WICKED FAKESGIVING

posted Saturday, 15 October 2005

For our end-of-season party, the ladies of wicked decided to throw a "fakesgiving" (kind of like thanksgiving) dinner. I hosted. Julie & Shelley came over around 1pm to start the turkey. I made vegitarian stuffing, which turned out sooo good... here's the recipe:
• Saute 6 stalks of celery, 1 med onion, & 6 cloves garlic in a stick of butter (ok... vegetarian does not necesarily mean healthy!)
• When the celery begins to soften, add a package of frozen morningstar breakfast sausage patties (the tofu kind) - as they cook, crumble them in the pan and mix together with the veggies
• Add another 1/2 to full stick of butter (trade off on taste vs fat!)
• Add a can of vegetable broth
• Mix in seasoned stuffing cubes until moist
• Add some craisins
• Bake in covered casserole dish for 30 minutes
All I can say is YUM!
We went through 20 lbs of turkey, nearly 10 lbs mashed potatoes, 2 bags of stuffing, and don't forget... 4 pickled beets (the person in charge of cranberry sauce couldn't find any... so she brought beets instead... while I am a fan of beets, I can't say I ate any at "fakesgiving dinner!")
The home video of Dolan vs Kimberly wrestling hasn't been finalized, but we'll see if I can share that at a later date... for now, I've got a few photos below...


AUNT MARYE MADE THIS COMMENT,
Wow, that stuffing recipe does sound good, I like the idea of the sweet fruit at the end. I may actually try it this year for Thanksgiving -- although your cousins are SO traditional; they have been known to scream bloody murder if everything isn't the exact same way it was last year and the year before cause it's not "right." However, maybe one change would be allowed. And by the way, at my house we had pickled beets every year at Thanksgiving when I grew up, cause my mom loved them. It took my brother and I many years to convince her she could actually eat them ANY time she wanted, cause she was a grownup and could make her own food choices. And neither beets not cranberries make the cut here.
Thanks for the photos. Those "I heart breasts" tees were so funny, and appropriate for several genders...Again, I'm go glad you have good funny friends, there's no substitute!

JOHN MADE THIS COMMENT,
You need to bring that funnel along when you come up for the real Thanksgiving. That could be a lot of fun. Oh, I mean, I need to get more antifreeze into my car, and I don't have a funnel, and since that's probably what that thing's for, you know, putting antifreeze into a few cars at once, you know...