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Can we talk about food?
I have several food questions I need help with.
1. Is it weird to bring chocolate cake to Thanksgiving? I need something portable, it's easier than pie and we have a group of very picky eaters who don't seem to like most pies anyway.
2. I'll have three meat eaters at my house at Christmas. What can I feed them that doesn't leave us with 10 pounds of leftover meat? A game hen? Do they sell small hams? I'm wondering if Whole Foods would have something you can order by size. I want it to take as little preparation as possible because I don't want to touch it.
3. I got three daikon from the farmers market. What do I do with them? Recipes online are more sparse that I expected.
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Re: Can we talk about food?
1. Nope, not weird. I love chocolate cake on any occasion. I know lots of people who don't like traditional pies at thanksgiving anyway.
2. Cornish hens, small game hen, a roast chicken...all fine choices, I think. Turkey is hard to come by here, so we end up getting a little turkey and then a biggish chicken for our dinner. Also, I think you can get small honey baked hams (you used to be able to order by size) or I think Boston Market used to do dinners. Not sure if they are even still around.
3. Probably not much help here. I've only had daikon picked and in little sushi rolls. It's yummy though.
1. I don't think it's weird to bring chocolate cake anywhere, at any time
It's not your traditional Thanksgiving dessert, and after a heavy meal it might be a bit much. But if that's what works for you, I say do it.
If you want other options that aren't pie, that upside down plum cake you gave me I think would be awesome with pears (I'm actually thinking of doing that at Thanksgiving) and I think that's pretty transportable. You could also make a spice cake or some pumpkin cake with some cinnamon cream cheese frosting (Smitten Kitchen has a good recipe I can point you to). And I have an awesome crisp recipe that gets devoured everywhere I take it, that would be good with either apples or pears (or a mixture of both). Let me know if any of that sounds appealing.
2. If you don't want to touch raw meat, you may want to consider buying a pre-cooked bird (I believe Whole Foods does have that option -- I called them about turkeys this week and I think they said pre-cooked turkeys were available.) They do have smaller raw turkeys too. The heirloom varieties in particular tend to be smaller (I was looking at a 6-10 lb. bird, which would easily feed four meat eaters with some leftovers). You could also do small game hens, but you'd need to touch raw meat. Most supermarkets also sell precooked, whole chickens which may be a good option for you.
3. No help w/ the daikon beyond the Asian slaw suggestion I gave earlier. I'm really not familiar with that vegetable
1. Is it weird to bring chocolate cake to Thanksgiving? I need something portable, it's easier than pie and we have a group of very picky eaters who don't seem to like most pies anyway.
No. Take something you want to eat and if they don't like it, phooey on them.
2. I'll have three meat eaters at my house at Christmas. What can I feed them that doesn't leave us with 10 pounds of leftover meat? A game hen? Do they sell small hams? I'm wondering if Whole Foods would have something you can order by size. I want it to take as little preparation as possible because I don't want to touch it.
A game hen, small chicken, ham - you could even buy mostly-prepped turkey from the butcher counter, so you get a few pounds of turkey that's already off the bone and just needs to be thrown in the oven/on the stove.
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1. Not weird at all to have chocolate cake. We've had a huge variety of desserts for Thanksgiving.
3. I only really use daikon radish to make a Chinese New Year dish, lo bak gao. It's mentioned, along with a recipe, on this site but IME it's a pretty labor-intensive dish and not what I would do with daikon your first time out.
DH likes it in a veggies soup I make, which is super easy. I usually use chicken stock but you could substitute veggie stock. I boil that with potatoes, tomatoes, carrots, celery, and mushrooms, but DH likes replacing the potatoes with cut up chunks of daikon instead. I serve with a cilantro garnish if we have it around.