In the combox of my other blog, Mrs. Bear asks some questions about Thanksgiving so I thought I would answer them here instead. (This being a food blog and all.)
Hey, do you bake pies?
Yes! I rarely have made a pie that requires two crusts, but I do make pies. The first year I was married I made my own crusts. Then I read a statement by someone who called herself a chef who said that the taste difference between store bought crusts and homemade is barely perceptible. I started buying the crusts and last year realized that they just do not taste good. So if I make a pie this year I will make it 100% and not just the filling.
And what are your views on cranberry sauce?
My views on cranberry sauce are Will Rogers-esque: I have never met a cranberry sauce I didn't like. To my shame, that even includes the canned stuff. The year I celebrated Thanksgiving with Flannery she made a fantastic cranberry relish where the berries didn't even need to be cooked. I asked her for the recipe but am still waiting. . . My mother always made the cranberry sauce recipe on the back of the bag and my husband's family made a cranberry sauce jello with fresh cranberries, whipped cream, and several other yummy ingredients. He has made that each year since we got married, so I haven't bothered to make anything else.
And what kind of bread do you like for Thanksgiving? I am wondering if I should bake biscuits.
When I was a child I loved rolls with my Thanksgiving dinner. However, since I reached adulthood I have realized rolls with my dinner are one more starch in a heavily-starched meal so I have never had any sort of bread product. I think a lot of people serve it as a filler so that their guests won't eat as much of the other stuff. If I were making dinner for lots of people I would serve it (or have someone else bring it), but as long as we are just having small Thanksgivings I will do without bread or rolls. So I guess you need to think of whether the people you are serving will eat the biscuits, will they like them, will they be disappointed not to have them, or will they not even notice if they aren't there. Just my two cents. ;)
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i agree with you on the bread-free dinner... i always take a roll if there is one, then i enjoy the stuffing and potatoes and everything before realizing, "oh crap, how am i gonna stuff in a roll, too, and now it's all soggy from gravy and cran-sauce."
save the biscuits to have with some country gravy the next morning... that's MY two cents.
I totally don't believe your accusation about me not giving it to you... :) But here it is, just in case. In return, could I have the SA recipe?
1 med. orange, peeled, quartered and seeded.
1 lg. apple, quartered and cored.
shred in a food processor, then add:
2 c. fresh or frozen cranberries
3/4 c sugar
grind together.
I eat the rolls/biscuits to the exclusion of all other starches (apart from the pies, of course)--stuffing is easy to pass up, and mashed potatoes aren't hard, leaving lots of room for rolls. And I devoutly believe that pie crusts need to be made by hand.
Btw, I am looking for recipes for spicy hummus, falafel, and whole wheat pitas.
I love mashed potatoes so would rather eat those than a roll, and stuffing is good as long as there are no giblets mixed in, so I guess it is just a matter of taste which one prefers.
For the recipe, I assume you are talking about the jello recipe, so I will post it tomorrow. I will keep my eye out for the other recipes.
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