I've only tasted eierlikor by way of it being the filling in some chocolates but it didn't seem to be the same as eggnog to me, it seems more like Bailey's.

Of course, I could be misremembering also...


Meanwhile, American Food Avenue does have eggnog, likely the other British / American food sources possibly do as well.

I'm a bit tempted to make some eggnog from scratch, I did make coquito a couple of years ago (I'd had some while I lived in Florida) and hubby and his family enjoyed it.

I just eat the last bits of our Thanksgiving Turkey

"Exotic" Cheez Whiz........nice

I would just LOVE to show this to some pretentious americans I know...

It's easy, we've been doing it for decades (and my 18 year old daughter has been the one doing it for most of the past 10 years or so).

Tom

P.S. The recipe we've always used is from the "Joy of Cooking".

I've been hosting Thanksgiving since we arrived in 2006.

We do a mix of Southern and Northeastern dishes, including:

macaroni and cheese
mushroom and chestnut stuffing
succotash
turducken
sauteed butternut squash
cranberry fig sauce

It's also my older daughter's birthday (approximately, but this year it's actually on the day) so we do a flourless chocolate cake as well as a a pie (usually apple).

Since we do this for about 20 adults and an equal number of small children, we make everything ahead of time!

I love Thanksgiving, and celebrating it was my only requirement for moving here!

Yeah, I should have raised my standards.

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Turduken is one of the most scariest foods to me, considering I am a vegetarian... yes, I scuplt a faux turkey for us every year.. lol But the rest sounds tasty! Would love your recipe for chestnut stuffing! Hope you have a wonderful dinner.

Yeah, it is kind of scary. I was a vegetarian for many years, so the idea of a "free form meat terrine" is pretty nasty. Anyway, that part we have catered, because it's way to big to make in our tiny tiny kitchen.

The rest, however, we do make, and I sent you the recipe.

Hope your dinner is lovely too!

I've made it several times here, most recently two years ago. It's easy to make, though it does take some prep work. I generally do it on the dining room table, as it does take up a little space.

Tom

Well, you can find most of these things! Yeah, they're expensive, but for one meal a year, it's worth it if you are really homesick and it makes a difference...

from www.americanmarket.ch:
jiffy corn muffin mix, 1/2 pound (2.55 CHF)
domino light or dark brown sugar, 1 pound (4.50 CHF)
campbell's cream of mushroom soup (5.10 CHF)
ocean spray jellied cranberry sauce, 1 pound (7.30 CHF)

from www.afoodave.ch:
french's french fried onion: 5.50 CHF

Yes, that is hilarious. How lowbrow can you get?

The Eierlikoer I know is not at all eggnog! You would be rolling-on-the-floor drunk if you drank the same amounts ... although maybe that's not such a bad idea?

You can probably make your own eggnog safely with high-quality eggs. My parents always made their own until the whole salmonella scare came up, and then someone had the nifty idea of making pasteurized eggnog so you didn't need to make it any more.

Now, don't sue me if you do this and get food poisoning.

Can you explain to this Midwesterner what succotash and turducken are?

My favorite Thanksgiving food is sweet potatoes made with pecans, a half-ton of butter, condensed milk and brown sugar. Mmmmm, delicious. I've served it to Europeans back home and most do not agree -- too many foreign flavors (although my husband loves it, too, but I have absolutely ruined his tastebuds)!

Turkey
Sweet Potato Caserole (various recipes)
Green Beans
Roasted Corn
Cornbread Stuffing
Mashed Potatoes
Turkey (or Chicken) Gravy
Biscuits/Dinner Rolls
Cranberry Sauce

And the best parts...

Pumpkin Pie
Pecan Pie
Apple Cobler
Peach Cobler

I'm leaving out Eggnog because that's more of a Christmas tradition than a Thanksgiving tradition, even though it starts to show up in stores around Halloween along with "pumpkin spice".

Yes!

Turducken = turkey-duck-chicken! It's a deboned turkey (except the drumsticks), stuffed with a duck stuffed with a chicken (both completely deboned). It also has stuffing, traditionally of the cornbread and spicy sausage variety. Too bad the pork sausage doesn't get included in the name...

Succotash is corn and lima beans, basically. It can have bacon in it (though ours doesn't), onions and peppers, and can be spicy. It can be in butter or with a cream sauce.

You are a braver man than I am!

I might make succotash this year... that's a good idea. Personally, I like bacon in mine, but I've had good recipes without.

The one caveat is that I haven't found fresh or frozen lima beans here (and the ones in the jar taste a bit, well, like they're from a jar) so we use frozen soybeans instead. Available from your local Asian market.

I'm sorry but that's just fowl

Actually, the drumsticks are partially deboned, only the tips are left (last 2 inches or so).

Generally, I de-bone them a day or two ahead of time, then make stock from the bones.

I also made a special insert for my roasting pan to hold it in shape (otherwise it'll end up looking like a pancake, due to the lack of bones)

Tom