Turkey Day in Canada
 

So Canadian Ipeeps... what will you be eating this holiday weekend?

I will be making roast turkey, celery root, asparagus and 'mock' pumpkin pie (made with rutabega)... not sure about a gravy and cranberry subsitute yet... open to suggestions!

Interesting! I am curious how rutabega pie is going to turn out. For cranberry sauce - Raspberry Gelatin? Maybe mix up with Blueberry, Cranberry, Pomegranate drink for more tartness? Gravy....I'm thinking something like take one of the soups packets and put Turkey or Beef soup base in it (it will be super salty so maybe try to find a no salt one?) :shrug:

I will be interested to know how it all turns out!

The mushroom, celery & garlic puree in LizRR's Fun with Veggie Purees thread makes an AWESOME poultry gravy!

mmmm.... okay..... now you forgot to tell us what time to arrive for dinner?!

i made the raspberry jelly with cranberry green tea instead of water, added 1 packet of plain gelatin for extra thickness, poured it an empty can that you can removed the bottom with a can opener....let it set then cut the bottom off, pushed out the "cranberry sauce" and sliced into thick slices.

it was heavenly good!!!

also, in the mix'n in the kitch'n thread, there is a recipe i made for stuffing!!

Now THAT is funny because that's what my cranberry sauce ALWAYS looks like --can shape and everything!

I don't actually like it so hubby is lucky I crack the can opener for him! LOL

i made it that way so no one would know the difference!! and it worked!! actually, my daughter said she liked it better!! haha

I used rhubarb to replace my cranberries, you could also just have a forth packet and use the potatoes....just a thought.

It can be done though, I did it! :)

My coach gave me some recipes for T-Giving:

Cranberry relish:

1 c water
1 c whole fresh cranberries
4 celery sticks, chopped
1 c chives, chopped
1 c chopped zucchini
6 mint leaves
1 tsp orange jest
1 IP Raspberry Jelly packet
3 tsp WF raspberry jelly
1tsp stevia or other sweetener

boil the cranberries in the cup of water for about 5 min. Pour the water off into a cup - should be about 5oz of liquid and still warm. Put the IP raspberry jelly packet into it and mix well. Pour into a bowl and put in the icebox to set up.
Chop together cranberries, celery, chives, zucchini, mint leaves and orange zest. Chop in a food processor or by hand. mix in with stevia and WF raspberry jelly into the jelly mix cooling in the icebox. Add the cranberries and the vegetables and mix together. Let cool in bowl then serve with celery sticks or flax seed crackers

There's a green bean casserole and a stuffing one as well. Maybe we should start a 'holiday recipe' thread.

I'm opting out of Thanksgiving this year because I don't think I'm ready to be put in that situation. My family is going out of town to my aunt's house and she doesn't know what healthy cooking is, so it'll be pretty hard for me to eat what I need to while I'm there.

I'm just gonna stick to what I know this weekend and maybe indulge in a couple more of the pumpkin spice coffee/IP vanilla drinks I've been having for breakfast.

Yumm! I was thinking how turkey, green beans, and mashed cauliflower looked a lot like a full Thanksgiving dinner, but I thought I would surely be out of luck for the cranberry jelly. This gives me hope and definitely something to be thankful for!

Wouldn't cranberries be on the no-no list for IP in phase 1 though?

they are so few berries with all the other "stuff" it's probably a non-issue, but would cranberries not be a big no-no? Or are we making an exception due to holiday? It sounds pretty delish -- I'm picturing rainbow adding the oatmeal cereal to make a cranberry crumble for dessert too! LOL

You're on the save wavelength as me scorbett... are ya scared? LOL (Great question btw)

LOL perhaps YOU should be askeered :) My brain is not for the faint of heart :)

What's your recipe for the pumpkin spiced coffee??????? Love to have it!!

I mix the vanilla drink straight into a cup of coffee, then sprinkle pumpkin pie spice and cinnamon and mix it up. I used quite a bit of pumpkin pie spice so it tastes more like pumpkin pie. I think someone posted this recipe or something similar to it in a thread about Starbucks pumpkin spice lattes.

Thanks!! I'm going to try it tomorrow!!

I made the mistake of putting it all in my shaker cup and having it try to explode on me. Even after reading about it happening to other people. I don't suggest trying to mix it that way LOL

Yes, the cranberries are not on P1, which is written on the recipe, but there is 'an exception for one day'. I believe all the recipes she gave me were from the Chef Verati cookbook. They had a heading/website that said 'Ideal Protein'.

I'm going to use the chicken soup for gravy. Just half a packet with way less water but it will help with the mashed cauliflower and the turkey. I have two dinners to go to so I'll split the packet up that way.

Then I'm making a chocolate bark for my dessert one night, and either the zucchini fake apple crisp or a rhubarb crisp with the oatmeal as a base.

Since I have the two dinners I might do mashed cauli one day and roasted rutabaga the next. We shall see! I'll also add something steamed - broccoli or asparagus, and I'll be good to go!

Thanks ladies - great ideas!

I have made the rutabega pumpkin pie previously and it was delicious so will do that again - and my DH and I love the celery root made into 'mashed potatos'... that way we are getting in the required veggies without using the potato puree, need to leave all 8 ozs of our protein fully dedicated to my turkey! LOL!

Off to look up the 'stuffing' recipe and start a grocery list for the cranberry sauce - will do the mushroom/garlic puree for gravy.... mmmmmm... can't wait to do this on Saturday - that way will have the next 2 days to have leftovers - already looking forward to making Rainbow's english muffin buns to get my turkey sandwiches in!

We've got this holiday down already! Have a great long weekend all!

I LOVE the Cranberry Sauce idea with the Gelatin! That's a great option for Phase 1! I like to make my own, so in Phase 4 will be able to use "the real thing" but will use Cranberries with Splenda.

Here's links to a few recipes:

Add pan drippings for gravy to Braised Mushroom, Celery, & Garlic Puree: http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/4430608-post2.html

Add some Pumpkin Pie Spice to Sweet Fauxtato Pie: http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/4443085-post85.html

Phase 3 appropriate Pumpkin Pie: http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/4441155-post57.html

Hi Fellow Canadian Ipeeps!

Thanksgiving will be alone this year with my lovely teen daughter. So we'll do chicken instead of turkey!

Any recipe for roasting? Removing of skin I assume? (kid will be upset with that one)

Also, yesterday I tried the mashed "potatoes" aka cauliflower-mashed-to-nothingness. And I hated the texture... it was like glue paste (not that I have tasted glue paste...;) Any suggestion to help?

Thank you LizRR for the gravy recipe! Very excited about that one!

I love your guy's creativity! We are going to Jasper with my mother in law so I plan to just bring my normal food in a cooler and then get meat and veg for our "thanksgiving" dinner out.

Wel'll be having our Thanksgiving meal at SILs house. I have prepared a huge veggie tray, chopped cabbage to sauté for myself, as well as dessert and an appetizer for everyone else. I'm not feeing left out at all, I'm looking forward to playing cards and visiting. Going to spice up my water with lemon and cucumber slices, I don't miss that OVER FULL GROSS feeling they will all have. It's ping o be a great day! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!! :turkey::thanks1::thanks2:

I was just invited to another feast. At least this one will have fellow IPers. I think I will attempt to make a pumpkin spiced rhubarb treat. Oh, I wish I was a better cook. Cooking is scary at my house. Lol!

I went to my sisters today...a day ahead of the family feast:)

So glad I chose to not be there tomorrow, the fresh baked buns, pies in oven and stuffing could have been my downfall!!

Now if only I cooked anything remotely similar to Rainbow's goodness I would have something other than zucchini chips to eat tomorrow!

Oh well, Canadian Thanksgiving will be all the better this year, because I'm thankful for IP and my soon to be new & improved physique. (my fingers are smaller, so by default soon I have to start losing from my faithful belly:))