{"id":7996,"date":"2013-11-30T12:44:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T17:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=7996"},"modified":"2014-03-16T22:49:27","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T03:49:27","slug":"thanksgiving-dinner-that-couldnt-be-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/thanksgiving-dinner-that-couldnt-be-beat\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving dinner that couldn’t be beat"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nWe celebrated Thanksgiving with Primanti Bros.<\/a> sandwiches and watched a kind of silly movie – Robot and Frank<\/a>, with Frank Langella playing a retired jewel thief with memory loss, whose son hires a robot personal assistant for him. Great cast – Langella, Susan Sarandon, Liv Tyler is the daughter and James Marsden is the son. Peter Saarsgard is the robot’s voice.<\/p>\n

I didn’t work on my systems analysis final, or bake any cookies all day (just made the Moravian thins dough).<\/p>\n

I gave myself the day off from cookies and systems analysis again on Friday. John and Megan arrived at about noon, after I had put the bird into the oven and was thinking about trying to get out for a walk. Al and Emma had been here since Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

We had 17 for dinner. We ate:<\/p>\n

The turkey and stuffing. I tried to restrain myself on stuffing amount, because there was still a bucket of extra from last year, uncooked, in the freezer. I think it worked. Even with the bit from last year blended in, the amount of stuffing left I think will be eaten over the holiday weekend. There’re two ziploc bags of white & dark meat – the white bag is way bigger. Matt must be breeding his heirloom turkeys to have big breasts.<\/p>\n

The gravy came out really good this year. I skimmed the fat and thickened it with flour and cornstarch. It was smooth and brown.<\/p>\n

Br\u00fbl\u00e9ed sweet potatoes with chile & lime<\/a> – they were particularly good this year, too. I did not repeat the meringue topping I tried last year. It got too weepy the next day.<\/p>\n

Corn pudding – some of it in, or really sort of ON – delicata squash rings. That was really good too.<\/p>\n

Brussels sprout salad<\/a> – good too, just a bit too much of it.<\/p>\n

Susan brought garlic mashed potatoes, everything from their garden. They were the perfect match for the my gravy.<\/p>\n

Pumpkin mousse<\/a>, a nice fluffy one this year, and turkey cookies<\/a> to go with.<\/p>\n

Cranberry-pear lattice pie for the “real” pie. And, who knew – all these years, I thought Al didn’t like pumpkin pie – this year he says he doesn’t like the mousse, but he likes regular pumpkin pie. So I guess next year I’ll have to make a\u00a0regular pumpkin pie.<\/p>\n

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Cranberry pear lattice pie<\/p><\/div>\n

Deena brought Laurie Colwin’s cranberry pie\/cake<\/a> – also called Nantucket Cranberry Pie.<\/p>\n

Belinda brought a chocolate pistachio tart.<\/p>\n

Lesleigh brought a box of ruggelach from Manna Bakery.<\/p>\n

So altogether a for real, over the top, too much food, Thanksgiving feast. Al ate the first official leftover turkey sandwich as soon as he got up, about 9:00AM Saturday – with Siracha mayonnaise. And he & Emma are already on their way back to Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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