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The great pumpkin has been found! tenacious_snail came by my house yesterday with a large white pumpkin, in exchange for one of the future loaves.

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Cooking Day

To do today:

Safeway run: cornmeal, celery, marshmallows, vegetable broth (not mushroom), apples, pears, pecans, red peppers, frozen pie crust, 1-2 tangerines, Cool Whip, yeast, cheesecloth, roasting pan, white bread

finish cleaning kitchen

roast yams

Roast Pumpkin

Make Pumpkin bread, put unused pumpkin in freezer

Make cornbread

slow toast bread

saute red pepper, onion, celery

reduce cornbread and toast to crumbs, season appropriately




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Thanksgiving recipes

Dressing:

Bread mixture:
8-10 slices toasted white bread (use sourdough?), reduced to crumbs
double batch cornbread -- not sweet, don't use Marie Callender's -- reduced to crumbs
1/2 tsp salt
2 T poultry seasoning
stick butter, cut-up

Vegetable saute:
2-3 stalks celery, w/o ends, diced
1 red pepper, diced
1-2 onions (preferably sweet), diced

Binder:
2 large eggs
3-4 14 oz cans stock (chicken or vegetable)

Prepare saute and dry mix day before. Finish stuffing in the morning before stuffing bird. Add saute and 1 can broth to dry mix, add 2 eggs, stir. Add 1-3 cans stock to mixture, until dressing is wet but not dripping. Makes lots of dressing -- enough to stuff a 25 lb. turkey and have some leftover cook in pan.


Sweet Potato Casserole

3 large yams (preferably garnet -- in any case the darker the better), roasted & skinned
1/2 c. brown sugar
1/2 c. white sugar
2 eggs
1/2 stick butter
2 T orange juice (optional)
marshmallows (optional)
pecans (optional)

Mix everything together at high speed but the marshmallows and pecans until fluffy. Put in casserole . Day before: microwave 15 minutes. Day of: top with marshmallows, pecans, or both, and bake 10-15 minutes until brown on top at 350. Or same day, bake at 350 for twenty minutes.

Roasting: roast yams in 325 oven until very tender and falling away from the skins. Can take an hour.



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