So, I'm planning yet another local, homegrown organic Thanksgiving

[jpak]

This year's menu

Appetizers - homemade goat and cow-milk cheeses, local artisan cheeses, Maine shrimp with homemade cocktail sauce (homegrown tomatoes and local horseradish), home baked organic Maine whole wheat crackers. Wild Maine blueberry wine

Local free-range turkeys

Stuffing - home baked Maine organic wheat bread (crusts cut off), homegrown onions, local Maine butter - Bell's Poultry seasoning

Homegrown squash, mashed potatoes, sweet corn, green beans and sweet peas

Broccoli-Cheese Casserole - homegrown broccoli, onions - Pineland Farms Maine cheddar

Baked beans - homegrown yellow-eyed beans, local salt pork, homegrown onion, organic molasses and dry mustard

Fresh homemade Organic Maine Whole Wheat yeast rolls

Wild fiddleheads with local Maine butter

Homemade relishes, pickles, organic black pepper, Maine sea salt

Traditional green bean casserole with homegrown green beans (and unlocal unorganic Campbell's cream of mushroom soup and Durkee's fried onions)

Cranberry relish - wild Maine cranberries, organic Florida oranges and Florida organic sugar

Cranberry Ice - wild Maine cranberries, organic Florida lemons and sugar

Homegrown apple & pumpkin and wild Maine blueberry pies (organic pastry flour, Maine sea salt, local lard crust - organic sugar & spices and Maine organic milk/cream for filling ) and homemade maple syrup pie

Lighting - Maine beeswax candles

Libation - Maine apple brandy, home-brewed homegrown sparkling hard cider - yum

and...













































































ALLEN'S COFFEE BRANDY



woo hoo!

:beer:

[Sanity Claws]

1. Please adopt me. Please.

That sounds like a wonderful feast.
Bon Appetit!

[elleng]

2. WOW!

Rachel tested the brandy for coffee; there actually IS some in it!

[jpak]

4. The Champange of Maine

:thumbsup:

[DCKit]

3. K&R, but I still haven't received my invitation. nt

[joshcryer]

5. I'll take the leftovers.

Thanks!

[jpak]

7. I had the recipes somewhere but I don't know what I saved them as...

I'll try to post them later

:(

[jpak]

8. Our family Stuffing and Cranberry recipes

These are from my grandmother's handwritten cookbook

Grammy's Stuffing

**The Best**

Stuffing for 13 lb turkey

3 loaves stuffing bread (home baked bread is OK if you remove the crust, do not use Wonderbread or anything like it (too squishy), Canadian White is OK)

3 sticks of room temperature *real* butter

4 cups wilted onions (chop onions, place in colander, pour a big pot of boiling water over them, wait until they are soft and translucent but still warm)

salt and pepper

3/4 box Bell’s Poultry Seasoning - accept no substitutes

Get busy with it

Rip bread into small pieces
chop softened butter into small pieces.
place in bowl and work *warm* wilted onions and spices into mixture *by hand* until it's a uniformly mixed and dough-like
stuff turkey fore and aft
skewer bird shut

Cranberry Ice - yum yum yum

THE after-dessert dessert (when you are completely stuffed) and wicked good....

Cranberry Ice

1 pound cranberries

2 cups water

2 cups sugar

1/4 cup lemon juice

1 teaspoon grated orange peel

2 cups cold water

Cook cranberries in 2 cups water for 10 minutes until skins break.
Rub berries through sieve to make a smooth pulp
Stir in sugar, lemon juice and orange peel
Stir in 2 cups cold water
Pour into baking dish 8x8x2
Freeze
Scoop out to serve

Cranberry Orange Relish

4 cups cranberries (finely chopped - but not pureed - in a food chopper)

1 large orange (peel and pulp: finely chopped - but not pureed - in a food chopper )

2 cups sugar

mix ingredients

refrigerate

(my favorite - yum)

Broccoli, Onion and Cheese Casserole

Blanched Fresh broccoli or 3-4 boxes frozen broccoli cooked for 4 minutes (don’t overcook). Drain well

36 boiling onions (or small 1 inch-sized onions), boil until fork tender. Drain well.

Alternate broccoli and onions in 13 x 9 casserole dish with broccoli crowns “down”.

Cheese Sauce

2 cups milk
4 tablespoons butter
4 tablespoons Wonder Flour (fine flour used in gravies)
Wisk until smooth
Cook over medium heat until bubbling
Add 24 slices Kraft American Cheese one at a time
Stir until cheese is melted

Pour cheese sauce over broccoli and onions
Sprinkle with paprika
Bake at 350 degree until bubbly - its done when a fork placed in center is hot enough to “burn your arm”
Sauce can be made and frozen ahead and heated in microwave
Casserole cannot be frozen

Wicked good

[jpak]

9. Baked Beans

grammy's recipe - the best - yessah

2 cups dried white pea (northern) or yellow-eyed beans

One large onion - peeled whole

1/4 pound salt pork

1/4 cup molasses

1/4 cup packed brown sugar

4 teaspoons dry mustard

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soak the beans overnight in cold water - drain several times

parboil in several changes of boiled water until you can blow the skins back - about 20 minutes

the above deprives the beans of their musical powers

drain parboiled beans and put them hot into the bean pot
add molasses, brown sugar, dry mustard.
place salt pork and onion on top

add just enough water to cover the beans

heat in oven for 20 minutes at 350 degrees F

reduce oven to 225 degrees

bake for 8 hours minimum - add small amounts of water if needed

guard stove - the aroma will drive everyone in the house crazy

yum

:thumbsup:

[kestrel91316]

6. Don't forget to Fedex me the leftovers.

[phantom power]

10. Coffee brandy shill.

:evilgrin:

[jpak]

11. guilty as charged

:hi: