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NWR - Thanksgiving Favorites
LauraMC09
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This year we will be hosting Thanksgiving, so I'm trying to think of what to serve. The main things at our traditional dinners are of course the turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravey, corn, dinner rolls, and pumpkin pie. What are some of your favorites at Thanksgiving? I'm trying to put our own twist on it this year! TIA!
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Re: NWR - Thanksgiving Favorites
My aunt makes a very good broccoli and cashew salad that I enjoy too.
Wow what an explaination there! I am a chef I tell ya!
June 18, 2011
http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1743,146173-252201,00.html
HTH
blanch 1 pound of asparagus or green beans, ends trimmed
saute in a large pan with a couple tbsp butter and a couple tbsp olive oil, and a big splash of fresh lemon juice, and handfull of sea salt (you might need to do this in 2 batches, depending on the size of your pan)
When the butter is melted and everything his hot and fragrant, zest the lemon and sprinkle on top
Cubed roasted squash, root veggies, and onions are good, too. Ina Garten has a really good recipe for it on food network (dot) com.
My favorite side dish is still my mom's mashed potatoes with dark brown gravy. It's the only kind of gravy I can eat, since light colored gravies squick me out.
Every year, I contribute two things to Thanksgiving dinner that people always rave about -- chipotle mashed sweet potatoes and pumpkin cheesecake.
Both are actually super easy. For the sweet potatoes, I just boil them, mash them, and add large amounts of brown sugar and canned chipotle peppers in adobo sauce. If you're not a huge fan of spicy food, you can just add a small amount of the peppers and it just gives it a smoky kick of flavor - I, however, like to make it pretty damn spicy.
For the pumpkin cheesecake, I always just buy tubs of pumpkin cream cheese from Bruegger's Bagels and use my standard cheesecake recipe with them.
We always have lefse and then apple salad.
The apple salad consists of 5 to 6 apples, two cups heavy whipping cream (whipped until there are peaks) and then add sugar to taste along and mix with the apples. So easy and delicious!
[QUOTE]Every year, I contribute two things to Thanksgiving dinner that people always rave about -- chipotle mashed sweet potatoes and pumpkin cheesecake. Posted by maybe984[/QUOTE]
Alton Brown has a recipe for Chipotle Mashed Sweet Potatoes in the current issue of Food Network Magazine :-)
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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: NWR - Thanksgiving Favorites : Alton Brown has a recipe for Chipotle Mashed Sweet Potatoes in the current issue of Food Network Magazine :-)
Posted by SSaltzman87[/QUOTE]
Haha. I totally stole the concept from an episode of his show "Good Eats" like three years ago. I never got his official recipe, but it's one of those things you don't really need specific measurements for.
Maybe - those potatoes sound amazing!!!