Oh please tell me your recipe for chopped liver. I am dying to make some.
Have never done it and love it so. Thanks.

"Peggy" > wrote in message
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> >>On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 00:44:35 GMT, TonyP > wrote:
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> >>>Thanksgiving is comming up soon, what's your typical menu.
> >>>
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>
> Just did a Thanksgiving-esque dinner (a run-through?) for sixteen
> "farmworkers," friends who picked apples and helped us bring home 175
> gallons of cider from the local cider mill -- 100 gallons of it is
> happily burbling into hard cider in 55-gallon drums on our kitchen
> floor. Here's the meal:
>
> appetizer of chopped liver (made with home-rendered chicken fat from our
> own chickens -- or should I say "ex-chickens"?) on baguette slices
> served with our own bottle-conditioned "Champagne" cider
>
> turkey brined with lots of salt, a bit of sugar, bay leaves, and
> peppercorns; roasted under a butter-dipped "blanket" of cheesecloth,
> cavity stuffed with garlic cloves, cut-up lemon, and apple;
>
> giblet gravy
>
> home-made cornbread dressing with loads of hot-pepper sausage, onions,
> celery, and turkey stock
>
> smashed homegrown German-yellow potatoes with garlic and chopped
> scallions and altogether too much butter and half-and-half, but nobody
> complained
>
> apple/squash/leek gratin with breadcrumb and pepper-cheese topping
>
> collards and kale from the garden, simmered for hours with a smoked ham
> hock
>
> cranberry/red-onion compote (try finding a fresh cranberry around here
> in October -- hadda use canned)
>
> home-made pear chutney
>
> Finger Lakes wines: Leidenfrost Baco Noir, Dr. Frank Chardonnay, and a
> bottle of great bubbly made by our winemaker neighbor. Nearly
> everything goes with turkey!
>
> home-made pumpkin pie and vanilla ice cream; cornmeal/pumpkin cake with
> orange sauce; fresh apple cake; a great store-bought coffee cake with
> blueberry and cheesecake topping.
>
> Wanted to make popovers, but there just wasn't time or oven space.
> Definitely do it for Thanksgiving this year.
>
> I'm still exhausted, and still full. Burp. But I'd do it again in a
> heartbeat, and look forward to the Thanksgiving debacle.
>
> Cheers!
> Peg (in the Finger Lakes, where the trees still seem to have a good grip
> on their color-changing leaves, and where it SNOWED this morning! Time
> to get out the crock pot.)
>