So I kind of backed into an appetizer. I needed something no bake as my one, single oven will be in use for the bird.
I could do cheese and crackers, but those choices were so overwhelming. Maybe because I am always trying to up my veggie intake, I opted for crudites. And what a beautiful, rainbow-esque crudites it will be. I have red bell peppers, carrots, yellow grape tomatoes, broccoli, and these beautiful and fun carrot-shaped radishes. I bought premade dips...ranch because while I hate it, it does seem to be popular; and french onion, because, really who doesn't like onion dip.
Tomorrow will be a crazy busy cooking day. I have to salt the bird--inside and out, wrap in plastic wrap and continue to chill. I will also be making my cheesecake.
Have I told you about my pumpkin cheesecake? I am using parts of three different 4 fork recipes (on epicurious). The piece de resistance is the pecan caramel sauce that gets served with it. Oh, and there is bourbon throughout. Yum!
Other cooking/prep work includes blanching the broccoli, and prepping the remaining cruidites.
I will also have Josh add the leaves to the table so I can set it.
Today I am supposed to be cleaning my house. You can see how enthusiastic I am about that.
Dinner tonight is a pasta casserole from the freezer.
What are you having?
happy cooking
I am anxiously awaiting dinner. It sounds delicious.
ReplyDeleteKristen scores again!!!!! Dinner was awesome. It's hard to say what was the best item so I'll just say the green beans scored lower than everything else but even they were good.
ReplyDeleteIt was a perfect evening. I just love spending time with family including Sonny.