{"id":842,"date":"2006-11-24T14:59:52","date_gmt":"2006-11-24T14:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/24\/a-chateau-steelypips-thanksgiv\/"},"modified":"2006-11-24T14:59:52","modified_gmt":"2006-11-24T14:59:52","slug":"a-chateau-steelypips-thanksgiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/24\/a-chateau-steelypips-thanksgiv\/","title":{"rendered":"A Chateau Steelypips Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/008275.html#008275\">Thanksgiving advice from Making Light<\/a> got here too late to do us any good, but we had a fine first Thanksgiving anyway. My parents, sister, grandmother, and one of my great-aunts came up from New York, and Kate&#8217;s parents came up from Boston, so we packed nine people into our smallish house, along with more food than we really needed. <\/p>\n<p>But then, Thanksgiving is a quintessentially American holiday: built around excess. What other country would come up with a holiday whose principal observation is gorging to excess, and then watching football on tv? So the turkey was a little too big&#8211; that just means more leftovers, and leftovers are one of the best parts of turkey dinners. Kate thinks I&#8217;m a freak, but I&#8217;m weirdly psyched to have a full dish of stuffing that never even made it into the oven&#8211; I&#8217;m going to cook it up tomorrow, and it will be hot and fresh, and practically a meal unto itself. Yay, stuffing.<\/p>\n<p>For those who care, the menu at Chateau Steelypips on Thursday:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One very large (20-lb) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plainvillefarms.com\/\">&#8220;Animal Friendly&#8221; turkey<\/a>, brined overnight and roasted in a bag (just over three hours at 350F). It&#8217;s probably a good thing that I don&#8217;t usually buy turkey, as I suspect that we paid significantly more for this than we wouldv&#8217;e for a Butterball turkey, but it came out really well, if I do say so myself.<\/li>\n<li>Bread stuffing, following my mother&#8217;s recipe, which basically involves buying a box of Bell&#8217;s stuffing mix, and adding a few extra things to it. Mmmm&#8230;. Stuffing&#8230;.<\/li>\n<li>Quebecois meat pie, a recipe from Kate&#8217;s family.<\/li>\n<li>Mashed potatoes with cheese and sour cream and onions mixed in. I don&#8217;t like ordinary mashed potatoes, but these are really good.<\/li>\n<li>Gravy out of a can. I don&#8217;t eat the stuff, and I don&#8217;t know how to make it, and I wasn&#8217;t sure what effect the brining would have on the turkey drippings, so we decided to punt.<\/li>\n<li>Steamed green beans.<\/li>\n<li>Two different kinds of cranberry sauce, one from a can, and one from a jar. The jar variety was a big hit, but I don&#8217;t eat it, so I really couldn&#8217;t tell you anything about it.<\/li>\n<li>Mashed sweet potatoes and mashed turnips, which are traditional on my mother&#8217;s side of the family.<\/li>\n<li>Slightly burned Pillsbury crescent rolls, as is traditional on my side of the family.<\/li>\n<li>A sort of bean salad kind of thing involving edamame, tomatoes, black beans, and some other stuff, for my vegetarian sister.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And, of course, the all-important desserts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kate&#8217;s mother&#8217;s rum cake, the recipe for which can be found in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cooks.com\/rec\/search\/0,1-00,bacardi_rum_cake,FF.html\">dozens of places on the Internet<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>My mother&#8217;s pumpkin pie.<\/li>\n<li>My mother&#8217;s apple pie, which is the absolute Best Dessert Ever. And there&#8217;s half a pie left over in the fridge downstairs. Mmmmm&#8230;. Apple pie&#8230;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The only sour note came from the NFL, who served up some really putrid football games. But that&#8217;s ok, as I fell asleep on the couch pretty much as soon as our parents left.<\/p>\n<p>The turkey carcass is in a cooler in the garage, waiting to be turned into soup tomorrow, but I decided I didn&#8217;t feel like cooking today, so it was turkey sandwiches (with stuffing) for lunch, and straight leftovers for dinner. And I&#8217;m good with that.<\/p>\n<p>For those readers who celebrate Thanksgiving, I hope your holiday was good, and for those who don&#8217;t, well, you don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;re missing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to go eat some stuffing, now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Thanksgiving advice from Making Light got here too late to do us any good, but we had a fine first Thanksgiving anyway. My parents, sister, grandmother, and one of my great-aunts came up from New York, and Kate&#8217;s parents came up from Boston, so we packed nine people into our smallish house, along with&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/24\/a-chateau-steelypips-thanksgiv\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Chateau Steelypips Thanksgiving<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}