Posts Tagged ‘Thanksgiving’

Brine Your Turkey…then grill

Posted by Nancy on November 19th, 2010

A wide variety of ingredients can go into a brined turkey. The purpose is to give the turkey a boost in flavor and moistness (not sure that is a word but it fits). Combining a brined turkey with the grill adds extra flavor.

I have put together three of my favorite brines to use either on a turkey or a chicken. I have tried them all over the years and love them all.

#1 Ale Brined Turkey

  • 12 ounces beer (recommended: Pale ale or IPA style)
  • 3 tablespoons stone-ground Dijon mustard
  • 1 tablespoon agave nectar
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Roasted Turkey for Gas Grill

Posted by Nancy on November 6th, 2010

A couple of years ago the electricity went out the day before Thanksgiving and being the electric company did not get turned on until the Friday after Thanksgiving. You can imagine my initial panic about how I was going to cook a Turkey for a family of eight. Luckily I had already pre-made my pies, but I still had to contend with cooking the potatoes, veggies and rolls. The rolls were no problem I just purchased some pre-made ones at the bakery but the rest of the meal should have turned out to be a disaster.

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Cranberries Historical Facts

Posted by Nancy on November 1st, 2010

It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without cranberries, now would it? I know for a fact that around our house it wouln’t be Thanksgiving without it.  I have tried many recipes and variations on this fruit, but the one from Ocean Spray is definitely the best.

How much do you really know about this fruit?  Where does it grow?  How did it become part of our Thanksgiving traditions?  Here are a few facts from our friends at Ocean Spray about this deep red fruit.

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Thanksgiving

Posted by Nancy on October 17th, 2010

Although we think of Thanksgiving in terms of the Native Americans meeting the Pilgrims upon their arrival in the New World at Plymouth Rock, and then feeding them sometime within that year, the experts disagree on when this actually happened and if indeed it did happen at Plymouth Rock. Some say the first Thanksgiving took place around 1619 in Jamestown, Virginia. Not in 1621 at Plymouth Rock.

So while the experts may disagree on the origins of the American Thanksgiving tradition, they all agree that it was President Lincoln who in 1863 proclaimed it a national holiday all at the urging of a magazine editor by the name of Sara Joseph Hale. Then in 1939, President Franklin Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving Day to where it is today.

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Cranberry-Apple Coffee Cake

Posted by Nancy on October 15th, 2010

Halloween is around the corner and with it comes the start of the holiday season. Time for family, friends, shopping and lots of good food.

Thanksgiving is the first big holiday after Halloween. I like to take them one at a time, if I think about them all at once then I become overwhelmed and stressed. Being stressed during the holidays isn’t fun as we all know. My husband gets stressed about it. Already he is asking what we are having for Thanksgiving dinner.

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Making Thanksgiving Memorable

Posted by Nancy on November 24th, 2008

Thanksgiving dinners are like family reunions, here’s some ideas to keep your family entertained and make this Thanksgiving holiday more memorable.

Remember When…

This Thanksgiving, give your family memory jars. You can purchase inexpensive jars and filled each one with  identical slips of paper listing a specific family memory: a special wedding anniversary, family pets past and present, family jokes, names of friends and family no longer with us, vacation memories and so on. Each jar should come with instructions to read one memory each day through New Year’s Day. Be careful though that you don’t read all the slips in one day!  As you read each family member will have another memory of the same event seen only through their eyes.  When all your past memories are read and laughed over, keep the jar out to add new memories to share with your family next year!

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Sweet Turkey Treats

Posted by Nancy on November 17th, 2008

From Family Fun Magazine

From FamilyFun reader Natalie D. of Utah: One recent Thanksgiving, my daughter, Sara, age 7, and I whipped up a batch of sweet turkey treats. Everyone loved the turkeys — especially the kids, who ate them for dessert.
RECIPE INGREDIENTS:
Oreo cookies
Royal icing
Whoppers candy
Candy corn
1. We used half an Oreo cookie for each body and an entire cookie for each tail, then used a dab of royal icing to affix Whoppers for heads.

2. We piped on icing eyes and also used icing to affix the candy corn feathers and beaks.

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Perfect Pumpkin Pie

Posted by Nancy on November 9th, 2008

Ingredients

* 1 recipe Pastry for Single-Crust Pie (see below)
* 1 15-ounce can pumpkin
* 2/3 cup sugar
* 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
* 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
* 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
* 3 slightly beaten eggs
* 1 5-ounce can (2/3 cup) evaporated milk
* 1/2 cup milk

Directions

1. Prepare and roll out Pastry for Single-Crust Pie. Line a 9-inch pie plate with the pastry. Trim to 1/2 inch beyond edge of pie plate. Fold under extra pastry; crimp edge as desired.

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