Another Thanksgiving for two. Limited pre-dinner nibbles. Bubbly. SUPER chicken.
Wow Lambchop! What a beautiful bunch of pies! And you made them
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I feel done In by one pie!
Tasty dinner for one: turkey breast from local farm, stuffing with mushrooms, celery and leeks, gravy made from very rich turkey stock I made last weekend, butter braised carrots and leeks, creamed kale, red wine cranberry sauce from NYT (keeper recipe, sooo good!).
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We were a table of 5 down from a usual group of 10-12. Was kind of nice, I was actually able to talk with everyone for a change. Family zoom early evening was more fun than I anticipated but we were all drinking buy then so that might of helped.
Stay safe and well, wash your hands and wear a mask. This could all be over soon with any luck.
Just my sister’s family and us so 6 instead of the usual 20 or so, but we cooked for 20.
Sour cream clam dip, baked oyster casserole, sausage-apple stuffing made with rosemary focaccia, scalloped potatoes, cranberry-lingonberry sauce, little gem salad and standing rib roast. For dessert we had chocolate coffee cheesecake with amaretto cookie crust, pecan pie, homemade whipped cream and Humphry Slocum ice cream - Vietnamese coffee, corn flake and chocolate caramel sea salt.
Going to cook a turkey tonight to have with leftover stuffing and for sandwiches.
I got a little over-ambitious, but nothing went wrong, the hot food stayed hot (that’s what I was most concerned about), and the two of us will probably take the next month to go through the leftovers.
Wedge salad with blue cheese dressing, tomato bisque (not pictured), mac & cheese, Brussels sprouts slaw, mashed potatoes , Dungeness crab, Trader Joe’s cranberry sauce, medium-sized H’s cheddar scones and McDonald’s-style apple hand pie and pumpkin hand pie.
I’m not a picture-taker, but mom and I had a great meal. Salad, turkey, green beans roasted with garlic and olive oil, potatoes au gratin, dinner rolls with cinnamon, stuffing. I’m sure I’m forgetting a few items.
We started with Poinsettias and finished with amaretto coffee with dessert (a decadent ice cream dish from a local restaurant) Unlike @biondanonima and @Lambchop and @Elsieb I have never mastered the art of pie making 
I don’t celebrate any “day” but I do enjoy looking at (and hearing about) what you have made and especially the effort you put into it. Everything looks fabulous. I hope next year things will be back to (nearly) what it used to be and you’ll enjoy the meal together with your loved ones again.
Thank you!
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Looks amazing!
Hey! Where from?
Thanks!
My local fish market, Essex Pearl. They also had live uni the other day, which I bought along with some oysters. Probably my most expensive seafood week in a while.
Are they from Washington? I know the season is delayed…again… around here (N. Cal)
I have no idea. The same family that owns Essex Pearl also owns Aquabest Seafood. That website says their Dungeness crab is from the Pacific Northwest, so I assume mine was from there. It was alive when I bought it, so if it’s from last year, it’s had a nice long time in captivity. Or it was illegally harvested.
I saw a place advertising live ones here too, and I have recently seen some in tanks at a local Asian market. I’m just curious about where they are from.
I’ll ask next time I’m over there. But I can’t guarantee I’ll get a truthful answer, if there’s any shadiness going on. Most of their seafood is labeled by origin, but the crabs are kept in the back, so no label.
I would love to hear more about your baked oyster casserole ~ maybe the recipe?
Pretty simple recipe, it must have been a recipe from the 1950s because my mom knew of it when I told her I was making it. Layer of crushed saltine crackers, then oysters, then pour over warmed half and half, Worcestershire sauce, tabasco, salt, pepper, melted butter and a layer of crushed saltines on top and bake. Serve with lemon and hot sauce.
I bought a turkey yesterday and will be roasting it tomorrow. Didn’t make one for Thanksgiving because it was just two of us—and it is still just two of us!—but I really wanted my post-Thanksgiving turkey-andouille gumbo, the several quarts of stock I make out of the bones, etc. And I just like turkey. Miraculously, I managed to find a 12-lb bird and didn’t have to buy a 20-pounder.
We lucked out and found a 9 pound turkey last week. Sis had the same experience as I–in the past you couldn’t find a big turkey the week before Thanksgiving; this year it was hard to find a small turkey and there wasn’t a breast to be found. At least sis was hosting a family of five big eaters (how can skinny teenage boys fit in so much food 
BIL, of course, got a 20 lb organic turkey.
We were separate, but we all ate well and visited virtually. That’s something for which we can all be thankful.
Glad we stayed home. Sis just called to inform us nephew tested positive and is symptomatic. So they have to quarantine for three weeks, which means a very quiet Christmas as well.
I would like to bid 2020 a fond farewell, but I’m afraid it’s going to extend well into Spring of 2021 
I’m sorry to hear about your nephew and family - I hope they are all okay! Glad you did the smart thing and stayed home. 
