Re: Thanksgiving - OT - Our menu

[Guest guest]

> Hey - I was wondering if anyone had any good ideas of stuff for

thanksgiving? I am always looking for new and interesting

recepies.... or just recepies that are personal favorites... thanks!<

This is the menu for Griffeth's Thanksgiving - 2005

This year I'm cooking for 12. It's my very favorite holiday meal of

the entire year and I love doing it!! We're having a small oyster

roast outside before dinner, instead of a few hours of appetizers.

With the oysters we'll also have a cold shrimp appetizer with

crackers. The oyster table is easy to decorate, all you need is an

old wooden table, (we use a plywood panel on two saw horses), covered

with newspaper. If you want " fancy " , you can cover the table with

white butchers paper. On the table will be dishes of cocktail sauce,

lemons, the shrimp appetizer, crackers, lots of dish towels as

napkins, and mounds of fresh steaming oysters picked only hours

earlier out of local oyster beds visible from our front porch.

Bluffton oysters are world-reknown!

The rest of the menu is:

* a 20 lb. roast brined turkey, based with a port wine glaze

* Oyster stuffing from inside the turkey

* Turkey gravy seasoned with fresh herbs

* Sweet potato and pear gratin

* Twiced baked potatos with goat cheese, sour cream, Neufchatel

cream cheese & chives

* Broccoli casserole or acorn squash casserole (undecided)

* Creamed Corn and Pea Casserole

* Cranberry sauce

* Water rolls

* Spring mix salad with goat cheese, walnuts and raspberry

vinagrette

* Cranberry or Raspberry Sorbet (undecided)

* Pumpkin Flan

* Chocolate Chip Pecan Pie

Everything will be homemade, except the rolls. I get those from the

bakery because I never have enough oven space to do it all. The menu

isn't that unusual for us, yet I usually throw in something new with

the vegetables each year. Certain things my family won't let me change.

This year I've decided not to do a soup first, but I usually have one.

I'll also have a couple traditional pumpkin pies already made because

would disown me if I didn't. She'll eat half of one while

she's here, and take the other home with her!

I use low fat cheeses and low fat ingredients wherever possible, and

Splenda replaces any recipes calling for sugar. So it's not that

unusual of a selection, but I'm always curious to know what's on other

families menu. What are y'all having?

With love, hope and prayers,

Heidi

Heidi H. Griffeth

SC State & SE Regional Rep

PAI