Happy thanksgiving...

wmonique2 · Post by **wmonique2** » Wed Nov 26, 2014 1:56 pm

Happy Thanksgiving my friends!

Hope you have a good one and let's not overdo it -- it isn't worth the price we pay!

Love to all,

Monique

:turkey:

megamoxie · Post by **megamoxie** » Wed Nov 26, 2014 4:36 pm

Happy Thanksgiving to you, too, Monique!

It will help me to remember that this holiday is about gratitude, not about food... we must feast on what nourishes us.

This forum is one of many things for which I'm grateful this year.

Meg

Martha · Post by **Martha** » Wed Nov 26, 2014 6:40 pm

Happy Thanksgiving to all the PP! I am thankful for you all.

I'm going to eat the Thanksgiving turkey for the first time in several years. My good friend brings the turkey for our potluck dinner, and this year I found g-f, d-f, s-f turkey at Walmart, and asked her to buy that. (It is Riverside brand, and I called the company to check on the allergens.)

I made two pies today, using Rob's Red Mill g-f pie crust mix--one apple, and one pumpkin using coconut milk. I've done this before, and it turns out well.

Our older son and his family are joining us for dinner, and our younger son and his family are in Thailand, waiting for the birth of their third baby. Maybe he'll be born before tomorrow, and we'll have a birth to be thankful for.

Love to you all,
Martha

Leah · Post by **Leah** » Wed Nov 26, 2014 7:09 pm

I also hope everyone here has a great holiday. I made my GF crust today with coconut oil. It turns out so flaky and yummy! It's just a little harder to roll out and work with. One apple and one pumpkin pie ( made with almond milk). Mashed sweet potatoes with coconut milk, shredded brussels sprouts with bacon, turkey, gravy made with cornstarch… and my mother in law is making stuffing for those of us who can eat gluten. I won't be missing much :)

Leah

Post by **tex** » Wed Nov 26, 2014 7:10 pm

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

May we all enjoy a safe, healthy, and happy Thanksgiving (with a minimal number of trips to the bathroom

).

Love,
Tex

JLH · Post by **JLH** » Wed Nov 26, 2014 7:12 pm

Happy Thanksgiving!

JLH · Post by **JLH** » Wed Nov 26, 2014 7:15 pm

Something to go with those pies.

"Whipped cream. One of my happiest discoveries was that you can make the most luscious, airy whipped cream from a can of full-fat coconut milk. The trick is to refrigerate the can overnight, spoon out the top layer of thick coconut that's solidified (you'll want to avoid coconut milk that has added stabilizers or gums; they prevent it from separating), and whip it just as you would heavy cream. It is perfect as a dip for fresh fruits, atop pies, and cobblers, or as a fluffy frosting for cupcakes and cakes."
By Amanda Maguire, Food52 | November 11, 2014:

:turkey:

Marcia K · Post by **Marcia K** » Wed Nov 26, 2014 9:28 pm

Happy Thanksgiving, friends! I have my food all ready to take along tomorrow. No worries for me! Have a wonderful day!

Marcia

nerdhume · Post by **nerdhume** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 5:01 am

Happy Thanksgiving to all. I am thankful for this board and this great group of people. I bought a Riverside turkey at Walmart and he is resting in brine now. Will be in the oven shortly.
Plan a allergen free dinner at home just DH and me.

Skyward · Post by **Skyward** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 8:02 am

Having found this forum and the people here is definitely one of the things I am MOST THANKFUL for.

I am getting ready to make some pumpkin pies to take to a friend's house. I make a really good wheat flour pie crust- and I am just going to go ahead and make the pies for others to enjoy- and I think I'll make a little crust free pumpkin tart for myself without eggs either- I don't have the cooking supplies or knowhow yet to attempt any GF baking yet. I've never tried cornstarch as a thickener for pumpkin pie- but if its a total flop- I'll be the only one who knows!

Also on today's to-do list is to get the wreath mounted on my barn. I hope I can figure out picture hosting soon.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
-Sarah

Post by **tex** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 9:01 am

Sarah,

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Tex

nerdhume · Post by **nerdhume** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 11:45 am

well dinner was a complete success. We just finished in time for DH to settle in for football. Turkey, cranberry sauce, giblet gravy (thickened with corn starch), candied yams, rice stuffing (a new thing to me, was really good), pumpkin custard (pie without the crust), peanut butter fudge, nice glass of Spumante.
Thankful to have a DH that says, just fix whatever you can eat and don't worry about me!

dfpowell · Post by **dfpowell** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 3:09 pm

Theresa,

Glad to hear you Thanksgiving went well! Your rice stuffing sounds interesting, what is in it?

Thanks,

Skyward · Post by **Skyward** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 7:37 pm

Here, hopefully, is my barn wreath and practice posting a picture.

Dinner went pretty well with only one mishap with food. I watched while the gravy was being made by a little old 89 year old Italian lady and she was just using corn starch- and I was relieved... And then her granddaughter walked up, grabbed a mysterious product and started shaking it madly into the mix- what was it!? Later I poked in the pantry and saw that it was a specialty gravy flour- so boom- gravy was out. The turkey was moist and delicious without gravy anyway but when I was having seconds my son offered me the gravy and I accepted it without thinking and dumped a ladleful on my plate before I caught my mistake. I pushed as much as I could off with my fork and enjoyed it.

I also had green beans, cooked carrots and mashed sweet potatoes. That was a bit funny too because I've been surviving on sweet potatoes this week and the lady next to me who got the plate first was like "oooh mashed sweet potatoes!!! I can't think of the last time I had these!" And I'm sitting there hoping she doesn't take them all.

Everyone loved my pies and raved about the crust- so even if I can't eat it I can still bake it! My personal pumpkin custard was pretty awful without egg or crust. Now I see why the vegan recepie all had some additional creamy type ingredient... Mine did have the condensed milk but it still tasted a bit like raw pumpkin from the can.

My one regret is that I didn't get to taste the desert the Italian lady had made- a cheesecake type cake with some dark swirly chocolate cake- she called it Italian Love Cake... Not easy to say no to that.

nerdhume · Post by **nerdhume** » Fri Nov 28, 2014 3:46 am

Donna,
I used this recipe:
http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/1 ... 7252.shtml
I substituted my frozen seasoning mix for the celery and onions. I seem to be better able to tolerate the frozen onions.
I also used turkey broth instead of water.
I never put stuffing inside the bird so I baked it for about 30 minutes until it was browned.
Just learned yesterday that this is called 'stuffing' if it's inside the bird and 'dressing' if it's not. Guess I made dressing.