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festive meals
Nov. 27th, 2013 04:00 pmWill you be having a festive meal for Thanksgiving or Chanukah or both? I'd love to hear what you'll be cooking or eating.
I was lucky enough to get today and tomorrow off (the first Thanksgiving in three years when I haven't had to work) so I'm going to roast a turkey breast. My original, more ambitious plan was a pork roast with orange slices, but then I started thinking about mashed potatoes and gravy and had to change my mind. Maybe Christmas for the pork. Besides the mashed potatoes and gravy, I'll be making a cornbread pudding with greens (adapted from The Splendid Table's How Eat Weekends and a gratin of sweet potatoes with chipotle chiles and cream. There's will also be pie: raspberry, storebought. And I'm making bread today (four-grain pot boule, now made with actually four grains because I remembered to buy rye flour). Yes, it's all ridiculously too much food considering it's just me, but the leftovers will be stowed away in the freezer for all those days when I don't feel like cooking after work.
The bread dough is slowly fermenting, the cornbread is broken into pieces and sitting out so it will go stale for the pudding, and the slow cooker is full of turkey giblets and chicken bones turning into stock. I've been munching on random snacky foods all day but should probably have a real meal at some point. And I'm a little, weirdly nostalgic for the holiday meals of my childhood.
The only problem with the internet as a family of choice (and believe me, I feel more connection and trust for My Internet Friends Who Live Behind the Screen than I do for any currently living blood relation) is that you all live too far away to come and share holiday meals. But at least we can talk about them.
I was lucky enough to get today and tomorrow off (the first Thanksgiving in three years when I haven't had to work) so I'm going to roast a turkey breast. My original, more ambitious plan was a pork roast with orange slices, but then I started thinking about mashed potatoes and gravy and had to change my mind. Maybe Christmas for the pork. Besides the mashed potatoes and gravy, I'll be making a cornbread pudding with greens (adapted from The Splendid Table's How Eat Weekends and a gratin of sweet potatoes with chipotle chiles and cream. There's will also be pie: raspberry, storebought. And I'm making bread today (four-grain pot boule, now made with actually four grains because I remembered to buy rye flour). Yes, it's all ridiculously too much food considering it's just me, but the leftovers will be stowed away in the freezer for all those days when I don't feel like cooking after work.
The bread dough is slowly fermenting, the cornbread is broken into pieces and sitting out so it will go stale for the pudding, and the slow cooker is full of turkey giblets and chicken bones turning into stock. I've been munching on random snacky foods all day but should probably have a real meal at some point. And I'm a little, weirdly nostalgic for the holiday meals of my childhood.
The only problem with the internet as a family of choice (and believe me, I feel more connection and trust for My Internet Friends Who Live Behind the Screen than I do for any currently living blood relation) is that you all live too far away to come and share holiday meals. But at least we can talk about them.
