Happy Thanksgiving back at you!! If you have the time, I’d love to know your menu for the day.
Basic menu is roast turkey, salad, pumpkin. But, we also incorporate seafood since we got excellent & abundant seafood (shellfish), and fish. Also, ham too.
Actually, I’ve got an early morning start tomorrow for cooking with a couple of family friends, so will get back to you on the details, more importantly the verdict after tasting.. - my parents-in-law are here, visiting this year - :/
Hi - since promising to get back to you w/ some details of the menu, glad to firstly report it was a success… pheww!! :-) - This is for 15 people.
We ended up cooking these: Roast turkey & stuffing w/ various herb sprigs, onions, lemon & orange, and gravy – mashed chipotle sweet potatoes - rocket & roast pumpkin salad - roast cauliflower w/ caramelized figs & pine nuts (the standard recipe uses dates, but I had power of veto in this case & decided caramelized figs taste better!) – barbecue bread/herb crumbed prawns (giant shrimps) w/ lime & mayo dip on the side - grilled (with butter & garlic) morten bay bugs (type of lobster you find here mostly around Queensland state) – ocean trout w/ cherry tomatoes, fresh sweet basil & fresh mozzarella. For dessert: Pavlova (it’s very Australian & usually very popular for Christmas, but my mother-in-law wanted to taste it again) - a type of berry misu, and lastly chocolate & cherry cheesecake (my husband loves this).
It may sound like a lot, but mostly they are fairly light dishes since it’s almost summer here. Also, not very difficult to cook, only, in parts, time consuming. — The other good news is that some of us will have to go on a diet & exercise a lot for the next 2 weeks, at least!