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I am thankful for so many things-- my fantastic kidunit, my amazing family, wonderful friends, a decent job, a roof over my head, generally good health and many many more things from the major to the trivial. I don't think about that often enough. Truly, thanksgiving should happen more than once a year-- and I don't mean the feast and holiday and all the attendant fuss. I just mean the act of being consciously thankful for all the good in my life. Must be better about that.
Today wasn't our 'primary' Thanksgiving with family. Due to vagaries of scheduling, that will actually happen on Friday instead. I did, however, go ahead and make a mostly-traditional Thankgiving meal today, so we'd have leftovers, which we won't tomorrow since it'll be at my mom's. Here's the menu:
Pancetta-sage turkey and gravy
Cornbread dressing with pine-nuts
Roasted harvest vegetables
Mulled port cranberry sauce
Mashed potatoes
Bourbon-pecan pie
Spicy Pumpkin pie (I use a fairly bog-standard pie recipe and add a ton of spices, including a shake of cayenne!)
I found the turkey recipe at Bon Appetit/epicurious.com and adapted it because I can never leave well-enough alone (plus there were a couple of things about their version that sounded unappetizing to me). You can find the original pancetta-sage turkey recipe here, but my version is below the cut. I also tinkered with their cranberry sauce with port and cinnamon recipe. My version of that one's down below too, along with the veggies one. ( recipes ho! )
Today wasn't our 'primary' Thanksgiving with family. Due to vagaries of scheduling, that will actually happen on Friday instead. I did, however, go ahead and make a mostly-traditional Thankgiving meal today, so we'd have leftovers, which we won't tomorrow since it'll be at my mom's. Here's the menu:
Pancetta-sage turkey and gravy
Cornbread dressing with pine-nuts
Roasted harvest vegetables
Mulled port cranberry sauce
Mashed potatoes
Bourbon-pecan pie
Spicy Pumpkin pie (I use a fairly bog-standard pie recipe and add a ton of spices, including a shake of cayenne!)
I found the turkey recipe at Bon Appetit/epicurious.com and adapted it because I can never leave well-enough alone (plus there were a couple of things about their version that sounded unappetizing to me). You can find the original pancetta-sage turkey recipe here, but my version is below the cut. I also tinkered with their cranberry sauce with port and cinnamon recipe. My version of that one's down below too, along with the veggies one. ( recipes ho! )
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