okay, so I am actually going to cook dinner ...
11/19/06 08:26 AM
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jen1013
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since I was suddenly infused with a dosage of Holiday Guilt.
A whole turkey would be way too much for us, plus I am traumatized at the thought of neatly-wrapped internal organs. So I bought just a turkey breast. Unfortunately they were all prebasted/preslathered/whatever and the safest one I could find still had MSG in it. I'll have to eat the meat from the center and hope for the best.
The turkey breast is small enough I am considering cooking it in the crock pot, which seems awfully blasphemous, but sometimes blasphemy is just too convenient to pass up.
So besides the turkey I will be making safe mashed potatoes -- I usually make garlic mashed potatoes. I boil the potatoes in chicken broth with a bay leaf or two and garlic cloves, and when the potatoes are mushy and most of the broth has cooked away I mush it all up and add a bit of margarine and garlic salt with parsley. Mmm.
For my husband with the cast-iron stomach, we'll also have stuffing, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie with whipped cream. I am debating whether or not to make a dessert that I can eat. (I don't like pumpkin pie so I didn't bother making a safe one that I could eat.) I've sort of been craving cake with lots of frosting. Not very Thanksgiving-ish, I know. Maybe I could dye the frosting orange.
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