Holiday Cooking Projects 2009

[chefmike]

I am wondering what folks are cooking this year. I imagine several of us are planning food and beer for the holidays.

I started tonight:

2 turkeys- one for the smoker, one to fry (wife's request)
5lbs of pepperoni- simple ground beef recipe
Fattys- testing one this week with ground turkey, yams, cranberry and mashed taters in the middle.
Oysters- 200 at the roast last week, more to come.

The Pumpkin Ale is drinking well, the ESB is about ready (RIP Rover), and there is Graff to go around as well.

I would love to see who is doing what.

 

[friarjohn]

this may sound wronge but them fatties sound yummie!!!!!!!

 

[chefmike]

I am changing the fatty to ground turkey with some pork sausage filled with stuffing, mashed taters and cranberry sauce. Maybe a couple sweet tater pieces.


The meat is mixed for the pepperoni. I linked the wrong recipe... I add more spices than the one above. It is in the fridge to mellow for 24 hours.

and fatties are yummy for sure. I get requests for them ALOT around the holidays.

 

[AnonyBrew]

The usual Texas thanksgiving. Brisket, beans, ribs, etc.

 

[chefmike]

brisket. good.

might have to add that to the list... the butcher had a slab of strip steak, a couple racks of beef side ribs and a nice full brisket. Mmmm beef on smoke. Good.

 

[rsmith179]

ohhh.. brisket! There's absolutely nothing better. Up here in Cleveland, that's not really a traditional holiday dinner. Wish it was! I'll be frying up a turkey next Thursday and the SWMBO's mother is cooking the "standard" thanksgiving dinner.

 

[Rick500]

I made a pumpkin cheesecake a few days ago, making chili in a day or two, other than that... heading to Florida for Thanksgiving and leaving the cooking to family.

 

[chefmike]

rolled all the pepperoni tonight. Rolled the turkey fatty. I will smoke that tommorrow.

 

[friarjohn]

is the pepperoni made from a kit? i was thinking id suprise they better half. she loves the pepperoni.

 

[bob1852]

swiss medley vegetables FTW!

 

[azscoob]

I will be brining my turkey and prepairing a compound butter with dijon mustard, fresh rosemary, 8 whole cloves worth of vermouth roasted garlic, and black pepper, and pack the butter between the skin and the meat, rub the last 1/4 of the butter on the outside, fill the cavity with onion, celery and carrot and toss it on the smoker in a drip pan, I fire it with white oak and a few pieces of pecan, serve with mashed yukon gold potatoes made with heavy cream, a fresh cranberry apple compote, and the rest of the usual sides. served with a few bottles of Sangiovese, and a keg of Lake Walk pale ale, too bad there is only 6 of us this year!

 

[HighPlainsDrifter]

Oyster stuffing!

 

[chefmike]

is the pepperoni made from a kit? i was thinking id suprise they better half. she loves the pepperoni.

no, it is based on this recipe.

I have not tried cooking in the oven though. I make them on the smoker.
i also leave out the liquid smoke for this reason. they are not exactly the same texture as store pepperoni, but awesome with crackers, etc. never any left. I did 4 lbs into 3 sausages.

 

[thataintchicken]

Thanksgiving meal:

Smoked Turkey
Sweet Potato Something or Other
Hazlenut Stuffing
Grilled Vegetables.

Pumpkin Cheesecake
Northwest Hops Cheesecake. (muhahahahaaaaaaa)

Porter
Mead




Holiday gift baskets:

Porter
Mead
Lemon Pepper Spice
Powdered Hops ( with recipe book )

Pepperoni, Jerky and Sausages ( homemade )
Banana Bread
Tamales

 

[eriktlupus]

bacon roasted turkey
real mashed taters
turkey gravy
green bean casserole
whipped fruit salad
strawberry and cherry cheesecakes
(this just what i'll make for our small gathering, my sister in law is also cooking for the big gathering in kazoo)

 

[humann_brewing]

We are not hosting this year as we still need to get a table cover for the pool table to have a big enough table, but I am thinking of frying a turkey at the in-laws this year, it turned out so darn good last year. I will also be bringing some homebrew of course.

 

[wrench001]

We are doing an early celebration with some friends this weekend before everyone leaves to do family stuff next week.

Food I'm providing:
Deep fried turkey with a creole rub/marinade (made this last year, it is delicious)
Ham with an apple butter glaze

On Tap:
Dry Stout
Pliny the Elder

In Bottles:
Nothern English Brown Ale
Apfelwein
Misc other Wines

 

[friarjohn]

made home made cranberry sauce last night.

 

[Yooper]

My ex-husband is providing a turkey. My daughter and her fiance are plucking it on Sunday, and I'll brine it a few days before Thanksgiving. Then, we'll grill it on the Webber. We'll have honey whole wheat bread, pumpkin cheesecake, dutch apple pie, and the rest of the regular stuff. My husband makes the cranberry chutney every year.

For dinner wine, we have a dry crabapple wine. For beer, stout for my future son-in-law, Irish red for my husband, and IIPA for me.

 

[Myrdhyn]

I'm going with a smoked turkey, a smoked ham, copious amounts of greenbean casserole, and dressing/stuffing. My parents are providing several pies and home-made mac'n'cheese. In-laws are bringing jalapeno cheese bread and sweetpotato casserole.

Beer will be whatever is on tap. I've been going through it slowly lately (and haven't had a chance to brew) so likely the last of B's Honey Wheat and possibly a bitter. I might buy a few bottles of something bigger (RIS or a nice Belgian) for Dad and I to enjoy after dinner.

 

[chefmike]

Thanksgiving meal:


Northwest Hops Cheesecake. (muhahahahaaaaaaa)

recipe? I like the sounds of that...

 

[wolfstar]

This year the menu in our house will look like this for Thanksgiving:

Smoked Turkey Breast with Juniper berries
Gorgonzola and Bacon Smashed Potatoes
Bourbon Caramelised Carrots
Grilled Asparigus
Harveys Bristol Cream Stuffing
Baileys Irish Cream Cheesecake



Beaujolais Nouveau is the traditional drink for thanksgiving in our house...

 

[wild]

Starting the brining for 2 turkeys in a few hours.
Thanksgiving is Saturday for the family.
Traditional smoker for one and grill smoking for the other.
Butter and Jalapeno baste.
Sunday is a sausage making party. (Italian & Christmas Breakfast Sausage)

 

[pnj]

turn off phone.
lock front door.
drink.

 

[springer]

The usual Texas thanksgiving. Brisket, beans, ribs, etc.

say's the guy with a Turkey avatar :rockin:


fried turkeys two in fact I am going to the farm this weekend and picking them out. They butcher them pretty much on the spot my daughter went once

Homemade lasagna,escarole soup, venison sausage, assorted other crap. lots of Italian pastries

Lots of beer and Apfelwien.

 

[Ragutis]

Here is our Thanksgiving feast menu. All German food this year from recipes that came out of a 1960's era German cookbook.

• Sausage and cheese
• Cream of Cauliflower soup
• Saddle of venison with red wine sauce
• Game birds with burgundy
• Hot potato salad with bacon
• Mushrooms with Tomatoes and bacon
• Dumplings
• Onion rolls (bread)
• Sauerkraut
• Beans with fruit and vegetables
• Black forest cherry cake
• Rum cake

There are a few German wines coming with guests and I brewed Edworts Bavarian Hefeweizen on Nov. 1st. It's been on CO2 for a couple of weeks now and should be tasty.

 

[chefmike]

All German food this year from recipes that came out of a 1960's era German cookbook.


• Hot potato salad with bacon

Care to share this recipe? I am a big fan and have not yet found the perfect variation for my taste.

Great looking menu.

 

[azscoob]

I love german potato salad, with the bacon, and sweet/sour, its awesome. I have my german grandmothers recipe, I can post it up later if you would like

 

[Myrdhyn]

I love german potato salad, with the bacon, and sweet/sour, its awesome. I have my german grandmothers recipe, I can post it up later if you would like

Please do, I love german potato salad, and can't find a good recipe (and my grandmother passed before I could get hers).

 

[thataintchicken]

recipe? I like the sounds of that...

i'll post it after i nail the recipe. it's 90% there... need to try something first.
and then I need to be able to repeat it. <wink>