Thanksgiving Eve

Welcome to mmm-yoso!!! the food blog written pretty much regularly and mostly by Kirk, ed(from Yuma) and Cathy. Everyone is busy today, but Cathy has a bit of free time at the moment, so she's writing today.

Hi.  It's a hectic short week for a lot of us and tomorrow will most likely be a day of thanks, reflection, meals with family and friends, after a morning of cooking. The Mister and I have been planning for the day and its meals by practicing various cooking methods and recipes we might share.  Today and tomorrow will be busy with cooking and preparation. We do need two days though.

Today for breakfast we made Oven Pancake with crispy bacon.  (You can click the links to see the oven pancake recipe and how the bacon is cooked.).  The greens are pea pods (from our garden), fennel stems and mushrooms sauteed in butter. Those are gala apple slices...    

We bought a few stalks of brussels sprouts (@$2.99 each) from Trader Joe's.

We plan on cooking some of the sprouts according to the recipe in the middle of this post, and using one whole stalk and some other uncooked vegetables as a centerpiece for the table (instead of flowers). 

Because I deliberately finished up all the bread in the house, lunch today is a square hamburger with sliced pickles, onions and tomatoes. That's a fennel, broccoli and bok choy stir fry on the side.  (That's blue cheese residue from The Mister's burger on top of my burger...).

Here are some of the fruits and vegetables I plan on using for sides.  Hm..where are the potatoes, onions, eggplant, asparagus and broccoli??? Gotta go cook.  See you tomorrow. Have a Happy Thanksgiving Day!  

 

Comments

[Dennis]

Happy day before Thanksgiving Cathy! Sounds like you won't be traveling this year? Hope you all are doing well. Cheers

[Carol]

Happy Thanksgiving Cathy and to the rest of the mmm-yoso gang!

[Cathy]

Thanks Dennis. The Mister and I are in San Diego now, but have quite a few events (and travel) coming up. You have a good Thanksgiving Day (and weekend).
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your Mister, Carol!

[ed (from Yuma)]

Hope y'all had a good Thanksgiving. I just brought some cheeses and salumi from Venissimo to a friend's house. My only cooking was making the gravy, which turned out fine. Nice to have a long weekend.

[Cathy]

Venissimo! That's where I need to go. What an easy and yummy Thanksgiving for you, ed. Enjoy this short week/long weekend. We're going to watch a football game today.

[mizducky]

A belated Happy Thanksgiving to you, Cathy, and all the rest of the mmm-yoso crew. Wow, brussels sprouts on the stem, I had no idea TJ's would carry those. Wonder if they have any left? I adore those little mini-cabbages -- roasting has become my favorite way of preparing them, though the bacon method also looks amazing (but then bacon makes just about anything amazing).

[Cathy]

Hi Miz Ducky, hope you had a good Thanksgiving Day (and week)! Yes, the stemmed Brussels sprouts have been sold at TJs at least the last three years (same price of $3 per stem). I think through Christmas, but am not sure (I haven't needed to go food shopping for about a week and won't need to for a few more days; when milk and half and half finally is gone). Actually the first time we had roasted sprouts left over, years ago, I threw some -roasted and raw- into cooked bacon plus fat to use in an omelette one morning and found that the raw cooked up quite well and made that method of prep somewhat 'regular' for us.