Coffee anyone ?

[Baymule]

@Sara Ranch so glad that everyone enjoyed Grandmother Elma's Sweet Potato Casserole. Chopped dates sounds like a good addition.

Yes, don't see why not you couldn't use duck eggs for the eggnog. People have used rum and said it was good, but I have always used bourbon.

You said you made croutons for the stuffing. Ever make cornbread dressing? I am a Southerner, have tried bread dressing, but just can't hack it--gotta have CORNBREAD dressing!

 

[Sara Ranch]

@Baymule - I haven't, but I am up for the challenge! Recipe?

I enjoyed the bread stuffing. Maybe cuz it had sausage in it. I've never been keen on stuffing, but it was requested for the meal, and I found a way to make a gluten free stuffing. So I made it.

@Mother Hen - I made one pie and 6 ramekins of pecan pie. One has your name on it in the fridge. Enjoy!!

@Sourland - bake head of cauliflower?? Oh do tell how that was done!

 

[Alaskan]

one of my kids is Celiac...no gluten for him..

I make cornbread dressing that is gluten free.

I make cornbread like the recipe says on the package, but with one stick of butter that is melted in the cast iron so it also greases the pan before being poured into the batter. The recipe on the corn meal asks for 1/2 corn meal and 1/2 wheat flour, but I have found that 1/2 corn meal and 1/2 masa flour is excellent and cooks up just right.

After the cornbread is cooked and cooled, a break it up and mix it with 3 eggs, and mushy celery, onions and carrots that have been simmering in the stock pot for hours. Also add the giblets and neck meat from the stock pot, all diced up.

seasonings are sage, salt and pepper.

Add in liquid from the stock pot until the mix in the bowl is super soggy.

melt a stick of butter in the casserole dish, swirl it about, pour most of the butter into bowl of cornbread dressing, mix it up and very gently spoon into casserole dish. Do NOT pack. cook until hot in center.

 

[Alaskan]

I am glad thanksgiving is over...spouse spent the time glued to an electronic, mom-in-law had fun insulting me, and I didn't get to over indulge with the booze because I ended up driving.

hurrah

glad it is done

 

[Bunnylady]

I'm glad you survived, Alaskan.Holidays are stressful enough, but toxic relations can turn what is supposed to be a celebration into a test of endurance.

 

[Pastor Dave]

We had a good day with one empty chair for the first time at a holiday; not including Grandpa and Grandma. They have been gone a little while now.

Al, that does suck for lack of better description. I am fortunate I have great in-laws. We see them all later today. And, I don't have to cook! Your corn bread dressing sounds great.

I cooked the meal yesterday, and it went well. Everything came out good. Glad it's mostly over for a month.

 

[Sourland]

Coffee is brewed, 'nough said.

 

[Bunnylady]

Everything came out good.

One of the things I am thankful for is that I had the foresight to put a cookie sheet under the Swedish Apple Pie when I put it in the oven. I thought the cookie crust/top was a little too spreadable when I put it on . . . It wound up melting off the top of the pie and almost half of it ran down all over the cookie sheet. What a mess that would have been if it gone onto the bottom of the oven!

It was still yummy, though.

 

[Baymule]

Better double up on the coffee, sounds like everyone has a Thanksgiving hangover.

 

[Alaskan]

Al, that does suck for lack of better description. I am fortunate I have great in-laws. We see them all later today. And, I don't have to cook! Your corn bread dressing sounds great.

thanks and thanks.

I grew up thinking that butter was a staple! Gotta get as much butter as possible in most foods, unless you wanna use lard. Lard is good too.

One of the things I am thankful for is that I had the foresight to put a cookie sheet under the Swedish Apple Pie when I put it in the oven. I thought the cookie crust/top was a little too spreadable when I put it on . . . It wound up melting off the top of the pie and almost half of it ran down all over the cookie sheet. What a mess that would have been if it gone onto the bottom of the oven!

It was still yummy, though.

That was a close one!

Better double up on the coffee, sounds like everyone has a Thanksgiving hangover.

I sure do. ... stupid headache hasn't left yet.