Mushroom Wellington....
Okay, just changed my plans, that sounds delish and I have all the ingredients on hand.
Mushroom Wellington....
The only part of the turkey I like is the gumbo. We'll have our kids over on the weekend for our traditional gumbo.
No special plans as DW can't physically do the big T day dinner anymore. No invites as of yet. We may just order a dinner in for both of us and have it delivered. Easy...
^ You had me at "...any new tattoos."
Southern Maryland Stuffed Ham and Fried Oysters and Oysters Rockefeller and all the other good stuff.
Stuffed Ham is pretty localized specialty using a CORNED HAM....
and as you can only imagine in these times, having a hard time finding one ;-(
https://chesapeakebaymagazine.com/corned-spiced-stuffed/
here are my recipes:
i just started to bake, soooooo much easier.
SOUTHERN MARYLAND STUFFED HAM
20 LB CORNED HAM DE-BONED
1 HEAD GREEN CABBAGE
1 BIG BAG KALE (BROWN GROCERY BAG)
8 ONIONS
3 STALKS CELERY
3 TABLESPOONS MUSTARD SEED
5 TABLESPOONS CRUSHED RED PEPPER
4 TABLESPOONS CAYENNE PEPPER
3 TABLESPOONS WHOLE BLACK PEPPER CRUSHED
2 TABLESPOONS SALT
• BOIL HAM FOR 1 HOUR – COOL – REMOVE FAT
• CHOP UP VEGGIES COURSELY AND PLACE IN POT HAM LIQUID, ADD SEASONINGS AND COOK TILL WILTED
• REMOVE VEGGIES, ALLOW TO COOL
• FILL CAVITY THAT BONE OCCUPIED WITH VEGGIES
• TIE HAM UP
• CUT VERTICAL SLITS AND STUFF W/ VEGGIE MIXTURE. DO THIS IN SEGMENTS UNTIL ALL HAM DONE
• WRAP HAM WITH CHEESE CLOTH AND PLACE HAM BACK IN POT. COOK FOR ANOTHER 2.5 HOURS AT A FULL BOIL.
• AFTER 2.5 HOURS, SHUT FIRE OFF AND LEAVE HAM IN FOR ANOTHER HOUR TO SEASON
• REMOVE, ALLOW TO COOL FOR A WHILE THEN PUT IN FRIG.
Baked stuffed ham
20 lb ham
1 head cabbage
1 big bag of kale
8 onions
3 celery stalks
3 tblspn mustard seed
5 tablespn red pepper
4 Tblespn cayenne
3 tblespn black pepper
2 tblespn salt
• Remove most of fat from ham
• Chop up veggies and mix with seasonings
• Cut slits and stuff, also where bone was…….
• Place cloth and veggies down then put ham on top of it
• Place rest of veggies on top of ham
• Wrap with aluminum foil twice
• Convection oven set to 325 goes to 300
• Cook for about 20-22 minutes / lb
• 17+ ham took from 11 till 520 for 160 temp.
• Leave out to cool and then put into frig.
I ended up hosting Thanksgiving this year. My husband graciously offered to fry the turkey outside, freeing up the oven for all the other stuff. If he hadn't wanted to cook the turkey outside, I was plotting something unusual like roasted suckling pig. We did that one year. It was delicious plus the guys all stood around the spit turning the pig and drinking beer. We need to do that again!
final product, was very good if i do say so myself....
We will always have turkey (still consider it a treat the way we grew up), but DW said she might add curried goat as well (this normally is present during large thanksgiving family gatherings but we have never had it when it has been just us and our children).