A Thanksgiving for everyone – even the turkey!
M + I cooking together, for Z’s first Thanksgiving…
- Honey glazed carrots
- Green beans with crispy friend onions
- Cornbread stuffing with jerusalem artichokes, mushrooms, kale, and dried cranberries
- Cranberry honey whiskey sauce
- Puff pastry roll with mushrooms and pine nuts
- Garlic mash potatoes
- Red wine onion gravy
- Roasted butternut and sweet potato with a maple glaze
- Berry crumble
- Pecan pie
- Red wine and honey poached pears dipped in bittersweet chocolate with vanilla ice cream
… and there are only 4 of us sitting down to dinner!
This was the first Thanksgiving I celebrated in my sister, M’s house in Washington DC. I was there helping to look after Z, my beloved niece. My sister is vegetarian too, and with the advent of her daughter, we found that she was pretty intolerant to milk and dairy products. So we held back on layering the butter everywhere, though we didn’t completely do without it. It was a sumptuous meal, redolent of the most beautiful produce of the season. The colors where phenomenal, and M’s non-vegetarian BSA and our TBH didn’t even miss the turkey!
One of these days, I will try and recreate it and post the recipes. But the menu itself is pretty phenomenal!
delectable 
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