Real Food Thanksgiving!
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dragonlaurel
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I love millet stuffing in Acorn squash. No real recipe- it was an experiment so I didn't write it as I went.
I just cooked the millet with some oil and vinegar type Italian dressing and stuffed the halves.
Partially cooked the squash first so I knew it would get done.
Might add some fresh cranberries to the millet this year too.
Edited to add:
Sorry this wasn't really low carb, but at least it's whole grain.
I just cooked the millet with some oil and vinegar type Italian dressing and stuffed the halves.
Partially cooked the squash first so I knew it would get done.
Might add some fresh cranberries to the millet this year too.
Edited to add:
Sorry this wasn't really low carb, but at least it's whole grain.
Beekissed
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Next year! This year was a total bust for my garden and my time. Next year I plan to raise my own holiday turkeys to go along with the totally homegrown/made dinners.....from the pumpkin pie to the honey in the wholewheat bread!
We usually have really traditional, simple fare.....turkey, stuffing, mashed taters, corn, gravy, pumpkin pie, etc.
We usually have really traditional, simple fare.....turkey, stuffing, mashed taters, corn, gravy, pumpkin pie, etc.
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dragonlaurel
Improvising a more SS life
It sounds like it would take forever to make it. Would apple butter work?abifae said:No worries on not low carbI have an unusually strict diet and never expect others to be stuck on it.
Is apple cider reduced to a caramel close enough to healthy? *hopeful* It's organic and local....
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Mom will make Thanksgiving dinner so she has control and never would we ask her to change the menu---she has been doing it for millions of years...
---nothing from MOM will be local or homegrown.
store bought turkey
dressing (mom's is delish)
mashed potatoes
side of sweet potatoes
gravy
cranberry sauce (out of a can with ring impressions...lol)
corn
green beans
biscuits
dessert could be quite a few different items....cherry pie, pumpkin pie, apple pie
My Thanksgiving wtih my inlaws at my house:
I will cook:
Brown sugar cured ham
biscuits
baked beans with bacon
corn on the cob
baked sweet potatoes
brocc and cauliflower (Nicole and I eat this---probably no one else will touch it....lol)
My dinner will be my ham from my hog, beans from my garden, corn from my fields, sweet potatoes and brocc/cauli will be from the local grower down the street. Just the biscuits will be "not mine" produced but will attempt them from scratch.
being a low carb type eater I never would worry on a big holiday. while losing weight if a big event came, I ate whatever I wanted---just big time smaller portions. always worked for me. Mainly because I had no control over the menus at the holidays.
that's it for my thanksgivings.
---nothing from MOM will be local or homegrown.store bought turkey
dressing (mom's is delish)
mashed potatoes
side of sweet potatoes
gravy
cranberry sauce (out of a can with ring impressions...lol)
corn
green beans
biscuits
dessert could be quite a few different items....cherry pie, pumpkin pie, apple pie
My Thanksgiving wtih my inlaws at my house:
I will cook:
Brown sugar cured ham
biscuits
baked beans with bacon
corn on the cob
baked sweet potatoes
brocc and cauliflower (Nicole and I eat this---probably no one else will touch it....lol)
My dinner will be my ham from my hog, beans from my garden, corn from my fields, sweet potatoes and brocc/cauli will be from the local grower down the street. Just the biscuits will be "not mine" produced but will attempt them from scratch.
being a low carb type eater I never would worry on a big holiday. while losing weight if a big event came, I ate whatever I wanted---just big time smaller portions. always worked for me. Mainly because I had no control over the menus at the holidays.
that's it for my thanksgivings.
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we missed it this year too... our turks are still too green to harvest and wont be ready until jan/feb....and i think we wont do our hogs until the first week of dec. drat!
i have a feeling we'll be my MIL having all kinds of fun with her and her stupid barking poodles.
last year we ditched both families and just hung around at home.
but
we had turkey just the other nite with my score from the grocery! and altho it probably wont be on a TDay menu here's a leftover for you:
i made the best risotto from barley, butternut squash, turkey, and turkey broth..... it was so good!
maybe not a low carb but a wonderful whole grain - we eat barley by the ton.
FC - we have to do something about those biscuits of yours!
i have a feeling we'll be my MIL having all kinds of fun with her and her stupid barking poodles.
last year we ditched both families and just hung around at home.
but
we had turkey just the other nite with my score from the grocery! and altho it probably wont be on a TDay menu here's a leftover for you:
i made the best risotto from barley, butternut squash, turkey, and turkey broth..... it was so good!
maybe not a low carb but a wonderful whole grain - we eat barley by the ton.
FC - we have to do something about those biscuits of yours!
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pop on down to NC and give me a lesson!!
honestly mine are just not good and I have tons of southern cooks trying to tell me how to do it right and light!
---I feel for them!! I made sweet potatoe biscuits one time for inlaws visit. Everyone loved them. I hated them. They were about 50 lbs. each it seemed....so dense. MIL ate ALOT of them. Hmm....maybe I make good ones everyone else likes, but I don't..LOL
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hee hee hee i think you are over-mixing them
;-)
everyone has their own specialty so no worries!
but if you have a sec - do you sugar cure your own hams? or does your processor do it??
them pigs are getting pretty darn big - the Tamworth is getting huge! nothing but bacon on that hog. whoot!!!
all this talk of thanksgiving is making me hungry for pumpkin pie. i'm standing around waiting for it to get above freezing so i can let all the poultry out. we have baby turks and my momma duck just hatched 4 little angels so i'm trying to keep the heat in. can you imagine? babies this late!?!?
now about that pumpkin pie......
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everyone has their own specialty so no worries!
but if you have a sec - do you sugar cure your own hams? or does your processor do it??
them pigs are getting pretty darn big - the Tamworth is getting huge! nothing but bacon on that hog. whoot!!!
all this talk of thanksgiving is making me hungry for pumpkin pie. i'm standing around waiting for it to get above freezing so i can let all the poultry out. we have baby turks and my momma duck just hatched 4 little angels so i'm trying to keep the heat in. can you imagine? babies this late!?!?
now about that pumpkin pie......
