{"id":3911,"date":"2018-11-24T10:09:32","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T16:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/?p=3911"},"modified":"2018-11-24T10:10:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T16:10:00","slug":"another-two-thanksgiving-dinners-that-couldnt-be-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/24\/another-two-thanksgiving-dinners-that-couldnt-be-beat\/","title":{"rendered":"Another (two) Thanksgiving dinner(s) that couldn’t be beat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Al & Emma hosted on real Thanksgiving at their new house. I made a green bean casserole, caramel pumpkin pie, and spicy sweet potatoes<\/a>. The caramel pie is from Food & Wine<\/a> – it’s a keeper. I didn’t do candied pepitas on top, I made pie crust cutouts instead. Emma made chocolate cream pie that tasted great with the caramel pumpkin.<\/p>\n

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Caramel pumpkin pie<\/p><\/div>\n

For Friday, for apps, I made Chex mix and pickled carrots and beets and eggs. I put out some hard squash hummus I’d made and some red pepper hummus that Rach bought last visit, and crackers & cheese and olives. And some peppered salami that was pretty darn hot.<\/p>\n

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Pickled things with cat<\/p><\/div>\n

We had the usual chestnut stuffing and turkey – a 17-lb. one from Matt Smith, that was kind of a long skinny guy<\/a>. Good gravy and mashed potatoes this year. I tried Rach’s favorite recipe<\/a> for roasted mixed vegetables, that has pecans and fresh ginger and maple syrup. I made it with Brussels sprouts, parsnips, carrots, cauliflower, and Romanesco cauliflower. I’ve had bad luck with adding sweet stuff to the roasted vegetables – they burn – but these worked a charm. I also tried a King Arthur sweet potato spoon bread<\/a> using some mild poblanos I got in my CSA box last summer – another keeper. Then there was a kale gratin – I over browned it but it was still good – cream, the kale, lots of garlic, Gruyere cheese. A big bowl of plain cranberry sauce that I almost forgot to put out.<\/p>\n

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5 1\/2 lbs. of Tipi Produce sweet potatoes to roast<\/p><\/div>\n

Desserts were apple, pear, and dried cherry crumble, the turkey shaped spice thins and pumpkin slab pie.<\/p>\n

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Pumpkin slab pie<\/p><\/div>\n

Now time to make my cookie list and then off to Woodmans’s and the co-op in the rain to finish purchasing the ingredients. Sometime today must<\/em> send the save the date for the party.<\/p>\n

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