We think it was one of our best dinners.
Roasted Turkey
Fresh Orange-Cranberry Sauce with Walnuts
Herb and Onion Stuffing
Mashed Potatoes and Gravy
Lima Beans in Cream
Baby Peas
Sweet Potatoes with Marshmallows
Dixie Salad
Corn Pudding
Read All About It Rolls
Favorite Old-Fashioned Gingerbread
Dutch Apple Pie
Punkin Pie
Toll House Pie
Vanilla Ice Cream
Whipped Cream
Because we were four, I set the table with Grandma L's pheasant plates of which we have five. And the single teacup you see in the picture above. Dixie Salad was a black horse in my book. Mother seeded a whole pomegranate and added apple pieces, raisins, and Cool Whip (the original recipe asks for sweetened whipped cream). I may add here it was delicious. The lima beans were another runaway winner, but not so surprisingly. I made two of Rachel B's recipes: gingerbread and orange cranberries. Each luscious and deep. Mother gave up on the gravy before she began. The dreamboat stuffing was so easy and yum yum. Fobsi dropped off her homemade rolls and the Toll House Pie before joining her in-laws. B declared his plate the most attractive at the table and suggested a picture.
We planned to open the bubbly—Kristian Regále Sparkling Apple Beverage—and never did. Father read aloud the beguiling label at the end of the feast: It's Time to Sparkle. He then turned to us and asked, puzzled: How do you sparkle?
4 comments:
Bob is a poet! That was beautiful!
I will have to pass along the lima beans recipe to my dad, he loves them to the puzzlement of the rest of us. I hated them as a child. I can eat them now with no grimacing but perhaps could even like them with the proper preparation. I would like to eat your meal right now.
I was not raised on limas and feel foolish cooking them because I know all people hate them. This however, was all for nought at Thankgiving. I tell you, this recipe tastes like warm almost edamame in a warm butter-tinged cream. It is wonderful. My sister was not willing to try them until forced when they came later for dessert. She said they were okay but still tasted a bit like limas. My mother asserted that they were baby limas, as if this should make some difference and perhaps it did. All I know is they were fabulous and those who would not try them lost out.
Isn't it a treat to use the limited number dinner-ware? I have some dishes that I love, but only get to use if there are ≤ 5, and then another set for ≤4. I am pleased you got to use the pheasant dishes. Dinner sounds tastey too. And I love that you tribute two recipes to me. I made the gingerbread recently as well. I had a lot of left over and so I made a bread pudding out of it. I liked it, but I worry that I only loved it because I created it, like loving an ugly child.
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