Re: Thanksgiving menus

["Robert" <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

Responses below.

 > From: "Gail" <http://www.cox.net/~g3>
 > Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:23:01 -0800
 >
 > Hi Noelle and Robert,
 > 
 > Finally I have put together the Thanksgiving menus so that you,
 > Robert, will know what to bring or what to shop for and what you can
 > use of ours.
 > 
 > The appetizer will be: goat cheese with rosemary and Kalamata olive mini 
 > muffins which are made with plain yogurt, butter. and eggs.

I'll just stick with the wine.

 > We will have Art 
 > arrive at 6:30 PM for appetizers and wine.

I'll be needing to assemble some stuff (e.g., mashed potatoes), cook some
veggies I'll be bringing, and reheat stuff.

 > The main course will be a purchased brined fresh turkey from Trader
 > Joes. It will roast on a bed of diced onion, carrot, and celery with
 > herbs. There will be a stuffing made with home made bread croutons,
 > onion, celery, parsley, sage, and thyme. The gravy will be made out
 > of that bed of roasted vegetables that will be pureed.

I'll be bringing my usual pre-made Tom Tofu and gravy ingredients (to be
made there).

 > The vegetables will be mashed potatoes, so we have a bag of potatoes
 > you can cook any way you want

Excellent.  I'll be bringing some soymilk and margarine to make my own
mashed taties.

I'll also be bringing a couple of turnips (which I'll need to cook) to
stick into my mashed potatoes since I like the zing it gives.

 > and garlic-almond fresh green beans
 > (just cooked with minced, garlic, toasted slivered almonds, and olive
 > oil).

Fantastic.  Nothing to be done there.

I'll be bringing some Brussels sprouts we bought at our farmer's market.
Those will need to be cooked.

 > The salad will be orange walnut salad except Don doesn't like walnuts
 > so I'll substitute them for pecans. In that salad are salad greens,
 > red bell pepper, scallion, mandarin orange sections, pecans, fresh
 > basil with an orange dressing made from froz. thawed orange juice
 > concentrate, veg.or canola oil, vinegar, basil, garlic, ground
 > pepper, and dash of Tabasco sauce.

Yey!  Another thing I can eat.

 > The dessert will be pumpkin

I'll be doing pumpkin, too!  Didn't know you liked pumpkin.  (I'll also be
bringing some extra pumpkin we'll have, to make into a soup for lunch some
time.)

 > chiffon pie with nut praline topping with
 > a home made single layer pie crust made with Crisco, gelatin in the
 > filling as well as sugar, spice, canned pumpkin, milk, eggs,
 > and sugar, with the topping of butter, pecans, and sugar that is made
 > separately.

I'll be making and bringing my Pumpkin Teasecake (if it works out -- it
may end up being more like a pie).

 > Of course we have fresh ground Decaf coffee if anyone
 > wants it.
 > 
 > On Fri. AM (or any other time we all prefer) we will have a special
 > breakfast of Frittata with zucchini and goat cheese. That has eggs,
 > butter, fresh zucchini, fresh oregano leaves, fresh Ital. parsley,
 > and goat cheese in it.

I'll just have cereal or something.

 > I decided against any kind of cranberry sauce as it doesn't go well
 > with wine since Art will be with us.

I've never been a big fan of cranberry sauce, anyway.

 > I hope this menu appeals to you
 > and gives you, Robert, enough ingredients that you can work around to
 > make your own vegan meals. If for any reason you both would rather we
 > cook something else because you don't like something on this menu,
 > let us know before about 4 PM tomorrow as Don will be home then to
 > shop for all of the food so that I can start some of the cooking on
 > Wed. AM. During the weekend, besides having leftovers such as turkey
 > sandwiches and turkey soup, I project that we will also eat out for
 > dinner at least once such as at Spiritland Bistro where they have
 > great vegan and regular food

You mean animal-centered food?

 > and wine, etc. Usually during Holidays
 > there isn't much going in S.B. because they figure most people are
 > either out of town or busy with families, so be thinking of what all
 > you would like to do Fri.-Sun.

I'll be bringing my laptop.  I'd like to reinstall the operating on it in
order to get the wireless card working in it.

 > I do plan on playing tennis Sat. AM if
 > possible. If I don't play tennis also Sun. AM there is after my
 > church's regular 9:30 AM service an advent Xmas decoration craft
 > making workshop which Noelle might enjoy coming to with me at which I
 > need to bring finger food snacks to share from 10:30 AM-12:30 noon. I
 > haven't had a chance to read all of our entertainment page newspapers
 > yet for that time period to see what else might be going on. I would
 > like Robert to give me lessons on specifics regarding LinkedIn such
 > as "groups" and sort of like references, etc. as my recent job
 > hunting class said we should definitely make use of computer social
 > networking on LinkedIn. I only have my resume profile on there, and
 > that's all I have done with it.

Sure thing.

 > We also want to go birthday and
 > Christmas shopping with you,

Gail: do you a wishlist?  We're having trouble thinking of stuff for you.

 > not on busy "black Fri." so that we get
 > what you really want and need.

I have a list, if you're interested.

 > So be thinking about all this in
 > preparation. The weather here now gets warm and sunny mid-day (about
 > 70's), but is cold at night and early morning about 40's-50's.
 > 
 > See you about 4 PM on Thurs.

I figure the latest we should arrive is 4:30pm in order to work along side
you.

 > Love,
 > Gail and Dad