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So with Thanksgiving fast approaching, does anyone want to share wonderful recipes that I can steal, I mean, peruse? Or share traditions? We just have family and turkey, potatoes, gravy, lots of vegetables (greenbean cassarole), cornbread, stuffing, cranberry sauce (of course) and homemade pies. Then the menfolk go and watch football and the womenfolk sneak in to watch in this enlightened age. And to include non-Americans in this discussion, you can also share recipes that can infiltrate our Thanksgivings, what better way to get to us but through our stomachs?


One thing I make that is a bit different is a carrot casserole baked in a mayonaise and horseradish sauce and topped with bread crumbs.

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>>One thing I make that is a bit different is a carrot casserole baked in a mayonaise and horseradish sauce and topped with bread crumbs.

>>That sounds... good actually.

That it does!
I'm not sure what I'll be doing about Thanksgiving: The chances are very good that my parents will be wanting my husband and me over for dinner. I might try to sautee some mixed vegetables and mix them with pasta and alfredo sauce for a side dish, and make a coffee cake or streudel for desert, if I'm out of applesauce bread by then.

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When I was very young, we did the traditional dinner because my maternal Grandfather loved turkey & dressing and all the trimmings. When he passed, no one could bear to do the turkey & dressing thing without him, so we started doing a southwestern Thanksgiving. We live in Texas, and my maternal Grandmother was from New Mexico, so it just seemed to fit. We did tortilla soup, green chili stew, stacked enchiladas, chili rellenos, etc. We've been doing that for twenty years, now. Grandma passed earlier this year, but we decided that the southwestern Thanksgiving was such a wonderful tradition that we'd keep doing it.

So, I'm going to be drinking a lot of water from all the spicy foods.

I'll get the traditional turkey, dressing, green bean casserole, etc., at the in-laws' house.

This german holiday treat is traditional in my family.

Pepper Nuts (Pfeffernuesse)

Ingrediants:

2 1/2 Cups sugar
2 Cups Dark syrup
3/4 Cups milk
3/4 Cups shortening (Crisco)

Mix together and bring to boil and then let cool.

1 Teaspoon baking powder
3/4 Teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 Teaspoon to 3/4 teaspoon anise oil
1 Teaspoon ground cardamon
1 Teaspoon vanilla
2 1/2 Pounds + 1 cup flour (9 cup flour = 2 1/2 lbs + 1 cup flour)

Mix together all ingredients

Roll into rope shapes (about 3/4 inch in diameter)
Cut rope into 1/2 inch pieces (cut on cookie sheet)
Bake in 350-degree oven for 15 minutes.


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>>We just have family and turkey, potatoes, gravy, lots of vegetables (greenbean cassarole), cornbread, stuffing, cranberry sauce (of course) and homemade pies.

We're having ham this year. Enough turkey for 40 people is far too time-consuming and inconvenient to handle anymore (for extra-special occasions or when things just line up exactly right, we can push 80).

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Mmmm, food thread. Since I can't make it home for Thanksgiving this year, I'll have to make do with this instead. :(
For the last like 5 years one of my uncles has brought deep-fried turkey... Now that's some good stuff. One of my aunts makes this thing... it's like, those ready made croissants (the kind in the cardboard tubes) except instead of rolling them up like you're supposed to, you lay em out in a 9x12 pan, layered with some ham and salami and cheese and stuff, then bake it. Those are good too.
My mom usually makes these little steak rolls, take a flank steak or something, marinated in some soy sauce, ginger and mirin, slice it up, cut up some green onions lengthwise, and roll the pieces of steak around the onion. Grill em up and serve as finger food.
My grandpa always makes liver and onions (blech!) and hamburg gravy. It's like, take some ground beef, cook it, somehow make it gravy-like, and serve on top of mashed taters. That's good stuff.
For dessert we do the whole pie thing, and one of my aunts ALWAYS brings rhubarb pie (double blech!) but I also have my special recipe for Fruit Cream Thing.

Find some nice fruit, I've found peaches work especially well, but we've done variations with blueberries, raspberries and some other stuff. Take some heavy cream, add a package of gelatin (gelatin, not Jello. the non-flavoured stuff) combine in a sauce pan over low heat until the gelatin's dissolved. Add in sugar to taste (the ultra fine ground stuff works best, because it's gotta dissolve too) and then pour into little molds and refrigerate until it's half-solid but still goopy enough for the fruit to move around in. Meanwhile, chop up the fruit and add the fruit pieces to the semi-solid molds and put back in the fridge. Cover with plastic wrap to prevent the icky skin forming, and to serve just flip em over onto a plate.

Ok I'm terrible at explaining recipes. And I never measure anything, so I don't even know how much of what I put in. :( But Fruit Cream Thing is good, I swear.

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I bought all the ingredients for the Pepper Nuts yesterday...going to try this as the new thing this year!

Here's my recipe for the carrots casserole, sorry took so long to get it up.

1 lb carrots, slice in 1/4 inch rounds
2 T horseradish (not sauce)
1 small onion, finely chopped
1/2 t salt
pinch pepper
1/2 C mayonnaise
1/4 C bread crumbs
2 T butter melted

Cook carrots til tender, drain but reserve 1/4 cup of cooking liquid. Mix liquid with horseradish, mayo, onion,salt and pepper.
Arrange carrots over bottom of buttered 9 in pie plate. Pour horseradish mixture over carrots. Mix bread crumbs with butter and sprinkle on top. Bake in 375 oven 20 minutes or until crumbs are nicely browned.

I usually double the recipe and put in a glass casserole container to cook without any problems.


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BROCCOLI SALAD -- Stamper Family Style

* 1 or 2 heads of broccoli, cut up (no stems, just flowerlets)
* 1/2 to 1 red onion, chopped
* 4 to 8 ounces sunflower seeds
* 2 Tablespoons vinegar
* 3/4 pound cooked bacon, crumbled
* 1-1/2 cups grated sharp cheddar cheese
* 1 cup Miracle Whip
* 1/2 cup sugar (or Splenda)

Simply mix together shortly before serving. (Can be refrigerated.)

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How many servings? Sounds like something just about everyone in my family might enjoy (amazingly, including most of the kids), but our large family gatherings are more the size of popular college classes than cozy get-togethers. Grandma's got something on the order of 4 dozen grandchildren and great-grandchildren, about a fourth of them coming from just one of her 9 children (for those keeping up with the scoring, that's about 14 children).

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