My Thanksgiving Menu
We decided to stay home this year and not visit family for Thanksgiving. Good thing because we are completely flat broke! My original idea was to buy a lasagna and have an Italian dinner, but on pay day when I went grocery shopping I was not even thinking that Thanksgiving was mere days away! So Monday I realized - OMG Thanksgiving is THURSDAY!!! We are broke - I had not done ANY holiday meal planning and the cupboards (yes, only days after payday) were practically bare! Ok, not really, but when you are thinking in terms of a holiday meal - they definitely looked that way. Ok, so back to my original plan of making Thanksgiving NO BIG DEAL.
Bug was very disappointed to hear that we were not going to have a traditional Turkey day. It was very hard to look at her and NOT give in. So then I started planning. Thank GOD for the Internet or I never would have figured out that I have everything I need in order to make a pretty good holiday meal - everything but the main dish! No turkey is not a big issue in our house since Mike doesn't like turkey and SAW prefers ham, but with $3 in the account there was no way I was going to swing it. Luckily on our most recent trip to see Mike's parents they gave us some deer steaks - so we were good. I also managed to be in the right place at the right time and got a free turkey! Woo Hoo!!! So now we have the fixings for a real holiday to be thankful for!
Of course the most important thing (when your family doesn't like turkey) is the PIE!!! Luckily I stocked up on pumpkin so I knew we were covered there! The last time i made a pumpkin pie (2 weeks ago for pie Sunday) I used the Libby's recipe on the can of pumpkin and a refrigerated Pilsbury pie crust. I was very disappointed! For such well known companies I was expecting them to be fabulous, but they were very bland! Ugh! So, I had to find a new recipe! Once I found that Everything else came along nicely!
Milkless Pumpkin Pie with The Pie Man's Perfectly Flaky Crust
Dinner Rolls (they are actually Hamburger Buns, but they are soooo good!!!
Dutch Beets (because I have tons of canned beets!)
Mashed potatoes (one of the benefits of living in Idaho - we always have tons of potatoes!)
All this and a couple deer steaks for Mike and Turkey for us. I am still searching for a good stuffing recipe and I may add a few things just for snacking throughout the day (like deviled eggs or something).
Hope you all have a great day!
ps - thanks to all the great bloggers and chefs and bakers our there that shared their recipes!
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