i had a leftover turkey leg for breakfast from the thanksgiving dinner i made last sunday for me and all my friends who have to work in hospitals and nursing homes on thanksgiving....i also had the pumpkin bread pudding i made....cant remember where i saw it but it was fantastic....i made marissas creamed sweet potatoes with vanilla tooo and that was a great recipe.

last night for thanksgiving dinner my ex husband took me and my daughter and her girlfriend (they are home from the culinary institute of america for the holiday) to brodeurs on state st in media pa. i had 3 bites of salad which was very unimpressive and 2 spoonfuls of escarole soup which was also not very good....then i started feeling sick...i actually threw up in my mouth....didnt touch my entree which was salmon topped with crab imperial and dill hollandaise ....i was too focused on not puking all over the table...the peach mojito actually was helping calm my stomach....the food everyone else ordered was dry and overcooked and no one had a good meal....and it was very expensive....i give it no stars...i came home and puked for hours and i woke up dehydrated with a headache and no appetite at all.

we shoulda went to chinatown.

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I had

Sautéed radishes with butter and salt.

Boiled lobster w/butter
Lemon & mascarpone mashed potatoes
Roasted garlic asparagus

Lots of red and white wine

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I had:

Dinner:
Cornish game hen
Cornbread dressing
Mashed potatoes
Green beans
Lots of good gravy
Whole berry cranberry sauce
Pumpkin pie!!!! Lots of pumpkin pie!!!!
Two-hour nap z-z-z-z-z-z-z-zz-zzz
Supper:
Roast beef hoagie with lettuce and tomato
Crushed pineapple salad

I'm ready for Christmas dinner, now. Yum.

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I had:

chestnut soup

The best turkey we've ever had-- brined & bbq'd, following Traci Desjardin's recipe.

giblet gravy

3 kinds of cranberry sauce:
canned jellied cranberry sauce
earl gray-cardamom-maple cranberry sauce
spicy orange-cranberry relish

cornbread-shiitake mushroom stuffing, made with fresh cornbread, eggs & cream

butternut squash gratin with fried sage

fresh shelled cranberry beans with thyme & olive oil

caramelized brussel sprouts with lemon zest

tarte tatin for dessert

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Dinner:

Lamb loin in Pomegranate molasses glaze stuffed with baby apples.
Garlic Sea Salt fingerling potatoes
Roasted-corn corn bread.
Pumpkin Coconut Panna-cotta (but not as sweet as the desert version posted earlier)
Pine-nut Brown rice
Spinach salad with bl0od-orange oil & vinaigrette dressing

For Desert:
Pomogranate Dark Chocolate Chip ice cream.

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The Digital Imaging Forum that I frequent has a standing "Post a photo of something you ate" thread. So, of course, I posted my Thanksgiving food photos. And here they are: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r19496048-

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Ok, that URL broke for some reason. You'll need to copy/paste it for it to work.

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Dinner with "new" friends

Grilled Turkey - that's right...turkey prepared on a Weber Kettle grill...wow! Crispy skin and smokey flavor!
Roast Potatoes
Pineapple Yams
3 kinds of Salad
Sausage Fillin - Stuffin - Dressin - you pick
Veggie Tofurkey Cassarole
A Pitcher of Turkey Gravy
Endive Appetizer
Mimosas to Start
Red Wine with Dinner
Bourbon Pecan Pie
Pumpkin Pie
Dutch Apple Pie
Heavy Whipped Creme on Everything
A Nap!

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Baked turkey (mom got a small one and didn't have a suitable plastic roasting bag, which is what she usually uses, it came out absolutely perfect).
Stove top stuffing with adulterations like water chestnuts and celery and some seasonings.
Mashed potatos
green beans with toasted almonds
rolls
Cranberry sauce cooked from raw/frozen cranberries
pecan/pumpkin pie
a nice shiraz that was very tasty and went with the meal

I didn't eat too much, which was good. And mom sent me home with all the dark meat and the wings.

Tomorrow night we're hosting the first social event in our house since we bought it (don't ask, it's a long story). After other stuff like a load to 1/2price books and goodwill (lots of cleaning has been involved) I'm baking an apple dessert and we will be heating up a spiral-sliced, fully-cooked ham.

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I ate:
Turkey
Ham
Dressing balls
Mashed potatoes
Sweet potato casserole
Corn & green bean casserole
Sauerkraut & pork
Biscuits
Gravy
Cranberry/lemon jello mold with celery & pecans
Pumpkin pie

Things served that I did not eat:
Broccoli/olive salad with rice wine vinegar
Can-berry sauce
German chocolate cake
Ice cream

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I was on apps and drinks, so my husband and I brought some St. Emilion, and I made:

A gallon of Lynchburg Lemonade (it's a tradition my friends and I have)
Candied bacon
Spiced pecans
Pimento cheese (the vast majority of the guests were from the south) & crackers
Parmesan Rosemary coins

My husband made his Mom's:

Cranberry apple crunch
Squash casserole (complete w/ tater chips on top)

And our friend who were hosting made:

The most perfectly brined and herbed turkey I've ever had in my life (cooked in a bag w/ veggies for max moistness)
Pan dripping gravy
Plain ol' yummy dressing
Stewed okra & tomatoes
Succotash
Mashed potatoes
Candied sweet potatoes
Collard greens collard greens collard greens!
Custard pie
Pumpkin pie
Banana pudding
Chocolate cake

The next day, we went to other friends' home (they have a restaurant and 5 kids, so they're used to feeding platoons). On hand, they had:

Turducken
Turkey
Sausage & cornbread dressing
Green bean casserole
Corn pudding
Indian corn pudding
Creamed onions
Pumpkin cup pies
Lemon chess pie
Pumpkin cheesecake
Buttermilk pie


Portion control and pacing are my friends.

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I tried to take it easy this year, I failed but took small prtions of the following:

Tofurkey (not as tasty as I would have liked...but I was the only one eating it)
Homemade cranberry/orange relish
rolls
sparkling wine
mashed potatoes
carmalized onions
sauteed green beans with pine nuts
roasted brussel sprouts (yes, the ones from your post)
various cookies
apple pie
pumpkin pie
WATER!!!!!

I tried to be as green as possible, but the mashed potatoes are just too damed good.

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Oh, Bob...lemon chess pie is just the most delicious ever. It is made of an intensely lemony slightly custardy filling on a crust (I think I've had regular crust and possibly shortbread crust). Its rich and sweet and my favorite ever (at Grits and Groceries outside of Anderson, SC) made my mouth pucker just a little bit. I've never made it but the recipes I've seen include cornmeal in the filling.

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Howdy Bob,

I'll get the recipe from my pal who made it -- or perhaps convince him to post it here. I know he was on a Charleston Receipts kick recently, but perhaps he's moved on.

No matter the construct, it was luscious. Perfectly, clearly lemony and appropriately sour, but not tart by any means, nor oversugared. I'm thinking lard crust, too, but I'm generally thinking lard crust anyhow.

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I brought desserts to a multi-family Thanksgiving, including Indian corn pudding, chocolate chess pie, and buttermilk pie (the Thanksgiving theme was Southern, which means saying "dressing" and not "stuffing"). The buttermilk pie recipe was a hit -- tender, custardy, sweet and lemony and curiously tart in aftertaste (that's the buttermilk). The recipe was found at southernfood.about.com at the following web address: http://southernfood.about.com/od/chesspies/r/bl00510d.htm and was a breeze to make. And even more of a breeze to consume.

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I brought desserts to a multi-family Thanksgiving, including Indian corn pudding, chocolate chess pie, and buttermilk pie (the Thanksgiving theme was Southern, which means saying "dressing" and not "stuffing"). The buttermilk pie recipe, which Kat has described as a lemon chess ie, was a hit -- tender, custardy, sweet and lemony and curiously tart in aftertaste (that's the buttermilk). The recipe was found at southernfood.about.com at the following web address: http://southernfood.about.com/od/chesspies/r/bl00510d.htm and was a breeze to make. And even more of a breeze to consume.

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And as for the buttermilk pie's crust, oh, I wish it had been homemade with lard, et cetera. It was frozen, m'dears, frozen.

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Oh - silly me! So - the chocolate was the chess pie, and the lemon one was the buttermilk. There *is* however such a thing as a lemon chess pie, though, and I aim to make one soon.

On another tip - I just got to enjoy ANOTHER T-Day leavings dinner, as my colleague Spencer (a mighty maker of meatloaf: http://www.aolfoodblog.com/2007/10/16/national-meatloaf-day-a-pragmatists-guide-to-truly-killer-meat/ ) just presented me with a Pyrex full of savory cornbread-sausage dressing (seriously, Bob - you MUST for Xmas), herbed rice, dilled mashed potatoes and DEEP FRIED TURKEY!

Huzzah for secular, food-based holidays!

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I went to a friend's and had a 7-course gourmet meal:

*Sweet Potato Chip w/goat cheese, pepper jelly & hickory bacon
*Acorn squash soup with pepper oil & crème fraiche
*Proscuto wrapped shrimp w/cranberry sauce
*Beet and arugula salad w/lemon crème fraiche dressing
*Fried turkey leg with roasted turkey breast, oyster stuffing, sweet potato casserole with marshmallow topping & cranberry dressing
*Rack of lamb with fall vegetable ratatouille
*Apples & pears with cheese and crackers

Pumpkin cheesecake or Dutch apple pie for dessert...

All very yummy....

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