Re: Favorite Thanksgiving Recipes

I love the Ocean Spray gel cranberry sauce and love it for leftover turkey
sandwiches with cream cheese/cranberry/turkey sandwiches -- the best!

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Sue -- Firefighter mom -- Still Rabid UW Dawg Fan!
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"Liz" <lizhug1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal is the leftovers next day. I
can't say I really enjoy the dinner on Thanksgiving because after cooking
and sampling throughout the day I'm left with very little appetite. On
Friday, however, I'll fill up on turkey, gravy, stuffing, mashed potatoes
&
gravy, and whatever veggies remain.

As far as the stuffing goes, I go the stale white bread route with sautéed
onions and celery, lots of butter, and turkey broth as the liquid. I've
always used Bell's seasoning for the stuffing because that's what my
mother
used, but I add minced sage from my herb garden for an extra kick. BTW,
in
the market yesterday I noted that Arnolds or Pepperidge Farms now has
preseasoned bread cubes with cranberries. I guess that's the rage this
year. It would never go over in this house...one meal I'm not allowed to
mess with is Thanksgiving dinner. One year I added sausage to the
stuffing
and my husband had a fit! Same goes for the cranberry sauce...it's got to
be Ocean Spray in the can, that gel stuff. I don't eat cranberry sauce
myself so I give 'em what they want.


"JAM" <jamalloy@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanksgiving is a wonderful time of year. In times of terrorist
threats, oil prices inflating, real estate markets bottoming out, and
unemployment rates soaring, I try to count my blessings on
Thanksgiving. I do have a great deal to be thankful for, and there
ain't nothing better than a home-cooked Thanksgiving meal.

My favorite part of preparing the dinner is the stuffing. YUMMIE!

I was strolling through the mall the other day and smelled something
wonderful coming out of Williams and Sonoma, an upscale store which
sells cooking items. The aroma was all too familiar, and it drew me
inside the store like a magnet. It was stuffing.

The ingredients were very similar to what I usually use, the bread
crumbs, onions, celery, mushrooms, but the lady in the store added
dried cranberries to the stuffing. It really tasted great. I also add
water chestnuts to my stuffing.

One recipe I will share is the cranberry sauce. I buy fresh
cranberries, place them in about a half inch of water, and let them
boil until they start popping. Then I add sliced-up apples and
walnuts. Some folks like to add a little sugar, so that the sauce is
not too tart. After the cranberry sauce cools, it thickens. It is
easy as can be to make and is always a hit at my Thanksgiving table.

Today, I will go to the store and join others in a mad rush to get all
the ingredients for my meal. I would be most interested to hear from
others about what their favorite stuffing recipe is or any other recipe
for a Thanksgiving meal. Thanks in advance! ;>)

Jennie
Washington, D.C.





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