Thanksgiving 2010

Happy Thanksgiving! Our table was very full and happy this year, with lots of family, friends and food. The main meal is pretty traditional, including roast turkey, Mom's famous stuffing, mountains of mashed potatoes, roasted butternut squash, and homemade cranberry-orange sauce. However, my focus was on making the desserts. We had four desserts this year--and sadly, now only slivers of these remain.

Cheddar-apple pie, with lots of cheddar cheese mixed into the crust

 

Salted caramel banana pudding tart

 

Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting

 

Pumpkin chiffon pie

Double Chocolate Pudding

This is not an ordinary chocolate pudding--not the powdered stuff from boxes, nor the seemingly forever-lasting kind from plastic cups in the supermarket. However, this is also not a pudding that everyone will like, I suspect. It's very dark, very rich--and while I'm quite willing to go to the chocolatey dark side, some might prefer something a bit less intense. And they're more than welcome to make their pudding however they wish. The recipe is from the fabulous Dorie Greenspan.