Thanksgiving Recipe Round-up

Hi Everyone! Grab your apron (or cocktail as the case may be!) and let's get cooking! Putting together a menu is always the hardest part for me - I struggle and agonize and moan and questions my existence - so if you don't want to suffer the same fate, here are some ideas from the Ghosts of Thanksgiving Past...

How *Not* to Cook a Turkey 12/2/06
Thanksgiving in Paris, Trois Fois (Three Times) 11/27/05
Thanksgiving Recipes v4.0 ~ Stuffed! 11/20/06
Thanksgiving Recipes v3.0 ~ Michael Chiarello 11/19/06
Thanksgiving Recipes v2.0 ~ Deja Vu 11/18/06
Thanksgiving Recipes v1.0 ~ Williams-Sonoma 11/17/06

And this year, I'm back in San Francisco cooking with my Paris flatmates, my absolutely favorite thing to do in the whole world. Here's the menu below... Whether it actually ends up being this will be wholely determined by home much champagne we consume while cooking and if certain people went out the night before and decided to clean the over at 4am...but I digress... We decided on a capon since I torqued the turkey last year. Cross your fingers and toes and wings and thighs for me!

thanksgiving 2008
chez john et pierre
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rose champagne
smoked salmon on brioche with lemon creme fraiche
toasts with arugula, proscuitto, chevre
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burgundy pinot noir
chapon stuffed with foie gras, sauteed trumpet mushrooms, cognac
cornbread stuffing with dried cranberries, apricots
roasted asparagus sliced fennel, beets, oranges with a raspberry vinaigrette
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sauterne (or maybe back to champagne?)
pears poached in red wine on creme anglaise drizzled with chocolate

Bon appetit! L

Comments

[Corine]

This is so nice to see you back here. We missed you !

[laura]

thanks so much corine! it's nice to be back! :)

[jenn]

Missed you blogging.....and can I come for thanksgiving??? lol love the menu!

[Ulla]

Yes, me too. It is great to see you are posting again. Looking forward to all your future posts ;)

[Jann]

How wonderful to see you have posted again....a very long vacation? Good luck with your turkey this year-I read the post from last year-I think there must have been too much champagne flowing in the kitchen! Cheers to you and your flatmates!

[laura]

Jenn, thank you so much! Pink light! :)

Ulla, vielen dank! I'm looking forward to hearing all about your adventures at Helene Darroze! Bon courage! :)

[laura]

thank you Jann! you're right on the champagne :) a happy and delicious thanksgiving to you.