November means turkey and pumpkin pie recipes for any cooking magazine. Gourmet's 1977 offering tries to keep its holiday spread fresh by using a trick grandma used to use-- substituting winter squash for pumpkin to make a squash pie.
For those who want to reproduce the experience at home (rather than eating at "Chef Victor Modic's Thanksgiving hunt breakfast buffet"), the menu will be easy to fit into holiday cooking schedules: Gazpacho Bloody Marys, Cheshire Cheese Omelets, Seafood Quiche, Apricot-Glazed Pecan Coffee Ring, Apple Crisp with Almond Streusel, Rumtopf, and Pumpkin Cheesecake, plus these two recipes that I could easily scan without ripping the collection apart.
The first recipe depends on previous success at a hunt, unless your party can field dress and butcher a deer really damn fast:
The spread also features this unique take on apple dumplings:
Since I didn't scan the full menu, I'm throwing in another brunch-appropriate, super-rich dish from the same issue. November is the month to gain 10 pounds to get in practice for December's 15, right?
Yeah-- Noodles with Scrambled Eggs encourages you to split a dish containing a full stick of butter between two people-- three if you're feeling stingy. Let the holidays begin.
I think I just gained 10 pounds by simply reading that last recipe!
ReplyDeleteI can understand why hunt club members would eat a hunt club breakfast, because riding to hounds can be very vigorous exercise, but unless you plan to spend the rest of your day engaged in some equivalent physical activity then who in their right mind would eat that much food on Thanksgiving morning? And of course the idle rich are not preparing this meal for themselves, nor are they preparing the Thanksgiving dinner to be consumed later. Even an exceptional home cook would probably balk at the idea of preparing two humongous and complicated meals in one day (although at least that person would likely be getting enough exercise to consume that amount of food)!
No one could ever accuse "Gourmet" of being practical!
DeleteWhy yes, of course (sarcasm). I always think of potatoes when I hear apple dumplings. Apparently only poor people think of apples first when they hear that phrase.
ReplyDeleteI believe you mean "the poors."
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