2020
Let's shake things up. It's been an unpredictable year and this year the holiday menu is no exception. A couple things are essential - Rosenkohlsalat, Nana's pumpkin pie (in mini form!) - but the turkey isn't one of them: vegetarian, baby.
- Shredded Rosenkohlsalat with farro, parmigiano & roasted sunflower seeds
- Blumenkohl au gratin
- Crispy cloud roast potatoes
- Stuffing muffins: grease a muffin tray and divide the stuffing mixture among the cups. Bake at 200* for ~45 mins. No muffins, in small Auflauffomrm.
- Maple garlic charred carrots - no oven space, raincheck!
- Essential accoutrements: gravy & Preiselbeerenmarmelade
- Pumpkin tartlettes and walnut pie tartlettes baked in cupcake form. With remaining crust, make a little filling for brown sugar cinnamon poptarts. *There was no remaining crust: 1 pie dough recipe is exactly 16 cupcake pies with 10 filled from half recipe of pumpkin pie and the remaining 6 is exactly half recipe of pecan pie.
Can I really stray from Nana's pumpkin pie; can it possibly be better? Hard to imagine. This pie is similar to Nana's except with homemade sweetened condensed milk and roasted squash (I've always boiled it). It also calls for brown sugar, which sounds delicious and logical for this flavor realm so I experimented slightly... Nana's recipe with roasted squash and ~50/50 brown/white sugars. Half a recipe fills 10 cupcake tartlettes.
Wednesday:
- Clean and set table while jamming to FM4 ✔️🤘🏾
- Gravy ✔️
- Rosenkohlsalat & dressing, but not combined ✔️
- Chop Blumenkohl ✔️
- Chop bread, celery & onions for stuffing ✔️
- Sweets! ✔️
Thursday:
- Stuffing: 180* for 55-60 mins. > 40 mins. covered, plus ~15 mins. uncovered until golden
- Potatoes: 200* for 50-60 mins. > 20 mins. untouched, then additional 30-40 mins.
- Blumenkohl: ~185* for 30 mins.
- Heat gravy on stovetop