Happy Thanksgiving!

[iesika]

I'm waiting on food now, so I'm taking a moment to update with holiday type things. I'm at my folk's place, with my immediate family plus Granny, two aunts, an uncle, and a second cousin. The rest of the horde descends tomorrow and Saturday, because the big event in this family isn't on Thursday and doesn't have anything to do with turkey or pilgrims. It's all about the LSU/Arkansas football game on Saturday. ^_^;

Mom made ettouffee for tonight. Tomorrow is steaks and Saturday is jambalaya. I GAVE MOM A TURKEY (work gave me one) and I'm pretty sure she smoked it, but it's not getting to be the center of a meal or anything. Probably it will be sandwiches. There will be 30 people here by Saturday - we will need lots of sandwiches.

Last night/this morning, I made sweet potato butter. It's delicious, and it was soooo easy.

• 4 cups peeled sweet potatoes, chunked up small
  
• 2 cups chopped, peeled apple (I used braeburn and they were deliiiiciouuus)
  
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 tsp. cinnamon or to taste
• 1/4 tsp. nutmeg, optional
• 1/4 tsp. allspice
• 3/4 cup water

I just dumped it all in the slow cooker on low overnight and blended it up with the mixer, and it's very, very good. It came out dark, though, not orange, so next time I make it I'm going to either cook the apples separately for a while first or use applesauce instead of fresh apples, because to cook the apples into mush took so long that the potatoes went all brown. Also, I'd use raw sugar instead of brown, again for the color rather than for taste.

More food and more recipes tomorrow, I imagine.

ETA: Apparently Mom made crawfish au gratin instead of ettouffee. She told me at 10 that she was making ettouffee, and then changed her mind for some reason. Not that you probably care ^_^; Also, there was Chocolate Pie Delight, which is not a pie, but is delightful. And Mom made pralines, and Aunt B made her signature peanut butter cookie cup things that she makes for every holiday.

Comments

[faile-neume.livejournal.com]

I'm glad the sweet potato butter worked out well ^_^

[iesika.livejournal.com]

My entire apartment smells like delicious, now. The roomies woke up this morning and demanded to know what strange, cinnamon-flavored event had happened while we were all sleeping. Apparently the delicious woke P up.

[faile-neume.livejournal.com]

Heh, you know you're doing something right when you wake someone up with the smell of delicious food.

[iesika.livejournal.com]

Especially because I WAS STILL ASLEEP!

Crockpots are like magic. You put things in them and go away and then you come back and they've turned into food!

[faile-neume.livejournal.com]

YAY! Magic food is the best kind of food!

[ladyblkrose.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the recipe, I love recipies and cooking. It's 3:00am now and I'm watching Iron Chef America, in my origional fic stories I cook and feed people. I also wubs my Crockpot (okay it's Mom's Crockpot but I'M the only one to use it). I made a Puerto Rican Pernil last year in mine and the meat cooked off the bone so well that the bone came out of the pot clean & white. So yes magical food prep, in goes ingredients, out comes dinner. Several are going to make an apperarence in my next Clark/Bruce series.

[iesika.livejournal.com]

LOL! Clark/Bruce with recipes!

My Big Bang has so much of Ma Kent cooking in it that I think I'm going to post recipes with it.

[ladyblkrose.livejournal.com]

Please do this. It will bring the story so much to life. Ma Kent's cooking is supposed to be legendary and posting them either in or after your story would be fantastic.

[caerfree.livejournal.com]

The Sweet Potato butter looks incredible!

[iesika.livejournal.com]

It's sooo good. That whole recipe made about 2-3 cups of butter, though. I expected to have a bit more to give away.

It's so easy. I really recommend it.