I love food. I work for a major grocery chain as a food/marketing writer, so Thanksgiving is a busy time for us. One of the things I enjoy is talking to folks about are their Thanksgiving recipes. At my house my husband has a Fried Turkey party the day before Thanksgiving (one year he did 19 turkeys for friends), I do the side dishes and my mom has ownership of the dressing (pan style). So what do y'all do for Turkey Day?
We will be doing Thanksgiving Day at Kap's brother's house. No one particularly enjoys driving out to our place. I'm personally hoping one of his uncle's will choose not to come lol.
They do fried turkey too. His mom usually brings dressing, with gizzards and such in it. His sister makes noodles from scratch and brings a dish of those. His aunt Agnes has traditionally been the dessert queen, she deserves the title, but this year they gave me the option of bringing a dessert so I'm wondering what's up with Agnes.
Friday we'll have our own traditional Thanksgiving with roast turkey and trimmings (dressing without innards).
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We'll be having Thanksgiving at our inlaws house. Nothing special on the table--just the usual fair. The first few years, she was doing a Waldorf salad, but no one liked it so, she stopped. Now, it's the same basic thing you see everywhere else.
Funny thing: I'm not a fan of the typical Thanksgiving food. Not crazy about turkey or yams0 Hate stuffing, cranberry sauce and every kind of pie. Mashed potatoes are great, though. I love mashed potatoes.
You know what I miss from when I was growing up? Bread. All kinds of homemade bread. At grandma's house, we always had home made rolls (my mother inlaw makes the premade ones out of the freezer section and they are always hard as a rock), banana bread, zucchini bread, lemon bread, that sweet bread that's braided with the frosting drizzled on the top......that was my favorite part. Back when I started going to my inlaws house for Thanksgiving, I missed them so much that I started making my favorite--banana bread--to contribute to the meal. It's just not Thanksgiving for me w/o it.
But if you like biscuits, there ARE some great "freezer" biscuits you can find at some Kroger stores. I haven't found them here in Aridzona but they are very popular in Louisiana. They're called Mary B's biscuits and my gawd I can't make homemade biscuits that good.
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I don't do freezer section rolls, but I DO use the ready packaged pull apart dinner rolls. We love those. Light and lovely.
I have a really easy roll recipe that takes about 30 minutes from empty mixing bowl to on the table if you'd like that.
The ready rolls are really good. The 30 minute ones sound great! Bread was always such a pain to make that I never got into doing it myself--which is probably a good thing given just how much I like homemade bread.
If it's not too much trouble, I'd love to see the recipe and what's involved.
1 Cup and 2 Tablespoons very warm water 1/4 Cup sugar 1/3 Cup oil 2 pkgs yeast Mix and let rest for 15 minutes
Add: 1 teaspoon salt 1 beaten egg 3 to 4 Cups flour (until tacky and able to make dough balls)
Shape into rolls: You can roll the dough in your floured hands to make large balls as single rolls or make smaller balls to place two or three at a time in a muffin tin for pull apart type rolls. You can also roll them into small logs and curl them into crescents.
I brush the tops with butter to keep the dough pliable while it rises. Allow the rolls to rise for about 10 minutes.
Bake 10 - 15 minutes at 450 degrees.
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Thanks FG, for that recipe. I'm not much of a baker (hard to force me to measure accurately) but that one I might be able to handle. Yesterday a friend of ours gave us two loaves of homemade bread--a mustard bread and an olive bread. Delicious!
Today I did green beans wrapped in bacon--they're really easy. Blanch the beans, melt some butter and brown sugar on the stove and pour them over the little bundles of beans wrapped in the bacon, then bake at 375 for about 20 minutes. Voila, green beans even a kid will eat. Amazing how lard and sugar help vegetables go down.
Other than that, I kind of copped out on Thanksgiving this year. Next year though, I want to try sausage or oysters in a stuffing or some roast root veggies.
Fried turkey is great! Moist, and surprisingly not greasy. A co-worker of mine was going to try a recipe she'd found where you inject mayonnaise and butter under the bird's skin. (No, it's not Paula Deen, heh.) Can't wait to hear the results of that on Monday morning.
