Last year my 'mulled wine spice'-themed Thanksgiving dinner line-up turned out really well so I'm going to repeat it, but I have more people flying in than last year so need to make a turkey in addition to duck, and I forgot the stuffing recipe I followed so any suggestions would be helpful. Any feedback in general would be nice tbh.
Roast Turkey
- Dry brined and roasted the day before. If anyone has a good roast turkey/turkey dry brine recipe please share.
Roasted duck
- Roasted following this recipe but dry brined for 24 hrs with salt, brown sugar, orange peels, garlic, cinnamon, star anise, and ginger slices
Stuffing
- Probably a sausage and rustic bread or baguette one. It's hard to go wrong with stuffing but if anyone has a good recipe please share.
Braised red cabbage
- Braised on the stovetop for over an hour with star anise, maybe a slice of ginger, cloves, juniper berries, and whatever I adjust it with.
Honeynut squash puree
- I used sweet potatoes last year, but I'm going to probably use some honeynut squash I grew in containers this year. Or maybe just stick with sweet potatoes and use the honeynut squash for something else.
Braised kale or arugula salad
- Gotta add a green to feel like you're less of a fatass. I'll probably make something easy (the arugula salad last year worked well with everything else) but I'm open to suggestions if anyone has them. As long as the suggestions don't involve green beans.
Gravy, redcurrent jelly sauce, cranberry sauce
- Gravy made with turkey drippings from the day before, redcurrant jelly sauce made by mixing redcurrant jelly and white wine, cranberry sauce from a jar
Some sort of grocery store dessert
- Maybe I'll be able to find some pumpkin pie
Thoughts? Does anyone have a line-up they're proud of?
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We'll probably do goose as the main event, but also have sarma cus it's close enough to winter
, American stuffing, potato kofte, rice, kale salad and some sort of pie (TBD)
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Darn your line-up outclasses mine. What goose and kofte recipes do you use?
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I never ate goose in the States, but where I live now in Europe it's comparatively really cheap. So might as well get fancy
Your menu sounds a lot more cohesive, though, and I'd be thrilled to eat it 
For goose nothing special because it is already flavorful by itself, basically just roasting it with the stuffing (stuffing should have a lot of onions/apples in it) shoved up inside it. Salt, pepper, fresh herbs, etc. Basted occasionally, but it's so fatty that there isn't much of the risk of it drying out like turkey. It's so much easier to cook tbh
For the kofte, honestly it's more of an eyeballed recipe... boil some potatoes "al dente" so they're done but not mush, grate them and combine with flour and feta(!!!!!) until it feels like a dough, some minced onions and whatever Balkan seasonings are closest to your hands... I don't like it to be as spiced as the meat variety, but I will still add cumin / oregano / parsley / etc. and of course, like, salt. Then fry them, but the dough is hard to keep together so usually I chill it first so that it sticks together better
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I'm going to try making the kofte for sure, thanks for the idea! I've also never made goose, but it's #1 on list of things to cook myself. One of these days...
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it also needs some egg to help bind it, sorry I'm r-slurred. You can use bread crumbs instead of / or in addition to flour but either way you kinda just have to play around with the ratios until it feels cohesive. And you grate the potato super fine and then sort of smash it when you're making the dough. the main thing you'd want to add is parsley, anything else is more your preference. I fricked it up the first few times so let me know if yours turns out! It is deceptively hard to get it to not fall apart when frying, lol. But once you get it to work, I like using them as a hiking snack cus they're good cold too
I definitely recommend trying goose, people are always impressed and it's really much more low effort than I'd ever tell any guest!
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Do you have to deep-fry the kofte?
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nah, just pan fry
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Oh, good.
Where do you live where you eat goose, sarma, and kofte? You don't need to answer of course, but that sounds like a solid food culture
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Germany, the food culture is... offensively bad.
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