Let the holiday eating commence!

[skhill]

I spent much of Tuesday helping make and serve Thanksgiving dinner at Kid's cafe, a community and feeding center just around the corner from me (I live on the edge of one of the poorest parts of town, and there are kids who go hungry scattered throughout the neighborhood). Turkey, dressing, sweet potatoes (with marshmallows!), mashed potatoes, etc. Also included: collard greens (yum!) It was beautifully chaotic and delicious!

Right now I'm waiting for the sweet potatoes I just cooked to cool enough to turn into pie...

[bmccasland]

Right now I'm waiting for the sweet potatoes I just cooked to cool enough to turn into pie...

oooooh, I love sweet potato pie. I'll be making cran-apple pie as part of my "to bring" list for dinner at my friend's house tomorrow. Have farmer's market heavy cream to whip to go on top - and was reminded that if I over whip it, I'll get butter.

skhill - bet the neighborhood folks really appreciated the dinner!

[badgercat]

I spent 4 hours in the kitchen yesterday baking 6.5 dozen pumpkin cookies and 5 pounds of sweet potatoes that I turned into a mashed sweet potato casserole. That's the best kind of recipe--it says right in it that you can make it up to a point and refrigerate it for up to 2 days, and then just heat it up in the oven for like 20mins when you're ready to serve. I'm all about getting dishes done ahead of time. Especially things that make a mess of the kitchen and tons of dishes.

So of course, I've started eating the pumpkin cookies... had to make sure each batch out of the oven was cooked to a proper doneness, duh.

[Miranda]

Meeerrrcy... mine all started the other week with my b-day. In a word, "cake". Then things just get out of control. My dish I'm assigned to take to dinner is deviled eggs. Not the most complicated of things, but my pot of eggs are boiling. Sweet pickle juice and Miracle Whip. That's the key. Ditch the vinegar and plain mayo w/no zip.

[Blueberry]

Pumpkin cookies?!?! We need the recipe!

[solobiker]

Have not started yet but did make a chocolate pecan pie, homemade cranberry sauce and some cookies. Yummmm

[Karma007]

Started eating this AM, started cooking a couple hours ago. (The grocery was inSANE!) Prepped squash for soup, sweet taters for mashed sweet taters, random veggie chopping, making buckets of veggie broth (I'm out, which is a sin) and making brownies (not from scratch, I have to shortcut somewhere). Oh! And brown rice cooking.

With a new bike and a rainy day, I'm trying to get as much done as possible, should it be dry in the morning!

[badgercat]

Pumpkin cookies?!?! We need the recipe!

I'm out of town now, with the cookies in tow... I just looked around to see if I could find the recipe online, but I can't find the same one I use. I'll type it out and post it when I get home on Sunday!

[wackyjacky1]

My dish I'm assigned to take to dinner is deviled eggs. Not the most complicated of things, but my pot of eggs are boiling. Sweet pickle juice and Miracle Whip. That's the key. Ditch the vinegar and plain mayo w/no zip.

Mmm...deviled eggs. I swear I could eat a whole plate of them by myself. We add mayo, tabasco and dry mustard to ours (topped with the obligatory sprinkle of paprika).

My contribution to the meal. Gawd, I love pecan pie.