What’s On Your Plate?

thanksgiving is just around the corner and its complete to celebrate thanksgiving without a turkey!  so, here’s one simplest thanksgiving turkey recipe i found at foodnetwork.com

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Pull the neck and giblets out of the cavity; ditch the liver and save the rest of the giblets for gravy. Dry the turkey with paper towels, then season inside and out with salt and pepper. Fill the turkey with aromatics like chopped onions, carrots, apples and herbs, then place breast-side up in a roasting pan and brush with melted butter. Tent with foil and roast for 2 hours (for a 10- to 12-pound turkey; add an extra 15 minutes per pound for larger birds). Remove the foil, baste with more melted butter and crank the oven to 425 degrees F. Roast for another hour or until the meat at the thigh registers 165 degrees F. Let rest while you make the gravy. 

Enjoy your thanksgiving turkey!

and of course, the last three instant party foods you should always have…

Canned fish

• Cans of oil-packed tuna, clams, or smoked oysters can be made into dips for vegetables or spreads for bruschetta.

Have more time?

• Make linguine with clam sauce using canned clams, garlic, leafy greens such as spinach and olive oil.

Nuts

• Serve smoked almonds with cocktails, or honey-roasted peanuts with beer.


• For exceptional flavor, toast them in a skillet before serving.

Have more time?

• Buy an assortment of mixed nuts and toss them with your favorite spice blend, or glaze them in the oven.

Bread

• If your good bread goes stale before you can finish it, slice it, wrap it well in plastic wrap and aluminum foil and freeze it. It can be heated up in the oven, or toasted straight from the freezer for crostini.


• Sliced white bread can also be frozen and used for toast points to serve with a canned-fish dip.

Have more time?

and that completes the 3 installment of having the eight easy to prepare foods to a surprise visit from friends and relatives.

source: food network

now here’s the next 3 instant party foods you should have whenever friends or relatives suddenly dropped by your place.

Olives

• For a festive spread, stop by your local specialty foods store and grab some pickled onions, red peppers and peperoncini.

Have more time?

• Pit and stuff olives with sausage, then roll in flour and fry for a delicious and filling cocktail snack.

Mayonnaise

• Mayo can be combined with almost anything to make a dip.


• Spread on white bread or toast points to make tea sandwiches. Just add cucumbers, smoked fish or thinly-sliced cold cuts.

Have more time?

• Use frozen chopped spinach to make a spinach dip the night before your party. Bake it in the oven until it’s golden brown and puffy.

Sour cream

• For an instant meal, bake potatoes — or make potato skins — and top them with sour cream, olives, shredded cheese or bacon.


• Mix sour cream with mayo and other ingredients such as scallions, hot sauce or jarred artichoke hearts for a decadent dip.

Have more time?

• Make a sour cream pound cake the night before a party. Slice and drizzle it with honey, jam or maple syrup.

source: food network