Thanksgiving 2009

[teaberryblue]

As many of you know, for the past four years (this being the fifth), I took off a full week of work to make Thanksgiving dinner for my parents, my grand parents, and liret. This is my thank you to the people I love.

	Prepping the Beets		Daddy’s Special Thanksgiving Cocktail		Sugarbeet
	Crispy Baked Kale		Crab Salad on Endive with Dried Cranberries		Liver Mousse and Pickled Onion Crostini
	Homemade Cheddar Cheese Shortbread Crackers		Liver Mousse & PIckled Onion		Fennel Soup with Toasted Hazelnuts and Dried Cranberries
	Pretty Centerpiece		Jess! (NOT FOR EATING)		Mama! (Also not for eating)
	Dada! (Do not even think about eating!)		Escarole, Frisee, and Shaved Beet Salad with homemade vinaigrette		Pan-seared scallops with chestnut sauce and deep-fried sage
	Deviled Pickled Eggs		Cranberry-Mint Sorbet		Grandma and Poppa!
	Brown Butter Mashed Potatoes with deep fried shallots		Turkey!		Brussels Sprouts with maple-candied pecans
	Cranberry and Clementine sauce with pomegranate-candied pumpkin seeds		Rye and Pumpernickel Stuffing		Sauteed Broccolini with toasted almonds
	Corn pudding		Mixed root vegetable gratin		Cranberry-Pomegranate relish
	THE HOLY PEAS OF JOHN		Apple Pie		Pumpkin pie!
	Apple-ginger pie		Pecan Pie		German Chocolate Pie

Note: Everything here is homemade. The liver mousse is homemade. The crab salad is homemade. The soup is homemade. The syrups in the cocktails are homemade. The mayonnaise in the deviled eggs (which are home-pickled, like the onions) are homemade. The candied nuts and seeds are homemade. The sorbet is homemade. The beets, the carrots, the broccolini, the kale, and the brussels sprouts, along with most of the herbs, come from our garden so they're extra homemade. The only thing on the table that is not homemade are the peas, which are their own story. Their own very exciting story.

Mirrored from Antagonia.net.

(This is also counting as my Free Topic entry for therealljidol)

Comments

[supremegoddess1.livejournal.com]

dear LORD/GOD/GODDESS/BUDDHA/ALLAH is that a lot of food...

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

That is why I feel like a giant leaden balloon right now!

[supremegoddess1.livejournal.com]

do you make all of it, or do you have help? and exactly how many people are you serving?

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

There are just six of us! I do pretty much everything though my mom works on the pies and helps with the last minute food prep and cuts the onions (because I can't-- I literally can't even quarter an onion without crying). Jess put the crab inside the endive and put the liver on the crostini, though!

[supremegoddess1.livejournal.com]

you guys will have leftovers for months!!!

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

We will! I am super excited for making fried mashed potatoes.

[rattsu.livejournal.com]

HOLY CRAP and here I thought we had a lot of food on our christmas table... but, I bow to you, this is one of the more spectacular things I have ever seen.

Also, have you tried holding an unlit match between your teeth while you cut onions? Reputedly that helps a lot, something to do with the sulfur. Never tried it myself though...

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

Yup, I've tried that, I've tried having lit candles, I've tried putting the onion in a bowl of water, I've tried keeping a piece of bread in my teeth and cutting them under a vent and a bunch of other things.I can't even be in the same room with other people cutting onions. It's kind of pathetic.