Orphan's Thanksgiving

[merlinofchaos]

I would just like to say that, once again, I will be holding Orphan's Thanksgiving this year. The rules have not changed in 10 years. RSVP is required; please bring a side. I will provide turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and at least one veggie, depending upon what is available and what I feel like. If I'm lazy it will be frozen corn.

It is not yet certain whether or not there will be pies, but we will work that out well enough in advance that we can have a backup. Please include in your RSVP if you desire to be part of the backup pie plan.

Some suggestions:

A nice, hearty vegetable soup (I have a couple of excellent recipes if you like)
A bean dish that isn't deadly
green bean casserole
traditional thanksgiving fare that I won't eat but others will, such as cranberry sauce or candied yams
something else that's really yummy and has no connection to traditional thanksgiving fare.

Don't bother RSVPing if you don't intend to be in San Jose for Thanksgiving this year. Yes, this footnote is highly unnecessary.

Comments

[evilmagnus]

denyse is working 2-10p, but I'll be around and intend to abuse your hospitality. :)

Also, Candied Yams! ONLY IN AMERICA, MY FRIENDS!

[tyee.livejournal.com]

Can I have the vegetable soup recipes even though I'm not coming? :)

[mister-sunshine.livejournal.com]

Me too? :)

[tersa.livejournal.com]

Ooo! Oooo! Me! Me!

Green bean casserole. And some cranberry awesome sauce.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Tofurkey, stuffing and gravy for the herbivores as per usual. Though if nobody offers to bring cranberry sauce I may have to swipe tersa's recipe and bring that too. Mmm...cranberries...

[merlinofchaos]

I think that tersa offered in her RSVP, if I read that right =)

I'll go half-and-half on the stuffing, as usual. The gravy and tofurkey you may be on your own with =)

[moonlightnrain.livejournal.com]

I'm absolutely coming, no doubt about it. No flipping idea what I'll be bringing yet, unfortunately.

Things I'm considering:
potatoes au gratin (from mix, most likely, nothing fancy)
herbed carrots
rolls and croissants (I dunno, I'm craving 'em)

Feel free to dictate which of these I bring. Or which I *don't* bring.

[merlinofchaos]

Of the 3 the herbed carrots sound the least interesting.

I love good fresh-baked rolls. Sometimes I bake bread, sometimes I don't; if you want to bring rolls & croissants, I'll definitely skip baking the bread.

[moonlightnrain.livejournal.com]

rolls & croissants it is, then!

[aelfsciene.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm so glad you're still doing this, I've been really looking forward to it.

I have a bottle of Riunite Lambrusco that I'm going to bring (as you and Raven and and I will all like it), and have been wanting to make this non-standard chili recipe that's kind of a cross between soup and beaniness:

1 tbs EVOO
2 lb ground turkey breast
1 lg yellow Spanish onion, chopped
1 jalapeno, seeded and minced
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 tbs ground cumin
few shakes Tabasco sauce
2 tbs cilantro
2 14oz cans chick broth
15oz, white kidney beans, drained
Salt, to taste

I would, of course, use the ground fake beef and veggie broth. Erik made this over the summer and it was amazing. Would it be an acceptable veggie soup substitute?

There will probably also be banana bread, because I still have bananas, and that excellent recipe. Can't wait to see you guys!

[merlinofchaos]

Please leave out the cilantro =)

Otherwise, it sounds good to me.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Yay for lack of cilantro.
Also, I bought a ginger wine last night that I may need help drinking, if I can convince people there to try it.
I don't have a bead on actual food-like substance yet, but I'm working on it.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Okay, I was thinking of making something yammy or sweet potatoey but I have no interest in candying them. Possibly baked or fried with spices. I suspect they are still anathema to the Merlin, but.

[merlinofchaos]

Would you like to make the squash & bacon & swiss cheese soup? It's not quite sweet potatoey but squash isn't far from it (and we both prefer squash to sweet potatoes)

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I'm unlikely to have the time to make soup.
How do you feel about chili?
(And maybe fresh orange juice.)

[merlinofchaos]

Angie has a chili variant already, so another probably isn't necessary. As it happens we went ahead and picked up most of the ingredients for soup (this one is a pretty simple soup) and just need some gruyere, which the grocery store didn't have any of (which was really odd).

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I think I should be able to find some at Milk Pail or BevMo.
How much do we want?

[merlinofchaos]

8oz should be good. Probably more than we need, but is safe.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Yay! Thank you!

[tavella.livejournal.com]

I emailed the RVSP, which hopefully you got :) What's the time this year?