Thanksgiving dinner missteps
Friday, November 26, 2010 at 08:53AM I've been making Thanksgiving dinner for years, and I thought I had it down to a science. But yesterday I had two small missteps. The first was the candied sweet potatoes. I had the butter and brown sugar bubbling merrily in my cast iron skillet, drained the can of sweet potatoes, and unceremoniously dumped them into the sugar. UGH! They were total mush! I couldn't touch them without mashing them. What to do? I heated them through and then pureed the whole sticky mess in the food processor with a little half and half. Wow! Velvety and gorgeous (but a bit too sweet as too much of the caramelizing brown sugar made it to the food processor withe the 'mashed' sweet potatoes). I'll be making this again, only with much less brown sugar.
The second one was less dramatic. It was the scalloped corn. My mother's recipe. Always custardy and delicious. Mine was sort of frothy and sweet. Oh, it set up, but it just didn't look or taste like it usually does. Many hours later when the microwave was called into service to warm up leftovers for supper, Beth discovered a bowl of melted/re-hardened butter. A whole stick. Which belonged in the scalloped corn. Which explains the mystery.
It wasn't a perfect meal but it was a thoroughly enjoyable day.
Reader Comments (3)
I'm sure I'll have several mishaps when I make my meal this Sunday. I keep reminding myself it's about the people, not the food. :-)
Seems like there's always a little something that goes awry in my kitchen on Thanksgiving. Too many irons in the fire! Yesterday, the turkey didn't want to get fully cooked, making me put everything else on hold for a while.
Glad you had a great day; we did too!
The food all turned out good- but we ha lots of people making their own dishes. :)