Posted by Dinah on December 18, 2006, at 18:17:54
When I was young we had turkey for both Christmas and Thanksgiving, but as we were a smallish family who bought largish turkeys, it was a bit much for one month.
So we adopted my mother's mother's family's Christmas tradition of Roast Beast and Yorkshire Pudding and I added a vegetable of artichokes and mushrooms and just a bit of Emandaler cheese. I guess this year we'll have to also have one of the two or three veggies my son will actually eat.
We used to finish it off with a lemon meringue pie from McKenzie's, so light and fluffy that I always called it anti-food because it made you less full.
But McKenzie's "ain't dere no more". Sniff. (Not a Katrina casualty, it closed before then). http://www.bennygrunch.com/song_lyrics.html
I can't decide whether to substitute an apple pie this year or to try my hand at lemon syllabub, which is the closest I've ever found to McKenzie's lemon meringue pie. My hand might not be up to syllabub though. Maybe I'll have a backup apple pie on hand, just in case.
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