Hi everybody!
It’s Thanksgiving weekend in Canada. I’m in the mood for Thanksgiving food already. I treated myself to a Pumpkin Spice Latte and a Pumpkin Scone on Monday.
I’m cooking for 3 in a lower salt household in southwestern Ontario.
We had our first frost warning last night, and I picked all remaining eggplants, peppers , okra, tomatoes, and tomatillos, green onions, and beets in the garden. The beets themselves would be fine after a frost, but their lovely greens would be damaged.
Tonight, we will have leftover roast pork from last night . I started a shoulder roast with quatre épices, and braised it in local Delhaven apple cider, covered loosely, at 275⁰F for 3 hours while I gardened. I also roasted slices of Delicata squash dusted with cinnamon and dotted with butter, and baked 12 new potatoes in a foil packet while the roast was roasting.
Tomorrow, Friday, I think l will make some sort of creamy seafood chowder or fish soup. I had made maple ginger sesame salmon on Tuesday, and cod last Friday. I will probably make haddock or another white fleshed fish. It turns out my DC prefers cod, haddock, and sea bass to halibut. Fresh halibut is costing $39.99 CAD/ lb, when fresh haddock and fresh cod are costing less than $15 CAD/ lb, so not much point in me spending more on a fish the DCs don’t like that much.
Salad with romaine lettuce from the garden.
Saturday, my cousins from Indiana, Halifax NS, and Saskatchewan are meeting at a VRBO cottage they rented on Lake Huron, and we are supposed to meet up with them. I’ll be bringing frittata squares and meatballs as snacks for everyone.
Sunday, I will make most of our Thanksgiving meal. A roast turkey, bread stuffing with dried apricots and apples, roast parsnips that I will pick on Sunday, cranberry cumberland sauce that I will make for the first time, and potatoes of some sort. I think I might make an old school salad, like ambrosia or a Watergate Salad.
I will buy the pumpkin pie, have not figured out which bakery. I would like to go to my favourite bakery in Listowel, Ontario , which is open Monday to Saturday, but I doubt I will have time to drive the 99 km to Listowel with the commitments I have today, on Friday, and on Saturday.
Monday, I might make spanakopita, maybe cauliflower cheese. Maybe Hungarian cherry soup.
