Thanksgiving Menu

[Ulysses]

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god damn dude do you have to ruin everything by mixing it with sweet stuff?

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Well, the brine worked out insanely great. And how can you not love glazed carrots?

As for the pie, I just like 'em sweet.

[Ulysses]

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Is the flavor noticeable?

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Not really. There definitely wasn't a sweet or maple flavor. I think the sweetness in the brine might balance the salt and spicy flavors somewhat. I dunno, it just worked. All in all, the brine turned out really great. Super-juicy well-seasoned turkey.

[BottlesOf]

Diablo-

You should've roasted the carrots alongside the celery and onions with the bird. You then save those carrots and serve them.

[eric5148]

An excellent meal. Too bad it was ruined with canned cranberries.

For those who haven't heard of this type of brine: the sugar carmelizes on the skin and gives it a nice dark color and makes a slightly crispy skin.

[BottlesOf]

I took part in the prep, but it was more my parents and grandmother. Cousins made the soup.

First:

Table had some mixed nuts, grapes, and a board with crackers and 3 cheeses: a goat cheese, a soft brie like cheese called daphinois, a hard cheese.

Also served was a shrimp appertizer, made by marinating peeled and cooked shrimp in an apple cider vinnegar based marinade with onions and capers.


The soup: A sweet potato and leeks recipe taken from a recent NYT article.

The meal:

12 lb capon, brined over night in a salt water with onions and bay leaves. The bird was roasted with shallots, celery and carrots for like 3 hours, and was basted often. The drippings were used to make a standard gravy, however standard gravy is made.

The bird was stuffed with some stuffing from Citarella's, it was pretty standard stuffing, bread, celery, onions, currants, etc. We baked the rest outside the bird. It was not as good as Pepperidge Farm or William Sonoma, IMO.

Mashed potatos- Yukon gold, cream added, whipped etc. These are the nuts.

Yams Baked with brown sugar and some other stuff, pineapple on top.

Cranberry sauce- Jarred (not canned!) from William Sonoma.

Brocollini for some green--recipe stolen from Gourmet magazine. They were boiled the night before, and then sauted in butter and garilc right before serving.

I thiiiink that's it.....Oh, Dessert...

Dessert:

Chocolate Mouse cake-bought from somewhere, but it's good.

Pumpkin pie, and Apple pie. The crusts are hommeade, as is the apple pie, but the pumpkin is made from a can, and you just add evaporated milk and maybe something else and bake.

[Ed I]

Hutterite free range turkey

yams

wild and brown rice

baked beans

deviled eggs

broccoli and cauliflower

spinich salad with manderan oranges

homemade rolls

homemade pie pumpkin and pecan

Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale

[Dark Force Rising]

Monster Thickburger

[sfer]

Brining is the way to go. A Bay Area secret that's spreading.

[beerbandit]

pumpkin pie?


hope everything turned out well

cheers
beer

[beerbandit]

hows that buttermilk pie?

ive never had it, i looked up the recipe and it looks intersting--


cheers
beer