I'm not having turkey for Thanksgiving this year. You know why? Because turkey sucks! The one exception that proves the rule is the year my aunt and uncle injected the bird (using actual syringes!) with some kind of sauce, covered the skin with mayonaise and then cooked the whole thing on a barbeque pit. That year the turkey was delicious. But never before and never since has the turkey been any more than a non-offensive meat to get piled under the mashed potatoes and gravy.
So this year, now that I don't have to go to work, we've decided to eschew the tradition that was forced on us by those damn stupid Pilgrims, and we're gonna create our own tradition of eating food that actually tastes good. We don't have the final menu yet (going shopping tonight), but I think it will be something like this. Homemade bruschetta with tomatoes and bread and parsley from the farmers market. Crab cakes, and not the crappy frozen ones, but some real quality stuff from the seafood butcher. (Or whatever that guy is called, and again, not the guy at the Safeway.) Mushrooms stuffed with fresh cheese and garlic. David won't eat this, but just for me he knows how to make this super yummy dish where he roasts onions and eggplant in some olive oil in the oven, and it is like vegetable candy it is so delicious. Then for dessert, forget some boring pie. We're making homemade cinnamon rolls.
Now that is a tradition I can believe in.
Here is another article I read on the subject.
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my favorite part of thanksgiving is always the side dishes anyway. i grab one-two pieces of turkey and pile the rest with sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, stuffing, etc.
ReplyDeleteyour menu sounds amazing though! how did it turn out?
Ok, that just makes my mouth water. But having said that, I am a traditional kind of girl (no surprise there, eh?) and I enjoyed Rhonda's perfectly roasted turkey meal with all the traditional trimmings. She even made homemade cranberry sauce. Yum. Sure did miss you and David. Am still hoping for Brian Head. Please tell David again for me, Happy Birthday.
ReplyDeleteWe were very happy with the crab cakes. So happy we went back to the fish market and bought more to eat on Sunday for David's bday dinner. We haven't totally gotten down the "cake" part yet, as we don't want to put in breading just to make it look good and stick together better. But we did better the second time, and boy was it still delicious.
ReplyDeleteI'll just never be a turkey fan. Though someone said wild turkey is better than the Butterball, which is of course bred for size and not for taste, so maybe we'll try that one year. Or maybe we'll just make crab cakes our tradition. Well, for as long as we are living so close to fresh Baltimore crabs anyway.