Turkey slaughter day

[rootofnewt]

Since I'm eating meat, we're going more traditional this year. And since there's just the two of us, we're skipping on salads and soups.

Turkey
Sweet Corn Bread Pudding (made GF, of course)
Some mashed yukon gold potatoes.
Gravy made from the turkey--I made stock from the neck/innards yesterday.
A can of organic cranberry sauce, jellied style. Boy says the ridges make it tastier.
Roasted or steamed green beans
пшённая каша с тыквой (millet with pumpkin) --really more of a children's breakfast dish, but we thought it would make a neat slightly-sweet savory grain.
Whole Foods GF Bakery Apple Pie

I could have made a dessert, but we really can't have much sugar. The apple pie is small and we can just have tiny portions.

My parents are down with my dad's cousins, having a Cajun Thanksgiving. My in-laws are spending the day with boy's uncle's family.

Comments

[xiane.livejournal.com]

Sounds absolutely delicious. Is the millet with pumpkin sweet or savory?

[krasota.livejournal.com]

I think it'll be somewhat sweet. It has a tiny bit of honey.

We're skipping the potatoes. The turkey cooked faster than expected and I forgot to boil 'em. ;)

I do need to go make some gravy.

[ismene.livejournal.com]

The ridges do make it tastier! I need to go get some cranberry sauce, since we didn't have any today.

[nadyezhda.livejournal.com]

mm, millet with pumpkin. where did you get the recipe?

[krasota.livejournal.com]

There are lots online if you google in Russian. I used the recipe in Anya von Bremzen's Please to the Table, which is quite possibly my most used cookbook.

[nadyezhda.livejournal.com]

I thought that's where I had seen it. That book, along with a couple of others, was a wedding present. It's a fantastic cookbook, although I also like Darra Goldstein's books too. (Helps that she was my russian professor in college...)