The menu for tomorrow
Cream cheese, cocktail sauce and crab appetizer
Cheese plate
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Brined (!) fresh turkey
Roasted Yukon Gold potatoes with garlic
Green beans with almonds
Cornbread and sausage stuffing
Rolls
Cranberry chutney
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Apple crisp and cinnamon ice cream
For some reason I’m thinking of that old SNL sketch with Phil Hartman… The Anal-Retentive Chef.
Xkot, I’ve read about your eating habits. Therefore, I feel no need to speak in Adam’s defense. The chutney and the brining, however, he was talked into.
“A man who takes no joy in food is a man without joy.”
–From My Father’s Unspoken Inner Monologue
No leftovers for you, Xkot.
I can appreciate a highbrow meal as well as I can a lowbrow one. I just find posting a detailed menu to be a little obsessive.
…and funny.
Well, when you don’t cook all that much and you have to make Thanksgiving, it tends to breed obsession a little.
Actually, I was just thinking people would be impressed that I did all this work.
In the Benedetto household, holiday meals must have as many dishes as there are guests. So many that one or two are inevitably forgotten in the kitchen or on the sideboard, which isn’t a problem because there wouldn’t be room for them on the table anyway.
One of many reasons we’re having someone else do it all for us this year.
Oh, and we’re fiercely traditional about stuffing — white bread, celery and spices, and that’s about it.
I love the anal-retentive chef.
*I’m* impressed, Adam. I bet it was fantastic.
We’re traditional about stuffing in my family, too. Sometimes I wish I could try something more exciting… but am not about to give up what I already KNOW is a good thing. 🙂