Less than 2 weeks until US Thanksgiving
#289681 - 11/10/06 05:10 PM
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Sand
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It looks like we're going to be doing a "just the two of us" Thanksgiving this year. I'm going to make:
Roast Turkey Breast with Gravy
Skinny Mashed Potatoes or Mashed Potatoes with Broccoli and Onions - Joe insists there has to be a green vegetable on the table at Thanksgiving (I don't know why) and this would do double duty
Twice-Baked Sweet Potatoes - I'm going to make them in a casserole and top them with pineapple slices before baking so they look more festive
I may have to do something with turnips - Joe loves them - and I'm not sure what I'm doing in the pumpkin pie area.
What's everybody else making?
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I was also planning to do the twice baked sweet potatoes. Can you give me details on how you're going to modify the recipe, please??
We're also just going to be a twosome this year - which is fine with me! I'm not ready to deal with family and my IBS diet all in one day! I think I might do some sort of creamy pumpkin soup instead of turkey. If DH wants turkey, he can make it himself! I hear Heather's EFI book has a yummy sweet potato pecan pie recipe, so I think I'll make that, too. I'm still trying to decide what sort of IF veggie to include.
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Ooh ... good thread!
It will probably also be a just-the-two-of-us Thanksgiving for my husband and me. Tentative plans:
Me: oven fries and Plaquenil
DH: frozen pizza, marshmallows, and leftover Halloween candy
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I was also planning to do the twice baked sweet potatoes. Can you give me details on how you're going to modify the recipe, please??
I always make this is a casserole (following ShellMarr's suggestion in the original thread) rather than stuffing it back into the sweet potato shells. So I'll bake the potatoes, mix everything together just like the recipe says, put it into the casserole, then top the casserole with some canned pineapple rings. I made this last year for Thanksgiving with my brother and SIL's family and everybody liked it but it looked so plain - I guess I'm too used to seeing marshmallows on top of sweet potatoes - so I figured I'd dress it up a little this year.
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We're also just going to be a twosome this year - which is fine with me! I'm not ready to deal with family and my IBS diet all in one day! I think I might do some sort of creamy pumpkin soup instead of turkey. If DH wants turkey, he can make it himself! I hear Heather's EFI book has a yummy sweet potato pecan pie recipe, so I think I'll make that, too. I'm still trying to decide what sort of IF veggie to include.
Please do post about what soup you end up making - Joe and I are eating a lot of soups this fall.
I'd forgotten about the Sweet Potato Pecan Pie in EFI - that looks good and being from Alabama originally Pecan Pie is definitely a winner. I was thinking about making the Pumpkin Spice Pie with Praline Topping. I don't have a springform pan but my friend The Mad Dessert Maker assured me I can use a regular pan as long as I'm willing to risk having it look like the dog's dinner once I pry it out. 
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Thanksgiving is my favorite time of the year, probably because it is the holiday that our family always hosted and my mom cooked everything....soooooooooo good.
This year posts a slight challenge; I'm a little sad because I don't get to head home to Long Island this year so I'm undertaking Thanksgiving for my fiance and I, which I'm so excited about because I love to cook!
I was watching Rachel Ray this morning and she's had her 1 hour Thanksgiving specials on. She's got some go shortcuts to help with cooking but modifications are needed for the recipes...
1. She used turkey breasts with skin cut from the butcher and stuffed under the skin herbs and spices to give the turkey flavor...she used alot of EVOO but I think you could cut down big time
2. She also made this stuffing with apples, zucchini, onions and stale pumpkin muffins...it looks so delicious
Check it out!
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Twice-Baked Sweet Potatoes - I'm going to make them in a casserole and top them with pineapple slices before baking so they look more festive
OHHHHH - good idea - I have been asked to make these again this year to bring to dinner at my parents' house. Sand - I'm stealing your pineapple slices idea!!!!!!!
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These do look doable provided you cut way, way down on the olive oil and butter. I'd probably just brush the turkey skin with olive oil (I'm not going to eat it anyhow and I have faith in minimal seep through). Then I'd use only olive oil - and lots less of it - for the stuffing and gravy.
The other thing that looks interesting from this episode is the orange scented green beans. I'd skip the butter obviously - use just a touch of either olive oil or Smart Balance Light - but finally something new to do with green beans that doesn't have to involve gazillions of calories.
Thanks for the link. It's amazing how many of RR's recipes work fine provided you're willing to be ruthless about the olive oil.
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Hmmm... well, we made the "Cream" of pumpkin soup recipe that I found on this site last night. We thought we should try it out before making it for Thanksgiving. I'm glad we did because it was not that good. It was way too thin and bland. I could only take a few bites.
So, does anyone have suggestions for a yummy "main course" I could make that would focus on squash or pumpkin? It doesn't have to be a soup, but does need to be vegetarian!
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I'm sorry the soup didn't work out - I guess it's a good thing you tried it beforehand. There are some butternut squash soup recipes on the Index you could try - I haven't made any of them so I can't make a personal recommendation. I do like the Smoky Sweet Potato Soup from Heather's cookbook and the newsletter. It's not squash or pumpkin but the color would be right.
If I were doing a main dish, though, I'd probably look at stuffed squash of some kind, like butternut. They look so festive. I don't have a specific recipe, but I think there are a couple on the Board.
HTH.
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Let me know if you find a good pumkin or squash soup, okay? I like thick too! 
Maybe the post Shell Marr just bumped up for squash and pears?
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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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So how do you cook a turkey breast in the crockpot? (It doesn't sound blasphemous to me. I'm sure if the Pilgrim Mothers had crockpots they would have used them.)
Your garlic mashed potatoes sound wonderful - and really simple.
As for dessert, I think apple pie is almost as Thanksgiving-y as pumpkin pie, so if I may be excused a little self-promotion, you could consider the Norwegian Apple Pan Pie I posted. (I know it's not cake with lots of frosting.)
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I'm not sure how I'd cook the turkey if I did do it in the crockpot. Probably just in chicken broth since my husband doesn't like herbs with turkey.
I'm actually not much of an apple pie fan since I don't like cooked fruit. I've used the pan pie recipe several times, though, but usually only with pears. (I chop the fruit up really tiny to avoid the cooked fruit effect.) It's definitely good, but I am just not feeling fruit-ish. I'm kinda thinking of taking extra Zantac and making Junior Mint brownies.
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I've never tried it, but maybe you can use it as a guideline for yours....
From Betty Crocker New Slow Cooker Meals (September 2001)
Savory Turkey Breast
Prep: 15 min Cook: 9 hr
6 1/2 lb bone-in turkey breast, thawed if frozen
1 medium onion, chopped (1/2 cup)
1 medium stalk celery, chopped (1/2 cup)
1 dried bay leaf
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp coarsely ground pepper
1 tsp chicken bouillon granules
1/2 cup water (could prob use 1/2 cup chicken broth instead of the water/bouillon granules)
1. Remove gravy packet or extra parts from turkey breast. Place onion, celery and bay leaf in cavity of turkey. Place turkey in 5- or 6-quart slow cooker.
2. Sprinkle turkey with salt and pepper. Mix bouillon granules and water until granules are dissolved; pour over turkey.
3. Cover and cook on low heat setting 8 to 9 hours or until juice of turkey is no longer pink when center is cut. Remove bay leaf. Serve.
HTH
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Sounds good and very simple - and I bet I could put whatever I wanted in the cavity. I usually do onion and sage. Hmm. I wonder if the skin browns up nicely?
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#290627 - 11/19/06 04:45 PM
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I doubt it...crock pots don't seem to have great browning ability! (Probably their only downfall, IMO  ) If I was making it, I'd probably take the skin off before making it anyway. I leave it on in the oven to keep it moist, but doesn't seem like there's much need for that in a crock pot. And, no sense having it sit in all that "fat juice". 
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#290630 - 11/19/06 05:09 PM
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Sand
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I didn't think of taking the skin off. You're right, it does seem like it wouldn't be necessary in a crockpot - and removing the skin would certainly cut down on the fat in crockpot liquid. Hmm. I'll have to see if Joe would be okay with "naked turkey" for Thanksgiving. 
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You could always tell him he could have "dressing" on the side! LOL OK, corny, I know....but I couldn't resist!
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Thanks! I just decided today to go ahead and make a Thanksgiving style dinner even though it will just be the two of us. I bought a turkey breast and was wondering about how to cook it in the crock pot. I'll be giving this a shot.
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Well, I managed to find a yummy-sounding "tofu loaf" recipe in my "La Dolce Vegan!" cookbook, so I'll be trying that for Thanksgiving this year!
DH STILL insisted on buying a turkey breast... he'll just have to cook it himself though! I passed along the crock pot recipe to him.
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Mommy to Rhiannon Marie (Dec. 13, 2008)
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I am not from the US and don't really know what you guys traditionally eat for Thanksgiving... The friends we are going to spend it with asked us to bring a green side dish... any ideas?
Thanks a lot!
Jerry
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The most common traditional green side dish would be green bean casserole. However, it is most definitely NOT safe for IBS. My family usually has green beans and new potatoes (cooked together with seasonings and can be made safely) or maybe asparagus or broccoli casserole (I have a recipe for that, too, but it's not safe for IBS). The best thing I can suggest that you would also be able to eat would be the green beans & potatoes. You can scan down the recipe index, but I didn't see anything that looked especially fabulous. Sorry I can't be more help!
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Thanks  I will probably make something that the rest of us will eat, and I won't touch...
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If you're going to be able to cook what you bring once you're there, then I'd say green beans - that always seems very Thanksgiving-y to me. You can throw some slivered almonds into them to make them festive. (Consider bringing your own pot - those sometimes run short on Thanksgiving.)
Stove and microwave space is usually at a premium, though, so if you can't cook once you're there, consider asparagus. It is apparently quite correct to eat this hot, cold, or room temperature and I love it with just lemon juice squeezed over it. There are some asparagus recipes in the Recipe Index - perhaps one of them will look good.
However, if there is a great green side dish from your homeland, consider bringing that. I think most people would be charmed to try something a little different.
I have to agree with Julie E though - at least where I'm from (the South), that green bean casserole is the standard side dish. It's basically IF wrapped in fat, dairy, fat, MSG, and fat, but man is it good!
Enjoy your Thanksgiving!
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Asparagus, that's a great idea. Thanks a lot.
I can't think of a good green side dish otherwise, back where I come from, we don't eat asparagus or brocoli... just green beans, but I am not a fan of the taste.
Thanks, Sand, for the ideas and advice!
Jerry
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