Originally Posted by TWA884 (Post 32811185)

Melted Green Cabbage.

Originally Posted by chgoeditor (Post 32812750)

Link: https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/...ll-recipe.html

Tonight Mr. CE is cooking chicken marsala, which I love, but I'm slightly annoyed because today is the day our cleaning people are here and he is the messiest cook :( And in our house, the person who doesn't cook does the post-dinner clean up.

We're doing Thanksgiving with another "mixed" couple -- Canadian and American -- and we're hosting. The other day my Canadian husband told me he'd planned out the menu, which made me laugh. (Although Canada celebrates Thanksgiving (with poutine and nanimo bars, I think), Jewish Canadians typically don't because they celebrate Sukkot, which falls at roughly the same time.) Anyway, he did OK with the menu planning once I told him what special dishes were non-negotiable to me and the other American, who I've celebrated with more than a dozen times.

Appetizers:
* Charcuterie
* Herb-marinated feta (I know this arguably falls under charcuterie, but Mr. CE was very excited by the recipe)

Main:
* Turducken and gravy (our first turducken!). It's stuffed with a cornbread stuffing.
* Mashed potatoes
* Mushroom and chestnut stuffing
* Oyster casserole (one of the non-negotiable dishes for the two Americans)
* Roast brussels sprouts
* Maple glazed sweet potatoes
* Cranberry sauce

Dessert:
* The other couple is responsible for these, which likely means pumpkin pie and apple pie. We're having a planning call tonight.
* The other American has this awesome frozen cranberry "salad" recipe that is sometimes on the table with dinner but that I always save for dessert (since I hate pie) -- cranberries, apple, orange, walnuts and celery pureed and then folded into whipped cream and frozen. OMG.
* I may make a cranberry upside down cake or a cranberry tart. We'll see.

Originally Posted by Jaimito Cartero (Post 32812809)

Looks like a nice menu. I am shocked that you hate pie!

Originally Posted by gaobest (Post 32812723)

normally for thanksgiving we are at a buffet which includes pb&j on white bread (crusts cut off) and brown sugar bacon (pre-buffet drinks & appetizers). We will replicate the pb&j but amend the brown sugar bacon to do turkey bacon, either cooked on its own or baked on Club crackers like we do for Christmas.

just so there’s zero confusion about the king crab legs supper, my original intention was to just have the crab legs and maybe lox for supper. However, I arrived home feeling cold from the play date, so I decided that I wanted grilled evergood hot links sausage. It made sense to offer to also grill chicken apple sausage for my cold baby. Everything was delicious and amusingly this was still dollar-wise cheaper than our old restaurant burger meals at barneys :-)
there’s zero logic about sausage and crab; I am a person who’s mixed cigarettes with a gelato entree at an Italieneiscafe.

we will probably now have king crab legs thrice a month until Costco stops stocking it! It’s just so delicious!

Originally Posted by Jaimito Cartero (Post 32812809)

Looks like a nice menu. I am shocked that you hate pie!

Originally Posted by gaobest (Post 32812908)

ditto - how do you get the oysters and then make oyster casserole? I’ve never had such a delightful-looking dish.

Originally Posted by corky (Post 32812941)

Seriously---hating pie???
I have tasted a turduken and it is yummy but feeds about 20 people so I only had it once.

Originally Posted by chgoeditor (Post 32812956)

I get them already shucked, either from WF or a seafood market. It's traditional Thanksgiving and Christmas dish in parts of the Atlantic coast. Basically roughly broken table water crackers mixed with melted butter, plus oyster liquor mixed with heavy cream. In a casserole dish you alternate layers of crackers and oysters, then pour the liquor/cream combo over it all and bake it. it can only be eaten once or twice a year unless you enjoy gout and heart attacks.





It was a bit of a generalization when I said I don't like pie. I don't like pumpkin pie, pecan pie or apple pie. I enjoy some berry pies, and almost anything with a graham cracker crust.

Originally Posted by corky (Post 32812932)

$25 a lb crab legs would be a once a year splurge for me. I don't want you ever to post 20 times about saving $1.00 on a few apples again. :pThose crab legs are around $40 a package...you used to spend $80 on burgers at a restaurant.
Please explain how pb & j ever ended up on a buffet table (with or without crusts). Especially a thanksgiving buffet. Who does that?? Chuck E Cheese?

Originally Posted by chgoeditor (Post 32812956)

It was a bit of a generalization when I said I don't like pie. I don't like pumpkin pie, pecan pie or apple pie. I enjoy some berry pies, and almost anything with a graham cracker crust.

Originally Posted by corky (Post 32812932)

$25 a lb crab legs would be a once a year splurge for me. I don't want you ever to post 20 times about saving $1.00 on a few apples again. :pThose crab legs are around $40 a package...you used to spend $80 on burgers at a restaurant.
Please explain how pb & j ever ended up on a buffet table (with or without crusts). Especially a thanksgiving buffet. Who does that?? Chuck E Cheese?

Originally Posted by chgoeditor (Post 32812956)

I get them already shucked, either from WF or a seafood market. It's traditional Thanksgiving and Christmas dish in parts of the Atlantic coast. Basically roughly broken table water crackers mixed with melted butter, plus oyster liquor mixed with heavy cream. In a casserole dish you alternate layers of crackers and oysters, then pour the liquor/cream combo over it all and bake it. it can only be eaten once or twice a year unless you enjoy gout and heart attacks...

Originally Posted by gaobest (Post 32813241)

pb&j is served at a glencoe country club. Oh wait - it’s served at Sunday buffet as part of the kids section. They made it for our child by request on thanksgiving. Membership has its privileges. Mind you we haven’t been there since 2019 due to pandemic (they’re closed in winter). Those days are over. Sad!
I’ve already mentioned how a barneys burger meal comes to $80 for a meal for 3 - on average $16/burger (or chicken breast), two different fries dishes, two $6-7 milkshakes, iced tea, 9% sf tax, 4% sf health, 20-30% tip... somehow it’s like $80. Or more. Those days are fully over.

saving money like that makes it easier to buy the red king crab legs, which we like more than Dungeness crab.


wow! Thank you. Sounds yummy.
I don’t know oyster liquor. I’ll google it.

Originally Posted by chgoeditor (Post 32813641)

I'll save you the trouble -- it's the liquid found in oysters.

Originally Posted by gaobest (Post 32816828)

Poker play date

Indian pizza (chicken & cauliflower pizzas)
indian pastry desserts

sartori chocolate-covered strawberries
Robbins cherries jubilee
Trader Joe’s chocolate chip