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[treegardner]

My mom is hosting Thanksgiving this year, but I am bringing traditional green bean casserole, cranberry fluff, and batter rolls.

[Violet2]

Originally Posted by inkedmamajama

as long as you peel the parsnips and follow the directions, the dish cooks wonderfully.

when i oven roast parsnips with carrots, I make sure they are cut evenly, peeled all the way, and well oiled to roast properly. takes about an hour to get them good and carmelized.


PARSNIP DISH

Ingredients

8 parsnips, peeled and quartered
3 pears, cut into thin strips (peeling optional)
1/4 cup butter or margarine
3 sprigs fresh rosemary (remove from stems)
13 ounces roasted garlic and onion jam, or sweet onion jam(i sub in orange marmelade since i can never find onion jam)
salt and cracked black pepper
fresh lemon juice from 1/2 lemon (optional)

Peel and cut parsnips into wedges, add to lightly salted boiling water and cook until just tender (approximately 6-7 minutes). Drain.
Cut pears into thin slices (peel if you choose, but it's not necessary).
Melt 1/4 cup of butter in a heavy skillet over medium heat. Transfer cooked parsnips and fresh sliced pears into skillet. Cook until light golden in color. Add trimmed rosemary, garlic onion jam and bring to a brief boil.
Turn to low and cook until pears are tender and jam has glazed everything. Season to taste and drizzle lemon juice over top if desired. Remove from heat and serve.

Thanks for the recipe. I may try it. As for my parsnip fail, I dunno. I use olive oil. Maybe I just had bad parsnips?

V

[Violet2]

Originally Posted by blueridgewoman

Very traditional here because my sister insisted. I'm making:



Flourless chocolate nutella cake


Can't wait.

Ummm. We love nutella over here. Any chance of a recipe?

V

[kimiij]

Thanksgiving is over but can I share?

Turkey with gravy
Collard Greens with smoked turkey wings
Savory Cornbread stuffing (from scratch!)
Rice and Beans
Brussels Sprouts and Cauliflower Salad
Sweet potatoes wrapped in prosciutto
Bread Pudding

It was great

[MammaG]

We just finished. I'm EXHAUSTED....but the turkey got done before the baby got done, so I'm just glad to still be on my feet. We had just my family, but it was wonderful. We had:

Brined turkey with herbed butter between the skin and the meat
Stuffing (in turkey) of bread, chestnuts, onions, celery, etc....very standard
Stuffing in muffin tins....cornbread and bacon (new recipe...to DIE for!)
Giblet gravy
Wild rice with roasted butternut squash and leeks
Green peas
Delicata squash puree
Brussels sprouts with chestnuts
Cranberry, maple and orange sauce
Rosemary roasted sweet potato wedges
Mashed potatoes

Homemade pumpkin pie with spiced whipped cream
Homemede apple-berry pie with calvados cream
Toffee-chocolate cookies (which my brother brought from Trader Joes....yum!)
We tried Indian Pudding this year.....just bought some to see if it was worth making in the future.....didn't go over too well.

Dad brought a few bottles of wine with him from France, and my brother (who works at TJ's) brought some of their cranberry and blueberry selzers.

All in all, a success! I'm so full of food and baby that I think I'll pop!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. This place is very definately one of the many, many things I have to be grateful for....thanks!

[blueridgewoman]

Here it is, Violet.

http://thebakingbeauties.blogspot.co...ella-cake.html