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Enjoy your turkey!
Papersatan:
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What we do is take the drippings and leave in a separate bowl and put a couple of ice cubes into the bowl. The grease gathers around the ice cube and solidifies, allowing the worst of it to be removed. What's left is a clear jelly (I can't think of the proper term), which is used as the base for the gravy and in the potato stuffing or roast potatoes. The jelly is melted in hot water and cornflour is added to thicken it while it reduces. It was my grandmother's recipe and passed it on to my sister.
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And there is the crux of our difference; you make a cornstarch gravy and not a flour one. Which one is made seems to be a matter of tradition, though I also am allergic to cornstarch, so even if I were not raised on flour gravy, I would be making it.
We don't have a traditional Christmas dinner. We have a family dinner every year on Christmas eve, but what is served changes. Sometimes lamb, a lot of times roast beef, but sometimes a pork roast or a brisket. We used to have a Christmas day dinner with my mother's side of the family, and I think we had ham every year, but it has been so long I can't recall.
Barmymoo:
Because I've been vegetarian all my life, and my parents both are as well, I've always had something other than turkey for Christmas. It varies, but I think this year it will probably either be some kind of pie (mushroom, perhaps) or a filled Quorn fillet with all the trappings that usually go with turkey. It'll be the first time I've cooked Christmas dinner, I'm a bit nervous...
LeeC:
unlike thanksgivings of the past I did not over stuff.
My parents came down from maine and I got to have thanksgiving with my uncle and my sister's family. Got to hang out with my cousins and niece and nephew. Drank with my cousins while having some fun conversation (something I havnt done in a while). Watched the football games (Im sorry to you NYJ fans but the NE defense ended the game for you all). Drove my drunk parents to my place where they crashed for the night (much to my sister's chagrin).
it was the best time ive had in awhile.
Kugai:
bainidhe_dub:
For vegetarian holiday dinners we have often made a broccoli-chicken braid using soy chicken patties, or just a substantial casserole like the lentil one or lasagna. We get pretty into the side dishes, though, so it's not a big deal. The broccoli braid is nice because it's pretty and provides some of the centerpiece effect that I guess people usually get from the turkey.
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