And so it begins… home made cranberry sauce:

1 cup sugar
3/4 cup water
1/4 teaspoon table salt
1 tablespoon orange zest
2 tablespoons Grand Marnier
1 12 ounce bag fresh cranberries, washed

Bring the sugar, water, salt, and orange zest to a boil over high heat.

Add the cranberries and return to a boil, then drop the heat to medium.

Simmer for 5 minutes, until 2/3rds or so of the berries have popped. Remove from heat and stir in the Grand Marnier.

Cool to room temp and refrigerate.

Glad I did a double batch because once it all cooked down it just about filled the bowl I had in mind.

And so it begins… home made cranberry sauce:

1 cup sugar
3/4 cup water
1/4 teaspoon table salt
1 tablespoon orange zest
2 tablespoons Grand Marnier
1 12 ounce bag fresh cranberries, washed

Bring the sugar, water, salt, and orange zest to a boil over high heat.

Add the cranberries and return to a boil, then drop the heat to medium.

Simmer for 5 minutes, until 2/3rds or so of the berries have popped. Remove from heat and stir in the Grand Marnier.

Cool to room temp and refrigerate.

Glad I did a double batch because once it all cooked down it just about filled the bowl I had in mind.

My husband’s family never wants anyone to bring anything. Many are vegan/gf and I don’t know what to bring ever.

I hate it, I want to bring something. I’ve always wanted to host, but I don’t think it’s going to happen any time soon.

Sorry to hear that. One option might be to ask them for one of their own vegan/gf recipes that they’ve made before, and make it for them so they don’t have to. That’s what we do sometimes in my family if we want to save someone some trouble

For many people, turkey day is tomorrow. If you’re planning on making something, how goes your prep?

I’ve got a cornbread casserole in the oven, which has gone smoothly enough so far. However I do have to run to the grocery store to pick up all-purpose flour. Turns out we had less in stock than I expected, and we typically make a lot of cookies each year. Hopefully I’ll be able to get in and out no worse for wear.

Edit: Sorry to everyone I didn’t reply to. Seems there was some kind of federation issue with lemmy.world and I didn’t see most of the comments until today.

I was just thinking on it actually, She mentioned she does most of the prep the night before. Next year I’m going to offer to go over and help with that I think. She does do such a lovely job, it’s a lot of veggies, and this way I can still help. I was able to load dishes today and helped a few things. As long as I’m helping in some way yeah?

Nice. Might have to try out that cranberry-orange relish. Cranberry sauce rarely makes an appearance at our dinner table, but something like this might be more appealing

Great. Did all my Christmas shopping, all that’s left is to go on leave on the 20th and then drive to meet the rest of the family.

Funny you should ask, we aren’t having anyone over so- we just made our ham dinner tonight because it’s so much for two we’ll be having ham until we oink

Happy today thanksgiving

Happy tomorrow thanksgiving

Happy thanksgiving till the ham runs out to all.

Today I prepped and dry brined the turkey. We have done Kenji’s butterfly cut recipe for a few years now and it always works out well. I also got the gravy made ahead of time so tomorrow it’s simply a matter of reheating and checking the seasoning levels.

Also got a pumpkin pie baked and some bread out getting stale for dressing.