Background: It's nice to have lots and lots of folks around for a large Thanksgiving feast. But sometimes, when there's a fractured toe involved that makes grocery procurement difficult, it's nice to do a more intimate and small scale dinner. The items that finally made the cut this year:
Apps:
Shrimp cocktail with cilantro chutney aioli
Cranberry pecan sourdough bread with rosemary butter
Cornbread with chipotle apricot preserves
(Had tried making an artichoke soup but was a failure so I didn't serve it...)
Sides:
Garlic and scallion roasted asparagus
Modern Esquites--chili lime corn with queso fresco (which of course, I forgot to put out...)
Chestnut and leek cornbread stuffing (used Trader Joe's cornbread stuffing mix for this part...would use it again, but not use the season packet...and/or would cut it down)
Mashed potatoes (http://theoceanwaves.blogspot.com/2011/11/new-method-of-mashed-potatoesintrigued.html)
Truffled mashed potatoes
Main:
Slow roasted salmon with tarragon, thyme, and cumin grapefruit sauce
Dessert:
Pumpkin flan (would make again) http://theoceanwaves.blogspot.com/2011/11/next-up-pumpkin-caramel-flan.html
French apple tart (would not make filling again) http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/French-Apple-Tart-363307
Pie crust from Moosewood (would make again)
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