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#Post#: 15759--------------------------------------------------
Re: Canadian Thanksgiving and Columbus Day
By: CorrieFan Date: October 9, 2018, 9:01 pm
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Canadian here.
Our family Thanskgiving meal is pretty similar to the standard.
Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce.
Veggies vary - corn, or carrots, or broccoli, often turnips (my
favourite!). Generally a salad or two, one must be an Asian
coleslaw! Pumpkin pie for dessert. There's usually a rest period
of a couple hours between the main course and dessert.
I've never had the candied yams or green bean casserole that is
apparently on many American tables.
Hope all the Canadians had a great Thanksgiving and aren't
suffering too much from a turkey hangover! :)
#Post#: 15765--------------------------------------------------
Re: Canadian Thanksgiving and Columbus Day
By: VorFemme Date: October 9, 2018, 10:42 pm
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VorGuy copes with too much turkey by asking for me to either
make curry with it or a Mexican dish called machacha that turns
it into a meal he never gets tired of. He has been known to get
a much larger turkey to get more machacha made for the freezer.
#Post#: 15794--------------------------------------------------
Re: Canadian Thanksgiving and Columbus Day
By: Hmmm Date: October 10, 2018, 9:20 am
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[quote author=CorrieFan link=topic=723.msg15759#msg15759
date=1539136895]
Canadian here.
Our family Thanskgiving meal is pretty similar to the standard.
Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce.
Veggies vary - corn, or carrots, or broccoli, often turnips (my
favourite!). Generally a salad or two, one must be an Asian
coleslaw! Pumpkin pie for dessert. There's usually a rest period
of a couple hours between the main course and dessert.
I've never had the candied yams or green bean casserole that is
apparently on many American tables.
Hope all the Canadians had a great Thanksgiving and aren't
suffering too much from a turkey hangover! :)
[/quote]
I'd love to know how you cook your turnips. I'm always looking
for new ideas.
Green bean casserole was never a standard in our family. but
growing up we never had pumpkin pie either because no one was a
fan. It was always apple pie, pecan pie and some type of cake.
#Post#: 15799--------------------------------------------------
Re: Canadian Thanksgiving and Columbus Day
By: STiG Date: October 10, 2018, 10:09 am
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Rutabaga (swede to the UK folks) is often referred to as turnip,
which is a slightly different vegetable with a milder taste.
Turnips are generally about the size of a tennis ball, with a
flesh close to white in colour. Rutabagas are larger, with a
more yellow flesh that deepens in colour after cooking.
My prep is pretty simple. Peel the rutabaga and cube it up into
about half to one inch square pieces. Boil them until soft.
Drain and mash with butter, brown sugar or maple syrup, salt and
pepper. It does well holding its temperature and texture, too,
so it can be made a bit ahead so you don't have a mad rush at
the end. If it is only going to sit for 30 minutes or so, just
put the lid back on the pot. If it is going to sit for longer
than that, just stick it in a warm oven.
My family, the meal is basic: turkey, a simple stuffing of
bread crumbs, onion, a little sage, thyme, ginger, seasoned salt
and pepper and fairly generous amounts of home grown summer
savoury, mashed potatoes, carrots, rutabaga and then whatever
garden veggies are ready like beets and brussel sprouts and
rarely, beans. We do a cranberry orange relish. Pumpkin pie
and whipped cream for dessert.
My husband's family is a little more elaborate: ham as well as
turkey, usually just stove top stuffing, the mashed potatoes,
carrots, rutabaga but also sweet potato, squash and rolls. I'll
add my beets, too. And their cranberry is more of a traditional
cranberry sauce, though homemade rather than store bought.
Dessert is pumpkin pie, apple pie, usually one other pie and my
MIL's cherry cheesecake. I did a raspberry rhubarb pie this
time that was popular. This is the typical meal for all the big
holidays: Thanksgiving, Christmas (usually held on New Year's
Day) and Easter, with a little bit of variation in the
vegetables and the desserts.
#Post#: 17625--------------------------------------------------
Re: Canadian Thanksgiving and Columbus Day
By: NewHomeowner Date: October 30, 2018, 6:44 am
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[quote author=VorFemme link=topic=723.msg15765#msg15765
date=1539142978]
VorGuy copes with too much turkey by asking for me to either
make curry with it or a Mexican dish called machacha that turns
it into a meal he never gets tired of. He has been known to get
a much larger turkey to get more machacha made for the freezer.
[/quote]
VoreFemme, you are going to have to share that recipe now. I
googled machacha and got a lot of links for some kind of
software. Then I googled 'machacha recipe' and found a lot of
different recipes, all involving beef. I'm totally confused
now.
#Post#: 17735--------------------------------------------------
Re: Canadian Thanksgiving and Columbus Day
By: VorFemme Date: October 30, 2018, 8:57 pm
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[quote author=NewHomeowner link=topic=723.msg17625#msg17625
date=1540899878]
[quote author=VorFemme link=topic=723.msg15765#msg15765
date=1539142978]
VorGuy copes with too much turkey by asking for me to either
make curry with it or a Mexican dish called machacha that turns
it into a meal he never gets tired of. He has been known to get
a much larger turkey to get more machacha made for the freezer.
[/quote]
VoreFemme, you are going to have to share that recipe now. I
googled machacha and got a lot of links for some kind of
software. Then I googled 'machacha recipe' and found a lot of
different recipes, all involving beef. I'm totally confused
now.
[/quote]
I had posted it to the old site - guess it's time to find the
recipe card & repost it here. Do we have a recipe folder?
#Post#: 17762--------------------------------------------------
Re: Canadian Thanksgiving and Columbus Day
By: Pattycake Date: October 31, 2018, 8:29 am
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[quote author=VorFemme link=topic=723.msg17735#msg17735
date=1540951031]
[quote author=NewHomeowner link=topic=723.msg17625#msg17625
date=1540899878]
[quote author=VorFemme link=topic=723.msg15765#msg15765
date=1539142978]
VorGuy copes with too much turkey by asking for me to either
make curry with it or a Mexican dish called machacha that turns
it into a meal he never gets tired of. He has been known to get
a much larger turkey to get more machacha made for the freezer.
[/quote]
VoreFemme, you are going to have to share that recipe now. I
googled machacha and got a lot of links for some kind of
software. Then I googled 'machacha recipe' and found a lot of
different recipes, all involving beef. I'm totally confused
now.
[/quote]
I had posted it to the old site - guess it's time to find the
recipe card & repost it here. Do we have a recipe folder?
[/quote]
There is a Food folder, I thought recipes would go there?
#Post#: 18273--------------------------------------------------
Re: Canadian Thanksgiving and Columbus Day
By: VorFemme Date: November 5, 2018, 8:04 pm
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Found Recipe folder - search for "turkey leftovers" and it
should pop up. I entered both of my favorite recipes for
turning leftover holiday turkey into something no one recognizes
as "leftovers" - and I really have had VorGuy drag home an extra
turkey or two so he knows he's going to get plenty of machacha &
curry!
Both recipes freeze pretty well - with the curry, freeze it
before adding the lemon juice - it curdles if you try freezing &
reheating after the lemon juice, for some reason.
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