Here's our menu:
Nibbles While We Play Board Games
Spiced Nuts
Spiced Olives
Crudité plate with herb olive oil for dipping
Dinner
Roast duck with sausage and apple stuffing
Green beans with olive oil and garlic
Braised red cabbage with chestnuts
Oven-fried sweet potatoes with thyme (I typed that three times as oven-friend!)
Cranberry Waldorf Salad
Paleo Cranberry Sauce
Dessert
Paleo pumpkin cake with vanilla frosting
Decadent apple crisp with homemade vanilla bean ice cream
We could easily have done this 100% paleo without the "real" dessert and the adult beverages, but I like the idea of indulging a little bit on special occasions. Plus, Dave is an excellent baker and chose his recipe very carefully.
I have two questions for you:
1. What are y'all doing for Thanksgiving?
2. I can share recipes for all of the above this week. Which do you want to see?
Gobble! Gobble!
1. I'm staying home in my PJs. We may or may not have a few friends over for food and movies. I already planned to make your Waldorf Salad that got posted on Whole9! It looks delicious.
ReplyDelete2. I'm begging you for the duck recipe. I am a failure at roasting turkeys (I've tried, oh how I've tried) and need an alternative.
I love these ideas Mel! I'd love to see the paleo pumpkin cake recipe, as well as the green beans with olive oil and garlic. Thanks!
ReplyDelete1. I'm going home to the family. I'm avoiding the stuffing and rolls and luckily the rest of the veggies are steamed, a salad, and a small indulgence on sweet potatoes. :)
ReplyDelete2. I'd love to see the sweet potato and pumpkin recipes. I've made those nuts you have pictured and they are delish!!!
Thank you for all the work on the recipes!
pumpkin, pretty please !!!!
ReplyDeleteUm...ALL of them?! They all sound delicious, but if I had to choose just a couple then the oven fried sweet potatoes and the cranberry waldorf salad please.
ReplyDeleteHappy Turkey Day to you!
I'm cooking for Thanksgiving but haven't gotten the menu together yet. I'd love to see the recipes for the Cranberry Waldorf Salad and the Oven Fried Sweet Potatoes.
ReplyDeleteoh my gosh, my one true czech love, Becherovka! Enjoy it, lady! As my friends and I used to say, "It tastes like CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!" :0)
ReplyDeleteThat looks really good. I'm headed to Canada (Banff) to Thanksgiving and having cheese fondue on Thanksgiving itself (yeah not dino-friendly) but on Friday we're having "Yanksgiving" at my friends' house. I plan to make brussel sprouts and creamed spinach as my contribution. I'd love your braised red cabbage recipe.
ReplyDeleteThe duck! Love duck...
ReplyDeleteWhat board games btw?
Duck for sure! I love it, but have never cooked it.
ReplyDeleteAnd, for the first time in four years, we're staying home...no traveling, just the two of us. I'm definitely going to be missing my family, but it will also be nice to just be home.
woohoo!! all of the recipes! never cooked duck but i want to as i saw it in Whole Foods the other day.
ReplyDelete1) Will be in Big Bend - eating smoked turkey breast and veggies.
ReplyDelete2) I'd love to see the cabbage recipe (do you use bacon grease like my mother does? Deeelish!).