Turkey Dinner #1
Doesn’t this look like a crime scene photo from the sixties? (It’s a crime against my thighs.)
It’s from last night – a turkey dinner/Christmas party that ended with pumpkin pudding, sticky toffee pudding and a layered sort of free-form tiramisu made with some sort of whipped chocolate cream/mascarpone layered with chocolate chip cookies. I know. Just what you need after an enormous turkey dinner complete with two stuffings and two kinds of mashed potatoes (one truffled, one not). Not that dinner kept me from eating two plates of the stuff.
Before dinner even made it to the table I had nibbled my way through half a platter of homemade crackers – Pierre’s nut crackers, in fact – from, hey! the new Swerve website! K misread “paprika” and added cayenne instead, which gave them a nice kick, I think. The toddlers in the room may not have agreed.
That’s all I got right now. Just wanted to keep you posted.
December 12 2010 08:31 pm | leftovers
Erica B. on 13 Dec 2010 at 12:09 am #
I’ll have one of everything please. *burp*
And because I’m curious: “7434″?
JulieVR on 13 Dec 2010 at 6:17 am #
Looks like the computer generated it because I forgot a title. Sigh. Maybe it’s a calorie count?
Erica B. on 13 Dec 2010 at 1:35 pm #
Oh yikes I hope not. Consume 7434 in a meal (or in a day even)and their better be a defribulator on standby for the inevitable heart attack.
‘Turkey Dinner #1′ is apropos. Great read as always.
Erica B. on 13 Dec 2010 at 1:37 pm #
*ack* ^there not their… my grade 10 English teacher would shoot me for that one.
Laurie in Burnaby on 13 Dec 2010 at 2:26 pm #
But what about the turkey dinner? Was there stuffing? Did the gravy turn out? What did they have for vegetables? A picture of the desert and nothing about the main event, the dinner?
JulieVR on 13 Dec 2010 at 2:47 pm #
Sorry. By the time we sat down I was in the very corner, at the newbies table, and trapped – I didn’t want to force everyone to get up from their seats again so that I could grab my camera from the kitchen. As for the late-night description, I was tired and had 5 articles due this morning, so couldn’t spend a lot of time here and thought a little something was better than nothing. I did mention the two stuffings (one with pecans, the other with water chestnuts) and two kinds of mashed potatoes (one truffled, one not). There was also turkey, gravy, roasted root vegetables and broccoli done in a skillet with garlic.
retro sweets on 13 Dec 2010 at 5:52 pm #
Never mind the absence of turkey, it’s always a good read. That plate looks so sinful! But who cares? I gave myself the right to over eat this Christmas. yum!
Frankie on 02 Jan 2011 at 11:11 pm #
Does anyone recognize the pattern (name/mfgr) of the beautiful plate showcasing the dessert?
JulieVR on 03 Jan 2011 at 7:42 am #
I can ask my friend about it, who hosted dinner – she may know where it came from.
JulieVR on 05 Jan 2011 at 1:12 pm #
The china pattern is called Bedford and is made by Minton!