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Wednesday, November 22, 2006 Turkey Turkey You know you're curious to know what the domestic goddess is cooking up for the big day. On the menu: Roast Turkey Mashed Potatoes Sausage and Cornbread Dressing with Pecans Roasted Sweet Potatoes Sauteed Brussel Sprouts Roasted Green Beans Cranberry-Orange Relish Fresh Bread Pumpkin Pie with Whipped Cream Not nearly the table-buckling spread as years past, and a lot lighter of a menu (Mom is diabetic and can't eat most starch/sugars), but still damn good. As a bonus, I'm including my pumpkin pie recipe: Crust: 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour pinch salt 1 stick butter, ice cold (I freeze mine) glass of ice water Put the flour and salt in a big bowl. Add butter, chopped into little tiny pieces. Stick the bowl in the freezer for 10 minutes. Don't touch it, don't mix anything, just stick it in the freezer*. After 10 minutes, remove and use pastry cutter to cut butter into the flour until you get an oatmeal-y consistancy (or put the bowl on your Kitchen-Aid, put the paddle attachment on, and let it do the work for you). Once you've reached oatmeal-y consistancy, slowly add iced water (no ice cubes) until you almost have dough. Do not add so much water that you get dough. You want it to look like it's just about to come together. With your hands, form the mix into two lumps of dough. Wrap in plastic and off to the fridge to sit before you roll it out. *The freezer thing is important--it helps to make the pie dough really flaky and easy to roll out later. Filling: 1 1/2 cup pumpkin puree (half a big can) 1 cup brown sugar, very firmly packed 1 T flour 1/4 t cinnamon 1/8 t of each: allspice, nutmeg, ground cloves, ginger splash of vanilla extract 1 egg, beaten 1 1/2 cup milk, scalded (to do this, heat it in the microwave or a saucepan until you see bubbles around the edge of the pan/dish) Mix everything but egg and milk together; combine thoroughly. Add egg and milk and slowly mix until it's combined (careful--any splashies are hot!). Roll out one dough ball to fit a 9" pie pan (freeze the other part or use for another pie bottom; don't forget to flour your rolling surface before you start), trim the edges and set on a lined baking pan. Pour in the pie filling and pop it into a 425 degree oven for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes, turn the heat down to 350 degrees and bake another 45-55 minutes, until you have a pie that's set around the edges and slightly jiggly in the middle. Remove from the oven and cool the pie before you devour it. posted by jaime | 10:53 PM 0 comments |
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