I'll be cooking all day tomorrow.

[Sogo]

As usual, I volunteered to bring more than my share to the Thanksmas gathering of friends on Sunday....

But I love to cook, and I love to make everything from scratch.

Here's my contribution to the dinner:

Mashed potatoes and gravy (Will make the gravy and prep the potatoes tomorrow.)
Sweet potatoes (Will bake them.)
Green Bean casserole (Will use a cream of celery soup as the base, which I will make tomorrow, as well as prep the fresh green beans.)
Cranberry sauce. (Just finished cooking the cranberries. The other ingredients - mandarin oranges and chopped walnuts - will be added tomorrow, and the sauce stored in the fridge overnight.)

Prepped potatoes and green beans will keep in water overnight for cooking on Sunday morning.

[debm55]

1. Sogo, it sounds wonderful and all the work you are doing. Have a blessed Thanksmas.

[MLAA]

2. Sounds like a wonderful get together.

[Sogo]

3. It should be a lot of fun, providing we can actually all make it....

There's an ice storm predicted for overnight tonight. Hopefully it will have all melted by Sunday....

[MLAA]

6. Fingers crossed for you 🙂

[Danascot]

4. Cranberry sauce

My 'secret' ingredient is to add a 1/4 teaspoon of cardamom to my cranberry sauce. I get many compliments on it. There always used to be the jellied stuff from a can but that quietly disappeared a few years ago.

The rest is pretty standard:

1 bag fresh cranberries
1 C sugar
1C water
Zest of one orange
... and the cardamom
I'll throw in an oz of triple sec if I have it handy ... before cooking so the alcohol gets cooked off.

I have no objection to using mandarin oranges though I think using zest gives it a brighter flavor.

[Fla Dem]

5. Thank you for what you do.