So this year for thanks giving we kind of made it into a big deal. The center piece of this was of course the turkey which we picked up from the St. Lawrence market. Our turkey came from one of our favourite meal vendors Tanjo Family Farms.
We have picked up chickens from them before and all our bacon comes from them as well but the cool part about getting their birds is that you get liver and heart as well. The heart I had no idea what to do with but the liver was screaming to be made into a nice patte.
Patte is actually super simple to make. this recipe required me to dice up an onion and the livers and fry them in a little oil, salt, and pepper.
Once the liver was cooked through all I had to do was let it cool and toss it into the food processor. The liver from our 1 small turkey made these 2 very cute batches of patte. Now i'm not a fan of most liver but I found this to be very tasty.
The next cool dish was the home made cranberry sauce. Sadly it has been so long that I can't actually remember the amounts that went into this but it is basically a jam with cranberries.
Add the cranberries with sugar and a little water and cook them down. let cool and put into a container. :)
For the main course even our small turkey was way to big for us so I only cooked the legs and wings. These were on a simple baking try with some water, salt, pepper, and seasoning salt.
Finally thanks giving would be right without a pumpkin pie so We picked up a small baking pumpkin and I made several small pumpkin tarts as well as a large pie.This recipe came from sorted food and the part that I found the coolest was that it used condensed milk as the sweetener.
On top of this Talia made her mayo and carrot salad that she loves and I made a mint iced tea and lemon chiller. It was based on the starbucks milt lime refresher. I think I nailed that.
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wow, looks delicious :)
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