksgiving I shall concentrate my energies on getting an invitation to your house.

Kassiana, is the ham on top of those layers, or sort of nestled into them? Care to divulge any of the spices?

Shanglan