I have to say this is just a photo off the internet, but it will be my template for when I make one
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Sounds like a fun time! Will have to check out Gelson's when I'm in the area.
Gelson's is great. Pricy, but great, especially for big holiday meals when you want to make it memorable. Top-notch customer service and very high quality.
I've got to tell this story here for
@DrAlice 's sake, as she railed in the other thread about homemade cranberry sauce. I zoomed down the 5 late this afternoon and got my pies from Gelson's in Del Mar, and in a rare fit of culinary whimsy decide to also pick up all the fixin's for
fresh cranberry sauce.
I get to the family beach house and am warmly welcomed, mostly because I brought a very good bottle of Rye Whiskey for the kids to turn into cocktails over the weekend. And once I'd unloaded the car, I decide to start making fresh cranberry sauce.
@DrAlice says a 12 year old can do it!
An hour later... the kitchen looks like a bomb went off. There are caramelized saucepans aplenty, orange peels and zest on the floor, honey spilled on the counter, crushed cranberries on the floor (
the ones that rolled away), nutmeg somehow smeared on the over-the-range-microwave
(I don't even remember touching the microwave!), and luckily a sticky Mason jar mostly full of something that looks like cranberry sauce.
The snarky niece walks into the kitchen and says
"What the hell are you doing, pretending to be Julia Child on drugs?"
So easy a 12 year old can do it! My foot.
Happy Thanksgiving!
