What's cookin', good lookin'?

[desertslave]

We did our (hopefully) last grocery run of the year, today. I intended to just get a turkey breast, but there were no fresh ones to be had (and I'm a snob, I don't care for the texture of frozen turkeys). BUT there were fresh, small-ish, already-brined turkeys. I'm not of the brined persuasion, either, but Master has been hot to try it since we first discovered Alton Brown years ago. So, brined turkey it is! This will go down in the annals of our kitchen as the Great Christmas Compromise of 2015.

The menu is: roast brined turkey, baked ham, potato filling, roast brussels sprouts with bacon, cherry pie, and pumpkin pie. Not a big spread, but it's just the three of us.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

What? Meeks? Italian food?!?
It looks lovely!

Yours too, Elle!
I have also been baking. Bread, and cookies, and more bread, and more bread, and more cookies, and I have more bread to bake... I'm covered in cinnamon and chocolate and sugar and flour. Heaven!

 

[PDatura]

Slow roasting some tomatoes for oven roasted tomato pesto sauce. It'll be all over everything for the next week...

 

[desertslave]

What? Meeks? Italian food?!?
It looks lovely!

Yours too, Elle!
I have also been baking. Bread, and cookies, and more bread, and more bread, and more cookies, and I have more bread to bake... I'm covered in cinnamon and chocolate and sugar and flour. Heaven!

You sound positively lickable!

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

You sound positively lickable!

And then there's still dessert!


I should take some pics of the breads I have baked, but I'm tired...

 

[MeekMe]

What? Meeks? Italian food?!?
It looks lovely!

Thank you.
Italian? I have no idea. For the most part I made it up.
(´･_･`) With a little helpful suggestion. Next time I will make adjustments.

Yours too, Elle!
I have also been baking. Bread, and cookies, and more bread, and more bread, and more cookies, and I have more bread to bake... I'm covered in cinnamon and chocolate and sugar and flour. Heaven!

It sounds like you had more fun than me baking.

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Thank you.
Italian? I have no idea. For the most part I made it up.
(´･_･`) With a little helpful suggestion. Next time I will make adjustments.



It sounds like you had more fun than me baking.

I think I have enjoyed the baking more this year than any other. No doubt thanks to all of the input and exposure I get here

 

[BiBunny]

I made a pan of fudge with pecans in it a couple of days ago and a mostly-improvised punchbowl Black Forest cake today. The fudge is good. I guess we'll see how the cake comes out.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Netzach]

Merry Christmas, peeps!

Apple, Dubliner cheese, and sage spiced nuts as apps.

Free Range in-state happypig ham with a bourbon redeye NOT syrupy thing on it. A little blackstrap, strong coffee, bourbon, and beef stock cooked down, a little mustard, clove, and leave well enough alone.

Yams and Japanese sweets with with dried cherries butter easy on the brown sugar, a little paprika.

Wilted spinach with shallots and some kind of reduction and butter thing.

Heavily Herbed popovers.

Bourbon balls and Buffalo Trace soaked pecans. Yes, the smashed up vanilla wafer pecan cocoa things. Best no-bake ever.

Black forest cake the whole production, that's the wife's wheelhouse, not my problem. (Why does all Kirsch have to suck so bad or be 45 bucks for a bottle of something with pretty much three on-food uses?)

The pairing is gonna be Cava, because this needs tangy and that just seemed brilliant.

In the spirit of spirits, Buffalo Trace is my new golden brown elixr jam. Price point to quality ratio is fitting, for a change.

 

[desertslave]

Merry Christmas, peeps!

Apple, Dubliner cheese, and sage spiced nuts as apps.

Free Range in-state happypig ham with a bourbon redeye NOT syrupy thing on it. A little blackstrap, strong coffee, bourbon, and beef stock cooked down, a little mustard, clove, and leave well enough alone.

Yams and Japanese sweets with with dried cherries butter easy on the brown sugar, a little paprika.

Wilted spinach with shallots and some kind of reduction and butter thing.

Heavily Herbed popovers.

Bourbon balls and Buffalo Trace soaked pecans. Yes, the smashed up vanilla wafer pecan cocoa things. Best no-bake ever.

Black forest cake the whole production, that's the wife's wheelhouse, not my problem. (Why does all Kirsch have to suck so bad or be 45 bucks for a bottle of something with pretty much three on-food uses?)

The pairing is gonna be Cava, because this needs tangy and that just seemed brilliant.

In the spirit of spirits, Buffalo Trace is my new golden brown elixr jam. Price point to quality ratio is fitting, for a change.

Soooo, just combine the ingredients and reduce to a thick glaze? This sounds fabulous!

 

[MeekMe]

What a spread! Merry Christmas, Netzach!
（＾_＾）

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

I never liked cauliflower until I caramelized it...

Caramelized cauliflower and onion couscous with pork loin. Yum!

Your spread sounds amazing, Netz!

 

[gypsy*seer]

Feast of The Seven Fishes...YUM!

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Feast of The Seven Fishes...YUM!

Is that followed by a dance with veils?

 

[desertslave]

Is that followed by a dance with veils?

**Rimshot!**

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

**Rimshot!**

We need an icon for that

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[RISsey]

Making a savory turkey stew with mushrooms from the left over Christmas turkey! The house smells divine!

edit ~ decided to make some cranberry biscuits to go with the stew

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Making a savory turkey stew with mushrooms from the left over Christmas turkey! The house smells divine!

edit ~ decided to make some cranberry biscuits to go with the stew

Cranberry biscuits, what a great idea!
Did you mix then directly in with the dough?

 

[RISsey]

Cranberry biscuits, what a great idea!
Did you mix then directly in with the dough?

Yes, I used dried unsweetened ones. They turned out fabulously well. Taste great with the stew.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Dsire4Kinks]

Just put a dish of buffalo chicken dip in the over.

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

I made a pithivier tonight from Christmas left overs that was supposed to last for a few meals it's gone!