Thanksgiving for Two-
Thanksgiving for two, well two and a half if you include Izzy ( wink). Thanksgiving is officially our daughter’s holiday. She hosts it at her house. She has a large family and it is even larger when you add her extended family. My limited diet makes it difficult to eat at big gatherings. But, we still attend Thanksgiving at her home, we bring dessert! After dinner at our home we will join our daughter, her family and all of her in laws for dessert. I will be bringing my pecan pie and pumpkin pie and maybe some cookies from the cookie swap too.
For our Thanksgiving meal I will serve plenty of food so we can have leftovers for a few days. Sometimes the leftovers make the best meals. I will be making a simple roasted rosemary chicken and gravy. I am sharing my pan gravy with your today.
How To Make Easy Pan Gravy-
When your chicken or turkey has finished cooking remove it from the roasting pan and place it on a serving platter to rest. Put the roasting pan filled with all of the drippings onto the burner. You may want to skim off a bit of the fat but that is optional. Heat on medium high until it starts to lightly brown (more like a golden color) reduce heat to medium. In a bowl, whisk together about 3 tablespoons of flour and ¼ cup of milk or cream .(I use lactose free milk). You may need a bit more of both flour and milk/cream depending on how much gravy you will be making. Whisking the milk/cream before you add it to the drippings helps to avoid lumps. Pour the milk flour mixture into the pan drippings, add a bit of salt and pepper to taste. Use a fork to combine all ingredients together, scrape all of the wonderful and flavorful bits off of the bottom of the roasting pan. Continue to stir and cook until it meets your desired consistency. If it is to thick add a bit more milk/cream. If it is to thin make a bit more flour milk mixture and add it slowly. Then strain it all through a mesh sieve/strainer (into a bowl or gravy boat). My Mother taught me how to make this easy and delicious pan gravy when I was a young girl. It is a hit every time.
Green beans from our garden will be our simple side dish this year. I have several bags of them in the freezer. I just steam them, no sauces or seasonings. Just fresh tasting and bright green.
I will also be serving mashed potatoes using the remaining new potatoes from our garden. We have a few potatoes stored in a burlap bag in our cold storage just waiting to be part of our Thanksgiving meal.
I like the flavor of new (red) potatoes when they have been whipped into a creamy frenzy and topped with a bit of margarine (hubby has butter).
The stuffing this year will be a challenge (you can find my original stuffing recipe here). I look forward to sharing my migraine safe updated version shortly. Do you call it stuffing or dressing?
I know some of you are going to frown at this ….we eat canned cranberry sauce! We love it and it is easier for me to monitor the sugar when it is a piece of sliced cranberry jellied goodness.
This year I am going to give homemade “canned” cranberry sauce a try. Thanks to Bonnie at the blog A Golden Afternoon. I found her blog and this recipe on pinterest. Please visit her original post HERE Photo from her site.
We will be using these sweet new napkins I picked up at Gordmans .
The table will have fresh flowers too, most days you will see fresh cut flowers on our table. These are such a lovely color ♥
Hubby’s favorite pecan pie will cool on the counter while we enjoy our meal and our time of reflection.
After our tummies have been filled we will take the pie and share dessert at our daughter’s home. I used to think I would miss cooking for a large group .
But, over the years I have come to delight in our Thanksgiving for Two.
Will you be hosting a big Thanksgiving meal or will you have Thanksgiving for Two?
I had better mention that there will be no Thursday Favorite Things blog hop this week .. …Oh heck, you will be to full to hop around anyway, giggle.
But, there are always giveaways to enter HERE and I look forward to seeing the cookie and holiday treats you will be sharing at the Christmas Cookie Swap Linky Party that’s’ going on until Dec 20th.
I’ll pop in with a post on Thanksgiving morning and I have a fun craft to share on Friday ♥ If you don’t visit until the weekend. I hope you have a very happy Thanksgiving.
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Aww, have a very, Happy Thanksgiving Katie with your family 😉
Thank you my friend and happy thanksgiving for you and your beautiful family too xo
do you mind sharing how you freeze your green beans? mine are never that pretty and so I end up canning. Thank you so much for being so inspiring!
Hello Ruby, I’m happy to share, I blanch them, then cold water bath, pat dry with a tea towel and wrap in cellophane wrap and them bag them up. It is so nice to have them throughout the year and especially to enjoy something from the garden and Thanksgiving. Hugs!
I have cooked several Thanksgiving dinners for just my husband and I since the Lord never blessed us with children. This year we are going to a friend’s house, I am taking the green bean casserole and sweet potato casserole.
Sweet Missy I wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving xo
Happy Thanksgiving my dear, I need to get to the grocery store this evening and start shopping!
Happy Thanksgiving my friend. I’m going to pick up a few more necessities today … fingers crossed it won’t be to crazy. Happy Thanksgiving. xo
Looks delicious! I”m hosting a big group–31!! Wish me luck! Enjoy your holiday!
Heather you will be the hostess with the mostest. Happy Turkey day wishes!
I feel like this post was meant for me. It’s just us two for Thanksgiving this year as well so I’m making meatloaf. I have made chicken in the past and I we had our turkey in October (for my TG blog post) so going non-traditional this year. But now that I read your post, you have my mouth watering for all these dishes, decisions, decisions. Happy Thanksgiving! xoxo
I love that you are changing up the menu my friend. Big Hugs and happy Thanksgiving wishes.
Sounds sweet. I make my gravy the same way, except I use cornstarch and water….it’s so good to use drippings… I baked a fresh pork ham, not too long ago and got stranded at the eye doctor. I called the girl who was cleaning my home and asked her to please take it out of the oven and place it on the stove, wrapped in foil. She removed the ham from the pan, wrapped it in foil, sat it on the top of the stove and washed the pan….I came home to: no drippings. I nearly died. Fresh pork makes the best gravy!!!!
I have my whole family at my house…(25+) for Thanksgiving every year (counting babies..and we do count babies… 😉 Most times I host it the weekend before, but this year I’m having it Thursday….family arriving from Texas and North Carolina…and all around…fun.
Have a wonderful and…Happy Thanksgiving!
Oh Renee that would be disappointing. I make pan gravy with pork too. Yum. Your full house will be filled with happy memory making my friend. Enjoy and Happy Thanksgiving ♥
Your menu sounds delicious! I LOVE pan gravy. I like leaving some skin on the red potatoes and mashed with a bit of sour cream and milk… Happy Thanksgiving Katherine!
Thank you Lori, I leave a bit of skin on sometimes too, especially when I make them as chive whipped potatoes . Happy Thanksgiving! xo
We’re doing red mashed potatoes this year – it wasn’t planned but that’s what hubs came home with! 😀 Haha it’s funny you ask about the stuffing…I always call it stuffing and hubs will turn to me and say “I really don’t like my dressing in the turkey”…I’ve been telling him for years that I refuse to stuff a turkey so don’t worry…it’s really dressing…I guess it might be a tad confusing. Hehe
Heather, you always make me smile. You will enjoy those red whipped potatoes. Stuffing or dressing I know your will be delish. Happy Thanksgiving xo
It sounds like it will be a wonderful time…I hope you enjoy yourself…Happy Thanksgiving my dear xx
Thank you doll, big hugs and happy wishes coming your way xo
It sounds like you’re going to have a wonderful holiday. And I’m here to offer warm wishes. 🙂
Thank you dear sweet Rosey, I am sorry for the delay in responding. I hope your holiday was as sweet as you are. Hugs
Wonderful post, looks so delicious. 😉
Lovely greets nessa
Thank you, it was all really yummy. xo
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
thank you my friend, sorry I am late with this HUG!
Happy Thanksgiving from another migraineur ~ I also love this holiday but
it can create tremendous head pain.
Thank goodness for pain meds!
All the best to you, Mimi
Mimi, I am sorry to learn you are a migraine sufferer. I have M.A.V Smooches and hugs!
Happy Thanksgiving!
thank you, hugs and happy birthday!!
It sounds like you had a lovely holiday. The meal certainly looked delicious! We call is dressing over here and as of today I’m getting tired of leftovers! Have a great week!
Thank you, it was delish, we didn’t have as many leftovers as I had anticipated though. Sounds like you had far to much, giggle. xo
Oh my! Everything looks incredible! Pinned and tweeted. We always love partying with you, I hope to see you Monday at 7 pm at our party. Happy Sunday! Lou Lou Girls
thank you, smooches!
Your menu looks delicious! Happy Thanksgiving ( a little late! ) =)
thank you it was yummy. I hope you had a lovely holiday. xo
Delicious!!! Thank you so much for linking up at Tasty Tuesday! Your recipe has been pinned to the Tasty Tuesday Pinterest board! Please join us again this week!
thank you for pinning. hugs!