Quinine's bitter, sugar's sweet

[sovay]

November the 26th as culturally sanctioned excuse for random culinary experimentation: works for me. The cider-braised pears, the traditional stuffing with sage, apples, and cherries, the chorizo and cornbread stuffing, and the sweet potatoes with chipotle and adobo are all through their first stages and awaiting tomorrow's finalization; the onions for the Zwiebelkuchen are cooking down, and I am about to embark upon a pumpkin flan. I beta-tested an apple pie with cardamom the night before last. I'm still deciding whether nobody but me would eat a mango pomegranate guacamole for Thanksgiving. Other objects of the menu are not my department. I had vaguely hoped not to be still cooking by midnight, but I lost most of this afternoon to an unexpected doctor's visit, and possibly this is standard practice, anyway. Last year I just made a savory pie.

I wish I could think of something aesthetic to do with all the turkey vertebrae in the right-hand side of the sink.

Comments

[gwynnega]

Mango pomegranate guacamole sounds awesome!

[sovay]

Mango pomegranate guacamole sounds awesome!

So noted!

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

That all sounds awesome.

Nine

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Seconded.

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

Thirded. Glad it went well! Happy TG, best wishes, etc.

Make stock with the vertebrae?

[sovay]

Happy TG, best wishes, etc.

And also to you.

Make stock with the vertebrae?

The vertebrae were in the sink in the first place because we made stock from turkey necks. Unfortunately, they were gone by this morning.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

I wish I could think of something aesthetic to do with all the turkey vertebrae in the right-hand side of the sink.

Don't you have any glitter?

[selidor]

I vote for eldritch windchimes.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

Cleaned and strung with amber, you can make them into a necklace that'll be the envy of any ancient celtic reenactment types you might happen to meet.

[sovay]

Cleaned and strung with amber, you can make them into a necklace that'll be the envy of any ancient celtic reenactment types you might happen to meet.

My mother threw them out! Never leave a sinkful of small beautiful bones unattended the night before guests arrive. I'm going to see what I can salvage from the post-prandial carcass.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

The food all sounds very good, at least to me. I've never heard of guacamole that wasn't made of avocados, but I'd definitely give mango pomengranate guacamole a try, if it were me--it sounds like one of those things that would simply have to be good.

I'm sorry to hear of your unexpected doctor's visit, but glad you're able to be cooking.

Happy Thanksgiving!

[sovay]

I've never heard of guacamole that wasn't made of avocados, but I'd definitely give mango pomengranate guacamole a try, if it were me--it sounds like one of those things that would simply have to be good.

It did have avocados. It just also had mango and pomegranate.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Likewise!

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

It did have avocados. It just also had mango and pomegranate.

Oh, I see. I'm having trouble visualising all those tastes together, but I'm sure it's worth eating. I like avocados with fig-balsamic vinegar, after all.

Likewise!

Thank you! It's been pretty good, although quiet. No dressing in the turkey, as my da's gone diabetic, and for the same reasons I went easy on the coconut cream for the sweet potatoes and didn't put dried fruit in the brussels sprouts, but c'est la vie, is doigh liom.

Your holiday dishes always sound so interesting--I keep thinking I'll have to try some of your recipes, although in practice I'm not sure my family would let me.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I would eat mango pomegranate guacamole!

I wish I could think of something aesthetic to do with all the turkey vertebrae in the right-hand side of the sink

(all I can think of is those cradles cucumberseed wrote about... not quite the same if it's turkey vertebrae, but it's what jumped to mind....)

Have a great Thanksgiving.

[sovay]

I would eat mango pomegranate guacamole!

Well, so did several members of my family . . .

Have a great Thanksgiving.

You, too!

[clarionj.livejournal.com]

I wish I could think of something aesthetic to do with all the turkey vertebrae in the right-hand side of the sink.

Hahaha! I can only imagine ...

Your foods always startle me because we do ordinary here, and I love how they taste when my imagination explores them. Enjoy your feast!

[sovay]

Enjoy your feast!

We did! I hope you had a good Thanksgiving, too.