hi everyone!
i made alexis’ delicious brown sugar chocolate chip cookies (screw you cookie c__t!)
i made maida heatter’s danish butter sandwich cookies with vanilla cream filling from martha stewart’s baking book. i made spinach and cheese puff from marthastewart.com. i also made my friend deborah’s spinach artichoke dip – which is the greatest hot dip ever! i am asking if i can share the recipe with you because it is that good.
i made two kinds of cornbread- one traditional (thanks allie lewis from everyday foods!) and one from our listener brian with creamed corn… i adapted it a little based on paula deen’s recipe on foodnetwork.com (so good!). i roasted some cauliflower with a little olive oil, salt and pepper.
there were brussels sprouts, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes etc. so much food- couldn’t possibly show all.
i ate so much!
spinach and cheese puff before baking.
spinach and cheese puff in the oven.
spinach and artichoke dip about to go into the oven… i don’t have an after picture.. im an idiot! but i can tell you it was eaten SO fast. everyone freaked out how good it was.
listener brian suggested i make this cream of corn spoon bread.
my family was eating the corn bread before dinner was served!
cauliflower roasting in the oven.
traditional corn bread.
alexis’ brown sugar chocolate chip cookies ready for the oven.
alexis’ chocolate chip cookie out of the oven and just right. FANTASTIC!
maida heatter’s danish butter sandwich cookies before baking.
butter cookies out of the oven.
butter sandwich cookies filled and dusted with confectioners sugar.
at the big house (my parent’s house) there was plenty of wine.
and crudite.
yummy noodle pudding (very traditional thanksgiving time…not!)
oatmeal stuffing.
poor bird.
the cookies i baked amidst other desserts.
lots of desserts!
my sister’s husband david.
my maryland cousin big rich (he calls in sometimes).
i’m so full after this weekend!
how about you?
xoxo
jennifer
I ate like a pig. Best dinner in a long time. My sister’s boyfriend is a Vegetarian so everything except for the bird was vegetarian (and I think it made it taste better).
We have the best crispy stuffing!! I love my dad. And I listened to you freaks on Friday when I was working. 😀
hey Jen…nice photos and recipes–looks yummy! there’s a nice spinach/artichoke recipe in martha’s living mag this month but haven’t tried…doesn’t look fattening as the standard recipes are with mayo and cream cheese. love alexis’ choc chip cookies too (who’s the cookie c__t?hahaha..must’ve missed something)…did u eat any turkey? speaking about being vegetarian, i went to morton’s restaurant & they brought around a 5# live lobster w/ the steaks on a cart & I was really wanting to free that poor thing~! i was honestly SO upset thinking about it being boiled alive! isn’t it outlawed to boil alive lobsters in some parts of the world?(france for one)…
Everything looks delicious!! Big Rich shouldn’t use so much hair gel.
Dude.. you fuckin rock man.. Because there is so much to consume here (HA!), I will probably be leaving several comments.. That spinach crap looks so good.. OMFG!
Okay, I ain’t got time to be wasting here.. here are my comments: 1)I love spinach.. you chop the shit up any way you like.. throw wtf you want in it.. i’m gonna eat it. 2) Corn spoon bread.. i’ve mad that before.. good friggen stuff.. you did a good thing by having it in a large baking dish so it’s shallow throughout.. if it gets too deep, it ends up raw in the middle.. fyi! (skippin a few) 3) Alexis’ cookies.. um.. i’ll be selling them at my kids school on Monday and Tuesday for cold hard cash.. I wonder if I owe her any of it? (I’ll give props!) 4) noodle pudding? looks kinda good, seems alright, was it sweet? I think it’s the pudding that’s throwing me off. 5) BIG GOD DAMN TURKEY LEGS SPREAD APART AND A BIG FUCKING GAPING HOLE… um.. that’s nasty.. .. what a great post.. i loved it!
Love the cooking photos, but the two pictures of “man candy” at the end are awesome! You made my Sunday!!!
Wow, the food all looks great! You did a great job documenting it all! Sounds like you had a great day!!!
Pllllllease get us that spinach artichoke dip recipe! It looks sooo good! …. as did everything else you posted and mentioned!
My friend Natasha’s family always serves noodle pudding (kugel). It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without it.
Fabulous spread!
OMG Jennifer, you are becoming Alexis!
WAY too much hair gel on “Big Rich.” It’s almost 2008!
Hey Jennifer!!! OMG look at you little miss baker!!! Don’t take this the wrong way because you always did a good job but I must say since you’ve been hanging around Alexis, your baking has improved drastically since the first pictures you posted. Everything looks so professional and beautiful!!! GREAT JOB!!! Cousin Rich is kinda cute but yeah – probably too much hair gel. Glad you had a great time. I ate too much too. I’m sure miss perfect Alexis barely ate anything.
We ate a lot too, as always too much food. We were 16 adults, 3 teens and 3 toddlers, not bad. It’s time to pitch the leftovers, I am done! You did a good job baking/cooking. I made Paula Deen’s cornbread casserole too, yummy!
your sisters husband doesn’t look Jewish, is he?
Oh no- big rich looks like a mobster- his hair might ignite. Back off on the hair products Big Rich- not good. He reminds me of that guy on Mtv’s wedding special they did from Statan Island back in approx 2000.
Everything looks DELISH!!!!!!!
Everything looked amazing. Love the little details of your lives. Thank you for sharing them! I’m Canadian so did Thanksgiving over a month ago, but will save ideas for next year. Still had a great prime rib this evening, yet have room to snack while watching Desperate Housewives.
nice job
I keep looking at those sandwich cookies. mmmm
Wow You out did yourself. Please post the dip receipe soon. Thanks
Rich looks like a mob guy from the Sopranos. The other guy doesn’t look Jewish.
Your sister’s Husband is so cute too!
Everything looks so good Jennifer, Great Job! Alexis’ cooking/baking is rubbing off on you too!
I didn’t even notice the greasy hair look on Big Rich, my family is Italian, they all look that way, women included.
All of your dishes look really yummy.. I really hope you get the green light for the dip. I LOVE artichoke dip.
Jennifer: Could you please post the Noodle Pudding Recipe, as well as the Cream Corn Spoon Bread Recipe? All of the items that you made look fabulous! Thanks for posting.
Looks like the turkey is fully dilated and ready to give birth. Really nice/ambitious spread overall, but you should have Alexis show you how to neatly tuck back the wings and fold/tie the legs so that the centerpiece of the dinner has a more appetizing (and ladylike) appearance. I’m sure it all tasted delish!
Where can I find Alexis’ brown sugar choc chip cookie recipe???? They look awesome.
I did some of the cooking. Ate like a pig as we all did. Wife and daughter tried to keep to weight watcher points as best as they could. They did OK. We went for a long walk afterwards which helped. We ate left overs until this afternoon. I had the last as turkey salad. Your pics are great. Our feast looked a lot like yours (but no cookies). My son was home for the holidays (the one that is the sound engineer). He finally told us all about the day at Sirius. apparently he doesn’t have good opinion of the sound engineers that he met. Also he says when he listens to xm in rental cars and his stilleto in his car there is a big difference. He thinks there is something different when it processes music. He is usually right about techie stuff. He was back out with Lifehouse and All American bands for a few days. He is off to Africa with Goo Goo Dolls. He is setting us up for the Ringo tour. We had a great time at Springsteen, sound check and back stage was cool. Have fun. Xmas is soon.
Bravo Jenny! Everything looks so good!! You are definitely coming into your own in the domestic arts!
Thanks for posting all the yummy pictures of your Thanksgiving feast (such an understatement!). Love the show…I don’t even answer my cell phone on my drive home from work when you girls are on (that’s totally unheard of for me!). Continue the great work!
PS – I need Alexis’ cookie recipe, too.
Alexis’ brown sugar chocolate chip cookie recipe can be found on the marthastewart.com website.
Jen – did you get permission to post the spinach and artichoke dip yet? C’mon, we’re all waaaaaaaaaaaiting! 🙂
you know what ingredient makes REALLY good (as in yummy, not good as in good for you, obvs) spinach dip? Alfredo sauce.
I was wondering if I made a recipe of Banana bread ,but made drop cookies from it?
You think they would turn out or not?
gotta know now have very ripe nannas gotta use today…