Thanksgiving

So, this year I made Thanksgiving dinner all on my own (ok, Kasey cleaned the dishes.  Thank GOD!).  It was AWESOME.

I have recently found that I like to cook with ingredients.  You know, not crap out of a box, but real food with real stuff.   I find that it is kind of like a chemistry experiment that you get to eat.  Mmmmm….

So, this year, I made:

• Turkey – Rubbed with Tony Chachere’s, injected with Tony’s Creole butter (This was the only premade thing that I used) and stuffed with my own stuffing
  
• Stuffing – Bread crumbs, butter apples onion, spices and cranberries
  
• Pie – Coconut oil based crust (TRY IT!) with granny smith apples
  
• Corn- Frozen HEB organic
  
• Green beans – Organic fresh and hand snapped (by me)
  
• Deviled Eggs – mayo and mustard mixed.
  
• Mashed red potatoes – with garlic and sour cream….
  
• Brown and serve rolls – Not from scratch, but Kasey insisted that I make these…
  
• Cranberry Relish – This came from a recipe on NPR and was AWESOME even if it sounds gross.   It is made of raw cranberries, a whole onion, 3.4 cup sour cream and 2 table spoons of horseradish.   Kasey was a bit timid at first, but now wants it on everything that she eats.  She even wondered what it would be like on the pie.  ;)
  
• Jalapeno stuffed olives for an appetizer.  ;)
  

It all turned out awesome, except that I think that I pushed the needle in a bit too far for a couple of the injections and squirted it right through because the stuffing was really salty…  It was still awesome though.

I did not fry the turkey this year, but I may next year.  I am not sure.  This one from this year was right behind the best fried turkey I have ever made and roasting is a lot cheaper.  The oil this year was $35!  I was like “SNAP!  That is a LOT!” and did not do it.  J