Thanksgiving Dinner

Day 358

Thanksgiving Dinner

Thanksgiving dinner is somewhat modified in our house. There is no bird. We do have stuffing, but it's not turkey flavored, it's a delicious cornbread stuffing. We do have gravy, but not made from animals. We make mushroom gravy. Everything else is pretty much the same, like potatoes, carrots, squash, salads and rolls. Laura also made a lovely spicy lentil loaf with a tangy glaze.

Mushroom Gravy

Made with mushrooms, vegetable broth, butter and flour. Seasoned with sea salt.

Mushroom gravy

Whipped Potatoes

These are the last of the potatoes from this year's garden, a mix of red and white. They were whipped with cream and butter and then we folded in some garlic chives.

Whipped potatoes

Glazed Carrots

These are carrots from the garden and they're awesome. Glazed with 2 tbsp butter and 1 tbsp brown sugar.

Glazed carrots

Lentil Loaf

Laura will probably send me the recipe for this so I can post it, although, I'm pretty sure it's posted in a previous blog as well. It's soooo good.

Lentil loaf

Cornbread Stuffing

Not sure if she used a recipe for this. She usually just uses whatever is on hand and often adds pecans and cranberries to it, but not today. This one contains bread crumbs, corn meal, veggie broth, onion, veggie broth and fresh herbs.

Cornbread stuffing

Red Cabbage Salad

Original recipe
This was interesting. It's more of an Asian/Thai type of salad, but it was still good. I made one to take to Mom & Dad's but the one Laura made for supper was better than mine.

We used a red cabbage and a huge carrot from the garden, green onion from the garden and chopped nuts to make up the salad, based on the napa cabbage recipe. Same basic recipe, we just made some substitutes. On the plate at the bottom of this page, this salad is shown at the bottom of the photo.

Grated carrots, red cabbage, green onion & chopped peanuts

Salad dressing ingredients

Thanksgiving dinner

Reviews/Comments

First I had Thanksgiving dinner at my parents' house with the O'Shea/Parsons/Prince/Tenass families. It was delicious and there were lots of options so I stuffed myself to the gills, then wolfed down some pie, then proceed home where Laura was about an hour away from having supper on the table. So, I wasn't super hungry, but it was completely enjoyable anyway. Everything was delicious, and I am looking forward to the leftovers.

Both meals were a total 10.

Oven Subs

Day 357

Saturday, October 10

We had to have these again, because we had all the stuff and the buns would probably have gone to waste.

Oven Sub

Oven Subs

Day 356

Friday, October 9

Oven Sub

Oven Subs

Sometimes you just want a darn sandwich. With mustard.

Toppings

Cracker Barrel Havarti
Yves veggie ham
Orange pepper, sliced
Black olives, sliced
Red onion, sliced thinly
White mushrooms, sliced thinly

Oven subs

Condiments

Compliments salad dressing (mayo)
Whole grain mustard

Reviews/Comments

The bun was kind of hard, but otherwise it was pretty good. Great when you're in the mood for an oven sub. I give it a 7.5.

Black Bean Salad

Day 355

Thursday, October 8

Black Bean Salad

Black Bean Salad

Original recipe

Ingredients

1 cup black beans, cooked until tender
1 red pepper, chopped
1 avocado, chopped
Few stalks of green onion, sliced
Fresh herbs, chopped
2 cups cherry tomatoes, halved

Cooked black beans

reen onions & red pepper

Cherry tomatoes

Fresh herbs

Vinaigrette Dressing

2 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
1 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
1/2 tsp maple syrup
1 small garlic clove, grated
Sea salt, to taste
Freshly ground black pepper, to taste
Chili flakes, to taste

Vinaigrette dressing

Reviews/Comments

This salad was really tasty and fresh. Even the next day when I took it for my lunch, it was still delicious. And fresh. I think the herbs and lemon make it so.

I give it an 8. Laura gave it a 9.

BK Veggie Burgers

Day 354

Wednesday, October 7

BK Veggie Burgers

We had good intentions of making some real food, but it never came to fruition as Laura was having back pain and I was painting.

Took Cian Guy Along for the Ride

Did not get a pic of the food, however, here is a pic of Cian Guy at Burger King, one of his favorite places in town.

Cian at BK

Back to Work

We ate, then it was back to the painting. I did get a pic of that, too.

GROW painting

Reviews/Comments

About a 1. Not that yummy and made me feel like crap. Boooooo! Poor choice...

Greco Garlic Fingers

Day 353

Greco Garlic Fingers

We are Not Ashamed

We cheated and ordered garlic fingers. There is little nutrition to be found in garlic fingers. Only a big, fat pile of deliciousness and calories.

Suspected Ingredients 

• Flour
• Oil
• Salt
• Water
• Mozzarella cheese
• Garlic powder
• Crack, or something equally addictive

We divided the box of fingers in half and watched an episode of How to Get Away with Murder while we demolished them.

Greco box

Donair Sauce

We got an extra donair sauce so we didn't have to share and didn't want to run out of it before running out of tasty garlic fingers.

Reviews/Comments

Quite good! Not burnt this time, which was great. Christian Mazerolle would have enjoyed them very much indeed!

More Sweet Potato Burritos

Day 352

Sweet Potato Burritos 

Aw, Man! Burritos Again?

Having yummy sweet potato burritos a second night since there was more of everything left over. And also, yum.

How To Prepare Leftover Burritos

The sweet potatoes and refried beans were reheated in separate saucepans with a couple tablespoons of water in each pot. Heat on medium and stir.

Also, warm tortillas one at a time in a dry frying pan. Grate some cheese.

Reheating sweet potatoes

Reheating refried beans

Burrito Assembly

Warm the tortilla in a dry frying pan. Scoop the reheated beans and sweet potatoes into the center.

 Warm tortilla with beans and sweet potato

Add some grated cheddar.

Warmed tortilla with beans and sweet potato

Fold into burrito by flipping the bottom of the burrito toward the center, then each side toward the center. Try to keep it tight like wrapping a baby.

Serve with salsa, sour cream, chives, tomatoes, or whatever else you think sounds good.

Sweet Potato Burritos 

Reviews/Comments

Even better than last night, so 11.