Well, we did it again. We stuffed our faces full of delicious food with family and fun!
Yesterday we headed to my maternal grandparents’ house for Thanksgiving lunch. Here’s a little sneak peak at what I brought….
When we got there my mom was finishing up some gravy and setting out all the pans of finished dishes.
Of course I zoomed right in on the stuffing.
There was so much food that we actually lost a few items in the kitchen!
I loaded up on all my favorites.
Notice the Christmas plates? It’s not just Macy’s that’s jumping the gun, we’re getting a head start on Christmas too!
Someone found the mac and cheese that was hiding under another dish, so it was time for seconds.
And my dish was a big hit, it was completely gone by the end of dinner. I made baked apples and pears with cinnamon, honey, pecans, and gorgonzola.
It was insane! Super easy to make too.
I just sliced up 4 Honeycrisp apples and 4 red Bartlett pears.
Then I squirted lemon juice all over and sprinkled on a bunch of cinnamon and a pinch of nutmeg and stirred it all up.
Then I put a few dabs of Earth Balance on top to keep everything moist and to keep the sugars in the fruit from caramelizing and then burning on the dish.
That went in a 400 degree oven for about 50 minutes. I stirred everything about 3 times to keep it all moist. You have to be gentle because the fruit starts to get very soft and if you manhandle it you’ll just break everything up into mush.
As soon as it came out I sprinkled on pecan pieces, crumbled gorgonzola, and squeezed on the sweet tupelo honey.
It smelled glorious! I’m so glad everyone liked it so much.
I am really bad about taking pictures of people rather than just food. In fact, the only picture I managed to take of a living body was this one…
That’s Tripod, my grannys’ fat three-legged cat! The little bugger bit me too. He just got too excited with all the pettings he was getting from me.
It was a great meal and a great time with my crazy family. We had to cut it pretty short because Jeff was still really ill and needed to get home to rest. I’m not doing so great right now either; I really hope it doesn’t get as bad as what he’s had to go through.
Off to make some more tea and veg out for the rest of the day!
