As we look ahead to Thursday, I'm continuing the tradition of posting our family menu. Due to pressures all around the fam, we decided to go for a different approach this year. Normally, we have our tried-and-true recipes but they can be very time-consuming, for example, my very popular Harvest Soup or a particularly spectacular stuffed mushroom recipe.
So we're doing something we've never done before - choose a relatively simple menu that comes straight out of one of our fave magazines, Fine Cooking. Its recipes are dependable and easy to compile shopping lists from - and the pictures are so inviting that it's hard not to want to make the food.
While this menu may sound complicated, any real cook reading the recipes will recognize that they are pretty straightforward to prepare - and, having done the shopping already, amazingly inexpensive. Turkey, even the kind we all should be buying, meaning without antibiotics, grain-fed, free-range and all those other hyphenated things, is just a couple of dollars a pound in these parts ($2.19 to be precise). So enjoy.
Check out the recipes linked here. And, we're adding one more recipe from another good food rag, Gourmet, as a special treat for our vegetarian.
Roasted Turkey a la me (but the Fine Cooking Juniper-Ginger Butter looks great)
Rustic Bread Stuffing with Dried Cranberries, Hazelnuts & Oyster Mushrooms
Mashed Potatoes with Caramelized Shallots
Maple-Tangerine Cranberry Sauce
Cauliflower with Brown Butter, Pears, Sage & Hazelnuts
Green Beans with Meyer Lemon Vinaigrette & Parmesan Breadcrumbs
And from Gourmet:
Wild Mushroom Bundles
And coming via relatives:
Pumpkin Pie with Whipped Cream
Apple Pie with French Vanilla Ice Cream
