Wishing Everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving!
I started cooking some of the food for today's meal yesterday. My very first time making cranberry sauce from scratch! It was much easier than I thought and so very good! Definitely a success with the family.
The only thing that I didn't make from scratch was the tofurky... No one in my family has ever liked it before. Today, it only lasted about 2 minutes on the table and there is not one bit of it leftover for tomorrow. (sigh)
These mashed potatoes were to die for! Hurray! I loaded them with chives and they were delicious. Of course they were the spuds that we dug up in October.... I hope you didn't miss out of this great sale from Zach's boy scout troop.... These taters are the best!!!
Thanksgiving wouldn't be complete to me without the corn pudding. I replaced the white sugar with sucanat, it worked out great and the corn pudding was delicious!
This was a brand new recipe to me. I took it right off the cover of vegetarian times! It was loaded with mushrooms, red peppers(the ones I didn't eat while cooking) and believe it or not I put mushrooms in it too! pretty good... I also made stuffing(although it wasn't stuffed into anything) made with whole grain bread, apples, walnuts, some seasonings and fresh apple juice. I forgot to upload a photo sorry...
No Thanksgiving is complete without dessert, this one was great...apple crisp made with apples (of course) oats, spelt flour, a bit of butter and sucanat.. This was fabulous. I haven't had any dessert in a LONG time, but I justified it being that I went to the gym and did an hour and half aerobics class this morning! Our Y does it every year, admission is non-perishable food item... What a killer workout...
Ariana gives dinner the thumbs up!!!
Dasher is enjoying the fire today, the first time we have lit it this season!
Boys will be boys! What more can I say.... may not want to enlarge this photo ;)
No Thanksgiving is complete without turkey, so here's ours. Ariana made it at school and he is cute and patriotic, no antibiotics, hormones and well he's free range too!!
I started cooking some of the food for today's meal yesterday. My very first time making cranberry sauce from scratch! It was much easier than I thought and so very good! Definitely a success with the family.
The only thing that I didn't make from scratch was the tofurky... No one in my family has ever liked it before. Today, it only lasted about 2 minutes on the table and there is not one bit of it leftover for tomorrow. (sigh)
These mashed potatoes were to die for! Hurray! I loaded them with chives and they were delicious. Of course they were the spuds that we dug up in October.... I hope you didn't miss out of this great sale from Zach's boy scout troop.... These taters are the best!!!
Thanksgiving wouldn't be complete to me without the corn pudding. I replaced the white sugar with sucanat, it worked out great and the corn pudding was delicious!
This was a brand new recipe to me. I took it right off the cover of vegetarian times! It was loaded with mushrooms, red peppers(the ones I didn't eat while cooking) and believe it or not I put mushrooms in it too! pretty good... I also made stuffing(although it wasn't stuffed into anything) made with whole grain bread, apples, walnuts, some seasonings and fresh apple juice. I forgot to upload a photo sorry...
No Thanksgiving is complete without dessert, this one was great...apple crisp made with apples (of course) oats, spelt flour, a bit of butter and sucanat.. This was fabulous. I haven't had any dessert in a LONG time, but I justified it being that I went to the gym and did an hour and half aerobics class this morning! Our Y does it every year, admission is non-perishable food item... What a killer workout...
Ariana gives dinner the thumbs up!!!
Dasher is enjoying the fire today, the first time we have lit it this season!
Boys will be boys! What more can I say.... may not want to enlarge this photo ;)
No Thanksgiving is complete without turkey, so here's ours. Ariana made it at school and he is cute and patriotic, no antibiotics, hormones and well he's free range too!!
9 comments:
Missing your tofurkey so much, I actually enjoyed it when we had Thanksgiving together way back in
'06.......Have a blessed holiday season and let the busy-ness begin!
We had as vegetarian Thanksgiving. Well me and Savanah did and let me tell you, our plates were filled with food and soooooo much color.
I have been making cranberry sauce from scratch for years. And my mother had the audacity to go and buy some canned crap one year. Boy was I mad.
Hooray for veggie Thanksgivings!
I never heard of tofurkey. I made cranberries sauce last year from whole cranberries. It's amazing how easy and fun it is to make.
I really like your paper turkey. I think I'll invite him next year.
Oh everything looks super tasty! Looks like you all had a great Thanksgiving! So how did you make the cranberry sauce it looks so good!
Okay wait a minute also the stuffing sounds great I would love that recipe! And the apple crisp oh just everything! Wow can I just come to your house for Thanksgiving next year! ;)
Hi Tammie...
Yes you can come for thanksgiving, I would have a blast cooking with you!
The cranberry sauce is 2 parts cranberries to one part water and one part sweetner. It was mostly sucanat but I had a small bit of some other brown sugar so I mixed it in... I only got one serving. Then it just disappeared!
I am sporting a nasty cold right now, but will get the other recipes/links posted in the next few days... I LOVED the apple crisp...
Thanks
It all looks great. I will have to try the apple crisp. I don't use my sucanat much, but I need too branch out more.
More ideas on sucanat and sucanat with honey???
Looks like you had a great meal and lots of fun! Hope you have a Happy holiday season, Carrie!
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