thanksgiving 2009

thanksgiving breakfast.
(must start off the day with a local bang and get fortified for the cooking marathon.)

*local pastured raised bacon
*local farm fresh eggs from the raw dairy guy and his happy sunshine lovin bug scratching chickens
*homemade 1/2 wheat biscuits made from organic flour and local raw milk butter
*locally made strawberry rhubarb jam
*YUMMY!!!!!!

well folks there's really not a whole lot to talk about this week since the really fun stuff revolves around buy christmas gifts (and we can't talk about that yet). but i can give you a little run down of the thanksgiving dinner that ray and i made for ourselves. as you know, and for those of you who might not, we try to do as much local foods around here as possible. the next priority is organic, high frutose corn syrup free, minimally processed, AND after watching FOOD, INC with ray the other night, FACTORY FARM FREE. unfortunately this INCLUDES the BBQ!! oh precious pulled pork and ribs how i will miss you. (just wait til i get my hands on a small smoker/grill and learn to do them myself. we even stopped by the most wonderful bbq stand in all the world while running gift errands on saturday and only got a few veggie sides and cornbread for lunch). but anyway, here is how the thanksgiving feast went down.......

here's the main event.

*local pastured raised pork roast.

i decided to braise the pork in apple cider.

*USA grown organic onions
*locally made apple cider
*rosemary from my own garden
*organic bay leaves

see you in a little while. into the oven you go.
at the end of cooking the roast, i took out the meat and then simmered the liquid down into a wonderful apple cider onion sauce.

at one point i had all the burners going and something in the oven. now just think what i could do if i had one of those super duper 6 burner gas stoves!!!!

here we have it folks.

*braised local pasture raised pork in a local apple cider and organic onion sauce
*USA grown organic mashed potatoes with locally grown garlic and local happy cow buttermilk
*homemade USA grown cranberry sauce (not sure if the cranberries were organic, but the oranges and the sugar i used were).
*cornbread dressing with homemade cornbread from organic corn meal with organic onions, organic mushrooms, and celery.
*braised brussel sprouts (i'm not sure of the sprout's history since ray got them on the way home one night).

here's a close up for the pork with the most wonderful sauce.

and here is my dinner company not wanting to get his picture taken. too bad.

all gone!!!!

ms. maisy moo lynn would like some thanksgiving treats.
maisy laid under the table at my feet all dinner long.
sweet girl.

mr. keebs was to busy looking for the kitty.
he saw this kitty out in the yard the other night and has been looking out the front door windows for about 2 weeks now. he does this every night for hours.

oh, wait i forgot to tell you about the pie.

PIE!!??!!

sweet potato buttermilk pie.
(recipe borrowed from smitten kitchen)

*locally grown organic sweet potatoes
*local happy cow buttermilk
*farm fresh local happy chicken eggs
*organic butter (i ran out of the raw stuff)
*organic sugar and flour

poor maisy..........
still laying under the table waiting for her thanksgiving dinner and pie. sorry sweetie, remember you are on a fat old lady diet till we get a few more pounds off ya.