Happy-Holiday – what are you eating?..schadenfreude pie..

I am doing a simple traditional menu with pork loin roast instead of turkey and I am making fondant potatoes for something a bit different. Maybe I will try fondant carrots or parsnips, too?

• This reply was modified 11 years, 3 months ago by Agamemnon.

Whatever my new sister-in-law is making, plus my wife’s mashed potatoes. Plus, pie.

joemad wrote:

BBQ Turkey on the Weber Charcoal grill…. been doing it for the past 18 years for every Thanksgiving and almost every Christmas…….. BTW, On Christmas of 98, my wife when into labor with kid #2…. the bird was left unmanned on the grill and never made the dinner table.

for the past 4 years, we’ve brined it overnight before putting it on the grill.

Home made neck and giblet gravy (my own simplified Emeril Legasse recipe)

Garlic mashed potatoes

Smoked ham

Tossed green salad from the bag.

homemade stuffing with sausage, (not linguicia)

and of course, canned cranberry sauce with the indents from the can.

Kid #1 has been vegetarian for the past 4 years….any veggies ideas besides the bean and rice staple that you may have WV would be greatly appreciated.

BTW, Over the years, I created my mathematical cheat sheet below on grilling the perfect turkey, based on weight: I have found that a 12 lb turkery is the most optimal to brine and grill on the charcoal grill.

10 lbs = 120 min
11 lbs – 130.62 min
12 lbs = 141 min
13 lbs = 151.125 min
14 lbs = 161 min
15 lbs = 170.625
16 lbs = 180 min

Of course, you don’t want your vegetarian dish to be a plain vegetable side dish. You can do stuff with different pastas or use mushrooms. Fix a Vegetarian dish that everyone will like. I would try a lasagna.

http://allrecipes.com/Recipes/Everyday-Cooking/Vegetarian/Main-Dishes/Main.aspx?evt19=1&src=hr_browsedeeper&soid=hr_coll_2

• This reply was modified 11 years, 3 months ago by Agamemnon.

I’ll be at work on Thanksgiving so I guess I’ll be eating the hospital cafeteria’s vision of what Thanksgiving dinner is.

My expectations aren’t high.