Dinner 2017 (Part 6)

[robirdstx]

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

 

Homemade Dinner Rolls with...

 

 

...Roasted Turkey Thigh, Dressing, Mashed Potatoes, Green Peas and Gravy. Pumpkin Pie with Whipped Cream later!

Edited November 24, 2017 by robirdstx (log)

[suzilightning]

29 minutes ago, robirdstx said:

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

 

Homemade Dinner Rolls with...

 

 

...Roasted Turkey Thigh, Dressing, Mashed Potatoes, Green Peas and Gravy. Pumpkin Pie with Whipped Cream later!

 

forget the later stuff..... give me more potatoes, dressing, peas and gravy!  and cranberry sauce......

 

[kayb]

I may not eat for a week.

 

 

We have the canned, sliced cranberry stuff because son-in-law requires it. Everyone else ate homemade cranberry salad (at 12 o'clock). Balsamic honey glazed carrots not shown, and I'd failed to take the top off the dressing at that point

 

 

A relish tray and cranberry salad.

 

 

Sweet potatoes.

 

The turkey was excellent. He had brined for about 36 hours in a 5% brine, and was then roasted with a quartered apple, a quartered orange, fresh sage and fresh thyme in his cavity, along with a half-stick of butter. Sides were mashed potatoes, dressing, sweet potatoes with pecan praline topping, and balsamic honey carrots.There are rolls nestled in the bread dish.

 

Several hours later, we had cheesecake. Choice of blueberry and Key lime.

 

 

[robirdstx]

1 hour ago, suzilightning said:

forget the later stuff..... give me more potatoes, dressing, peas and gravy!  and cranberry sauce......

 

 

Plenty of leftovers of the early stuff for tomorrow...later stuff was pretty tasty, too! 

 

[Okanagancook]

Happy Thanksgiving to all our American folks.  Best wishes for a great meal and family gathering.

so far the meals look delicious.

[mgaretz]

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!  We had a quiet meal with just the two of us.  Turkey (a small 10 pounder) cooked on the pellet smoker, snap peas in butter, cooked ALV, mashed cauliflower and scratch-made mushroom gravy.  Glass of Maggio Old Vine Zin (Lodi) and store-bought cherry pie for dessert.

 

 

 

 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

Tonight:

 

 

 

Spit-roast duck, sauce Bigarade.  Sauce Bigarade recipe from Raymond Sokolov's The Saucier's Apprentice p44.  Lacking Seville oranges, energy, and space on the stove, I used French marmalade as a substitute for candying my own orange and lemon peels.

 

Taking a tip from @Duvel my MR was based on Riesling.  (Not shown.)

 

[Anna N]

 

 The same as I had for lunch — only better—  because I remembered the cheese.  

[liamsaunt]

prosciutto and burrata salad

 

 

antipasto board

 

[gfweb]

Thanksgiving dinner

 

 

 

SV breast with seared skin and oven roasted dark meat

 

 

 

Smoked savory yams

 

 

Jalapeno and plain cornbread madelaines

 

Mushroom/sausage stuffing, au gratin pots and pumpkin pie not shown

Edited November 24, 2017 by gfweb (log)

[kayb]

Tonight, foraged leftovers off the relish tray, because the smell of turkey broth reducing does NOT make me want more turkey.

 

 

[Anna N]

I scrabbled through my freezer praying that somewhere in there was just one more Jamaican patty. Nope. So cheddar and tomato toasties it is. 

[Shelby]

28 minutes ago, kayb said:

Tonight, foraged leftovers off the relish tray, because the smell of turkey broth reducing does NOT make me want more turkey.

 

 

I am exactly the same way about turkey broth---and sometimes chicken broth.  

 

I am NEEDING deviled eggs.  Will have to make them for our small turkey dinner we are having on Sunday.  I didn't take any leftovers and I need a turkey sandwich....thus, our own little turkey day.

15 minutes ago, Anna N said:

I scrabbled through my freezer praying that somewhere in there was just one more Jamaican patty. Nope. So cheddar and tomato toasties it is. 

I am starving and this looks so good.  The tomatoes even look good.  Even with the peels on......

[Okanagancook]

4 hours ago, gfweb said:

Thanksgiving dinner

 

 

 

SV breast with seared skin and oven roasted dark meat

 

 

 

Smoked savory yams

 

 

Jalapeno and plain cornbread madelaines

 

Mushroom/sausage stuffing, au gratin pots and pumpkin pie not shown

 

Your turkey looks sous vide?  Clever idea with the jalapeño madelaines!

[gfweb]

@Okanagancook Thanks! The breast was sous vided with the skin on  and then fried to crisp-up the skin. It worked well. 

 

Madelaines make it easy to serve cornbread from a passed basket. Nothing breaks/crumbles when you pick it up...nice crust...cooks fast.

[Ann_T]

So many wonderful looking Thanksgiving Dinners.   I'm with Suzi.  I'd be happy with just the mashed potatoes, gravy and peas.

 

I decided to cook something "turkey" for dinner last night in honour of American Thanksgiving.

Stuffed Turkey Legs.

I got a head start, by boning out the legs before leaving for work.

 

The legs were stuffed, roasted and served with mashed potatoes, rutabaga and fresh green beans.

[Steve Irby]

In keeping with the not-to-traditional route I served a porchetta  roast along side more traditional turkey.  I bought a primal cut from from a local Vietnamese grocer and sectioned out the belly and loin.  The roast was terrific!  Dinner included the white cheddar cauliflower gratin Anna N linked to and a terrific pear bread pudding from Lidia's Table.

  

 

 

The bread pudding

 

 

Early week meal from breaking down the primal cut

 

 

And a few photos from the start of the process.

 

 

 

[gfweb]

@Steve Irby Fantastic porchetta. How many people?

[Steve Irby]

More pork than people!  10# dressed roast for 8 people plus the turkey.  I have a chamber vacuum bagger to keep the love alive.  

[liuzhou]

1 hour ago, Ann_T said:

The legs were stuffed, roasted and served with mashed potatoes, rutabaga and fresh green beans.

 

Looks great. Stuffed with...?

 

[Ann_T]

3 minutes ago, liuzhou said:

Looks great. Stuffed with...?

Just a bread sage stuffing. 

[Kim Shook]

Wonderful Thanksgiving meals folks!  We went to my MIL’s, so I don’t have any pictures.  I made @Ann_T's corn custard (Southerners: think corn pudding), which was fabulous, as always.  MIL’s dinner was delicious – turkey, dressing, whipped potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, two different kinds of green beans (she aims to please everyone), her blue ribbon winning yeast rolls, and three pies (apple, pecan and pumpkin). 

 

What I am thankful for is that we didn’t end up in the ER.  We didn’t find out until after we ate that her stuffed turkey sat on the counter STILL STUFFED for almost 5 hours.  I am not a particularly fussy person (I freely double dip, leave my butter out on the counter year around, and eat after everyone I know), but I almost fell off my chair when she was talking about timing and I worked it out. 

Edited November 25, 2017 by Kim Shook (log)

[Duvel]

46 minutes ago, Kim Shook said:

What I am thankful for is that we didn’t end up in the ER.  We didn’t find out until after we ate that her stuffed turkey sat on the counter STILL STUFFED for almost 5 hours.  I am not a particularly fussy person (I freely double dip, leave my butter out on the counter year around, and eat after everyone I know), but I almost fell off my chair when she was talking about timing and I worked it out. 

 

Sorry, but I can't fully get the issue (maybe cultural and /or language): your MILs turkey was cooked and then left to cool for 5 hours ? And usually to do that you have to remove the stuffing (bread ?) ? Why does that mean it is unsafe to eat ?

[liuzhou]

De-boned a couple or three chicken legs and cut the meat into bite size chunks. Browned them with garlic, ginger and chilli, then bunged them delicately into the slow cooker.  I had half a can of anchovies left over from breakfast, so they went in too.

 

At the time I was thinking to have this with rice, local style, but for some reason decided to go with simple boiled spuds.  Added some okra to the slow cookering chicken then ate it. Then had seconds. Happy mouth.

 

Edited November 25, 2017 by liuzhou (log)

[Shelby]

Asian sticky wings, pork lo mein and eggrolls last night.