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

[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!