What are you Cooking the Week of November 24, 2024?

[BakerAunt]

That's a great idea with the spaghetti squash, Chocomouse.

We had early Thanksgiving dinner on Tuesday evening. My husband roasted the turkey. I made the blue bag Pepperidge Farm dressing, using broth for the water and chopped celery, dried parsley. We microwaved broccoli that came from the farmers market. I thawed the applesauce I made earlier this month to go with dinner. I also had some of my Cranberry and Dried Cherry Relish with Cardamom. For dessert, we had pumpkin pie.

[Mike Nolan]

Today is kitchen clean-up day, I've cleaned the stove top and both ovens, my wife is working on other parts of the kitchen including her bay window plant shelf and I will organize the baking area a bit too, so I've got work space for doing Thanksgiving.

Today I will also dry brine the turkey and get it ready for final prep tomorrow. This afternoon I'll bake a sweet potato and make small pies for Thanksgiving, apple and sweet potato. That should take me well into the evening. Dinner is likely to be something simple, like tomato soup and cheese sandwiches.

[chocomouse]

BakerAunt, I bought my blue bag Pepperidge Farm dressing a month ago, just to be sure the store didn't run out of them before this week! If there are any left next time I shop, I'll buy one for the pantry this winter.

[BakerAunt]

Yes, Chocomouse! I have a spare for later in the winter as well.

For those of you cooking Thanksgiving for a group:

https://www.gocomics.com/drabble/2024/11/27

[Joan Simpson]

BakerAunt I like the comic strip 🙂

Today I had steak and potato.

[BakerAunt]

We re-ran last night's early Thanksgiving dinner on Wednesday.

[Mike Nolan]

We had turkey, potatoes, stuffing, gravy, green been casserole, baked beans (a dish our guest brought), brussels sprouts, a relish tray, cranberries, popovers, and in a little while will have some of the apple or sweet potato pie for dessert. Diane and our guest are currently working on a jigsaw puzzle, I'm sort of watching the NFL game. I probably won't need to cook again until Monday. I've probably eaten enough carbs that I don't need a lot of carbs until then, too. 🙂

[BakerAunt]

That sounds like a great meal, Mike.

We re-ran our early Thanksgiving dinner again tonight.

I made a "use it up" soup to put in the freezer. I used the turkey broth from the giblets, as well as another container of turkey broth from the freezer, some mushrooms and kale that needed to be used, a large, chopped carrot, and about a cup of Bob's Red Mill Vegi-Soup mix of brown and red lentils, green and yellow split peas, and barley. It will make a good quick meal or two in December.

[cwcdesign]

We had the roast chicken, green beans, stuffing, cranberry sauce, gravy and my potato gratin which was easy to put together but I had issues cooking it. Will also made a delicious pumpkin pie.

The directions said to tightly pack the potatoes - I may have done that too literally as they didn't fill the casserole I wanted to use so I put them in my 8" square Pyrex and they were very tight. The extra sauce sat on top and I couldn't figure out if I had added too much. Which I did, as it spilled out onto the oven floor. What a mess! I kept going to finish it and the I had to clean the oven floor the best I could - I learned the my oven has a steam clean feature which we will try,
The potatoes were very tender and I will definitely try the recipe again. Lessons learned are that I need to use a square casserole I have that is sized between the two I used and is deeper. I shouldn't pack the potatoes quite as tight - there needs to be a happy medium and also that I should have dropped the temperature when I changed to the Pyrex dish. Will is thinking that we can turn them into mashed potatoes - we will probably use the food processor for that. Oh, I sliced the potatoes with the food processor and that was a good call

[Joan Simpson]

I went to my friends we had Turkey ,ham, dressing ,cranberry sauce, collard greens, sweet potato casserole with nut topping, garden pea salad, creamed corn, corn bread, cheese cake, pecan pie and coconut cake .I brought so much food home I won't cook for awhile.

[BakerAunt]

And that, Joan, is the glory of Thanksgiving!

[Mike Nolan]

The upside-down turkey thing worked OK, but the high temperature part didn't seem to work, and I wound up fiddling with the oven temp to get the breast done without overcooking the legs. But it was juicy and tender and easy to slice. I'll probably try it again but at the usual oven temp next time.

I tried stuffing made with keto bread, we decided it was a bit disappointing. Stuffing is something we usually only have once or twice a year, we can afford the carbs from the Pepperidge Farm herbed bread cubes that often.

[chocomouse]

I plan to cook our turkey breast on Sunday, because we went to our son's house for Thanksgiving dinner (luckily, I have a Jeep because there were 6 inches of unplowed/untreated snow on the back roads to get there; we had only 3 inches). He had brined and smoked a turkey, and it was the best I've ever had. I brought he two 7" cheesecakes I had made the previous day. I now have a 3 day old great-granddaughter, but she was staying in the NICU with some minor respiratory issues.

[Joan Simpson]

Congratulations on your great-granddaughter Chocomouse.I can taste that smoked turkey, one of my favorites!

I had leftovers today.

[Mike Nolan]

leftovers here, likely to be rinse-repeat for the next day or two.

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