Today's Food Prep

Thankfully, I think I am done with another day of Thanksgiving food prep!

Sweet Italian sausage for my Country Harvest Turkey Dressing.

Earlier this afternoon, I cooked up some sweet Italian sausage for my Country Harvest Turkey Dressing. This sausage will get chopped up with some onions, sage, corn bread, seasoned bread, garlic, thyme, and dried cranberries... then add some chicken stock... into the oven for a bit... this should be some pretty tasty dressing!

So, the sausage is now cooked, moved to the fridge and ready to be chopped tomorrow. 

While the sausage was cooking, I had four sweet potatoes in the oven. These sweet potatoes will be for my Bourbon Glazed Yams. After cutting the sweet potatoes, I'll add some butter, maple syrup, molasses, brown sugar, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and some bourbon. Throw this concoction in the oven and then finish the last few minutes with some mini marshmallows on top until they are browned. 

So, the sweet potatoes are ready to go for tomorrow.

Bringing the cranberries, pears and liquid to a boil...

Then, it was time to make my homemade cranberry sauce which is definitely one of our favorite dishes. 

Sheila cut up a couple of pears into cubes as I put some fresh cranberries into a stock pot. We added the cubed pears, sugar, maple syrup, apple juice, a little bit of lemon juice, nutmeg, allspice, and some cinnamon... then adjusted the spices a bit as it was firming up. 

After boiling this down to a jelly-like consistency it is now sitting on the kitchen counter cooling before we can put it in the fridge for tomorrow. As I mentioned above, this is definitely one of our favorite dishes!

So, all of today's food prep is now finished.

We're both looking forward to tomorrow... now it is time for a short nap...

Cranberries, pears and liquids coming to a boil...