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

[kittehkat.livejournal.com]

Grandparents: possibly for eating?

Dude, I want that relish.

All your pies are flipping gorgeous. Wow. I mean, it all is, but they're also adorable! And yummy looking!

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

NO EATING GRANDPARENTS. My mom did the decorations on the pies! She is awesome!

And the relish is:

1 1/2 bags cranberries
1/4 cup basil

Put in food processor.

Then make this syrup:

1/2 cup dry red wine
1/4 cup sugar
5 Tbs pomegranate molasses


(if you can't find pom molasses, add more wine and then use pom juice)

Boil till it gets syrupy

Add to the chopped cranberries. Add a tablespoon at a time till you get the desired amount of sweetness. If you like it more sweet, add some sugar or corn syrup.

Add 2 cups of pomegranate seeds (about one large pomegranate). Stir in with a wooden spoon!