It's crunch time!

[conuly]

What's everybody making for Thanksgiving? Any new and exciting recipes? Or, alternatively, tried and true faves?

I'm gonna do a duck again. Jenn pointed out that the kids don't like duck, which is fair, but they also don't really like turkey and one way or another I'm cooking a bird. I might do a chicken too.

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[shadowkat]

Usually rock cornish game hens -- it's a small hen, more tender and tasty than chicken or turkey. I used to base with a wine, brown sugar, corn starch, orange juice gravy. But I've moved to just olive oil and herbs. The recipe is in Better Homes & Gardens New Cook Book.

I used to make sweet potatoes and apples -- you basically evenly slice circles of apple and sweet potato, and arrange in a glass pan, every other one, cover with molasses, and butter, and cook for a specific period of time. I suck at recipes. I'm an intitutive cook.

Green beans.

And before I had to go off rice -- wild rice.

[conuly]

I thought wild rice was a different species from rice rice?

[shadowkat]

I don't know -- it's called wild rice on the package. No clue why.

Here's what wiki says about it if you are interested. I don't eat any more because I can't eat rice -- turns to sugar in my system and causes gastintestinal issues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_rice

[redbird]

It is, but a lot of the time what is served as "wild rice" is a mix of wild rice with either white or brown rice.