Leftovers 

 Leftovers Saturday (heading out for a couple days starting Monday so this fridge needs emptied asap)

Below is a tiny chanterelle and onion tart with a crust of dressing

  

The ever present avocado on my table

Leftover roasted veggies get mixed with cream and topped with leftover mashed potatoes to create the vegetable pie below  

  

My new favorite gluten free gravy mix plus mushrooms
  

And here it is!

  
 

Thanksgiving–grilled heritage bird, gluten free rolls, rainbow potatoes and more

Here is my heritage bird-about 10 pounds fed exed on ice by d’artagnan for Tuesday arrival   
You can already notice the physiological differences…look at the color of the legs and the size of the breasts vs a “normal” bird

  I bought a brine mix this year….and I won’t again….way too salty!  
    
Here she is on thanksgiving morning getting ready for the grill    
Breast side down she’s getting a brown on her undercarriage

 

Flipped
   
 

She done and golden and moist after her upside down time as she rested
   
One of our two yummy cheeses held for this day.

 

So…the Cotswold celebrates our freedom from tyranny while still enjoying the food 🙂
   
 

I just tried these crackers for the first time yesterday and I love them!
   
Years old tradition 

 

Mixed dried mushrooms soaking to join the stuffing
   
  
Roasted roots  
 

Rainbow mashed potatoes

Top to bottom: sweet potato, ruby yam, German butterball, and waxy white each with his own spice

   
Lambrusco is the perfect pairing for thanksgiving (so Bon appetit told me) but people can only remember their mothers Lambrusco from the 70s but the new companies are far less sweet and have flavored to stand up to the varied and rich flavors of thanksgiving.   This one is new on us.

    
Table for two…note jims gluten free pumpkin pie in the rear left, deviled eggs and his cranberry relish next to the eggs

Heritage bird… This is way gamier than a store bought bird    
My gluten free yeasted dinner rolls

Well they have a great flavor but are small little hockey pucks with absolutely zero air in them
   
And that was the dinner for two….even made gluten free gravy….had the pie for dessert and then we napped

Food Club!

i was reading the new zingermans catalog today and saw the cheese of the month, olive oils of the month, sausage of the month, etc clubs…and I thought OMG we could have an ingredient of the month club!  Everyone could join a “of the month club,” or rotate choosing ingredients, or if they are local ingredients we can set a price limit and the chooser could ship to everyone and we take turns or whatever!

Being internet based, we could share pics and recipes each month in a yahoo group or blog or something…and if people live near each other they can do mini potlucks and share with each other and share pics and recipes!

I’m sure I am not the first person to think of it, but it’s totally knew to me and I’m excited and the first friend I told, Zinna, said “I’m in!”

We could theme a quarter like grains or brassicas , cakes, etc. or whatever we decided!

Who thinks it’s worth exploring!?!?  Maybe we call it “food friends” or “friends in food” 

Shrimp taco 

 beet slaw!  
My Spanish rice…yikes I was out of regular rice so this is wild rice and Japanese black rice cooked with spices and tomatoes…it’s actually quite yummy

 
Potatoes…sautéed in olive oil and spice…for potatoes tacos

 
Over marinated and cooked shrimps for shrimp tacos  
  I cut the base on the head and realized that it’s perfect for wraps so you can layer I. Your taco or make it into a taco without the tortilla  
Marinated carrots and radish and jalapeño

Background is avocado and o decided that this type doesn’t peel well so I gave us each a spoon to scoop

 

Beans, rice, potato, and shrimp
   

Mission Goethe free tortilla

  

I made him look happy!

  

One of my cooking helpers..
 

A new “meatloaf”, potato medley, green beans, gravy and biscuits – practice for tday

   

Lentils cooked with garlic and onions..a hint of tvp, some sunflower seeds and Worcestershire 

  

Add two eggs and a little cheese
    

  

Veggie “chicken broth” green beans and mushrooms
  

  

Gluten free drop biscuit recipe

I had to add extra liquid over what the recipe said…a lot more milk and olive oil (I had used butter in the recipe)
  
  

   
 

My new favorite potato recipe!  Yam, purple yam, white and German butterball

  
  

I tried the brown gravy mix and bought a case…this one is just to try it out
 

  
  

Cauliflower tater tots

Today’s inspiration was a recipe featured on the farm fresh to you Website….and I didn’t follow it (maybe I should have)….grate a whole head of cauliflower  
Add some breadcrumbs

 
I used two eggs, parsley, chipotle, paprika, 1 cup of grated cheese, leek

   
  Mix and form it…it felt really loose like it wouldn’t bind.  
  Recipe said bake at 350 for ten minutes then flip and bake ten minutes…mine were bigger and took much longer  
  Watercress salad with creamy peppercorn dressing

Needed a protein   
  So I had these guys in the freezer  
  Tiny sandwiches to go with the cauliflower bites and salad