This Friday I hosted . . . THANKSGIVING!
Why Friday, you ask? Well, here in the UK, we don't get Thanksgiving Break, so I figured it would be easier for people to come if it were on Friday. Also that would give me both Thursday and Friday to cook, because I have only one lecture each of those days.
I did pretty much the whole thing: turkey, dressing, gravy, corn pudding, green bean casserole, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, biscuits, and pie! I'm pretty proud of myself. The only things I didn't do were cranberry sauce (Bryan bought some - we couldn't find cranberries to do it ourselves) and the pie crust. Oh, and the gravy was a little wonky. Very flavourful, almost like a ju, but very thin. Pumpkins are wicked expensive, so it was a butter-nut squash pie, but still amazing. And you can't find creamed corn here, so I had to make that myself too.
There were eight people. I had hoped for more but oh well. Oriane, Bryan, Jess, Ing Wan, Pablo, Guille, Irma, and me. Good times were had. And it turns out corn pudding is a tradition in Jess's family too, only they have it with cheese and call it Swiss corn bake.
I still have half a squash and tons of sweet and mashed potatoes left (along with some other odds and ins). I'll have to figure out what to do with them. The turkey carcass is being boiled for stock as we speak. No, we didn't finish a whole turkey, it was just the breast.
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hey,JA. What a feast! Good for you! Sorry I didn't get your pie request in time.
ReplyDeleteRe: the leftovers> Mashed potatoes with either kale or cabbage can be made into "colcannon", an Irish side dish. Shepherds pie is also a good way to use up leftover mashed. Play with recipes you may find..they usually call for beef or lamb but Iv'e made them vegetarian, too. Squash can be baked into breads or muffins (as in pumpkin pastries). I'll write later re: our T-day in Fl. Mom