Feed me, Seymour
OK,
I have just gotten the total of R.s.v.p.-ers for Thanksgiving. Fortyeight. Adults. Innumerable children (I'm guesstimating 20). All of whom I shall (I hope and pray!) dazzle with my foodieness.
This is the batterie de cuisine* (see? I'm not at all Francophobic!) and stuff I am gathering for this day:
3 roasting pans & v-racks
2 instant-read thermometers
2 oven/grill thermometers
1 remote "alarm" thermometer
1 knife roll
2 turkey lifters
4 pie pans
4 Pyrex measuring cups (1 in each size)
3 turkeys
3 lb. cornbread
2 lb. pecans
2 lb. onions
2 heads garlic
1 lb. "bulk" breakfast sausage (medium)
1 lb. dehydrated cranberries
1 lb. lemons
1 large bunch each of sage, thyme and marjoram
1 flat of eggs
5 lb. flour
1 case 2002 Rosenblum "Contra Costa" Zinfandel
½ case Samuel Adams Cranberry Lambic
5 lb. Yukon Gold potatoes
2 lb. cremini mushrooms
Damn, I love this Holiday!
-J.
* Rejoice, shareholders of Williams-Sonoma!
I have just gotten the total of R.s.v.p.-ers for Thanksgiving. Fortyeight. Adults. Innumerable children (I'm guesstimating 20). All of whom I shall (I hope and pray!) dazzle with my foodieness.
This is the batterie de cuisine* (see? I'm not at all Francophobic!) and stuff I am gathering for this day:
3 roasting pans & v-racks
2 instant-read thermometers
2 oven/grill thermometers
1 remote "alarm" thermometer
1 knife roll
2 turkey lifters
4 pie pans
4 Pyrex measuring cups (1 in each size)
3 turkeys
3 lb. cornbread
2 lb. pecans
2 lb. onions
2 heads garlic
1 lb. "bulk" breakfast sausage (medium)
1 lb. dehydrated cranberries
1 lb. lemons
1 large bunch each of sage, thyme and marjoram
1 flat of eggs
5 lb. flour
1 case 2002 Rosenblum "Contra Costa" Zinfandel
½ case Samuel Adams Cranberry Lambic
5 lb. Yukon Gold potatoes
2 lb. cremini mushrooms
Damn, I love this Holiday!
-J.
* Rejoice, shareholders of Williams-Sonoma!
Comments
I quail at the thought of attending a dinner for only fifteen, let alone cooking for fifty-plus.
-J.
-J.
On Thursday I'll be giving thanks that it's you and not me.
--P.
The great recipes
the perfect ingredients, the adoring crowd.
I can see it.
The weird thing is that there will be 12 of us here, two of whom drink milk with their meals.
Yet we bought more liquor than you did. A case of white, a case of red, a 12-pak of Sam Adams winter selections, and some other beer.
So, that's Thanksgiving chez Poppy. More liquor! Fewer turkeys! I've already overcooked two pies and a cake.
--P.
I can't believe I do all this for these pikers.
-J.