Thanksgiving Menu!

Due to popular demand (and because we just sort of decided what we'll eat), here are the Wood family menus!

It's going to be a bit of a marathon...

Here's what I'll be eating for the next few days (plus leftovers until I go back to school). I describe it in terms of more hoity-toity restaurant terms, and below it, in smaller text, I have a more raw description/my interpretation of what the dish is.

Enjoy!

Thursday Dinner

Halahbuhji's 80th Birthday Dinner (NOT Thanksgiving)

Appetizer

Toasted sourdough loaves with melted brie cheese

Hollowed out sourdough bread bowls with brie cheese, stuck in the oven; bread gets toasty, brie gets melty equals nomnomnom

Poppy's moist and savory stuffed mushrooms

Baby bella mushrooms with stem removed stuffed with a filling made of cream cheese, bacon and chives; popped in the oven, and they come out moist and savory! More nomming

Main Courses

Prime rib bone-in roast

2 choices: barbequed or oven-roasted, both are garlic stuffed and peppered

Chinese style roast duck

yumm-- I love you, duck.

Sides

Poppy's cloud whipped potatoes

Mediterranean-style French green beans

Skinny green beans steamed then topped with olive oil, lemon, garlic, and toasted almond slivers

Ultimate mac-and-cheese

2 cheeses: gruyère and aged gouda; with white wine, mustard, and bread crumb topping

Sautéed chanterelle mushrooms

cooked in butta and sherry

Glass noodles seasoned Korean-style, mixed with vegetables and Kobe-style meat

Korean chapchae noodles seasoned with soy sauce and sesame oil (plus other secrets) with spinach, carrots, bulgogi meat, shiitake mushrooms

Fresh cranberry sauce

I make my special sauce. Not giving out secrets :)

Salad

Sautéed fennel, orange slices, goat cheese and roasted pine nuts on a bed of mixed greens

As it says.

Dessert

Almond layer cake with sherry-lemon buttercream frosting

This masterpiece (I hope) I'll be baking! Yumm... the lemons will be fresh Meyer lemons from our yard.

Friday Dinner

Thanksgiving dinner!

Main Courses

Oven-roasted turkey

Sides

Fresh cranberry sauce

Italian chard stuffing

with sausage and parmesan cheese

Dessert

Silky pumpkin pie in a butter crust

Thanks to Noah for the recipe! I hope it comes out well, and I'll be sure to chronicle my adventures... I've never really made pie before...

Dark rum-pecan pie in a butter crust

Ditto as above.

Siiigh.

I already feel full after typing all of that out.

Not really, actually.

I'm ready to conquer the meals :)

Anyways, enough of that!

Yesterday, I baked brown sugar cookies. So good fresh out of the oven with a tall glass of milk! I had to brown the butter, so it gave it a nice nutty/buttery taste... but it was a little too sugary-sweet for my taste. The outside is also coated with brown and white sugar.

Okey dokey, BYE~