Holiday Cooking

[Lady Cop]

QB that cranberry relish sounds very good, i like the combination of berries, apples and a touch of orange. mmmmmm i will try it. i can get local berries, pick my own apples and buy an orange! hahaha so it will be a real local relish.

[QueenBee]

LC, a friend made a similar version..with pear rather than apple. I tasted some today and it was very good.

[Carsman]

Do you know Dan Quayle?

If you're telling me I spelled potatoes wrong it would behoove you to make sure that's a valid complaint first, otherwise you will look like a dumbass.

Btatas, potatas, patatas, potatoes, depends where you're from.

[Maggot]

Do you know Dan Quayle?

If you're telling me I spelled potatoes wrong it would behoove you to make sure that's a valid complaint first, otherwise you will look like a dumbass.

Btatas, potatas, patatas, potatoes, depends where you're from.

What flavor is "mashed" ? with butter and salt and peppa?

[sally]

Dammit, sally, you are tying to shame me! I'm ashamed to say, it is THIS: http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,188,1581...93,00.html with half the butter and grated cheddar cheese added. It's is NOT healthy, but pretty good.

This one is good if you don't want stuffing in it: http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/squash-c...001823308/

The stuffed zucchini is the good from-the-farm food:

BAKED STUFFED ZUCCHINI

3 medium sized zucchini
1 c. crumbled saltine crackers
¹⁄₂ c. grated Parmesan cheese
2 tbsp. minced onion
¹⁄₂ tsp. salt
¹⁄₈ tsp. pepper
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 tbsp. butter

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cook zucchini in boiling water to cover in large pot, for 5 minutes. Drain; halve lengthwise. Scoop out pulp with spoon - leaving shell. Coarsely chop pulp. Combine with cracker crumbs, ¹⁄₄ cup cheese, onion, parsley, salt, pepper, and egg in medium sized bowl. Spoon crumb mixture into shell, mounding in center. Dot with butter; sprinkle with remaining Parmesan cheese. Place in baking dish. Bake 30 minutes until lightly browned.

The squash casserole actually sounds pretty good, and easy.

I have a stuffed zucchini recipe from Rachel Ray that is delicious, but again it's a pain in the ass. It's more of a dish to cook on its own and bring to some poor schmuck's house who is doing the rest of the cooking.

[sally]

I recall Sally making Duchess potatoes one holiday. I thought those must have been fantastic!

I'm surprised you remembered that because I don't remember posting it . I must have posted it though because I do have a recipe for Duchess potatoes that are great with prime rib.

[Lady Cop]

many of us will be busy today getting prepped for the big feast.

then there's poor Duchess, who told me she has to slave away in a hot kitchen and wash the celery! oh the unfairness of it all! the sheer brutality!

[Duchess]

Bwahahaha!

[Duchess]

In my own defense I'd just like to add that I'm cleaning onions too & cubing bread. I have some flowers to arrange as well.

[Cracker]

many of us will be busy today getting prepped for the big feast.

then there's poor Duchess, who told me she has to slave away in a hot kitchen and wash the celery! oh the unfairness of it all! the sheer brutality!

Oh, no! Poor Duchess!

haha

This made me laugh. I will start cooking this afternoon so I can have a chill day tomorrow. Everybody is rolling in later in the day, so I plan on being half toasted by then...

[undercovercameo]

Preparing to make my special oyster dressing,my favorite dish at the big feast.

[sally]

I will start cooking this afternoon so I can have a chill day tomorrow. Everybody is rolling in later in the day, so I plan on being half toasted by then...

Same here. I've been cooking my fat little ass off today.

[Duchess]

I'm surprised you remembered that because I don't remember posting it . I must have posted it though because I do have a recipe for Duchess potatoes that are great with prime rib.

I have great recall of things seen years before...and yet, I've had days where I can't remember if I washed my hair the day before or not.

[SIXFOOTERsez]

Got the big turkey in the smoker, dressing and gravy are made, and made a Huge batch of Bananna Pudding, from scratch.
Table is all set up, all I got to do is fry 2 more birds and get it all on the table. Nuthin to it, only 4 days out of my life, LOL

[Lady Cop]

another reason to buy a fresh turkey!

WKRN
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -
A Nashville woman was surprised to find that she had purchased a turkey from a local grocery store that had expired four years ago.

Libby Spires bought the out-dated turkey earlier this month from Apple Market located on Lebanon Pike.

"I was shocked because it said November 23, 2007," she recalled. "I said, ‘Oh my gosh, I can't eat this turkey!'"

Spires continued, "I don't know why I didn't look [at the date when I bought it]. I was just busy. I didn't look at it then, but it's the first thing I did when I took it out of the freezer today."

Spires returned the expired bird to the store on Tuesday afternoon for a complete refund.
it was expired and expired!

[Cracker]

She looks like she swallowed the turkey whole.

Shameful new-found knowledge: You can use the microwave for making chocolate pies. It works just fine. Dump in the milk, add the Jello pudding, bake the crust while the pudding is cooking for 6 minutes, dump the pudding in the crust, throw it in the fridge. I may be fat by Christmas. Loves me a chocolate pie. (cooked pudding only, probably just as easy to do it with the cocoa, but I'm getting lazy)

[Maggot]

If you take instant chocholate pudding and before you go to bed pat it on your face it takes out wrinkles.

[FAHQTOO]

She looks like she swallowed the turkey whole.

Shameful new-found knowledge: You can use the microwave for making chocolate pies. It works just fine. Dump in the milk, add the Jello pudding, bake the crust while the pudding is cooking for 6 minutes, dump the pudding in the crust, throw it in the fridge. I may be fat by Christmas. Loves me a chocolate pie. (cooked pudding only, probably just as easy to do it with the cocoa, but I'm getting lazy)

My mom makes the Chocolate pudding pies too...I brought ¹⁄₂ a pie home last night and it's gone...and I want more...and more...I will ask her to make me one all my own for Christmas, not including what I will eat at my sisters.
I suppose I could make my own.......nahhhhh

[Harvest Moon]

My Mom always makes a chocolate pie for Thanksgiving and/or Christmas. I think she makes the filling from scratch, but buys a prepared pie crust. She might use a Jello pudding mix, but I have never asked. In all my years of living outside of the family fold, I never met or heard of anybody else that has chocolate pudding/custard pie as part of the the holiday tradition. Funny that I would find it here, on Mock, of all places.

[Lady Cop]

what do you do for Christmas dinner? i have to have the traditional English prime rib and brussels sprouts and Yorkshire puddings.