It’s Thanksgiving today, one of my favorite days of the year and one of the few occasions when practically all of New York takes the day off.
This year, Sofie and I are making a return visit to Connecticut. One of my favorite parts of the day (aside from the company and the food) will be standing in the middle of Grand Central Terminal around 1.30pm watching people hurrying in all directions carrying bags and boxes of food.
For those of you outside of the US who may be wondering what a Thanksgiving dinner might taste like, here’s the menu I was sent ahead of our meal today:
Ham rolls
Crudités
Cheese Course
Goat Cheese Tartlets
Stuffed Mushrooms
Crab cakes
Cheddar Cheese sticks
FIRST COURSE
Salad with pear, blue cheese, walnuts
DINNER
Ham “Richard”
Turkey & Gravy
Cranberry Relish RER + jellied slices
Cornbread & Squash Dressing
Roasted Sweet Potatoes & Winter Vegetable Medley
Brussel Sprouts with Shallots and Wild Mushrooms
Green beans with herb butter
Biscuits
SORBET INTERMEZZO
Pear Halves “Stuffed” with Cranberry & Pear Sorbet
DESERTS
Apple Pie
pumpkin pie
pecan pie
Lemon Brûlée Tart a la “If the Mood Strikes”
Chocolates for the table
Clementines
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I know Americans are not known for their “American” food, but this is one delicious meal. So delicious that, one year, my husband asked for Thanksgiving dinner” for his birthday which is just 6 days after Thanksgiving.
So Paul, having eaten, where do you stand on the emotive issue of Walnuts in salads?? I’d rather eat barbed wire
it was alllll yummy. Yum.
the menu sounds better then anything I had in Russia at my grandmother’s time. WOW, Yummmm.
I like walnuts in salads, Beau.
We picked up some lovely oyster mushrooms from the farmer’s market this weekend.
They go great in salads too.
Paul you know how I feel about mushrooms but I can appreciate that people who do like them could reasonably put them in salads. I have no problem with that. Not one. Conversely I do like walnuts but they have no business being in salads.