the primitives get cooking

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Oh my.

spinbaby (11,172 posts)    Thu Nov 28, 2013, 08:20 AM

Let's get cooking!

Busy, busy day. Rolls are rising, the turkey (only a 14-pound bird) goes in at noon, leaves to put in the table, green-bean casserole to assemble. Busy, busy.
 
This is one day the family won't go for anything different--the menu was carved in stone by my in-laws at the beginning of time. We have a standard roasted turkey, Pepperidge Farm herb-seasoned stuffing made with celery and onions, crescent rolls (I did convince them to eat the homemade kind instead of the canned kind), green-bean casserole, mashed potatoes, peas, gravy, canned cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, and pecan pie.

Freddie (1,837 posts)    Thu Nov 28, 2013, 08:38 AM

1. Me too

I try to make the dishes that my Grandma, who was a wonderful cook, made with love. Her holiday specialty was her stuffing or what we PA Dutch call filling. Diced potatoes, celery and onions cooked soft in lots of butter, mixed with plain soft bread cubes, eggs, milk, parsley, salt and just a little pepper, baked in a pan. Green bean casserole, Cope's dried corn, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes with marshmallows, a relish tray, pumpkin and apple pies. Gotta get out of bed, put coffee on and get moving too! Have a great Thanksgiving!

FarPoint (2,846 posts)    Thu Nov 28, 2013, 08:40 AM

2. Our two birds are in the oven.

Brett is making the Parker House Rolls...Other family members are doing appetizers, sides and pies.

hobbit709 (28,839 posts)    Thu Nov 28, 2013, 08:40 AM

3. Just took the cobblers out of the oven.

now all I have to do is fix my breakfast and head over to my brother's at 2.

Arkansas Granny (15,523 posts)    Thu Nov 28, 2013, 11:20 AM

5. The pies are baked (2 each of pecan, pumpkin and buttermilk), the sides are all assembled and ready to be heated in the oven, the dressing is ready to go in the bird, the giblets are simmering gently. The turkey goes in the oven at noon, so we are having a fresh cup of coffee while the pumpkin seeds are toasting. So far, everything is on schedule.

mopinko (40,180 posts)    Thu Nov 28, 2013, 12:21 PM

7. i worked so hard cleaning and re-orging my kitchen for the last 4 days.

i'm too tired and sore to cook! luckily DH is the heavy lifting cook. hopefully later i will at least be in shape for some simple jobs.

might just force some kids to chip in, tho, so it might be good.

smoking the bird, dh is out getting it lit.

fizzgig (18,967 posts)    Thu Nov 28, 2013, 12:22 PM
^^^NOMINEE FOR TOP DUmmie OF 2013

8. we'll get the turkey in the oven in a couple hours

our menu is a lot like yours except we're having brussel sprouts with apple and bacon instead of the peas and apple pie instead of pumpkin. everything is made from scratch except the can of crescent rolls. this is the first thanksgiving in years where dad agreed to do real stuffing rather than the pepperidge farms stuffing.
 
we still have to make the fried onions for the casserole and assemble and heat it, cook off the sausage and assemble the stuffing and bake the apple pie (that'll go in the oven after dinner).
 
happy turkey day!

The empressof all (27,857 posts)    Thu Nov 28, 2013, 04:13 PM

9. Just finished wrapping goat cheese stuffed dates in prosciutto

I'll pop them in the oven just as folks arrive....

Turkey is in now. Dressings and sweet potato casserole will warm as I make the mashed and the gravy
 
Off to make the salad dressing

It will be yummers

"yummers".....what the fu--dge?

eridani (40,057 posts)    Thu Nov 28, 2013, 06:27 PM

10. BIL just took the turkey out of the oven to rest

House is filled with the savory smells of a very traditional selection of sides like everyone else. I may be politically radical, but I'm a total cornball traditionalist on holidays.

eridani (40,057 posts)   Thu Nov 28, 2013, 09:06 PM

12. And DAMN but it was good

Plenty for leftovers and stock for turkey soup. Sides were they usual green bean casserole, mashed potatoes and gravy, cornbread stuffing, cranberry sauce, biscuits, apple salad with dried cranberries and cinammon, and for a couple of extra sides creamed cauliflower and corn with tomato salsa. Pumpkin muffins and apple pie for dessert, but that will have to wait a couple of hours.

Aerows (19,036 posts)    Fri Nov 29, 2013, 03:05 PM

13. I made good old fashioned green beans this year

I just love them, and I wanted some fresh ones just cooked. They were delicious.

[Skul]

Heh

hobbit709 (28,839 posts)   
Thu Nov 28, 2013, 08:40 AM

3. Just took the cobblers out of the oven.

I'll bet they were none to happy being there.
I wonder were she put the baker and tailor?

[BattleHymn]

fizzgig (18,967 posts)    Thu Nov 28, 2013, 12:22 PM
^^^NOMINEE FOR TOP DUmmie OF 2013

our menu is a lot like yours except we're having brussel sprouts with apple and bacon instead of the peas and apple pie instead of pumpkin.

That alone is enough justification for placing in the DOTY.

[GOBUCKS]

fizzgig (18,967 posts)   
Thu Nov 28, 2013, 12:22 PM

our menu is a lot like yours except we're having brussel sprouts

Mentally ill.

Shaved head.

Running around naked.

Brussels sprouts.

Nuff said.

[marv]

Our standard Thanksgiving fare:

A Jenny-O light/dark turkey roast
Instant mashed potatoes
Turkey gravy from the roast
A green vegetable
(sometimes some box dressing)
Frozen pumpkin pie (baked of course)

Nothing fancy or to brag about; just nourishing, filling, quick and easy. I put it together, and wife cleans up. That gives me time to watch football, or maybe take a nap.