Phew, it was a hot one this weekend…and guess who spent it getting up at 5.30am and driving to a beach for a sporting event. That would be me. I tell you what I sure get to see Australia, in my role as Top Taxi Driver….the mercury was pretty hot, on the way home it was hitting 37C (that’s nearly 100F) and a lovely blue sunshiney day….
I, though, spent the whole drive thinking about Thanksgiving…as a transplanted, newly Aussie, Brit, I have a dear love for this new to me, American, celebration.
Of course, there is no history to it for me, no memories, good or bad, of gatherings…which, for me, does in fact make it all the sweeter…this is a chance to celebrate and start a new tradition for something that is just ours…and means something to me….being thankful and grateful has been one of the biggest things that I have learnt because of this blog…and getting to know other people’s cultures has been one of the biggest things I have got as a blog reader…
The culmination of the two, means, now, in our third year, Thanksgiving Beach Cottage style…it is nothing like, (I presume) the celebrations some of those of you that read this blog might have, but for us, it is slowly weaving its way into our calendar…
It is a very simple affair to be very honest, my kiddos a very simple gift, to show my thanks for having them in my life, and rather than a huge celebratory meal, for us it is not a holiday day, just a regular old Thursday night…plus I like to set the table…as you know I am always looking for a bit of an excuse for some tablescaping (Christmas ones are coming…woot woot!….don’t you just love everything getting twinkly right about now?)
… for Thanksgiving we will be having Green Bean Casserole…it came about through my trawling of the internet looking for easy recipes for Thanksgiving that weren’t a huge old deal and could be adapted for a regular night…after I made it the first time we had it lots of nights! I just kept cooking it til those Beach Cottage kiddos couldn’t look another French bean in the eye
This is one of my favourite recipes ever, hence plugging it now…
…as ever this ticks all the Beach Cottage Recipe boxes…it’s no-brainer simple, it uses easy ingredients and you could almost do it with your eyes shut…plus it has my fave combo…lemon & garlic…
2. sling the bacon in a large wide frying/casserole pan
3. once it is beginning to cook and some of the fat has come off, move the bacon to the edges and add the onions and garlic to the pan and slowly cook until soft
4. blanch the beans in the water (if you like your beans fairly crunchy keep an eagle eye on these and drain after about 3 mins), strain them and put them back in the pan with the lid on to keep warm.
5. chop up the lemons into small cubes about 1 cm square or so on a board
6. once the garlic/onion is soft and the bacon is coloured and cooked add the butter and the lemons to the pan and include any juice from the lemons on the board
7. now stir it all around with a wooden spoon until all is hot through
8. tip the beans in and stir/mix around until they are coated in the buttery/lemony juices
9. place in a warmed caserole dish
**notes if you love the hit of lemon up the juice to that of 2 lemons adjust garlic to taste, I like its heady breath full on here but you may want to limit it to 2, * a knob of butter is a lovely British term about a hefty tablespoon or so…or the size of a walnut..though I have to say I am not consistent with the size of my knobs
* recipe is a main stand-alone supper dish that serves four (though not four big hefty adults) accompanied with French bread and followed by cheese* as a side dish for a gathering where a turkey or suchlike is the main player this could well be left with only half the bacon
Let me know if you try it…it really is a perfect weeknight supper on its own merits…of course foof it up a bit and this is more than good enough for a dinner party dish of your dreams…
OK, ladies, I have to rush…guess what will be arriving in this old cottage soon? oooooooooh a job lot of Vintage French Cafe Chairs, no less…do you think I have been doing the vintage thrifters dance…yes sirree Mr President
My son is coming home from college for thanksgiving but he’s bringing an aussie friend…. So no thanksgiving traditions from down under? Wanted to make him feel ‘at home’. Guess he’ll just get a good ol fashioned southern thanksgiving.
can you please make a pot of this and bring it to my house for our dinner tonight? I am so sick of cooking dinner!!!!!!! I will make you one of those chocolate cakes as a swap! lg xxxx
This sounds delish, however sadly for me my hubby and oldest child would not be able to eat the bacon, lemon, pepper or onion. (they can eat spring onion.)
I just don’t know if beans in butter with spring onions and sea salt would cut it compared to this lovely dish.
Such is my life in dealing with food intolerances and allergies. Sigh.
Perhaps I will make it for the other 4 of us.
Another who didn’t grow up celebrating Thanksgiving. I celebrated my first Thanksgiving when I moved with my (American) husband to the US in ’92. Between ’92 and ’08, the holiday was celebrated either at my mother-in-law’s place or her sister’s place. Since my husband, son and and I moved down to Texas in ’09, we’ve had Thanksgiving at our place. My mother-in-law flew in a little under two weeks ago; my sister-in-law and her boyfriend and adult son will be arriving on Tuesday – our house will be crowded for a few days, but it’s fun.
I must admit, however, that I still don’t like turkey (I’d never eaten it in Australia), so although we do the traditional turkey, I forgo eating it, and just have lots of the sides, with stuffing being my favorite!
I hope you and your family enjoy your Thanksgiving!
oh hab gelesen du wohnst am meer.
einfach himmlisch.
und der bohneneintopf sieht lecker aus.
bei uns heisst er bernerplatte.
wünsche dir eine schöne woche sei lieb gegrüsst daniela
I’m sorry, but I had to laugh out loud about your green bean casserole. I was thinking, “Wow! This Aussie likes regular old Green Bean Casserole. No way!” And then I scrolled down and laughed. Definitely not the “traditional” American Green Bean Casserole. Ours is not nearly so fancy, but it is a family staple for our Thanksgiving table – and all it is is canned green beans, cream of mushroom soup, french friend onions, a little milk, and a little pepper to taste. Very simple, but my kiddos expect it on the table each year. Its just wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without it! I wonder what they would think if I substituted it with yours. It looks delish!
sauteed green beans are a tradition at our Thanksgiving feast…I cook mine in olive oil, with toasted almonds, parmesan cheese, garlic, sea salt, pepper. Its delicious.
Well, for an Aussie-Brit, you have it just about right. The green bean casserole is oh-so-Thanksgiving! Although we
do a veggie medley, because, well, in Cali we just have to be different! ;}But all I care about is the cajun creamed corn and
the gravy! Ok, the homemade rolls too, because they hold the gravy! And for those things, I am very thankful!
In some ways it would be great to have some sort of Thanksgiving Tradition here in Australia, I thought about doing it this year, but we will be out- maybe we should just make it tonight, son number 2 has just finished making the 40 garlic chicken for our tea tonight!
Hi Sarah, I just made your banana bread on the weekend. We liked it. My other favourite banana bread recipe is by Martha Stewart http://www.marthastewart.com/312772/banana-bread . I like the addition of sour cream in that one. Makes the cake fluffier and lighter.
Looking forward to your Christmas table settings. Have a great week!
This is very similar to the western green beans I whip up for our family here in Southern California for our Thanksgiving…It also works well as a summer dish. We omit the bacon, though. And what a great word for a tablespoon of butter! Wishing you a great holiday – I mean Thursday night! PS I voted for you.
Oh we make the same green bean dish but have never added the lemon! I will definitely have to give that a try this week. Oddly enough I do NOT like the traditional Thanksgiving green bean casserole or even most of the “traditional” foods. We just discovered that my husband can eat poultry again!! After 18 years… he went back in to have additional allergy testing done when they discovered he is NO longer has any food allergies! So this Thanksgiving we are having lemon chicken cooked in a kosher salt, mashed potatoes, these green beans, a green salad chock full of pomegranate seeds and mandarine oranges, a pistachio pudding fluff recipe (its divine!! pistachio pudding, cool-whip or real whipping cream, crushed pineapple, and miniature marshmallows) and home made rolls with individual pies for dessert.
Happy Thanksgiving to you Sarah! Traditions are wonderful to have and to start new ones. This year for the first time my sister’s daughter-in-law will be hosting Thanksgiving. Not sure what all she will be serving, but I know she DOES not want anyone to bring anything. One of my sister’s heard she won’t be serving turkey….too bad because WE WILL be bringing that. My Mother when she was alive prepared turkey AND ham. SURPRISE!!! some traditions you don’t break in our family.
Sounds like a winner to me my friend. Looks like it will be added to the table for Thanksgiving. It sounds absolutely delicious!
Thanks for sharing! Have a fablous holiday my sweet friend!
Hi Sarah
thank you for the lovely recipe can you please confirm when you say chop the lemons into small cubes are you meaning the inside of the lemon (flesh) or the peel and zest????
Sarah,
Hope someday you will have the REAL DEAL Yankee Thanksgiving dinner….it is my favorite meal of the year, and most American’s
special family time….roast turkey, mashed potatotes and gravy, green bean casserole (with the mushroom soup etc described above),
a few more side dishes like sweet potato casserole, pumpkin pie, pecan pie….YUM! Absolutely delish. Then the football games on TV for the men and gathering of the rest to do their socializing, etc. Just a great day. Cold in most of America at that time, so all is usually indoors, other than the south where it is warmer.
Finding a turkey, I think, to roast is easier than it once was. I even heard of some Americans in New Zealand who were able to purchase a full turkey to roast. That’s the centerpiece of the meal.
So, Happy Thanksgiving! It’s this Thursday…as you probably know.
Florida sunshine will hopefully prevail for my day here…
Oh yes… Sweet Potato Casserole… With brown sugar, chopped pecans, and marshmallows on top. From your menu it sounds like we have the exact same meal for Thanksgiving. Especially with the football for the men – and sometimes even a little hunting while we women prepare the meal. Nothing like Thanksgiving… Except maybe Christmas. I’ll be interested to hear how you celebrate that in Australia, Sarah!
Dear Sarah,
could you please explain the lemon thing?
Do you zest then peel then cut into cubes the whole lemon?
And then do you also put the zest also into the pan?
I’m making this very soon as it sounds awfuly delish!
Thanks!
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G'day ladies, let's have a Too Easy Beach Cottage recipe yeah? The original place for Too Easy Recipes on the web ;-)
So, after my last salad went down a storm in my inbox, that's here if you missed it, I had to do this one seeing as I make it most weeks.
There is a problem with this salad and kiddos though...it looks, well, it looks, kinda yucky...but once they try it, they'll ask if and when they are next having it....at least that's what happens in this ratty old cottage...but I must interject here that my kiddos are 'good eaters'? ...they didn't get a choice in that ;-)
Now, stop, don't start running and hitting that next on your blog reading list, pulses are your best friend in the Too Easy Dump & Go kitchen for the busy mum, or busy anyone for that matter...that reminds me I must blog the garlic canneloni Go To for when you forgot to do dinner, feel like a bath but have three ravenous young Beach Cottage Kiddos on your hands...another day.
I am almost embarrassed to tell you how easy this is, we have it so much that I always have a couple, make that six, cans of lentils around and a jar of goat's cheese in the fridge...the great thing about this is that it's all too easy to get ready in just a few minutes, but it looks, tastes and seems like you did oh so very much more than that.
You can obviously too change it up a bit depending on what you have to hand in your kitchen, and I must say that is how I settled on this version...because one day when I made it I didn't have enough Parsley in the garden and so I chucked in some basil too, and liked the Summer feel it added.
I think of this as being a rather posh salad, not sure why, because it couldn't really be further from the truth...the great thing is that it works so well for an average run of the mill day, (when I did this for this blog post, it was a hot Sydney Sunday and I did it just simply to go with Rosemary & Garlic stuffed pork, you can see that pork here),
...but just as easily it works on a regular old Wednesday night when you have lost all enthusiasm for rustling up yet another meal, or indeed on Saturday night, when your friends are on their way over for dinner and you my friend, are in your new vintage inspired clawfoot bathtub (that's me in a few weeks time, k?) without any clothes on, a tipple and no idea what to cook for dinner...
I have a complicated and ever-changing relationship with goat's cheese...it never fails me in its performance and it never fails to impress me (you can find out a bit more on what I like in food here if you like) and I kinda collect it...because it's very easy to collect and has a fairly long fridge-life, I love trying out different ones and there's not many things I love more than goat's cheese on sourdough...but I think the best thing about it is not thinking about it exclusively in the toast/salad department...I've stuffed it in chicken and all sorts of things as a last minute and it's been fab.
But let's get down to the nitty gritty of this super salad that makes you look like an angel who has been on her knees all day scrubbing the front step when really you are in the digital world and spent most of ...
G'day Beach Cottage ladies, howdy, howdy howdy today for a Beach Cottage Too Easy recipe.
If you like cake, cream, sugar and chocolate, make this.
This is, rather than a recipe, a putting it together...as you know I am no dessert maker, but, I do make quite a few sweet things, because, somehow I have ended up with kiddos, who in their roles as offspring, believe that part of the deal, is that not only do I feed them a home-cooked meal with a few homegrown ingredients in there, yes, they also believe that dessert and not the kind that comes out of a packet is included too in this All-Inclusive Deal they call Parenthood.
So, this, for sure, is no culinary masterpiece, but if you are looking for something that is so very easy, dump-able, uses everyday ingredients and at the same time makes you look like you spent hours pulling things together plus tastes good....well, then this is for you.
Best though, you don't make this for yourself, if you have spent the most part of your week sitting on your derriere reading blogs...this my friend ain't low in the calories department...if, however, you are treating yourself to a delight in a mason jar, this is so for you.
I first had a version of this when at dinner back in Old Blighty with a girl, I once, in another life, caught the train up from our village to London with...she was a funny thing really...I am not quite sure how we got on...she was kinda prissy and a bit bothered by too much...I would run to the train flustered, having got up late, and she would have a spreadsheet on the train times, if you know what I mean.
Anyway, a few years later when we both had bambinos, I bumped into her again and we met up for playdates and dinner sometimes....this particular night, after a lovely meal she served up little bowls of creamy, cakey fruity stuff topped off with chocolate flake...it was delicious!
She didn't serve hers in little jars like this, hers were in a champagne glass and not quite so layered as these ones, plus she used tinned fruit not fresh or frozen.
Years later when said offspring kept requesting dessert, one day I wangled together somehow these from what was around in the fridge and they've been with us ever since.
Most likely, if you ever come here for dinner, and shock horror, you dont' bring the dessert with you, this, if you are lucky, will be what you will get.
Throw it all together, sprinkle a lil bit of chocolate on the top and the blog reading past-time you so rudely left in order to make this, is my friend, your oyster.
Beach Cottage Too Easy Layered Raspberry, Cream & Sponge Dessert
1 small maderia or butter cake or a pack of cupcakes (or of course make your own)
1/2 cup whipping cream
1/2 cup cream cheese
1/4 cup sugar
8 tbsp fruit
1 x chocolate Flake or chocolate bar for grating
1. beat the cream cheese until it is soft
2. whip the cream until soft peaks form
3. combine & add the sugar through
4. cut your cake into portions
& layer into the bottom of your jar
5. add a tablespoon of fruit
6. layer on top the cream combo
7. repeat
8. grate chocolate or Flake on top
*Beach Cottage Recipe Notes : this is just a guide really, you can use any cream that you have on hand...I have made this with clotted cream (don't even go there unless you want to seriously get these babies on your thighs), with double cream and I have even, in desperate times squirted in that, ...
G'day Beach Cottage ladies, well I thought it was time for some blogging tips here today, alongside a few nice flowers and shells ;-)
I was recently part of a blogger discussion group over at Kidspot and a couple of hours later had a few questions from girls who couldn't make it to the live chat, one was on my Facebook page and one via email, the Facebook one I will deal with in another Real Girl Blogging Tips post...the email one asked me what essentials do I think every blog needs?
Well I have been around here for a while now doing the blogging thing, so I should know this, yeah and I mused this on my walk by the sea this morning I thought well what do you only need?
...I think it is really very easy when blogging, whether or not you are blogging up there in the lofty heights of the Super Bloggers or you are just dipping your toe in the water, to get side-tracked by 101 million different things that are 'essential' to your blog and if you are someone like me who actually gets a thrill from reading blogging tips then you are in an even worse place because you will find yourself literally buzzing with these essential things to add/do/implement on your blog.
However, walking along, gulping down that brisk sea air today (no sunshine & clouds) I thought you actually don't need any of that professional blogging stuff to be successful...but there are a few things that are pretty much crucial ...and once I started to think about it I got it down to about 5 - these are the only things that you need to concentrate on...once you have read through take a look at some of the big girl's blogs...you'll see that actually they don't have bundles of stuff on their blogs...but they do have all of these...
So here are my top things that your blog must have
1. About Page
There are all sorts of About Pages out there, and if you search on it there are many different tips and ideas for what to have on yours
Whatever blogging platform you use, adding an About Me Page is easy, quick and simple and will do everything to grow your blog.
I like a long-ish About Page, I am inherently nosy and I like to know a bit more about the person but at the least you should have on it your name and where you are located. I also think a photo is good too...over the last year or so I think this has become more important in blogging - if you are hesitant about that as I was, you can try using sunglasses or a behind shot until you get comfortable.
There is nothing worse than stumbling upon a new blog and going to find out more to only be faced with a piddly little one liner About Me Page...well there is something worse, not having one at all!
2. Contact Page
The chances are someone, somewhere will want to contact you and you will be surprised what lands in your inbox once you put yourself out there on the world wide web with a blog.
Many bloggers also use this page to include details for PR's/brands that may want to contact them and some bloggers put their stats on there too.
A short, to the point and simple Contact Page works really well...whenever I have wanted to contact another blogger I am often very busy and have limited time so I don't want to hang around sifting through information looking for an email address, so concise and clear ...
G'day lovely Beach Cottage lovelies.
So, yeah, so on a roll people, so on a roll.
I feel kinda home accessory wired right now.
I am always telling people, if anyone ever listens, that blogging is all about passion, not that sort of passion, but about passion that makes one tick.
Things like this make me tick tick boom.
I love finding things that suit my budget and let me treat my home but look amazing too.
So without further adieu I introduce you, ladies of the beach, to the blue vintage glasses that I have been stroking for about a week or two now...
These glasses are from a little boutique I sometimes happen upon, this boutique sells also pet accessories, carpet cleaner, bras and compost...it's quite unique though.
And, thanks to my friend Marnie (she blogs over here, go take a look at her praying position, interesting), who just so happens to be one day having me over for a lil' Greek dinner, has let me in on the fact that we call Kmart....The KMart...with an accent ....as in 'I love The KMart'...just like her MIL does. Oh yeah. Love that.
So I have had my eye on reproduction vintage glass blue wine glasses and being trying to find real true vintage blue glasses for like ever.
Oh yes I have spied them in Frenchy boutiques, I have lusted after them in stores that I shouldn't even enter and I have put them back pretty quickly in those shops with the hand-written price tags. C'mon, you know the ones.
And, though all of the above have tempted me, muchly, really, even with my wardrobe stashing skills I just thought that, actually, I'd rather be saving that casherooni for our next trip overseas..
Hello The KMart.
Tick Tick Boom
Vintage style blue wine glasses.
Do not come to my old place and think you might pick up one of these and smile with pleasure at their handblown quality, their weight, and be secretly jealous that my wine glasses cost more than your car...friend, that would not happen...these do not feel like that...indeed these in a funny way reminded me of my baby girl, she was a tiny little thing, with stick legs, the tinsssssssiest ankles and wrists you ever did see, she slept sideways in her cot wedged in between rolled up blankets and would only settle attached to Mr Beach Cottage or I or a (dirty) pj top of mine scrunched up under her nose...the first few times I picked her up to cuddle, being used to Honeymoon Baby who weighed in at 9lbs at birth and has never really stopped growing, I nearly threw her little bird-cum-rat down covered body over my shoulder.
These glasses are like that...be careful or you might lose your wine down the front of your shirt.
But oh baby, we are not talking picking up here, we are not talking quality, we are not talking house accessory snobbery.
Beach Cottage ladies, we are talking aesthetics.
And this is what I need in my cottage.
Blue vintage style glass, paired with coastal / nautical / beach stuff on my deck.
It's The KMart.
Tune in tomorrow, tomorrow, I have more budget foofing for your home, or maybe it will be the dress that wraps me up in supermarket-chic and makes me feel like me again.
Good Day to you my friends, wanna come hang out on my deck, talk house accessories, The KMart and drink some wine from blue glasses?
Sarah
My son is coming home from college for thanksgiving but he’s bringing an aussie friend…. So no thanksgiving traditions from down under? Wanted to make him feel ‘at home’. Guess he’ll just get a good ol fashioned southern thanksgiving.
oh Catherine! ‘a good ol fashioned southern thanksgiving’ ???? be still my heart…one day I will get one of those!
x
can you please make a pot of this and bring it to my house for our dinner tonight? I am so sick of cooking dinner!!!!!!! I will make you one of those chocolate cakes as a swap! lg xxxx
throw a chook in the pot…!
I can swap you roast dinner leftovers for choc cake! x
This sounds delish, however sadly for me my hubby and oldest child would not be able to eat the bacon, lemon, pepper or onion. (they can eat spring onion.)
I just don’t know if beans in butter with spring onions and sea salt would cut it compared to this lovely dish.
Such is my life in dealing with food intolerances and allergies. Sigh.
Perhaps I will make it for the other 4 of us.
Another who didn’t grow up celebrating Thanksgiving. I celebrated my first Thanksgiving when I moved with my (American) husband to the US in ’92. Between ’92 and ’08, the holiday was celebrated either at my mother-in-law’s place or her sister’s place. Since my husband, son and and I moved down to Texas in ’09, we’ve had Thanksgiving at our place. My mother-in-law flew in a little under two weeks ago; my sister-in-law and her boyfriend and adult son will be arriving on Tuesday – our house will be crowded for a few days, but it’s fun.
I must admit, however, that I still don’t like turkey (I’d never eaten it in Australia), so although we do the traditional turkey, I forgo eating it, and just have lots of the sides, with stuffing being my favorite!
I hope you and your family enjoy your Thanksgiving!
same to you Susan…enjoy!
oh and I love Turkey!
x
oh hab gelesen du wohnst am meer.
einfach himmlisch.
und der bohneneintopf sieht lecker aus.
bei uns heisst er bernerplatte.
wünsche dir eine schöne woche sei lieb gegrüsst daniela
I’m sorry, but I had to laugh out loud about your green bean casserole. I was thinking, “Wow! This Aussie likes regular old Green Bean Casserole. No way!” And then I scrolled down and laughed. Definitely not the “traditional” American Green Bean Casserole. Ours is not nearly so fancy, but it is a family staple for our Thanksgiving table – and all it is is canned green beans, cream of mushroom soup, french friend onions, a little milk, and a little pepper to taste. Very simple, but my kiddos expect it on the table each year. Its just wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without it! I wonder what they would think if I substituted it with yours. It looks delish!
haha, yes I have made that casserole with soup…and love it too…but this one is pretty rocking xo
sauteed green beans are a tradition at our Thanksgiving feast…I cook mine in olive oil, with toasted almonds, parmesan cheese, garlic, sea salt, pepper. Its delicious.
Morning Sarah- I am up before the masses today- and had a feeling we may see a Thanksgiving meal posted this week.
I remember you whipping something up last year- if I’m right?
I think it’s wonderful to start your own traditions- they have to start somewhere- we’ve done the same with our kids!
Do you grow your own beans out the back??
Melissa x
PS_ I have three french chairs-can’t wait to see yours- I’m still scouring this place for at least one more!!!
BEt you danced your BC socks off!!
Well, for an Aussie-Brit, you have it just about right. The green bean casserole is oh-so-Thanksgiving! Although we
do a veggie medley, because, well, in Cali we just have to be different! ;}But all I care about is the cajun creamed corn and
the gravy! Ok, the homemade rolls too, because they hold the gravy! And for those things, I am very thankful!
Happy Down Under Thanksgiving To You!
m
sounds lovely to me..especially the gravy!
x
In some ways it would be great to have some sort of Thanksgiving Tradition here in Australia, I thought about doing it this year, but we will be out- maybe we should just make it tonight, son number 2 has just finished making the 40 garlic chicken for our tea tonight!
yes make it tonight…perfect for the chicken!!!!
wow he’s well trained
x
Hi Sarah, I just made your banana bread on the weekend. We liked it. My other favourite banana bread recipe is by Martha Stewart http://www.marthastewart.com/312772/banana-bread . I like the addition of sour cream in that one. Makes the cake fluffier and lighter.
Looking forward to your Christmas table settings. Have a great week!
I LOVE this recipe and make it ALL the time XXXX
Just voted for you. Good luck!
This is very similar to the western green beans I whip up for our family here in Southern California for our Thanksgiving…It also works well as a summer dish. We omit the bacon, though. And what a great word for a tablespoon of butter! Wishing you a great holiday – I mean Thursday night! PS I voted for you.
Oh we make the same green bean dish but have never added the lemon! I will definitely have to give that a try this week. Oddly enough I do NOT like the traditional Thanksgiving green bean casserole or even most of the “traditional” foods. We just discovered that my husband can eat poultry again!! After 18 years… he went back in to have additional allergy testing done when they discovered he is NO longer has any food allergies! So this Thanksgiving we are having lemon chicken cooked in a kosher salt, mashed potatoes, these green beans, a green salad chock full of pomegranate seeds and mandarine oranges, a pistachio pudding fluff recipe (its divine!! pistachio pudding, cool-whip or real whipping cream, crushed pineapple, and miniature marshmallows) and home made rolls with individual pies for dessert.
I’m definitely making this – thank you!
Happy Thanksgiving to you Sarah! Traditions are wonderful to have and to start new ones. This year for the first time my sister’s daughter-in-law will be hosting Thanksgiving. Not sure what all she will be serving, but I know she DOES not want anyone to bring anything. One of my sister’s heard she won’t be serving turkey….too bad because WE WILL be bringing that. My Mother when she was alive prepared turkey AND ham. SURPRISE!!! some traditions you don’t break in our family.
omg!!! we need a taste button on the computer!!! I can just smell how wonderful this must be!!
This looks delish and so simple and healthy. Being a veggie gonna try it with crisply fried smoked tofu instead of the bacon… can’t wait yum
Sounds like a winner to me my friend. Looks like it will be added to the table for Thanksgiving. It sounds absolutely delicious!
Thanks for sharing! Have a fablous holiday my sweet friend!
Sally
xxxxxx
Hi Sarah
thank you for the lovely recipe can you please confirm when you say chop the lemons into small cubes are you meaning the inside of the lemon (flesh) or the peel and zest????
Sarah,
Hope someday you will have the REAL DEAL Yankee Thanksgiving dinner….it is my favorite meal of the year, and most American’s
special family time….roast turkey, mashed potatotes and gravy, green bean casserole (with the mushroom soup etc described above),
a few more side dishes like sweet potato casserole, pumpkin pie, pecan pie….YUM! Absolutely delish. Then the football games on TV for the men and gathering of the rest to do their socializing, etc. Just a great day. Cold in most of America at that time, so all is usually indoors, other than the south where it is warmer.
Finding a turkey, I think, to roast is easier than it once was. I even heard of some Americans in New Zealand who were able to purchase a full turkey to roast. That’s the centerpiece of the meal.
So, Happy Thanksgiving! It’s this Thursday…as you probably know.
Florida sunshine will hopefully prevail for my day here…
Oh yes… Sweet Potato Casserole… With brown sugar, chopped pecans, and marshmallows on top. From your menu it sounds like we have the exact same meal for Thanksgiving. Especially with the football for the men – and sometimes even a little hunting while we women prepare the meal. Nothing like Thanksgiving… Except maybe Christmas. I’ll be interested to hear how you celebrate that in Australia, Sarah!
Dear Sarah,
could you please explain the lemon thing?
Do you zest then peel then cut into cubes the whole lemon?
And then do you also put the zest also into the pan?
I’m making this very soon as it sounds awfuly delish!
Thanks!