Thanksgiving Recipes

[CyclicalLoser 155]

Well, it's the time of the year, where we get ready to put on our running shoes and fight for no-name TV's cook holiday dinners. I am blessed to live in California, and it is apple season here. Today I went apple picking and got some Red Delicious, Johnagold and Granny Smiths. I absolutely love apple pie. This is obviously not a great food to eat, at least when prepared as usual. I'm curious if others have no-dump recipes for Apple pies (Or to open this up more, anything you'd find on a Thanksgiving dinner). I know I could bake a pie with Spenda or Truvia, but I'm trying to figure out how to make a crust that would be low/no carb.

[Frustr8 7,886]

Maybe a lower calorie pumpkin or Sweet Potato custard type thing? Low cal, low fat doesn't HAVE to tast bad!

[FluffyChix 17,415]

https://alldayidreamaboutfood.com/easy-low-carb-press-in-pie-crust/

One of my very favorite low carb authors.

[Frustr8 7,886]

3 items beside the many normal things for holidays Frustr8 loved and still does. Didn't say I've had them recently.
1 eggs Lyonaise- Mama would slice thinly into a buttered casserole white(usually) onions, then make a white flour roux/ white gravy and pour it into casserole over onions seemed like 1 1/3 to 1 1/2 quarts but I was a kid, just guessing. Then she would make depressions in the white sauce and drop a raw egg into each. Sprinkle with bread or panko crumbs, and bake in Moderate oven maybe 350 degree until eggs look nicely set. Perhaps originally recipe said softly set like "over easy" I always demanded "done" never could stand an egg that "slimed" down the back,of the tbroat!
2. onions in cheese sauce- boil small to medium onions in Water until tender, drain and then put into cheese sauce, Mama usually used colby, I upgraded to sharp cheddar, sharper the better, I confess I 💓cheddar, but once for company I made it with gouda, dotted with butter and then panko bread crumbs. Yeah calorific but sometimes i worked HARD to get obese.
3. Au gratin or scalloped potatoes. Just please don't substitute sliced turnips or rutabegas for potatoes, lady did that once at a Carry- in dinner, if I had a switchblade there WOULD HAVE BEEN a bloodletting!
4. oatmeal cake with a caramel coconut praline topping
5. Texas Sheet cake. In later years after allergy raised its gnarled head, I learned to make it with carob powder. Don't flinch, it still turns out well, just a little more milk-chocolatey tasting, I have fooled people who thought it the Real Thing. Then in the last decade I found a recipe for Lemon Texas Sheet Cake, yeah still buttermilk containing but the thick pour- on frostening highlighters with lemon or orange zest.
If you think me MEAN sharing this recipes that don't fit a Bariatric Diet Plan think how I feel, still on my liquids Diet and looking at Green Tealael or Fluffy Chix concocted items. 💓them both, but for a few seconds garroting seems too easy a torture!😪😭

[Orchids&Dragons 9,047]

I've bought this but haven't tried it yet:

https://dixiediner.com/shop/category/desserts/graham-cracker-style-low-carb-pie-crust-mix/

They also have this one:

https://dixiediner.com/shop/category/desserts/pie-crust/home-made-press-n-bake-low-carb-pie-crust-mix/

And for healthy Thanksgiving in general:

https://www.skinnytaste.com/holiday-recipes/thanksgiving-recipes/

Edited November 11, 2018 by Orchids&Dragons

[CyclicalLoser 155]

Wow thank you all! I'm taking things very, very slow (Still). Most of the time when I eat "normal" (Non liquid) things, I feel nauseous, to the point where I've had to throw up. I'm pretty sure it's because I am eating too fast. The positive side is that I don't have a problem with my mostly liquid diet.

Yesterday, as I waited in line to order a family member an Apple turnover, I was thinking there had to be a "healthier" option. After all, apples are apples and as long as I get the sugar and bad carbs out, it should be an okay treat. In general though, and yes this is ironic, I am the safest person in the world to transport baked goods. I don't like any pies except Apple. I don't like anything else. Not cakes, muffins, brownies, cupcakes, pastries, twinkies, Cookies etc.

But Apple pies lived in fear of my wrath.

Thank you all again. This will be enormously helpful for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners!

[Orchids&Dragons 9,047]

@Frustr8 What, pray tell, is a Texas sheet cake or a lemon one? Google brings up too many possibilities and I didn't see any with buttermilk.

[Frustr8 7,886]

I'll look around and see,it I can locate the recipe. Imagine a Texan lady sans the recipe. They are good and tasty, some people even make them on cookie sheets although I always used a 9 by 11 myself.

[FluffyChix 17,415]

This is it but it’s pecans. Never walnuts. And it originated with a Jr League cookbook.

https://asouthernfairytale.com/2010/06/21/texas-sheet-cake/

Edited November 11, 2018 by FluffyChix

[Frustr8 7,886]

And i can give you Ree Drummon

[FluffyChix 17,415]

Sure. Why not? It’s still the same very basic recipe from the jr league and the 60s.

[FluffyChix 17,415]

Grew up with it and our moms calling it “sheeth” cake.

[Frustr8 7,886]

She's the Pioneer Woman! And I'll be even nicer, I'll spell it out for you forthwith.
Cake- she uses a 13x18 large sheet cake pan, she likes hers flat, I like mine fatter.
2C flour. 2C sugar( yeah that evil white stuff) ,,1/4 t salt. 4T or 1/4 cup heaping cocoa. 2 sticks butter
IC boiling Water. 1/2 c buttermilk
2 whole beaten eggs. 1t baking soda. 1 t vanilla, and I use Watkins real only.
Frostening:
1/2 C finely chopped pecans- I disagree with Fluffy Chix, I have used walnuts before, I live in the North after all -pecans are expensive up here. If you have a pecan so much the better, we have black walnuts and hickory, THATS what Ms Frustr8 uses!
1 3/4 sticks butter. 4T(1/4 C ) cocoa. 1/3 C milk, recipe actually calls for 6T, you want to stand measuring by T have at it
1 pound(minus 1/2 C ) 10X or powdered sugar
Now for the instructions, okay?
Combine flour,sugar and salt in largish mixing bowl. In saucepan melt butter and then add cocoa and stir them together. Add boiling water, now you can use another pan or teakettle to bring your water to boiling, I pour the water in my Pyrex measuring cup and microwave it warm. Besides in a minute you'll need the cup again. Okay, poured the boiling water in? Fine,let it boil 30 seconds together , turn off the burner, and pour this over your flour mixture and stir until it cools down some. By this time the measuring cup also should have cooled down, pour buttermilk and the beaten eggs, baking soda and vanilla into it, stir it a little and then pour it into the chocolate-flour-butter mixture in your big mixing bowl. When nice and smooth blended. pour into a prepared pan. Her directions say 13x18 pan 20 minutes at 350 degrees, since I like mine more like a cake than a brownie or flat bar, 30-35 minutes, you've baked before, you'll know how to tell if a cake is done.
While cake is baking you can be making the ever-so-rich icing. Melt butter in a saucepan and add cocoa, stir to combine, then turn off your heat. Shoot,even remove it from the burner altogether. Add. milk, vanilla, powdered sugar and stir together. I suppose you could use a mixer, I always did it by hand.Add your pecans and stir some more.Pour over still warm cake, cut into squares and consign your soul to perdition, it is. THAT GOOD!
Which leads me to a story. There is another sort of similar cake floating around called Better Than Sex Cake. Lady sent 2 generous slices over to her next door neighbors, waited for a Thank You or other acknowledgment. About evening down came their window shade with message written on it. It said " Please send over remainder of cake, involved in continuing Field Testing!"😝LOL

[Orchids&Dragons 9,047]

35 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

Grew up with it and our moms calling it “sheeth” cake.

Just like the Pace picante commercial - my Mom was born in New York City!

[Orchids&Dragons 9,047]

Thanks for the devilishly tasty recipes! I've seen these at potlucks, but never knew what they were called.