Have a Green Thanksgiving!
| November 25, 2009 | Posted by Lisa Sharp under Uncategorized |
Only 2 days until Thanksgiving! Tonight I’m making sure every dish is clean and the kitchen is all clean because my cooking starts tomorrow. We (or should I say I) make dinner for my in-laws. Since I cook it all from scratch I start the day before.
Here is this years menu:
Free range no antibiotics or hormone chicken (couldn’t find a natural or organic turkey that wasn’t huge)
uncured ham (didn’t end up with an organic one but we rarely eat ham so it’s not terrible)
organic mashed potatoes
organic green bean casserole (made with homemade alfredo sauce as I’m allergic to mushrooms)
organic cranberry sauce
organic yeast rolls
organic stuffed jalapenos (for the hubby as he doesn’t like most thanksgiving food but will love these!)
organic chocolate cheesecake cupcakes
I will be making everything other than the meat, mashed potatoes and green beans tomorrow. It makes Thanksgiving morning much less rushed.
I’m very excited about not just the food on Thanksgiving but also since we got a whole chicken I will be making chicken stock with the leftovers. I also always make up a whole bag of potatoes and make mashed potato soup with the leftovers.
Nothing gets wasted! Normally the green beans are gone the day of (and I make a lot of them!) and everything else gets eaten over the next few days. If there anything left that doesn’t get used for sandwiches and such I freeze it to put in casseroles and other dishes.
I’ve been having cluster headaches since Saturday so didn’t feel like writing a greening your Thanksgiving post so here are some that others have written.
Crunch Domestic Goddess gives us 10 great and simple ways to be green this Thanksgiving.
Fake Plastic Fish tells us how to say no to Thanksgiving waste.
