The Menu
With some help from little sis, Thanksgiving dinner made it to the table. Here are the recipes that were used.
The turkey was prepared the way Ina Garten – the Barefoot Contessa recommended. It was really very good. The recipe doesn’t quite say what was shown on the episode. She takes some of the thyme butter and oozes it under the skin of the turkey and then on the outside of the turkey too.
Everyone loved the Definitive Mashed Potato with Roasted Garlic I added some diced up fresh chives to it for a little extra punch.
Wayne’s Cranberry Sauce went over HUGE! Everyone loved it. We still had the “canberries” cuz Thanksgiving is nothing without the can shaped cranberries.
I also made the sausage and apple stuffing from Dad’s Own Cookbook that I bought forever ago. I loved it, but there are certain people who wont eat sausage that were unhappy with the stuffing. Next time I’ll have to trade the sausage for raisins.
Also made some Creamy Pumpkin Soup that wasn’t as loved as I had hoped. But it’s a great soup.
I also made the usual Green Bean Casserole and then some glazed carrots. I can’t find the recipe I used for the carrots though. But it’s pretty much brown sugar liquified and poured over the cooked carrots.
Let me just say, for the left overs. If you toast up the bread, and then take the turky and stuffing heated up on the toast….what a yummy sandwich!! I hope you all had a great Turkey day!
