Thanksgiving Garden Recipes

Hello,
Since it is almost Thanksgiving and this is a NE Gardening Forum, I thought we might start a thread on favorite Thanksgiving recipes that you make with foods you have grown or raised.

Even if they don't use stuff you have grown, share your favorite Thanksgiving recipes with us all.

I will begin with.............

I have several Susan, not all with things i've grown but family favorites. I'll let you post yours, it may take me a bit to dig mine out.

Hart's Turkey Farm Butternut Squash Impersonation

When my kids wer little we would go on trips to NH from MA and always eat at Hart's. They made the best butternut squash I ever had. One time I asked them how they make it and I was told a simple recipe that I have tried to copy. It is as close as I can get it, but I think ti si yummy. And being a native New Englander I have to make butternut squash as part of Thanksgiving dinner. I grow a lot of it, we got about 3 bushels this year.

Recipe:
1 large butternut squash
4 Tbsp butter
1/8 C brown sugar
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
S & P

Cut squash in half lengthwise and scoop out sed cavity. Place cut sides down in shallow roasting pan with about 1 inch of water in it. Bake at 350o for an hour or till fork can be easily poked into neck part of squash and it is tender. Remove sqaush from pan and let cool. Cool and scoop squash from skins. In sauce pan put squash, brown sugar, butter and nutmeg. Mash and heat through till butter and sugar are melted. Add s&p to taste.
YUM!

Oh goodie, Pixie! I had a dog named Pixie when I was a kid. She was a border collie. :)

Sounds yummy, Susan.

Celeste (pixie) is cooking for me this year. ^_^

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Susan, I too grow LOTS of butternut squash and cook it in a similar way.
Line the pan w/tinfoil, inside and enough to make a tent. I slice and clean the squash the same way, but put face up. Drizzle with butter, cinnamon, and a dash of nutmeg. Seal the tinfoil on all sides and bake in oven. When done we simply leave it in the skin and scoop out of it, the Grandkids think it's cool as they help pick and prepare.

Victor, you driving to Maine to pick it up or am I over nighting it to you?? LOL

This message was edited Nov 14, 2009 1:31 PM

Victor, I would invite you here but we are going to my brothers in MA.

Celeste,

I will have to try it that way, do you still put water in the pan? or does the foil cause enough steam to cook it?

Thanks

Thanks, Susan! I appreciate it. I was joking - we'll be home hosting and my wife will take care of the cooking!

I usually cook but am going home for Thanksgiving and my sis in law is cooking. I am bringing pies.

Yum!

The foil steams it, the only water is from me washing the squash before I start. ^_^

I am gonna try it this way. Thank you.

I usually do a very traditional (and I guess) boring meal for Thanksgiving but that's the way I like it since my mom was never a fancy cook.
I only thng I ever really tried new was a cranberry and grape sauce. I have to look for the recipe.

we do squash the same way celeste - very easy and good!

Cranberry and grape sauce!!! Recipe, please!

Here's that recipe, got in Better Homes and Gardens mag years ago. Good thing they have it on line, because my copy of it is nowhere to be found(very weird).
http://www.recipe.com/granberry-sauce/

That sounds wonderful, and different. I will try it this year. Thank you!

Thanks flowerjen! I bet it's good on english muffins too!

We have gotten so used to the canned jellied plasma things that real cranberries taste very bitter to us.

Too funny! I feel the same way about bacon flavoured preservative bits. Real bacon bits seem too greasy and salty on my potat now.

I like the canned jellied plasma cranberries too, especially the cranraspberry. Almost like two different foods, the fresh and the canned.

Yes, they're nothing alike. My neighbor brought us homemade fresh stuff - my kids lips almost stuck together.

Funny Victor!

Do you leave it in the shape of the can when putting it on the table?

Well, yeah. On top of a lettuce leaf, LOL.

Okay, I made butternut squash tonight and baked it at 350 for an hour and it was hard as a rock, so I put it in for 35 more minutes and turned the oven up to 425. It finally was done. What's everybody's method? I want to perfect this. It was delicious. DH said he never thought he'd say he liked squash, but he did!

did you wrap it in tin foil?

Yes. I did the tent method.

While searching for Thanksgiving recipes on www.Epicurious.com I found one called
Carrots and Brussels Sprouts
that sounded easy. Simply fresh carrots, shallots (I used onion) and sprouts braised in butter with some vinegar and seasoning. Luckily enough I still had enough of both in a raised bed to try it out with some cider marinated pork chops, garden salad and cheesy smashed red potatoes. The whole meal was delicious but I thought the carrot-sprout dish was interesting and worth mentioning here.

Tip: If the epicurious search box doesn't work, click on their advanced search link.

Yum!

Wow - sounds yummy, Don. Thanks!

forgot mushroom casserole is a must eat too!

Suet Muffins

2 cups lard or shortening
4-5 cups corn flour or corn meal
1 cup peanut butter
2 cups bird seed
1 cup smushed nuts and diced fruit (fresh or dried)

Melt lard/shortening. Mix everything together and put in muffin trays. Freeze. Scoop out and store in freezer bag for use all winter.

This is a Thanksgiving Garden Receipe for your Birdies ^_^

ps I made these this weekend and DH thought it was muffins for him Actually I tasted it and it was pretty yummy