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serene
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For dinner at Guy's: My version of spaghetti carbonara -- fry bacon and
onions together. Cook spaghetti(ni) until al dente. Add hot spaghetti
to eggs in a bowl and toss to set the eggs. Add bacon (and some bacon
fat if desired, quantity at your discretion) and parmesan cheese. Serve.
Once I got home: Two spice cakes for T-day. A pot of split-pea soup --
split peas, carrots, onions, a little olive oil, water, and some
seasoned salt. Really yummy. Also baked the sweet potatoes for the pie
(I use canned pumpkin, but I find canned sweet potato to be too sweet.)
Tomorrow begins the serious cooking prep. Make cranberry sauce; Chop
onions and celery and saute for stuffing; anything else I can think of
that's a do-days-ahead chore. Then Wednesday, bake a zillion pies (4-6
pumpkin, one sweet-potato, two apple. That's the plan, anyway. Nine
pies is a zillion, right?) and do whatever else can be done ahead.
Thursday, up at 7 to clean the turkey so it can be in the oven by 7:30
and out by 2:30. Dinner is at 3. Have decided to try not stuffing the
bird this year. I prefer the taste of stuffing, but it makes a mess and
it's a food-safety problem, from what I read.
It's a lot of work, but I'm excited. And I can't wait to see my brie
and cranberries and walnuts in my new chafing dish.
serene
onions together. Cook spaghetti(ni) until al dente. Add hot spaghetti
to eggs in a bowl and toss to set the eggs. Add bacon (and some bacon
fat if desired, quantity at your discretion) and parmesan cheese. Serve.
Once I got home: Two spice cakes for T-day. A pot of split-pea soup --
split peas, carrots, onions, a little olive oil, water, and some
seasoned salt. Really yummy. Also baked the sweet potatoes for the pie
(I use canned pumpkin, but I find canned sweet potato to be too sweet.)
Tomorrow begins the serious cooking prep. Make cranberry sauce; Chop
onions and celery and saute for stuffing; anything else I can think of
that's a do-days-ahead chore. Then Wednesday, bake a zillion pies (4-6
pumpkin, one sweet-potato, two apple. That's the plan, anyway. Nine
pies is a zillion, right?) and do whatever else can be done ahead.
Thursday, up at 7 to clean the turkey so it can be in the oven by 7:30
and out by 2:30. Dinner is at 3. Have decided to try not stuffing the
bird this year. I prefer the taste of stuffing, but it makes a mess and
it's a food-safety problem, from what I read.
It's a lot of work, but I'm excited. And I can't wait to see my brie
and cranberries and walnuts in my new chafing dish.
serene