Countdown to T-Day!

[octothorpe]

I'll be in Cambridge for the Thanksgiving week-end, staying at the Marlowe, near MIT campus. Ironically, I've been in C'bridge at least 100 times since I left, and haven't been back on campus. I may and visit the new CSAIL building.

Then I get to cook for lots of people. Rawk!

Things I may make (raw notes from my cooking journal.. it may not make sense to any of you, but *I* know what it means):

Firsts:
amuse bouche: raw fish... arctic char/salmon (good olive oil, lemon, grey salt, pepper)

local oysters on the half shell, with a mignonette (white wine, sherry vinegar (reduce to half volume), shallot, s&p) and perhaps red caviar (smelt roe).(from the cape)

Sides roasted:
Roast hazelnuts
parsnip
carrots
brussels sprouts

Sides, other:
stuffing (brioche, turkey/chicken stock, apples. what about panattoni.. did it last year, and it was great ++sausage to cut sweetness )
peas (mushy??) with panchetta??
garlic mashed potatoes (avec skin, cream, butter, S&P).

Soups:
roast butternut squash
potato leek
mussles/saffron bisque (carrots, zuchinni) (a la Melli Mello)
White bean

Main
Turkey, roasted and brined
stuffed with citrus, fennel



I don't envy the dish washers.