headin' for Pennsylvania and some homemade pumpkin pie
The holiday week isn't over yet, as family is still in the house, but the food is basically front and center this year, so this is a post about food. Last year's food post helped me plan for this year. Maybe this one will help inspire for next year.
This year there was basically one day of food prep, and that's turned out to be lasting the whole time.
Thursday (all day) we had:
* baked ham
* roasted chicken
* roasted shredded brussels sprouts
* green beans with turkey bacon
* garlic mashed potatoes
* cranberries (can and sauce)
* biscuits (made by david)
* kale slaw
* veggies and hummus for snacking
* deviled eggs (made by my mom)
* pumpkin pie (made by my mom)
* nisu bread (made by jim)
It was all good, and since people in my family eat like birds there were leftovers of everything which we are slowly making progress on. I brined the chicken beforehand and I think it improved it. The brussels sprouts were my favorite. The kale slaw was good but didn't really fit in with other things, so now I have a huge amount of it leftover.
Then in the evening, Jim and I went over to another friend's house who does a big yearly friendsgiving party and stayed until very late, whenupon we got pressed into taking home a bunch of leftovers that couldn't be used by the host. So we ended up with
* another pumpkin pie
* indian pudding
* assorted olives
* cheese and crackers
* homemade bread slices
* buffalo and venison summer sausages
* a jar of homemade pate
We're working through all the perishable stuff; today/tomorrow's job will be to take the excess of that and freeze it. The rest will probably end up at various social events in the next week, and the meat will likely go into a variety of soups. Yum.
This year there was basically one day of food prep, and that's turned out to be lasting the whole time.
Thursday (all day) we had:
* baked ham
* roasted chicken
* roasted shredded brussels sprouts
* green beans with turkey bacon
* garlic mashed potatoes
* cranberries (can and sauce)
* biscuits (made by david)
* kale slaw
* veggies and hummus for snacking
* deviled eggs (made by my mom)
* pumpkin pie (made by my mom)
* nisu bread (made by jim)
It was all good, and since people in my family eat like birds there were leftovers of everything which we are slowly making progress on. I brined the chicken beforehand and I think it improved it. The brussels sprouts were my favorite. The kale slaw was good but didn't really fit in with other things, so now I have a huge amount of it leftover.
Then in the evening, Jim and I went over to another friend's house who does a big yearly friendsgiving party and stayed until very late, whenupon we got pressed into taking home a bunch of leftovers that couldn't be used by the host. So we ended up with
* another pumpkin pie
* indian pudding
* assorted olives
* cheese and crackers
* homemade bread slices
* buffalo and venison summer sausages
* a jar of homemade pate
We're working through all the perishable stuff; today/tomorrow's job will be to take the excess of that and freeze it. The rest will probably end up at various social events in the next week, and the meat will likely go into a variety of soups. Yum.