Happy Thanksgiving to you all! Here are a few quick pics I took yesterday for turkey day!
Always a fabulous host, my future MIL put out snacks including crackers with cheese and meat plus spinach and artichoke dip with chips. She also had out olive tapenade hummus, which was REALLY good.
A true Italian family always starts off with a pasta course! Homemade Spinach Ravioli from Bob’s with homemade marinara sauce and freshly grated cheese. Yummmm.
Next up, the fiance deep fried a turkey in peanut oil, in the garage. See the herb packets tucked into the skin? So good!
Dinner included all the classics: sweet potatoes, green beans, brussel sprouts, mashed potatoes and gravy, cranberry sauce, fresh bread, stuffing, and the turkey.
Dessert, we left to the experts over at Modern Pastry! Cookies, cannolis, pumpkin caramel cheesecake, fruit and cream cups in chocolate shells, and there was a pumpkin pie and ricotta pie. I don’t have pics of it all but here are a couple….
Happy Black Friday and TGIF! Hope you had a great and delicious Thanksgiving too! What was your favorite dish?
sweet potatoes with pecans, brown sugar and mini marshmallow topper came out the best!
Karen, really with the marshmallows ?
It has to make them so sweet that a diabetic would go into toxic shock with just one bite
Sweet potatoes with marshmallows is an american classic ! yum ! https://www.pillsbury.com/recipes/marshmallow-topped-sweet-potatoes/9dccb29e-88fd-4409-b07c-84abb0229271 anyways nowadays you can buy sugar free marshmallows.
Is your boyfriend from the South? I used to live in New Orleans and people in Louisuana love to deep fry turkey.
But they do it in a specially-designed contraption meant for deep frying big cuts of meat, and not a garage. However, deep frying in a garage sounds interesting. Did he dig a hole?
Oh I meant he fried it in a deep fryer, that was set up in the garage so he wouldnt get cold outside
looks like this
https://www.webstaurantstore.com/backyard-pro-30-quart-turkey-fryer-kit/554BP30SQKIT.html?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=GoogleShopping&gclid=CjwKEAiA-5-kBRDylPG5096R8mASJABqEdm4Iu-d1Fl8TDC50yOGtKs-i_VpI68rGoVbohA2x4hXChoC1izw_wcB
Quite a feast. Is Bob an uncle or the brother of your fiance? Your lucky to have a family member make homemade ravioli- they sure are better than the frozen ones you buy.
When you deep fry a turkey, there is no stuffing, right? Or else it would be fried bread, kind of like one giant crouton.
I don’t know about you, but I luv luv luv stuffing. Abd I don’t care what the food police say about stuffing inside the bird. Use common sense and you won’t get sick.
Nope Bob is an Italian food store !
No stuffing in the bird for us!
Oh I get it, Karen, you mentioned your favorite dish on Thanksgiving.
I just don’t get the marshmallows on real food… and it’s not just because I’m Asian, but to me, and this is just my opinion, but marshmallows belong at a campfire.
wow lots of dislike for marshmallows ! it is a classic -we grew up eating it that way.
You said the ravioli were homemade by Bob.
I asked if Bob was a relative; you said Bob was the name of an Italian food store. I’m confused, if they’re made in a store they’re store made, right?
In a home is homemade. I think what you mean is freshly made. It’s a matter of splitting hairs I know, but as a blogger I think it’s important to be precise.
That Lacy girl was also confused by a misplaced phrase as she thought Sal fried the turkey in a hole in your garage
Good thing that you cleared up that confusion.
Oops yup you are correct – it was freshly made pasta from a gourmet food store !
Thanks
You rock. ..keep up the great posts and information.
Merry Christmas
Are you doing the 12 christmas eve fish dishes again this year?
How about a recipe or three?
I love the idea of 12 fish – I guess one for each month- served on Christmas eve. When it comes to cool food tradition, you Italians rock!!!
Feast of the seven fishes ! Yes !
Seven, that’s an odd number….Hahaha
oysters
squid
octopus
clams
lobster
Cod
shrimp
How did I do?
Are those your 7?
You could freelance and throw in or mix and match
eel
scallops
mussels
tuna
salt cod
sardines
anchovies
sea urchin
razor clams
conch
Make it a feast of 16 fish!!
That would be awesome. …a fish frenzy if you will.
on Christmas day you’d have already eaten so much fish you might have gills.
Loads of Champagne and fish is a great meal…..
Recipes this year. …again, recipes
And no cut and paste a URL link…. a real honest to goodness recipe from your Italian kitchen..