What’s for Dinner Tonight?

[tarheelmjfan]

Today is Thanksgiving so we feasted this afternoon on a very traditional menu: turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, mashed turnip, caramelized yams, brussels sprouts and a myriad of sides/fixings. 5 kinds of pie for dessert, including pumpkin, of course.

This is one of my favorite meals of the year; the only occasion when I cook turkey. An alarming number of things went weirdly wrong today, though and I'm disappointed with myself. The turkey was dry as a bone, although it wasn't overcooked. I accidentally double-salted the turnips (yuck) and the potatoes were too new to mash properly. Certainly not one of my best ever showings but mercifully, the sweet crowd was extremely uncritical and we all had a lovely, grateful, thankful, blessed time together.

Dry turkey is what gravy is for. With enough gravy, you can fix anything.

 

[hardcorestitch]

Dry turkey is what gravy is for. With enough gravy, you can fix anything.

(eats dry turkey)

 

[Meriweather]

Tonight with the grand kids......grilled burgers, tater tots, green beans and ice cream for dessert

 

[NannyBeBe]

I'm making pot roast tonight. I'll be having a Lean Cuisine because I don't like pot roast.

 

[leebee]

Monday night was homemade chicken soup, rice on the side, crusty bread, and salad. I do the rice as a side add-in because DH doesn't like it when it absorbs the soup broth and gets all squishy... yum!!
It's getting to be very fall-ish here in the afternoon and evening, which means it's soup and casserole season!!

Tonight we are meeting friends at a local brewery for Trivia Night. I'll probably have calamari for supper, and DH usually has a burger or curry rice noodles with chicken. The only time either of us changes it up is if we get tonkatsu ramen. Who knew a brewery on the back of a Chinese restaurant would have outstanding ramen??

 

[leebee]

Today is Thanksgiving so we feasted this afternoon on a very traditional menu: turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, mashed turnip, caramelized yams, brussels sprouts and a myriad of sides/fixings. 5 kinds of pie for dessert, including pumpkin, of course.

@ronandannette Do you use real turnip, the white with purple tops, or do you use what we in New England call turnip, but is actually rutabaga? (It's the waxed one that has orange flesh) I've never had real turnip, but I LOVE rutabaga, boiled with butter and S&P!

Dry turkey is what gravy is for. With enough gravy, you can fix anything.

A friend once said my family needs to learn that gravy is a condiment, not a beverage!

 

[TAX GUY]

This was the first (Canadian) Thanksgiving we didn't celebrate with our friends, in about 12 years. This year, they headed up to Ottawa to celebrate with their daughter as she finishes up her final semester at school. Instead, we had a baked chicken dish that my wife found a recipe for on line. It had balsamic, dried cranberries and brie cheese (stuffed). It was really good, and we paired it with rice pilaf.

Tonight I'll grill up some strip steaks, then thinly slice and put it on a Caesar salad.

 

[LoveDaisy]

@LoveDaisy: Here are some more delicious, reliable slow cooker recipes from SK.
https://smittenkitchen.com/recipes/method/slow-cooker/?format=photo

The black bean soup is a winner!

Thanks! I love beans! Putting this in my to try list!

 

[tarheelmjfan]

Skinnytaste Buffalo Chicken Lettuce Wraps (Slow Cooker) https://www.skinnytaste.com/crock-pot-buffalo-chicken-lettuce-wraps/ & corn.

 

[mickey916]

We're having leftover jerk chicken and last night I also made some cuban black beans and rice (skinnytaste). I may also roast some butternut squash to have with it.

 

[lovesmurfs]

Pulled pork, homemade hamburger buns, roasted potato wedges.

 

[ddluvsdisney]

Air fryer chicken thighs. Also a skinny taste recipe with asparagus or green beans.

 

[hardcorestitch]

Pork chops and fried chicken.

 

[NYCgrrl]

I can get organic truly fresh and cleaned chicken livers readily here so I did.
Made them Cuban style and served with a green salad.

 

[LoveDaisy]

I made a chicken pot pie with leftover chicken from the whole chicken I made yesterday. I’m serving it over rice with a salad.

I froze the rest of the chicken tonight for either another chicken pot pie or chicken fried rice on a future day.