Thanksgiving Planning

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My boyfriend of like 2 days doesn’t have any thanksgiving dinner so I was thinking of bringing him some thanksgivingey but still casual stuff.. It’s not really about the food but more about the thought so I’m going to get turkey cold cut, a mini pumpkin tart…what else do you think? what can i use for “stuffing”? suggestions?

Here is a really good sandwich that is usually made from Thanksgiving leftovers, but you could make it with cold cuts instead…

bread or bagels
sliced turkey
cream cheese
canned cranberry sauce (spread it like jelly)
lettuce
tomato

You could serve it with sweet potato or pumpkin soup (you can usual find those in boxes next to the canned soups) and for dessert you could have pumpkin ice cream.

oh and if any…
may i have the recipes or the website that might have the recipe… please and thank you.

well you can cook normal things but in different ways. you can check on www.foodnetwork.com they always have loads of recipes. also try cooks.com they also have several recipes to help spiff some old recipes up. HINT: Paula did fried cake OMG

My family is coming to visit me in NYC, my brother his wife and 3 kids. I only have a small dinner table round with 4 chairs, and there will be like 8 of us. what should i do?

have an adults table and a childrens table that way the adluts can sit in the chairs the kid can sit in the tv room or at a seperate flod up table

A person can never go wrong with the good ole cornbread dressing. Some people make the bread dressing and put apples and cranberries in it but to me cornbread dressing is still the best! I make it every year.

What type of dishes are a part of this holiday? Thanks for any answers.
Just because I am a man doesn’t mean I can’t cook.

This menu gives some excellent ideas & recipes:
gourmet-food-revolution.com/thanksgiving-dinner-menu.html

Is there a specific treat you look forwards to on that day only?
And who makes it?

I love sweet potatoes too with marshmellow,butter and whatever else they put in it.
I personally don’t really know how to make them yummy but I do know the basics.
Thanks everyone for sharing your thoughts with me!

My moms sweet potato casserole, she is the only one who makes it like her and its only on holidays so i love looking forward to it.

I am in charge of bringing the desserts this year and I was wondering if you had any suggestions other that the usual Pumpkin Pie?

I have the best Pumpkin Cheesecake recipe! Check it out here at Food and Wine:

http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/pumpkin-cheesecake-with-pecan-praline-topping

I have made this recipe several times and it always turns out beautifully.

Please note that you will need a springform pan and that you will need to make it ahead of time. Optimally, the day before. It requires a few hours to drain the pumpkin puree and then several hours to bake. It also requires you to refrigerate it overnight so that it can set.

Good luck! Have fun!

Cheese ball…
2 -cream cheese
6-green onions
1-jar dried beef
2-teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
1-sm bag of chopped nuts
cut the green onions and dried beef in sm pieces add all but the nuts and roll into a lg ball and then open bag of nuts and roll the cheese ball in the nuts.Serve with Crackers.

Buy some cream puffs they have a couple of different kinds.

Since I´m in school, there wasn´t time to make a big meal Thursday, so I´m doing it this weekend as a surprise for my German husband.

I made turkey with cranberry pecan stuffing, sweet potato cassarole, green bean cassarole and gravy, and caramel apple cheesecake. The cheesecake recipe is on foodnetwork.com from emeril .

for the turkey, I deboned it the day before and roasted the carcass, boiling it off afterward to make stock for the gravy. this is the best way to cook a turkey, you’re guaranteed moist breastmeat this way. you sear the pieces skin side down until skin is browned to your liking, turn them and sear for 2-3 more minutes. I placed the breast meat ,skin side up , on a mound of the stuffing for the ” in the bird” stuffing flavor, and placed the rest of the pieces around it in the turkey roaster. This takes about 1-1/2 hours to roast at 375, or until breast meat is 160 degrees.

stuffing
1 loaf white bread cubed
1/2 cup celery chopped finely
1/2 cup onion chopped finely
4 tblsp butter or margarine
1 cup dried cranberries
1 cup white wine
1-2 cups chicken stock
1 cup chopped apples
bells seasoning ( or poultry seasoning) to taste
onion powder
garlic powder
salt
pepper

In a large stock pot:
saute onion and celery in the butter with a pinch of salt about 3-4 minutes on medium heat. add apples until just tender, about 2 minutes. add cranberries for another 2 minutes then
deglaze the pan with the wine and simmer for another 2 minutes. add about 1-2 tsp bells, onion powder, pepper and garlic powder to your taste. season lightly, you can always add more later.

remove from the heat and add bread then chicken stock, about 1/2 cup at a time until stuffing is desired consistancy. Beat the egg and fold into your stuffing. Dont stir it too much once you’ve added the bread, you dont want it mushy
bake either in or under your bird, or in a pan at 375 for about half an hour, until stuffing is slightly crisp on the outside.

if you bake your stuffing in the bird, you cook the bird at 375 until temp is 165.very important, if your bird is done, your stuffing has to be 165 as well, and it may not be at this point. you may have to remove the stuffing and continue cooking until 165.

sweet potato cassarole

5-6 sweet potatoes
4 large apples sliced thin
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 stick margarine or butter, melted
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp ginger
3/4 cup walnuts or pecans, chopped

peel and slice sweet potatoes about 1/2 inch thick
boil potatoes until just tender crisp, about 10 minutes
place a layer of the sweet potatoes in the bottom of a buttered cassarole dish. place apples in a layer over the potatoes.

mix together brown sugar and spices. layer half of this mixture over the apples, the layer the rest of the sweet potatoes. layer the other half of the brown sugar mixture over the top. top with nuts then drizzle the melted butter, cover with foil and bake at 375 for about half an hour or until potatoes are nice and tender.
if the potatoes look dry on top, you can remove from the oven and baste the top with the juices from the bottom of the pan using the spoon. bake the last 5 minutes uncovered to crisp if desired.

green bean cassarole is the frenches recipe on the durkee french fried onion container. not sure if germans would appreciate, lol.

Remember that the turkey is the hardest thing to prepare and will leave the biggest impression… so listen closely okay:

2 days before turkey day you need to place turkey in 5 gallon bucket and fill with water. Add Kosher salt (2 cups) and let sit for 12hrs. If it is cold where you live just add ice and put in the garage or something. Needs to be kept below 40 degrees.
This process is called brining, what it does is use osmosis to bring the flavor of the salt into the turkey and also add moisture, no way in the world you are going to have a dry turkey! Also… when cooking the turkey, cook it upside down that way the breast meat stays extremely moist. They will ask how did you do that!