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6pairsofshoes:
Thursday we celebrate Thanksgiving in the U.S.  My husband is going to cook a duck breast.  He's been watching Jamie Oliver in the evenings and is going to do some kind of port wine/bing cherry sauce.  I am happy to let him at it.  We will have mashed potatoes with parsnips and some greens on the side and I'll probably bake an apple galette for dessert.  That will consume hours in the kitchen, but it will make for a simple nice dinner.  What, if anything, are you planning to cook for the holidays?

Ham, turkey, duck, roast beef?  What sides and desserts do you prepare?

6pairsofshoes:

--- Quote from: christ on November 23, 2021, 11:27:43 AM ---What? No green bean casserole?

(We will have a full American thanksgiving dinner, likely with pumpkin pie)

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Ha!  We will most likely steam some green beans.  I'm not a big casserole fan.  I love pumpkin pie, but haven't made one for years.  Maybe for Christmas.

8ullfrog:
Green Bean Casserole was all marketing. Campbells shoehorned it in to "Thanksgiving" to sell cream of mushroom soup.
I like green beans; I like crispy onion things. I don't like cream of mushroom soup.

Holy poo, my browser just had me drop a semicolon.

6pairsofshoes:
I know that there are mince pies and plum puddings over there in the UK that are consumed around the Christmas holidays, but do you guys eat fruitcake?  Or is that a new world thing?

My grandmother used to bake fruitcake and keep it in a tea towel lined tin; the whole business was soaked in brandy.  I can barely remember how it tasted.  I think she used odd store bought candied fruit in it.  Probably nuts, too. 

I would like to identify and consume a good fruitcake.  I am not averse to making one.  If anyone has a trusted recipe that they'd be willing to share or point me to, I'd appreciate it.  I'm eating a store bought panetone for breakfast.  It's not bad, but it's very light compared to a fruitcake, at least the kind of fruitcake I associate with the holidays.  Clearly, I'm not Italian.

smokester:

--- Quote from: 6pairsofshoes on December 21, 2021, 09:50:27 AM ---My grandmother used to bake fruitcake and keep it in a tea towel lined tin; the whole business was soaked in brandy.  I can barely remember how it tasted.  I think she used odd store bought candied fruit in it.  Probably nuts, too. 
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This is pretty much a carbon copy of what my nan used to do with the only difference that we called it "Christmas Cake" as it was much, much heavier than a fruit cake.

We still buy a very small version of this as no one can really stomach it outside the festive season. However, my neice is currently doing a bakery course (she a physiotherapist by trade) at Harrods I think and she is unbelievably good at it - judging by her photos - so I'm hoping that she may consider planning one sometime this year ready for next Christmas. I just have to lay down some hints.

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