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Thanksgiving 2020 Thursday, November 26, 2020, 03:04 PM

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Small Thanksgiving with my dad, Emily, and Victor. So only 6 people and only two of whom actually eat turkey. A bit lower key than 2018.

The menu was as follows with other details below:

• Kodiak Cakes Cornbread (Emily made this)
• Homemade bread (from my dad)
• Turkey with Giblet Gravy
• Seared Salmon
• Brussel Sprouts
• Tater Tots
• Sugar free cranberry sauce (Emily) LOCAL

For dessert, we had

• Cranberry Bars
• Pumpkin Pie
• Sugar Free Pumpkin Mousse

Turkey

This was the main thing I was in charge of making. I dry brined the turkey and then followed Serious Eats' Herb-Rubbed Crisp-Skinned Butterflied Roast Turkey (LOCAL). I did butterfly/Spatchcock it as well. It was a small turkey starting at about 9.66 lbs.

I carved it following this video from Serious Eats on YouTube (LOCAL)

I followed Serious Eats (LOCAL) for the gravy. I used some matchsticks carrots for the carrots

Salmon

I repeated the crispy salmon from the other day using the same rub but they were cut ahead of time so we could also sear and crisp the sides.

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Desserts

Meredith made her favorite Cranberry Bars. She followed the recipe but had to use two different pans rather than the one she wanted. They were a bit thin but very, very good. We all really enjoyed them!

Emily made No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake (LOCAL) from Kind of Healthy Recipes by Mason Fit. Her notes: Used low fat cream cheese

Emily made Zero Smart Points Cranberry Sauce. Mostly just for her and my dad

Victor made "Chef John's" Pumpkin Pie from All Recipes (LOCAL). I do not know if this was Victor's planned recipe or if he pivoted to this since I bought him Sweetened Condensed Milk rather than Evaporated. I think he also used (eyeballed?) Pumpkin Pie Spice in place of the constituent spices in the recipe

At first, I didn't love it since it wasn't really sweet (it doesn't get any additional sugar) but once I got used to it, I actually really liked it since you really tasted the pumpkin.