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CalifChick -> RE: -=The Thanksgiving Meal Thread=- (11/26/2009 10:55:03 PM)
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Some kinkster friends invited me over, and assured me it was kid-friendly. There was a total of 12 of us. At one point at the dinner table, discussing the lit candles on the table and candlewax, someone was skirting dangerously close to the edge of inappropriate, so I loudly started saying, "LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA" until everybody shut up and looked at me and asked me what was up. I said, "inappropriate!" and everybody laughed. My kids are 5 and 14.
Immediately my little one, who was sitting next to me, laid her head on my chest, and I said, "get your head off my BOOB!" and everyone else at the table started in with the "LA LA LA LA LA" right back at me. I almost fell off my chair laughing.
There was a huge appetizer spread with cucumber sandwiches, green olives stuffed with pepper jack cheese, spanakopita (greek phyllo triangles stuff with spinach), veggies, meatballs, pigs in a blanket, etc. We could easily have made that a full meal.
For the main course we could have fed at least another dozen or so people.
turkey and ham
mashed potatoes and gravy
green bean casserole (made with homemade cream of mushroom soup, none of that canned business)
stuffing
macaroni and cheese
candied sweet potatoes
rice pilaf
green salad
an assortment of breads and rolls
homemade chunky cranberry sauce
For dessert, you might as well have rolled us out the door, we ate so much. There was pumpkin pie and an assortment of cookies. Then there was my contribution. Yes, "diabetic coma" was my ultimate goal for everyone. I made:
"Kill or Die Lemon Pie". A tried-and-true recipe. A bit labor-intensive, but I make it for special occasions. And I made three of them last night... one for thanksgiving, one as a gift for a friend, and one that I promised to someone for her birthday last week (but circumstances beyond my control prevented it from happening on her birthday).
Oh My My Chocolate Pie - a new recipe for me, that produced a pie that is similar to chocolate silk pie, but more dense and more intense. Topped with freshly whipped cream and chocolate curls and shavings. This is a keeper.
Dutch Apple Pie - another new recipe for me, and this one is a keeper as well. I used very tart granny smith apples, and the pie was topped with caramel sauce and freshly whipped cream (no cool whip for our thanksgiving). The combination of tart apples and caramel sauce was fabulous.
I wasn't too sure how the apple pie was going to turn out, with the very tart apples, plus when I took it out of the oven and held it up to look at the bottom thru the glass pie dish, it looked like the crust had "dissolved" into the filling. I thought we might end up eating it in bowls with whipped cream or ice cream, but other than the crust sticking QUITE a bit in places, it was great. But because I didn't know how it was going to taste, I decided to make a batch of fudge. This was a new recipe for me as well (which was unusual - normally I only spring one new recipe on people at one time), but it turned out so smooth and creamy (no grainy texture), and was a simple recipe, that this will go into my regular file.
Cali
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