Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Sookie's Bon Temps Thanksgiving Menu

  I have almost 100 Sookie/  True Blood recipes on this blog and I thought we'd have a pretend Thanksgiving dinner with Sookie and the Bon Temps gang. Haha

This year Jason bought a turkey deep fryer at Sheridan’s Sport Shop and lots of peanut oil and he's going to deep fry the 10 # turkey that he bought at Walmart. It's going to be raining tomorrow so everyone will have to pile inside.

Sookie is making: Corn Bread Dressing ( not stuffing!)
Mashed potatoes
Green Bean Casserole
Sweet Potatoes with marshmallow
Ambrosia
Gran's Pecan Pie

Below you'll find more recipes.

Who else do you think  is coming to dinner?

What are they bringing ?

Happy Thanksgiving Ya'll!

Corn Bread Dressing

Ingredients

  • Corn Bread
  • 1  (12-ounce) can refrigerated buttermilk biscuits
  • 2  tablespoons  rubbed sage
  • 1  teaspoon  poultry seasoning
  • 1/4  to 1/2 teaspoon pepper
  • 1  teaspoon  margarine
  • Cooking spray
  • 1  cup  chopped celery
  • 1  cup  chopped onion
  • 4  (10 1/2-ounce) cans chicken broth
  • 2  large egg whites, lightly beaten

Preparation
Crumble Corn Bread; set aside. Bake biscuits according to package directions; let cool. Tear 8 of the biscuits into small pieces; reserve remaining 2 for another use. Combine crumbled corn bread, torn biscuits, sage, poultry seasoning, and pepper in a large bowl; set aside.
Preheat oven to 350°.
Melt margarine over medium-high heat in a medium nonstick skillet coated with cooking spray. Sauté celery and onion 8 minutes or until tender. Let cool slightly. Add vegetable mixture to dressing mixture, and gently stir in broth and egg whites. Spoon mixture into a 13 x 9-inch baking dish coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350° for 55 minutes.

Green Bean Casserole

Ingredients:
1 (10 3/4 oz.) can
1 CAMPBELL'S® Cream of Mushroom Soup
3/4 cup milk
1/8 tsp.black pepper
2 (9 oz. each) pkgs.frozen cut green beans, thawed*
1 1/3 cups FRENCH'S® Original or Cheddar French Fried Onions

Preparation
MIX soup, milk and pepper in a 1 1/2 -qt. baking dish. Stir in beans and 2/3 cup French Fried Onions.
BAKE at 350°F for 30 min. or until hot.
STIR. Top with remaining 2/3 cup onions. Bake 5 min. until onions are golden.


Sookie 's Sweet Potato casserole

Ingredients


4 1/2  pounds  sweet potatoes
1  cup  sugar
1/4  cup  milk
1/2  cup  butter, softened
2  large eggs
1  teaspoon  vanilla extract
1/4  teaspoon  salt

1 1/4  cups  cornflakes cereal, crushed
1/4  cup  chopped pecans
1  tablespoon  brown sugar
1  tablespoon  butter, melted
1 1/2  cups  miniature marshmallows

Preparation

Bake sweet potatoes at 400° for about 1 hour or until tender. Let cool to touch; peel and mash sweet potatoes.
Beat mashed sweet potatoes, sugar, and next 5 ingredients at medium speed with an electric mixer until smooth. Spoon potato mixture into a greased 11- x 7-inch baking dish.
Combine cornflakes cereal and next 3 ingredients in a small bowl. Sprinkle diagonally over casserole in rows 2 inches apart.
Bake at 350° for 30 minutes. Remove from oven; let stand 10 minutes. Sprinkle alternate rows with marshmallows; bake 10 additional minutes. Let stand 10 minutes before serving.

MORE GREAT RECIPES

Gran's biscuit recipe here 

Summer's biscuits here  

'Dead in the Family' Ambrosia salad here  

Pumpkin Pie Dip from Charlaine's forum here  

Gran's Pecan Pie here

Cryin' Pie True Blood version  here

Mayor  Norris' wife's ( True Blood) Ambrosia here

Finally, some of the other True Blood fans sites follow ' Loving True Blood in Dallas' lead and stop using paparazzi photos !!


As you faithful readers know I have NEVER posted those photos on this blog as I think they are intrusive and certainly NOT in the spirit of fandom that I believe in.

I am appalled when the other sites post these paparazzi photos of our favorite True Blood actors coming in and out of Walgreen's, videos stores or just going about their daily lives with children, family and friends!

It's about time they stop and kudos to them for the policy change !

Denis O’Hare to appear on CBS Thanksgiving Day Parade

Tune in to see Denis on the CBS Thanksgiving Day Parade this Thursday, November 25 at 10:30AM EST.
Oh --I wish he was appearing as Russell ! Haha

True Blood Advent Calendar starts December 1st

http://www.true-blood.org

DYING FOR DAYLIGHT Game Based on Charlaine Harris’ Short Stories

I-play recently announced that they are collaborating with Sookie Stackhouse creator Charlaine Harris on an new interactive adventure game. Called Dying For Daylight, the game will be based on the character Dahlia, a vampire heroine featured in several of her short stories.
“Taking a character into the world of games is great fun and allows us to tell stories and bring characters to life in a whole new way,” says Harris. “Just like Sookie, Dahlia is a unique and multi-faceted character. Working with I-play to present her in this new way has been an amazing experience, and I can’t wait to hear what fans think of the results.”

Read more: DYING FOR DAYLIGHT Game Based on Charlaine Harris’ Short Stories | Daemon's Books http://www.daemonsbooks.com/2010/11/11/dying-for-daylight-game-based-on-charlaine-harris-short-stories/#ixzz16F2eilSz
 

A Very Vampires Christmas Charlaine Harris Sookieverse short story featured in December edition Glamour

Glamour...huh, appropriately named magazine for a Sookieverse short story huh ??


Charlaine Harris says on her Facebook page, “The holiday edition of Glamour is out, containing a Dahlia short story by moi. I had a lot of fun writing it, and the editing job was GREAT. I hope all of you enjoy it.”
Dahlia Lynley-Chivers is a vampire that lives in the Sookie-universe and was introduced in the short story “Tacky” in My Big, Fat Supernatural Wedding. Dahlia will also be featured in the new Dying For Daylight game that Charlaine Harris and I-play are developing.