Dinner Plans? (5 Viewers)

[k9dr]

By a show of hands... how many others have already started cooking their Thanksgiving dinner?

Canadians need not reply, because metric Thanksgiving comes early.

Simmering the giblets & trinity for the stuffing.

 

[Jeff]

Tonite: beignets, whipped creme, chocolate sauce and raspberries with homemade ginger ice cream.

 

[jja412]

Working on it. So much to get done! Happy Thanksgiving all!

 

[Poker Zombie]

Emergency back-up plan?

 

[jja412]

Fantastic. Easy choice if you are alone on Thanksgiving.

 

[Poker Zombie]

I needed 6 egg yolks to make the ice cream (dessert).
I needed 8 slices of pancetta to wrap the shrimp (Fish/Shellfish course).
I needed Parm for the cheese course.
I needed green onions for the stuffing.

What to do with the egg whites and the remainders from all this other stuff?

Pre-Thanksgiving breakfast!

 

[pltrgyst]

- Started thawing the 17 lb. turkey last Thursday.
- Spatchcocked it and applied the salt/baking powder rub, made 3 quarts of turkey bone broth on Monday.
- Made cranberry sauce on Tuesday.
- Baked pumpkin and dark chocolate pies yesterday.
- Prepped vegetables this morning.

Nothing to do now until 3pm, with supper for eight people at 5. Menu:

- Turkey
- Gravy (from bone broth and drippings)
- Sausage and Cornbread Dressing
- Cranberry Sauce
- Hasselback Potatoes Gratin
- Mashed Potatoes and Turnips
- Roasted Brussels Sprouts and Carrots with Bourbon Glaze
- Snow Peas and Carrots with Ginger Sauce

- Assorted Stinky Mostly French Cheeses: Grayson (Virginia), Epoisses, Pont-l'Évêque

- Pumpkin and Dark Chocolate Pies

- Gruet (NM) Champagne, Sancerre, Alborino, Melville Pinot Noir (Santa Barbera)

- Espresso

- Calvados, Armagnac, Cognac, Scotch

Followed by a week of washing dishes, pots, and pans...

{BURP!!!}

 

[slisk250]

2 pounds each. Bone in ribeye.

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I hear you can get these in Saudi...but they used to be part of a camel. Nope.

 

[ekricket]

That is a misnomer.

These recommendations of 131F are for lonely old meat. My meat is salted. It's also peppered and coffeed, but that's not as important as the salt here. Salt provides an inhospitable environment for bacteria as well. Did you know you can actually keep meat at room temperature if you add enough salt? Ask your great-grandparents. Before refrigeration, this was how meat was stored. Salting, or smoking (which also creates an environment that pathogens do not like) are excellent ways to preserve meat.

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Up until I was in my mid-twenties I had an aunt and uncle who did not have electricity or running water in their house. They had gas lamps and a windmill that they brought water into the house. They were not poor, they just always lived that way from the time they were kids on so saw no need to do anything different. As they got older they did get running water, and then finally gave in to electricity about 10 years ago.

Anyway, they had a pantry where they kept all their foodstuffs, and in this pantry was a wooden box, about 3 foot by four foot. There was always a butchered pig in it, covered in salt. anytime they wanted pork, like bacon or a roast, they just cut off what they wanted and covered it back up. Fresh eggs from the chickens that morning, milk from yesterday, biscuits and gravy and that "fresh" pork made for a scrumptious breakfast.

Probably get DHS called on your ass if you served something like that to your kids nowadays.

Yep, they used an outhouse, and you learned to go to the bathroom before dark, otherwise it was a long cold trip before bed with a kerosene lamp, just to sit on the dark dank hole in the blackness, with just you and the spiders.

 

[tommythecat]

Tonite: beignets, whipped creme, chocolate sauce and raspberries with homemade ginger ice cream.
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Fuck going to my brother's house...what time at your place Jeff?

All my cooking is done...made Red Devil Cranberries to bring over to my brother's. Could be yours though Jeff...

Happy Thanksgiving!!

 

[Jeff]

We’re on the beach. Bring the wine!

 

[mattduck]

Coming along pretty well

 

[detroitdad]

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Coming along pretty well

very sexy

 

[Azcat]

 

[detroitdad]

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Did I miss the invite

 

[Esection]

Thanksgiving this year was awesome thanks to my mom’s turkey and wife’s decorating

 

[Mrs Poker Zombie]

Breakfast - posted by PZ earlier

Course two: Butternut Squash Soup (made from scratch, forgot to take a picture)

Course three: Pancetta wrapped shrimp with a corn salsal

Main meal, side board:

• Homemade rolls
• Asparagus with peppers and onions
• Turkey (ready for the plate)
• Dressing
• Potatoes (riced)
• Wine
• Green bean casserole (homemade mushroom soup with jalapenos and fresh green beans)

Main table with:

• Place setting for two
• Butter
• Cranberry Jelly
• Gravy one
• Gravy two

Final course: apple pie from scratch (though I'm liking rolling dough less and less) with homemade vanilla ice cream

Haven't checked the scales yet today. Not sure I want to know.

 

[detroitdad]

 

[Poker Zombie]

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Most assuredly not leftovers.

 

[detroitdad]

Most assuredly not leftovers.

impromptu date night

 

[Mrs Poker Zombie]

impromptu date night

What?! Tired of turkey already?!

 

[Poker Zombie]

A couple of Zombie Thanksgiving leftover ideas...

For breakfast, turkey pureed with sausage spices, then stuffed into challah bread for turkey-stuffed french toast. Topped with a honey-cranberry syrup.

Late-night snack of popcorn, popped with turkey gravy.

Both were stellar and will be recurring players on our leftovers roster.

 

[detroitdad]

What?! Tired of turkey already?!

I love leftovers, but I love dating my wife even more

 

[Poker Zombie]

Today's Thanksgiving leftover challenge includes...

• Homemade dinner rolls
• Turkey
• White Cheddar Cheese

Add a couple eggs and the sausage spices from yesterday's breakfast and make Breakfast sandwiches.

I should have used more turkey though. Still have 2.8 lbs to get through...

 

[pltrgyst]

The last of the turkey is gone.


The last of the dark chocolate pie is gone.






(Who knew there was a limit on the total number of smilies in a post?)

 

[detroitdad]

sometimes you just have to slum it

 

[Poker Zombie]

Fried bologna may be eating on the cheap, but it's hard to beat the near free of making up 17 cups of turkey broth from boiling the turkey carcass overnight. Added celery, onion, carrots and salt for a touch of extra flavor. These will hit the freezer until the need for a top-level broth is needed. The bones and such will feed the local coyotes.

Waste not, want not.

 

[jja412]

Pork tenderloin with an apple/maple/cider vinegar reduction:

Pork tenderloin

• jja412
• Nov 28, 2017

 

[detroitdad]

first time making beef stew. It's obviously not thick enough. I'd give the flavor a 10.

@Poker Zombie You would have been proud. Didn't measure a single thing

 

[jja412]

Love a good beef stew. Looks fantastic!