To make mollpeartree properly jealous

[muckefuck]

The full menu for Urban Hipster Da's Gay Thanksgiving Feast:

• Cabrales softened with Spanish brandy on crackers (monshu unaccountably forgot to put out the pepper-crusted imported Italian salami)


• turkey with roast chestnut/kalamata fig/cornbread stuffing


• fresh brussel sprouts au gratin


• chipotle sweet potatoes with fried green plaintains


• turkey gravy avec port


• cranberry sauce and fresh cranberry relish


• a bottle of amarone della Valpolicella


• maple-pumpkin cheesecake


• 12-yr. old port (a mere baby!)

Not the Big Gay Thanksgiving we had two years ago, when Polo debuted the chipotle sweet potatoes, but not too shabby either. Plus, I got Monshu to make me an old-fashioned! I may soon find it impossible to go back to drinks with fewer than three ingredients

Comments

[o-nut.livejournal.com]

Wow, that sounds truly fabulous. The stuffing is intriguing, I have never heard of kalamata figs before.

I acquired a love of brussel sprouts during visits to family in Germany. I wondered why they tasted so good there--a waitress told me they were cooked in bacon drippings. I have never had them au gratin, will have to try that some time.

[mollpeartree.livejournal.com]

HA! I am jealousy-proof about Thanksgiving dinner, because we ate at spookyfruit and welcomerain's. We had a fabulous creamy mushroom soup, carmelized onions, mashed potatoes and mashed sweet potatoes, perfect succulent turkey, an excellent stuffing (but I don't know what kind, exactly; I failed to analyze the ingredients while shovelling), cranberry sauce, green bean/fried onion casserole (a regional tradition evidently created by the Campbell's Soup Company), biscuits, pumpkin pie, deep-dish apple pie, and home-made ginger ice cream to go with it. Also, brie and crackers, vegetables with vegetable dip, and all kinds of little pickles and olives and things for appetizers. Also, really, really good champagne. Mmmmm, champagne.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah? Our meal can still top that! Why?

We have the leftovers!

[mollpeartree.livejournal.com]

God, you're mean. *Sob*

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

That's how I get when NOBODY invites me along for their Thanksgiving fun!

Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair!

[bunj.livejournal.com]

From the official menu of our Italo-Spanish Thansgiving Extravaganza:

Antipasto: Prosciutto San Daniele, Chorizo Riojano Palacios, Soprassata
Del Friuli, Queso Manchego, Queso Caprino (De cabra,) Holland Gouda, Smoked Salmon.

Main Course (If we are lucky): Naturally raised turkey, well fed and
pleased to feed us. Properly fried by Chefs Rafael, Ben, Josh, assisted long distance by the rest of the gang. To be served with Gravy and Cranberry sauce.

Side Dishes: Yukon Gold mashed potatoes with goat cheese, cooked to perfection by the chefette Cristina.
Mashed sweet potatoes with brown sugar and pecans ( same chefette)
Stuffed mushrooms (courtesy of the BIG BOSS) who will also improvise some kind of STUFFING.
Mixed green salad

Desserts: Courtesy of the older Chefette, aka Elisa:
Pumpkin Cheese Cake
Pecan Pie (which was removed for techinical reasons, ed.) and maybe
Pumpkin Pie

Fruit: Roasted Chestnuts, Dried Figs and assorted Nuts, Clementonas and Granadas


Wine: Muga, Torre Muga and Prado Enea (de Muga)
Asti Spumante
Port Wine
Brandy Duque de Alba

We also enjoyed some struffuli and nocceteli, courtesy of -e's grandmother (which tasted great, and are spelled entirely differently by anyone with any knowledge of Italian).

Re: Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair!

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

We looked at the Gran Duque de Alba sitting on the shelf, sighed, and picked up a bottle of the Barbadillo. If we're going to really splurge, it will be for scotch. I keep trying to get a bottle of 20 yr.-old Laphraoig at Sam's only to find out they're lying to me about having it in stock.

Actually, the chorizo riojano Palacios was the brand I picked up from Gepperth's. Monshu though he might make a chorizo-cornbread stuffing if we couldn't find decent chestnuts (or if I had refused to roast and shell them). Now I've got it for some other time!