. . . is all of the tasting I get to do the days before the holiday.
Today I made the apple pie filling and cranberry sauce (yes, I decided to buy cranberries). Both are so delicious that I can hardly wait for Thursday. For the pie filling I used frozen apple chunks from our tree apples. When apples would fall or get knocked off in summer, I would cut off the bad parts and chop and freeze the rest. Well, those chunks are what I used for the apple filling. I also used some of the crabapple juice made this fall to flavor the syrup/sauce for the apple pie filling. The combination of tasty apples and the crabapple juice really made the filling out-of-this-world delicious!
In addition to the sweet stuff, I made the cream of mushroom soup for green bean casserole. Oh my, I know I was hungry for lunch while I was cooking, but homemade cream of mushroom soup is some seriously awesome stuff. I used a lot of mushrooms in this soup. If you've never made cream of mushroom soup, and you'd like to try it (either for dietary restrictions of simply because you want to try something yummy), it's basically a white sauce started with minced onions and sliced mushrooms in the melting butter/olive oil, cooked until most of the liquid has evaporated from the mushrooms, then stir in the flour and add milk or cream. I used plain, unsweetened soy milk as my milk. Once thickened, I season with onion powder, dried thyme, salt, black pepper, and a dash of nutmeg.
I also chopped celery and onions for bread stuffing, and I cut carrot sticks and submerged them in a jar of leftover dill pickle juice to make refrigerator pickled carrots.
It's been a busy day, but productive.
How are your prep activities coming?
Invite reminder -- I will begin Advent readings, various Old and New Testament passages and verses on Sunday, Nov. 30 on my other blog His love resets my heart. I would like to invite you to join me in these daily readings leading up to Christmas. I usually have the day's readings posted by 7 AM PST, if you're interested.
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