It's Thanksgiving tomorrow in the US!

[foxfirefey]

If this means fancy eats for you, please share what you are making or made/ate!

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[monanotlisa]

As just posted elsewhere: oven-roasted sliced beets with peppered goat's cheese and pan-seared garlic spinach, toast on the side, topped with roasted almonds -- all made by yours truly from scratch, of course. Served with Eight Arms Cellars 2009 The Tentacle. :)

[amalnahurriyeh]

That sounds delicious. Did you layer it up in a tower-like thing?

[zarhooie]

I made a pumpkin custard pie from my favorite cookbook, like, ever.. Mom's making a maple-glazed turkey. Nothing too fancy-- she roasts it like normal, but covers the skin with maple syrup for the last 45 minutes to give it a gorgeous color and delicious taste. Made an apple pie last night where the recipe called for apricot jelly to be smeared on the pie crust before you dump the apples in. It's always really good!

[zarhooie]

Oh, and cranberry vodka with orange juice for drinking, as well as a vanilla porter for the evening.

[droolfangrrl]

Giving this a try

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/11/14/best_cranberry_sauce_recipe_with_orange_candied_ginger_and_not_too_much.html

[shirou]

I'm cooking a dinner that is an amalgamation of my wife and father's Thanksgiving traditions, plus a couple European-style tarts like my Dutch mother usually makes.

roast turkey - brine, herb rub
sausage stuffing - half in the bird, half in a pan
cornbread dressing
cranberry sauce with orange and lemon
green beans and mushrooms in a cream sauce
maple sweet potatoes - mashed
salad
apple tart
pear and almond tart

[ilyena_sylph]

Killing_Rose and I made pumpkin chocolate cheesecake with pecan crust on Monday.
Tuesday night we made gluten-free bread (quinoa and buckwheat) and made dressing out of it.
Last night, after we got up here to my mom's, we helped make the cranberry salad (cranberries, celery, oranges, pecans, and three flavors of jello), chopped the celery and onions for the gluten-having dressing, and cut the vegetables for the veggie tray. And brewed the strong tea for tea today.
The turkey is in the oven cooking and has been since 4am.
Before long I will be peeling potatoes for mashed potatoes.
Green beans will soon come up out of the cellar and have onion and seasonings added.
Mom just headed over to the other freezer to get the corn.
The rest of the family will be bringing everything else.

[killing_rose]

I was going to ask you to rattle off what I didn't remember, but you got here first. :)

And we've peeled the potatoes at this point.

[ilyena_sylph]

Yup!

Potatoes are peeled, green beans are on the stove, and I got roped into helping cut and space the biscuits.

[swordage]

As the only person with any kitchen proficiency, I started baking pies yesterday: lattice-topped apple, pumpkin, and pecan (with agave instead of corn syrup). Alas, the pecan pie is sugar-glued to the pie plate, and the apple pie never did get gooey.

This morning I started the honey-roasted butternut and parsnips, the baked beets, mashed sweet and white potatoes, and green beans with butter and chanterelle mushrooms. And because all this is a bit much for one human being, the stuffing, gravy, and cranberry sauce are from packages. ;) The turkey itself is almost an afterthought!

[amalnahurriyeh]

The turkey itself is almost an afterthought!

Heh, I feel the same way. Of course, I'm a vegetarian, so it's always an afterthought to me...

[swordage]

Yeah, I was going to skip it entirely this year but my family vetoed me. At the last minute, of course, so it barely had time to defrost... :P

[gramina]

We have homemade challah and pumpkin pies cooling on the counters now, turkey slow-roasting in the oven, mashed winter squash (butternut squash, ginger, cinnamon-cloves-etc. blend, cream), and spiced cranberries in port in the fridge. Dressing is still to come, as well as mashed potatoes and green beans (not sure what we'll do with them, but we all like green beans regardless).

The spiced cranberries in port are my dad's recipe, so I'm particularly glad to have them this first Thanksgiving without him. Basically, put a bottle of port and as much sugar as you want for your cranberries in a heavy saucepan and heat till the sugar dissolves; add the cranberries and as much of the sweet spices (cinnamon, cloves, mace, ginger, whatever you'd put in a pumpkin pie or what you like) as makes it smell good to you. Cook at something like a simmer (low enough not to burn the sugars) until the cranberries are mostly popped. Jar the way you would a jam :) I have converted cranberry-despisers with this recipe :)

[wordweaverlynn]

Dressing is now also out on the counters, cooling: made as always with a mix of sourdough and pumpernickel bread, apple cider instead of water or broth, sauteed onion, rosemary, and plenty of butter. The green beans are trimmed and cut and ready to be dry-sauteed with chopped ginger and shallots and soy sauce. And there will be gravy and whipped cream, too, ladled onto whatever foods seem appropriate.

[amalnahurriyeh]

That's a brilliant cranberry recipe. And I'm glad you've got the comfort of them, too.

[ngakmafaery]

...that all sounds great: I am home by myself with cats to have a nice easy day, and I made excellent vegetarian hobo stew of leftover soup, organic turnips and carrots and quinoa and a few other bits and pieces, and it tastes great, rich and hearty and yummy...everyone enjoy their day!

[cofax7]

I made two pies (pumpkin & maple-walnut), roasted a bunch of beets, and made ginger-orange cranberry sauce. The turkey has been stuffed, and later I will help peel potatoes and rutabagas. Happily, family members are bringing bread & green vegetables.

Oh, and we'll be drinking Prosecco while we cook, and then switch to some tasty red from Chateau Montelena.

A day late and a dollar short.

[hugh_mannity]

I spent the weekend with friends. My contribution to Thanksgiving dinner was

Sausage stuffed mushrooms

The mushroom-eaters came close to fighting over the last few. The non-mushroom eaters found this amusing.