Anyone gonna be here Thursday???

[elleng]

Just learned family plans, and I may be home alone Thursday!

Daughter, son in law and sweet 2 year old grandson will visit son in law's 2 parents' homes Thursday, splitting one in morning and other in afternoon. SO daughter& think it will mean less rushing and more time spent together if they come here, to my (lovely and scenic) home this weekend. FINE with me!

I'm cooking today for myself, chicken curry, and may make chicken soup Wednesday. There MAY be leftovers for the weekend. A friend may visit Friday (which would be good, as I could use help cleaning before the rugrat arrives on the weekend.)

Guess I'll assess my needs LATER, and pick up whatever I need to feed the family when I figure it out.

Any clever ideas for snacks/meals? They like fresh fruits and veges.

[Yonnie3]

1. I'll be eating institutional food Thursday afternoon

I will celebrate Thanksgiving at an assisted living home in the early afternoon. It will be with my sister's mother in-law who resides there. I've done this once before and was surprised at how decent the food was. I was also surprised at how much they charged us for it.

TJ will be working Wednesday and Thursday nights at the hospital, so our plans are to hit the store on Friday and prepare a traditional meal Saturday.

I'm not sure if it's clever, but for fruit we always had what my Mom called ambrosia. It did not have whipped cream or marshmallows as I see in the modern recipes. It was a fruit salad, heavy on the citrus, bananas, plus pears or peaches or whatever looked good in the store. If we had some good home canned fruit it might be added. It was topped with sweetened coconut shavings and sprigs of mint if any were left in the garden. I'm not sure, but believe some simple syrup was added.

[elleng]

2. Thanks. 'Ambrosia' sounds good.

[japple]

3. I'll be here off & on. Family will be having a group effort Thanksgiving dinner

around 6:30 EST. Sister & I will be making the turkey & dressing, angel biscuits, mashed potatoes, cranberry relish and an apple cake. The rest of the family will make sides and stuff for children (some of whom don't eat normal food). There will be 12-15 in our gathering.

[Liberal Jesus Freak]

4. I'll be around.

We're running a homeless shelter again and a local church is preparing and serving our dinner. We are always abundantly "blessed" with turkey dinners this time of year...I just consumed my third traditional meal in less than 24 hours. People are thoughtful but I could do with some tacos right about now

[locks]

5. I'm going to friends' home

taking rosemary biscuits and kebob brussel sprouts wrapped in bacon.

[blaze]

6. I'll be eating with friends (and Mom!) as well.

My contribution; sauteed green beans with roasted beets, toasted pistachios, lightly drizzled with a date honey syrup.

http://toriavey.com/toris-kitchen/2014/09/green-bean-beet-and-pistachio-salad/

[NJCher]

7. I'll drop by

The RG and I will cook an elaborate meal, but it won't be traditional. He doesn't like turkey and furthermore, he doesn't like holidays. I'm just the opposite. But since he's such a fabulous cook, I'm going to let him do what he wants, which will probably be lamb.

I'll be dropping by to see comments from our regulars.


Cher

[elleng]

8. Sounds great, the 'he doesn't like turkey and holidays.' With him!

Thinking of starting chicken soup this evening. I recall (but can't find, DU2 being so OLD!) DU recipes including 'let it simmer overnight.' Maybe I'll do that! I have a carcass just waiting.

[TreasonousBastard]

9. At the last minute my church decided to contiue the tradition of the...

community Thanksgiving dinner. The problem is that the church burned down last year, so we have to hustle a place to do it until we rebuild.

We found a place, and figure with the little time we have for publicity, we'll get about 40 or so.

I had grand plans for special cauliflower and Brussels sprouts casseroles, but I also have 4 turkey breasts to deal with, and other stuff, so the turkey breasts, a half ham, creamed spinach and pumpkin soup will probably be it.

The cauliflower and sprouts will not go to waste.

[japple]

10. Turkey just came out of the oven. I used a recipe from NY Times

that you posted. I do it a different way every time. I meant to borrow a larger roasting pan from my niece, but forgot and had to use my old roaster, which was too small. The recipe was Melissa Clark's Splayed Turkey with herbs. Since I couldn't really splay it, I just did everything else according to the recipe, which called for a rub of salt, pepper, lemon zest which I smeared over the turkey last night, in addition to stuffing garlic & bay leaves inside. It smells divine and I'm hoping it will taste half as good.

Cornbread, apple dressing has just gone into the oven. It's smelling mighty good around here.

ETA: I will probably cook the carcass all afternoon and maybe all night.

[elleng]

11. Sounds great!

I JUST put chicken carcass in pot and on stove for SOUP!

[Yonnie3]

12. I'm here

I just returned from the Continuing Care Retirement Community* dinner. I tried to sample everything, but just couldn't do it. The salmon was very good and the cranberry in fruit compote with a tangy sweet flavor paired well it. Turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, roast potatoes, carrots, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, fruit salads, green salad, crab stuffing, traditional stuffing, corn bread, rolls and at least a half dozen more dishes. There was a large dessert buffet too.

It was a nice visit with family topped off by an internet visit with my niece on the west coast, who will soon head off to Japan to be an intern in the tea industry. (!?)

I see TJ must have stopped by the store on the way home from work this morning because there is a ham in the refrigerator. We will be doing our Thanksgiving dinner Saturday when we both are rested with no work to interfere. I'll be looking to see what we need for sides tomorrow.

I hope every one's holiday is happy.


*This is what the sign says it is.

[elleng]

13. Sounds good, Yonnie3.

In particular cranberry in fruit compote with a tangy sweet flavor strikes my fancy.

I've made chicken soup, so 'sampling' it now, for dinner. Expect to see family over the weekend.

[Yonnie3]

14. I hope the soup is good.

From your posts, I think I see that you didn't do the overnight cooking.

Enjoy.

[elleng]

15. Right, I didn't do the overnight cooking;

got entangled with some movies last night.

It's OK; cooking down now.