I make shrub drinks - vinegar fruit sugar and spices. The hard ingredients are strained out. This year I’m making chutneys with the shrub straining. Blueberry with star anise chutney is my current #1.
Blueberry with star anise. And my Cherry black pepper, ginger tamarind and cuke licorice are also delicious. Shrub Old Fashions are delicious: 1/2 ounce each Cherry black pepper and ginger tamarind shrubs, 1 ounce bourbon or whiskey, a dash of bitters, one Luxardo cherry, an orange slice and fizzy water to taste. I think I'll serve them on turkey day!
I’m making a rum punch 🤷🏼♀️ And a salad with roasted chick peas, roasted butternut squash, pepitas, dried cherries & a roasted garlic/lemon juice/olive oil dressing.
Lol - it’ll be eaten some, I’m sure. But there’ll be soooo much other food that it will, undoubtedly, be lost in the mix. I’m more interested in the rum punch & the dessert, personally! 😁
I'm really into stuffing (well, dressing) and gravy. Our Thanksgiving always has to be dairy free and after many years of mostly failing at dairy free pie crust, I'm making an apple crisp and some vegan brownies for dessert, plus some vegan ice cream (which really will be an experiment, so fingers crossed it works).
I make shrub drinks - vinegar fruit sugar and spices. The hard ingredients are strained out. This year I’m making chutneys with the shrub straining. Blueberry with star anise chutney is my current #1.
Is the shrub flavor blueberry or blueberry with star anise?
Blueberry with star anise. And my Cherry black pepper, ginger tamarind and cuke licorice are also delicious. Shrub Old Fashions are delicious: 1/2 ounce each Cherry black pepper and ginger tamarind shrubs, 1 ounce bourbon or whiskey, a dash of bitters, one Luxardo cherry, an orange slice and fizzy water to taste. I think I'll serve them on turkey day!
Those sound amazing!
I’m making a rum punch 🤷🏼♀️ And a salad with roasted chick peas, roasted butternut squash, pepitas, dried cherries & a roasted garlic/lemon juice/olive oil dressing.
Oh my gosh that sounds good. Will it be eaten? I know how weird people can get about "healthy" food on the Thanksgiving table.
Lol - it’ll be eaten some, I’m sure. But there’ll be soooo much other food that it will, undoubtedly, be lost in the mix. I’m more interested in the rum punch & the dessert, personally! 😁
I'm really into stuffing (well, dressing) and gravy. Our Thanksgiving always has to be dairy free and after many years of mostly failing at dairy free pie crust, I'm making an apple crisp and some vegan brownies for dessert, plus some vegan ice cream (which really will be an experiment, so fingers crossed it works).
Good look on the vegan ice cream! An apple crisp sounds perfect.
Do you call it stuffing or dressing?
I've always called it stuffing, but we've never stuffed the turkey so I just wanted to make it extra clear.
I always forget that distinction!