Thanksgiving is 1 of my family's favorite annual festivals for many reasons, the primary existence that it is to existence thankful to family, friends too the higher chemical constituent for what nosotros have, such a honest too noble feeling. Another argue is it gives an chance to run into amongst closed ones. And thus existence the foodies nosotros are, it is an chance to sweat out novel recipes that is inward the truthful spirit of the season. This twelvemonth nosotros are going global amongst our carte du jour past times having 1 dish from every continent. Doing this to symbolize the demand to alive inward harmony together amongst all people inward the world, no affair what race, religion, culture, region, cast, sex too preferences they have.
We see thus many wars too sufferings approximately the globe but because some of us cannot direct the faith too practices of others. Would it non last thus expert if nosotros tin all direct that nosotros are all different, but nonetheless alive together happily past times looking at what nosotros receive got inward common. What amend agency to limited this than having a carte du jour mixed from all continents too showing that they do brand upward for a corking meal. If exclusively all of us alive inward the same agency too. In a way, this is the spirit of Thanksgiving too.
Another wonderful thing most nutrient is that it tin convey people of dissimilar backgrounds together. In fact 1 of the showtime thing that people encompass from a novel province is the food. As I was researching for my global carte du jour nosotros realize that the globe is really a global hamlet equally nutrient from 1 role of the globe has influences from a completely dissimilar role of the world. I constitute that the Portuguese salad I direct from Europe is also real pop inward some parts of South America. Likewise, the African stew has influences from India/Asia. This is truthful for every recipe too thus it made my global carte du jour really global. Over the past times few years nosotros receive got been having a vegetarian carte du jour on TG, amongst a lot of seasonal attain from our local farmer. It is also a fourth dimension to give thank yous the small-scale farmers for the toil they do all twelvemonth to give us honest produce.
Here is our Thanksgiving menu:
I don't receive got whatever recipes written upward for today, I hope that they volition last coming presently :-)
Africa - African Peanut Pineapple Stew:
Ingredients:
- Pineapple - 1/2 medium
- Honey nut crush - 1 small-scale (or whatever other squash)
- Collard greens - 4-5 leaves
- Concentrated love apple tree puree - 1 loving cup (see notes below)
- Organic peanuts - 1 loving cup (roasted)
- Homemade kokosnoot milk - 1 - two cups (depending on consistency desired)
- Virgin kokosnoot stone oil - 1 Tbs
- Ginger - two Tbs (minced)
- Garlic - two Tbs (minced)
- Red onion - 1 (diced)
- Red chilly - 4-5 (as per spice level)
- Sea common salt - equally per taste
- Turmeric pulverization - 1/2 tsp
- Chopped cilantro - 1/2 cup
Directions:
- Pineapple - take peel too inwardness too cutting into small-scale pieces
- Squash - take peel too seeds, cutting into small-scale pieces
- Collard greens - take the stem too cutting into 1 inch foursquare pieces.
- Roast the peanuts on medium oestrus for 8-10 minutes or till yous listen the peel popping. Keep aside.
- Heat kokosnoot stone oil inward a soup pot or a heavy bottom pan. Add ginger, garlic, cherry chilly too onion. Saute till onion is slightly golden.
- Add love apple tree puree, sautéed ginger-garlic-onion-chilly, 3/4 loving cup of roasted peanuts along amongst kokosnoot milk into a blender jounce too puree well.
- In the same soup pot (or pan) add together pineapple too crush too start cooking covered on medium heat. Let them create on their juices. When almost done, inward most 10 minutes, add together collard greens too create till but wilted.
- Add the pureed gravy, turmeric pulverization too common salt too simmer on low-medium oestrus for 5-10 minutes. Adjust gustatory modality too take from flame.
- Garnish amongst remaining roasted peanuts too chopped cilantro.
- Serve over cooked rice, couscous or but similar that equally a soup.
- Enjoy!
Concentrated love apple tree puree: Start cooking quartered tomatoes on medium heat. Cook for most 30-40 minutes stirring occasionally till most of the H2O is evaporated. Let it cool too puree to larn a concentrated love apple tree puree. Can last made ahead of fourth dimension too kept refrigerated for a few days. It is a big fourth dimension relish for soups too stews.
Asia - Vietnamese Lemongrass Fried Rice:
Ingredients:
- Organic Jasmine rice - two cups
- Lemongrass - iv stalks
- Scallion - 5-6 (sliced thin)
- Red onion - 1 (chopped)
- Garlic - 4-5 cloves (sliced thin)
- Organic peanut stone oil - 3-4 Tbs
- Sea common salt - equally per taste
- Roasted peanuts - a handful for garnish
- Cook Jasmine rice amongst three 1/2 cups of water. Let it cool completely.
- Take off real mature outer peel from lemon grass (you tin reserve it to brand lemongrass tea). Cut the remaining tender parts into small-scale pieces. Add to a blender or nutrient processor too mince well. Take tending non to move out out whatever bing chunks.
- Heat peanut stone oil too add together minced lemongrass too saute for 5-10 minutes on depression medium oestrus till the lemongrass is infused into the stone oil well, too yous larn overnice aroma.
- Add chopped garlic too cherry onion too saute till slightly brown.
- Add dark-green onion too cooked rice too salt. Mix good without whatever big lumps.
- Switch off too garnish amongst roasted peanuts.
- Enjoy!
Australia - Australian Lentil Shepherd's Pie:
Ingredients:
- Purple Sweet Potato - 1 medium (or two small)
- Garnet yam - two medium (or three small)
- Lentils - 1 loving cup (I used soaked too sprouted mixed lentils)
- Cauliflower - two cups (broken into small-scale florets)
- Concentrated love apple tree puree - 1/2 cup
- Garlic - 3-4 cloves (minced)
- Red onion - 1 (chopped)
- Green chilly - 3-4 (minced)
- EV olive stone oil - two Tbs
- Sea common salt - equally per taste
- Sharp cheddar cheese (vegetarian) - equally needed to grate on top
Directions:
- Boil sweetness white patato too yam till they tin last easily mashed. Keep aside.
- Heat olive oil, add together minced garlic, chopped onion too minced dark-green chilly. Saute till onion is slightly golden.
- Add love apple tree puree too lentil too create covered for 15-20 minutes till lentils are almost done too liquid is generally absorbed.
- Add cauliflower too common salt too proceed cooking till cauliflower too lentils are done but right, for most 5-10 to a greater extent than minutes.
- Add mashed royal sweetness white patato too mix well. Remove from flame.
- Grease a baking tray amongst a pat of olive oil. Spread the lentil veggie mixture evenly inward a layer. Spread the mashed garnet yam on top. Grate cheddar cheese on top too bake for most fifteen minutes or till top is slightly golden.
- Serve warm. Enjoy!
Europe - Chickpea Antipasto Salad w/ Basil Walnut Pesto:
Ingredients:
- Chickpeas - 1 loving cup (soaked for several hours)
- Yellow/Orange bell pepper - 2
- Garlic - 1 bulb
- Pickled olives - 1/2 loving cup (assorted - rinsed too drained)
- Basil leaves - two cups (loosely packed)
- Garlic cloves - 2
- Green chilly - 1-2
- Walnut - handful
- EV olive stone oil - 2-3 Tbs
- Sea common salt - equally per taste
Directions:
- Preheat oven 400 bird F
- Rinse too drain the chickpeas too create well. Let it cool.
- Keep the bell peppers on a baking canvass too bake at 400 deg for most 15-20 minutes till roasted too peel is bubbled. Take out too allow it cool. Once they are are mutual frigidness plenty to handle, take the peel too die into small-scale chunks.
- Cover the garlic bulb amongst foil too bake at 400 deg equally good for most xx minutes till roasted but non mushy. Take out too allow it cool. Once they are mutual frigidness plenty to handle, take peel too dissever the cloves.
- Toss the chickpeas, bell pepper chunks, olives too roasted garlic together.
- Add basil, walnut, garlic too dark-green chilly into a mortar too pestle too brand a chunky pesto. Add common salt too olive stone oil too whisk well.
- Add the pesto to the salad too hold aside till ready to serve.
- Serve at room temperature.
- Enjoy!
North America - Apple Pie too Warm Apple Cider:
Ingredients:
Crust:
- Almonds (activated) - 1 1/2 cups
- Sea common salt - 1/2 tsp
- Walnuts (activated) - 1 1/2 cups
- Pitted dates - 1 1/2 cups
Pie:
- Apples - peeled too cored too chopped. (I used three dissimilar kinds Empire, Gala too Mutsu)
- Sea common salt - 1/2 tsp
- Ground cinnamon - 1 tsp
- Dates - 1/2 cup
- Chia seeds, soil - two Tbs (can substitute amongst flax seeds, but chia plant best)
Directions:
Crust:
- Place almonds inward a blender or nutrient processor too procedure until mixture resembles flour. Add common salt to the almonds too procedure well.
- Add walnuts, too dates to the too procedure but until combined too forms a 'dough'
- Preheat oven to the lowest temperature (mine is at 170 deg F)
- Press the nut mixture(dough) into a 9-inch drinking glass pie pan.
- Bake for most xxx minutes. Keep aside till yous are ready amongst the filling. This tin last made ahead of time.
- Place 1 apple tree (roughly chopped), body of body of water salt, cinnamon too dates inward a nutrient processor or blender. Process the mixture until it is almost the consistency of 'applesauce'.
- Chop the remaining apples into fine pieces or sparse slices.
- Add the chopped apples too 'applesauce' into a mixing bowl. Stir inward soil chia seeds, mix well, too laid aside for 15-30 minutes. The chia volition soak upward the juice from the apples. This tin also last prepared ahead too refrigerated.
- 30 minuted earlier serving the pie, preheat oven to the lowest temp (mine is at 170 deg F). Pour the apple tree mixture into the prepared pie crust. Bake for most xxx minutes (not actually baking, but to serve a 'warm' apple tree pie which is good suited for the mutual frigidness weather).
- Slice too serve immediately.
- Enjoy!!
Warm Apple Cider:
Ingredients:
- Apples - three (I used three dissimilar kinds Empire, Gala too Mutsu)
- Raisins - a small-scale handful
- Cinnamon stick - 1(crushed)
- Cloves - 4-5
- Ginger - two Tbs
- Filtered H2O - three cups
- Add cubed apples, along amongst the spices, raisins too H2O into a soup pot or pressure level cooker.
- Cook till apple tree is cooked but enough.
- Once cooled down, run everything coarsely using a blender.
- Pass thru a nut milk pocketbook or a cheese textile too squeeze out the juice.
- Serve warm. This makes iv to v servings. Enjoy !!
Ingredients:
- Quinoa - 1 loving cup (Soaked for 24 hours - modify H2O every 8 hours if possible)
- Garlic - 4-5 cloves
- Green beans - 1 lb
- Cilantro - 1 loving cup - chopped
- EV olive stone oil - 1/4 cup
- Green chilly - 2-3
- Sea common salt - equally per taste
Directions:
- Drain the quinoa too rinse well. Cook amongst 1 loving cup of H2O too laid aside to cool.
- Cook the beans (saute, steam cook, boil, whatever preferred way)
- Meanwhile, add together the garlic, dark-green chilly too cilantro to the mortar too pestle too shell roughly. Transfer to a mixing bowl.
- Add the hot cooked beans over the crushed garlic-cilantro mixture. Pour olive oil, common salt too mix roughly too hold aside for xxx minutes to a few hours.
- Before serving, add together cooked quinoa too arrange common salt too add together to a greater extent than olive stone oil if needed.
- Serve at room temperature. Enjoy!
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