Thanksgiving remembered

We're gearing up for the big feast at our house this year with a few snags. One Baba is busy making money for all the food we consume. Two, Mama and I both got some kind of bug that had us hunched over a toilet for a day. Three, Mama was feeling better but just burned her finger making apple pie. Ahh.. the casualties of the meal.

 Here's thinking back to last year's thanksgiving where we had 3 meals, 2 of which we've already posted about (see November 2011 1 and 2). Here's the last one we celebrated with my friend Meredith and her family. I believe the menu included stuffed acorn squash, roasted turkey courtesy of Alton B, broccoli, butternut squash, macaroni and cheese cupcakes, and bell peppers with Burmese dressing.

Meredith and I had our own kids table where I got to dig in my plate and hers when she wasn't looking. It was delish!

This year our full line up was going to include bacon jam (our latest obsession) stuffed dates, gougeres, steam roasted turkey a la Jacques Pepin, biryani rice stuffing, burmese dressed veggies, cranberry-pomegranate relish, kimchi mashed potatoes (Baba is skeptical), apple pie, and pumpkin flan. Now post illness, we've had to scale back, but will have some combination of the above.

Pies are supposed to be therapeutic to roll out, so Mama and I have been trying out various pies. I'm a great mixer. We made a spiced plum pie the other day from leftover fall fruit and now the apple pie is out of the oven.  Happy Thanksgiving to all!