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….and my oven caught fire today.
Chilling in my fridge, I have: 14-pound turkey, old-fashioned cornbread dressing, scalloped corn, caramelized onions au gratin, home-canned whole berry cranberry sauce, and bourbon cheesecake. In the oven right now, pumpkin pie with rum and walnuts. Going in next–shoo-fly pie then quick fudge brownies. The ultimate breakfast casserole will also go into the fridge tonight for the morning. Also on my Thanksgiving menu (to be prepared tomorrow), cornmeal yeast rolls, mashed potatoes, gravy (of course), and buttery peas.
Links to all of these recipes are here in my Thanksgiving favorites except for:
Quick Fudge Brownies
Shoo-Fly Pie
Ultimate Breakfast Casserole
Caramelized Onions Au Gratin
Classic Cheesecake
Bourbon cheesecake is the same recipe as for classic cheesecake except take out the teaspoon of vanilla and add two tablespoons of bourbon. (Delicious.)
The desserts were all children-selected, plus Morgan voted for peas over green beans. And nobody wanted sweet potatoes or butternut squash but me so I capitulated to the pressure.
Oh–back to the oven fire!!! So, I baked four loaves of Grandmother Bread in the last 24 hours. Before a holiday, I usually cook some big meat thing to slice up and make several days of easy sandwich dinners while I’m preparing the feast. I need a lot of sliced Grandmother Bread–for the sandwiches and for the various other things such as the dressing, bread crumbs for casseroles, and even more for the breakfast casserole. I was taking the fourth loaf of bread out this afternoon when I realized there was a tiny FLAME in the bottom of the oven. Seems it’s been a while since I cleaned the oven. The crud caught on fire all by itself. In case you don’t know what to do if you have an oven fire–you can toss baking soda on it, or put an upside down pan over it, or sometimes it’s enough to just shut the oven door and deprive the flame of oxygen. (Number three worked for me.) No time for a full-out oven cleaning, but after the oven cooled down I scraped it good and wiped it out so I could keep on baking.
How is your Thanksgiving prep coming? Is your oven on fire yet? If it’s not, YOU’RE NOT BAKING HARD ENOUGH!
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Posted by Suzanne McMinn on November 24, 2010
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Baked 2 loaves of zucchini bread and will do a loaf of banana bread in the morning. Everything else: mashed potatoes, squash, sweet potatoes, corn, turnips(NOT the greens), giblet gravy and stuffing will all be made tomorrow as well as the turkey.
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Mine will be salt crusted prime rib, fresh broccoli w/cheese sauce, garlic and sour cream mashes, sage dressing (sage from my little herb garden)smokey chipotle sweet potatoes,spring greens w/fresh pear/bacon/feta cheese & and raspberry creme dressing, fresh yeast rolls, apple rum raisin, and southern pecan pies…
I’m full already.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. Especially thankful for your military son….
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Happy Thanksgiving Everyone – Eat well & enjoy the comforts of this special day! Safe travels to everyone heading out somewhere…
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YUMMM!!!!
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Butternut Squash Soup
Brined Herb-Crusted Turkey with Apple Cider Gravy (Anne Burrell’s recipe)
Sausage and Herb Dressing
Sugar-and-Spice Roasted Squash
Brussel Sprouts
Honey Glazed Carrots
Baked Mashed Potatoes
Creamed Pearl Onions
Mama Stamberg’s Cranberry Relish (of NPR fame)
Pear and (home-made) Ricotta Tart
Guests are always welcome!
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Thanksgiving & Christmas menu:
Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes & gravy, fresh green beans, olives, cranberry sauce(jelly, not chunky). Pumpkin & pecan pies. This year, I’m adding the sweet potato casserole my new SIL asked for.
lol
Easy peasy! Noting to “figure out”, ‘cuz it’s written in granite.
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Fire freaks me out.
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