FR Thanksgiving Thread (Share Traditions, Recipes, etc)

20-nov-2003 | stb

[Diva Betsy Ross]

For a tradition we have a Thankful tree.A paper cut out of a tree taped to the window and leaves cut out of paper. Every day for a week we ahve to say something we are tahnkful for and write it on the leaf and tape the leaf to the tree. I save the leaves from the year previos, and someday we will ahve a full tree.

For dinner ,I stuff my turkey with thin slices of lemmons, green apples, oranges, red onions, pearl onions, thyme, mint, rosemary, (any herb really). I make stock out the turkey neck and make a stuffing with bread cubes, apriocots which have soaked in brandy overnight, rasins, apples, celery, freshly ground junniper berries , cloves and allspice, thyme, currents.

I make corn spoon bread, and a cranberry relish with dried cherries, dried cranberries, whole cranberries, orange zest, a mild green chili pepper.

This is the favorite for the crowd I feed.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. I am thankful for Freerepublic.com.

Gobble, Gobble.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

That sounds so good. I am going to try that!

[Howlin]

Gosh, I hope you have a great trip!!! Win some money while you're there!

[Diva Betsy Ross]

How To Cook A Turkey A Roast Turkey Recipe for Non Cooks 10-15 pound turkey 1/4 cup melted butter 1/4 cup stuffing 1/2 cup unpopped popcorn salt and pepper to taste 1. Baste turkey with butter, salt and pepper. 2. Mix together remaining butter, stuffing and popcorn. 3. Stuff turkey with stuffing mixture. 4. Put in oven and bake at 350F. 5. When turkey's ass flies across the room, the turkey is done!

Oh that is too funny, thanks for big laugh.

[Howlin]

Why two?

[Howlin]

and although my heart isn't in it

You'd never know that by reading your post; I believe it's "in it" more than you know.

[Howlin]

A turkey sandwich with NO lettuce? I think there's a law, a poultry law...

[Howlin]

a spinach/red pepper/red onion salad w/honey glazed pecans

Well, how about posting the recipe????

[Hatteras]

The kids have taken a special liking to my "special gourmet" cranberry sauce. You know, the good stuff with "the rings" in it....

[Howlin]

Near here? Come on over!

[Lady Jag]

hehehe

KA

BOOM!!

[StarFan]

Difficult to type through the tears, but I must say thanks for sharing that wonderful story. This will be our first year without Grams but most of what I plan to serve I learned from her.

[nutmeg]

ping!

[Howlin]

Blackberry Salad

1 large package blackberry Jello
2 cups boiling water
1 15 ounce can blackberries
1 large can crushed pineapple, undrained

Top with the following after congealed:
1 8 ounce tub sour cream
1/2 cup sugar
1 8 ounce package cream cheese, softened
1/2 teaspoon of vanilla

Dissolve Jello in water. Add pineapple and blackberries. Pour in dish. Congeal. Top with above ingredients. Sprinkle with nuts. Use juice from blackberries and mix with the water to make the 2 cups liquid.

[Howlin]

I need a recipe for dressing in a pan......something very moist!

Anybody???

[Rushmore Rocks]

It will work....the secret is cooking the butter, syrup and sugar together first....and the toasted pecans!!

[Rushmore Rocks]

Brisket..........I'll post it this weekend....must go shovel snow right now.....12 inches so far and more to come. Mr. Rushmore just returned from a trip to Russia with a very bad cold and fever (hope it isn't SARS).. too sick to shovel!!! Oh Darn!!!

[Willie Green]

Here's a thread from a couple years ago that some people might want to try:

Deep Fried Turkey Recipes

However, the truly adventurous may attempt to adapt the following recipe:

CHEERS: Griller's Dream: Beer and Chicken

(Of course, a regular beer can probably wouldn't work for turkey.
You might want to try one of those BIG 25 ounce cans they import from Australia.)

[PJ-Comix]

Best turkey I ever had wasn't even at Thanksgiving. It was Labor Day weekend at a car race in northern NY state. Some folks at a tailgate party invited me to partake of their turkey marinated in beer and other great stuff. Then they used that beer marinade to baste the turkey while it was cooking over a wood fire. INCREDIBLE!!!

[mathluv]

I always cook this in a pan (about 9x13).

1 recipe of cornbread (I use the one on Aunt Jemima cornmeal)

2-3 cans of chicken broth

1 onion and several stalks of celery - sliced and cooked with water - then pour celery and onion in with cornbread and broth (add as much of the water as you may want)

sage and salt to taste (I use a lot of sage, a little salt)

Bake at 350º til not jiggly.

This was my mother's recipe - so not very exact.