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Blue Banana Vacation Club
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- Aug 31, 2007
Melissa,
I decided to put my turkey day cake over here too!!!!
We decorated for Christmas yesterday. I will take some pictures & post them over here. I didn't put everything up as we will be gone for 9 days, but I put up enough to put us in the spirit.
Thanks for showing off your cake on the Seasonal thread! I'm looking forward to the Christmas stuff coming up....
I'm also gonna double post this Thanksgiving tid-bit as it was originally for the pumpkin/gourd thread... but, here goes!
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Proof that the feud has ended!
Pictured above: Sweet Potato's (we can't leave yam enough alone.), Pumpkin Trifle, and Twi-nips (yep, Twi-nips)
But really, let's not get trifiling about it!
The trifle turned out very well. I followed the directions, for the most part! The directions called for cook and serve pudding but I accidently bought "instant" so I beefed it up with half a brick of cream cheese
The cookies on top are a cinammon crisp. They're REALLY good. After they sat, however, they became soggy. I would prefer to crumble them over the desert in single serve doses.
Rootabuddies!
I boiled the rutabega's until tender then I mashed them with a fork. I like some chunkiness so I don't "puree." I added some butter, some chinese five spice (nutmeg would surely have been fine), and some cracked pepper (but I use the "combo peppercorns" that have rose corns... they have more of a nutmegg-y taste and, as you can see, I like that.).
The sweet potato's (*actually, beauregard yams... but really NOT yams as yams were a giant root from the carribean islands that didn't exist on the mainland of the US so when the carribean people came here they saw these things and called them yams.) I just quartered them, boiled them, threw brown sugar and butter bits over them, shot some OJ on top of that and threw them in the oven. I forgot the marshmallows this year!
If these two can get along, there's hope for the Hatkins and the McGourds.
Smile gal darnit!
Turkey and Wine.. just like in my siggie
The turkey my DMIL makes. It's in some kind of cheesecloth bag and then 2 or 3 bottles of red wine are basted over it all day. It makes for a tremedously moist (and drunken) turkey. J/K about the drunken, you can't even taste it! HOWEVER! It makes the gravy more of a "burgandy sauce." Next year I'm considering making the dinner at my house just so I can have beige gravy back on the menu!
I also made a green bean casserole this year. I tried to get fancy and use fresh green beans but they were hard. A real disappointment for me, a hardcore GBC person.
Hope your holidays were happy ones! We were very thankful, indeed.
EDIT: My DH is too funny. He saw the pic below and said, "Ahhhh... look at that couple."
".... of chins on my face."