Our first gluten-free Thanksgiving. Sit back in your chair- this may take a while.
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| First, the turkey. As it is, I leave the raw-turkey-prep to my husband, since I'm bothered my handling the raw bird. Did it have to come with a feature still attached? This grossed me out. |
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| A morning smoothie. This was a peanut butter-banana-flax seed (recipe: Cooking Light). |
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| Pumpkin soup. My mom makes and brings this along. Yum. |
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| The turkey. Post-roasting, post feather-removal. |
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| Carrot-basil-cornmeal biscuits. These are a family tradition- my mom has been making them since the beginning of Thanksgiving time. This is the first year they were made gluten-free. (Next year I'll add more milk, tablespoon by tablespoon, until the dough is more moist). |
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| Smashed potatoes. The sour creamy kind. Only difference is, I sometimes use red potatoes instead of Yukon Gold, and then leave the skins on before boiling (steakhouse style). |
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| Green beans with shallots. Another contribution from my mom. |
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| Cornbread apple-sausage stuffing. This was the crunchy in-the-oven kind, and there was also an in-the-bird version. For the cornbread, I make my own using a recipe by Sneaky Chef. It has pureed corn in the bread and it is *so* moist. |
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| Indian cornbread pudding. My mom made this one was well, and it was an easy one to make gluten-free. |
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| The moist cooked-in-the-bird version of the stuffing. |
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| The turkey, carved. Thank goodness my dad worked in a deli as a teen-- he's a pro at carving. |
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| Gravy. My mom makes it every year. This was another recipe easy to convert to gluten-free. |
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| Sweet potatoes with crunchy roasted marshmallows. 'Nuff said. |
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| Butternut squash. I think my grandma made this. |
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| Thanksgiving dinner: Turkey, gravy, cornbread apple-sausage stuffing, biscuits, sweet potatoes, butternut squash, smashed potatoes, and Indian cornbread pudding. Whew. |
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| Apple pie. My grandma made this with her secret recipe, and used a gluten-free baking mix for the crust. |
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| Pumpkin mousse with fresh vanilla creme- another contribution from my mom. |
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| Pecan pie. My husband made this (with some help) because he didn't think it'd be Thanksgiving w/o pecan pie. |
