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What is your Thanksgiving menu?
I know we've done favorites and what we can/can't live without.. but what's you're menu for tomorrow look like?
Re: What is your Thanksgiving menu?
We're hosting about 14 people in our home tomorrow. Our house will be open all day with 'official' cocktail hour starting around 2 and dinner at 4 (we have a few friends with babies/toddlers who have to be in bed by 8pm).
Menu
Cocktail Appetizers
* Bacon wrapped figs stuffed with blue cheese and marcona almonds
* Smoked salmon on puff pastry rounds with creme fraiche and chives
* Cinnamon apples on puff pastry rounds
* Parmasan cups with parsley goat cheese mousse
* Honey baked brie with craisins and walnuts
* Crudite with homemade dip
Signature Drinks
* Pomegranate Cosmos
* Cranberry and Spiced Rum Punch
* Pomegranate sparkling apple cider (non-alcoholic)
* Strawberry sparkling wine/champagne
Meal
* Curried carrot & apple soup
* Shaved fennel and apple salad
* Red radish or broccoli salad
* Brined, roast turkey
* Mashed potatoes
* Traditional bread stuffing
* White turkey gravy
* Sweet southern cake corn bread
* Sweet dinner rolls
* Roast brussel sprouts
* Green bean casserole
* Candied sweet potatoes
* Italian Alba white truffle risotto (Last minute menu addition. I won an ounce of a white truffle the other day in a blog contest and it's supposed to arrive today. I am sooo excited.)
Desserts
* Pumpkin chiffon pie
* Creme brulee
Dreamwinds - My invitation must have gotten lost in the mail
(Please don't ban me from the board for this!)
My parents are here to visit and didn't want to do Thanksgiving. Dad wanted to go out for Italian.
Appetizer - Spinach dip in a bread bowl
Main - Beer Can chicken, mashed potatoes, grilled corn and fresh bread.
Desserts - Pecan pie, pumpkin pie, and fresh ice cream
The menu depends on whatever my aunts feel like cooking, and it feeds about 16 people with lots of leftovers that typically last each branch of the family 1 week. Usually it's along the lines of :
Food:
Fruit Salad
Rolls
Ham
Turkey
Stuffing
Sweet Potatoes (with marshmallows toasted on top)
Mashed Potatoes and Gravy
Green Bean Casserole
Cranberry sauce stuff
Dessert:
Pumpkin Pie, and two other types of pie (always changes)
Jello "salad"
Drinks:
Soda, Beer, and Mimosas
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Drinks:
Spiced cider
Hot toddy's
Champagne cocktails with St Germain Elderberry foam
Something else with grand marnier spheres
Home-brewed pumpkin beer
Wine
Appetizers:
Gourgeres
Parmesan crackers with horse radish creme fraiche
Butter squash and sage wontons
Meat and cheese plate with local cheeses and home-cured salami
Bread/soup:
Cornbread with bacon/bourbon butter
Roasted cauliflower soup with chive oil
Main course:
Brined, sous-vide turkey breast
Turkey thigh, wing, and leg confit
Gravy
Cornbread stuffing with sausage
Cole slaw
Mashed potatoes with roasted garlic and carmelized onions
Balsamic and red wine green beans
Glazed carrots
Dessert:
Pumpkin sundae pie
Pumpkin pie
French silk pie (gluten free)
Salted caramel and vanilla ice cream
Bourbon whipped cream
We are going to my mom's house.
She is making:
turkey
cranberry sauce
squash casserole
mashed potatoes and gravy
green bean casserole
We are bringing:
potato and tortilla chips
veggies
several dips
ambrosia salad
yams
stuffing
biscuits
apple pie
cupcakes
amish friendship bread
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Do you have a foamer? How is it? Which brand would you recommend?
Best sound ever: baby's heartbeat! (Heard @ 10w1d)
I think this is the one we have
I can't make any recommendations yet, because DH just got it.
http://www.amazon.com/1801-Insulated-Cream-Foam-Whipper/dp/B003E74IR2
We are hosting between 6-10 people (H's friends have commitment issues)
appetizer: maple baked brie wrapped in puff pastry
1st course: homemade pasta with bolognese, cheddar cheese rolls
main course: turkey, stuffing, cranberry salad, mashed potatoes, broccoli, green bean casserole
dessert: pumpkin pie and apple hazlenut chocolate flourless torte
Ditto...I LOVE St. Germain with champagne!
And holy crap both of you! How on earth do you have time to do such crazy fancy foods?
emyinpink: I had one of the original ISI's and LOVED it. But some cream went bad and after multiple tries, I had to give up because I couldn't get the mold taste out of the top so everything after tasted moldy
I haven't bought a new one yet as I was so sad (mine was metal and now they're plastic).
We'll be a total of 8. This will be the first year my cousin hasn't been with her mom, so we're making sure to have the 2 things done the way they do it to help with the homesickness. Um, I didn't know everyone does appetizers? We don't have that planned, so oh well!
For me, it's all DH. He loves to cook. We have incredible dinners almost every night.