In the USA, our Thanksgiving holiday is 30-36 hours away, depending on the time zone. Most people already have their menu planned, with traditional favorites, but I thought I'd share a few of mine, just because I'm having cravings for Thanksgiving dinner already.
My Favorite Sweet Potatoes
6 cooked, peeled, medium sized sweet potatoes
2/3 cup mini marshmallows
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 tsp kosher salt (you can use regular if you like, but I prefer kosher)
1/3 cup salt free butter
Mix salt, sugar, and butter together. Butter a large casserole dish. Dice the sweet potatoes to bite size chunks... big chunks, not perfectly square. Put one layer of sweet potatoes in the buttered casserole dish, and sprinkle the butter/sugar/salt mix over it. Add another layer of potatoes, more b/s/s/ mix, more potatoes, more b/s/s, until you're close to the top. Sprinkle remaining b/s/s mixture on top. Bake this uncovered 350 degrees for 35 minutes. Add marshmallows, bake another 5 minutes, until they're gooey and melted. Serve it up!
This serves about 5-7 people depending on their size and their hunger.
Change it up by adding 1/4 cup of orange juice to the b/s/s mix, and you've got a delicious orange-mallow sweet potato. Yummers.
Here's another recipe, and this one is for gravy. Now, everbody loves those turkey dripping. They make fab gravy, but they also make clogged arteries, and if you have older folks in your family, they'll thank you for protecting their health. Give this one a try. It contains turkey stock, which is the same as the drippings your turkey makes, but minus the fat. You can buy turkey stock in your supermarket. It's actually really tasty, and a good fake.
Much Better For You Turkey Gravy Recipe
5 cups turkey stock
1 cup water
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 tsp poultry seasoning
1/2 tsp ground black pepper
1/4 tsp celery salt1 tsp salt
Instructions:
Place water in small mixing bowl. Slowly add flour stirring as you add to dissolve flour. Bring turkey stock to a rapid boil over high heat. Once boiling reduce heat to medium low. Add flour mixture slowly stirring as you go. Once all the flour mixture has been added, stir in poultry seasoning, pepper, celery salt and regular salt. Bring back to a boil. Continue boiling until gravy is the consistency you like.
I borrowed this one from Busy Mom's Online. I think it's great.
Now for my mother's favorite, which is not so good for the arteries, but I'm throwing it in here anyway. She loves it, and Thanksgiving wouldn't be Thanksgiving without it. She said that the recipe has been in her family for generations, although they didn't use jiffy back then. Jiffy is a very inexpensive boxed mix for corn bread. Many times you can get 2 of them for a $1. Surprise! Surprise! Good food doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg, and it doesn't have to come delivered. Check it out.
Easy & Tasty Baked Corn
1 large can creamed corn
1 large can whole kernel corn
1 cup sour cream
3/4 cup melted salt free butter (just a preference, but you can use regular butter)
2 eggs
1 box Jiffy cornbread
Mix corns and sour cream together. Pour them into a buttered 13x9 inch pan. Mix butter, eggs, cornbread together and pour over the top of corn mix. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
Buttery, corny, delicious.
Lastly a dessert. My favorite is custard pie. I've collected a lot of recipes but this one, from "all recipes.com" comes back as my favorite of all of the custard pie recipes. So here it is:
Custard Pie
1 (9 inch) unbaked pie crust
3 eggs, beaten
3/4 cup white sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg white
2 1/2 cups scalded milk
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
3 drops yellow food coloring (optional)
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (205 degrees C).
Mix together eggs, sugar, salt, and vanilla. Stir well. Blend in the scalded milk. For more yellow color, add few drops yellow food coloring.
Line pie pan with pastry, and brush inside bottom and sides of shell with egg white to help prevent a soggy crust. Pour custard mixture into piecrust. Sprinkle with nutmeg.
Bake for 30 to 35 minutes, or until a knife inserted near center comes out clean. Cool on rack.
Now for some after Thanksgiving Recipes to use up that leftover turkey:
Easiest one..
1. Open Face Turkey Sandwich
Sliced Turkey
Sliced Bread
Gravy
Mashed potatoes
Arrange 2 slices of bread on a plate, top with a scoop of mashed potatoes, a few slices of turkey, some gravy, and viola. Delicious. It tastes even better with leftover cranberries.
2. Leftover Turkey Noodle Soup
1/2 c. sliced carrots
1 1/2 c. sliced celery
1 med. onion, diced
1 chicken bouillon cube for every cup of water used
A few pinches of your favorite savory seasonings
1 large can sliced mushrooms
2 c. egg noodles
2 c. cooked, diced turkey
Put carrots, celery, onions in a large soup pot. Cover with water, add bouillon cubes, and savory seasonings. Cook on medium heat until vegetables are almost tender, about 20 minutes. Then add egg noodles. Cook for 10-12 minutes more, then add turkey and when it looks heated, add canned mushrooms, heat for another 5-7 minutes, and serve.
Really yummy. The mushrooms add something extra to it that makes it really good.
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